Case Study: Ridge Ventures finds earliest-stage startups faster with Harmonic

Ridge Ventures takes a data driven approach to identify startups at their earliest stages

Ridge Ventures, an early-stage seed and Series A venture capital firm, wanted to expand beyond inbound sourcing and find promising startups much earlier in their life cycle. As the startup landscape evolved, the team needed better data to identify companies before they reached Series A, and they turned to Harmonic and its Console, Saved Search API, Integrations, and Chrome Extension for help.

With Harmonic, Ridge Ventures built highly targeted saved searches, synced results to its CRM, and used the Chrome extension and LinkedIn integrations to qualify inbound deals and monitor relevant founder signals. Harmonic’s data quality and learning algorithms improved the relevance of recommendations over time, helping Ridge Ventures uncover early-stage companies sooner, streamline its workflow, and make better-informed investment judgments across the team.

Ridge Ventures

Zain Rizavi

Principal