Ripple VenturesInception stage partners to founders building advanced technologies.
// Thesis
- Partnering with exceptional people with deep domain expertise, curiosity, and velocity.
- Believing in founders who see where the world is going before everyone else.
- Focusing on hard problems worth solving in critical industries.
- Enabling the development of proprietary and advanced technologies.
- Leveraging AI and deep tech for services, science, infra, and vertical use cases.
// Working Together
How much do you invest?
- $250K–$1M USD
How are you involved in rounds?
- We prefer to lead or co-lead, but also can join rounds as a supportive partner.
What stage do you invest?
- The inception stage, which we define as pre-incorporation, pre-product, and pre-traction. Basically pre-anything. We are backing exceptional teams.
Where do you invest
- We invest in Canadian and US startups that build for global markets
How is Ripple providing something unique to my cap table alongside other great funds?
- Being inception stage investors, we are the most financially and mission aligned with founders across the lifecycle of your business.
- We open customer doors that otherwise would be inaccessible through our operator network and corporate LP network.
- We are taste makers to the top funds in the world with a 70%+ success rate of externally led rounds across our portfolio.
- We underwrite technical risk and long timelines without flinching. We move fast with conviction before others.
- You're one of 30 companies, not 300 in our portfolio. Our team is directly accessible and our investment in you is always meaningful to our fund.
- We bring the best talent pipelines to your company through our deep university networks, venture partners, and recruitment partners.
// Team



Investment Team
Matt Cohen
Dom Lau
Katie Ko
Jay Lee
Venture Partners
Dave Macnee
Rahul Parmar
Ian Logan
Zach Waterfield
Ryan Freeman
Adam Jarczyn
// Supporting Founders
How the Ripple Ventures team and community supports portfolio founders on their journey.
// Connect
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Content
- Tank Talks Podcast: Apple↗, YouTube↗, Spotify↗, Substack↗
- Community Newsletter↗
- Fund Blog↗
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Partnered and Invested in 2026
Asset↗ built by Alejandro↗ Cameron↗
→ Accounting // Embedded AI accounting for vertical software.
Green Abundance↗ built by Celeste↗
→ Plant Engineering // Plant engineering for advanced materials.
→ Backoffice // AI agents for repetitive back-office work.
Partnered and Invested in 2025
Blank Bio↗ built by Jonathan↗ Phil↗ Ian↗
→ Diagnostics // RNA intelligence for precision medicine.
Transformer Lab↗ built by Ali↗ Tony↗
→ Developer Tools // Machine learning research platform.
Zeroshot Biolabs↗ built by Steven↗ Darien↗ Patrick↗
→ Drug Research // Zebrafish drug research model.
Partnered and Invested in 2024
Canonical↗ built by Misha↗ Tahin↗
→ Financial Services // AI fraud detection & dispute automation.
Deeptrust↗ built by Aman↗ Noah↗
→ Cybersecurity // Real-time deepfake and social engineering detection for live calls.
Infrastack↗ built by Aykut↗
→ Developer Tools // AI application observability and analytics.
Partnered and Invested in 2023
Scalestack↗ built by Elio↗ Alex↗
→ Sales // AI sales platform for GTM execution.
Partnered and Invested in 2022
Waive↗ built by Shreyansh↗ Tabassum↗
→ Healthcare // AI clinic efficiency and admin automation.
Partnered and Invested in 2021
Partnered and Invested in 2020
Rose Rocket↗ built by Justin↗
→ Logistics // AI TMS for trucking and freight.
Partnered and Invested in 2019
Voiceflow↗ built by Braden↗ Mike↗ Tyler↗ Andrew↗
→ Agent Platform // Platform for building conversational AI agents.
Partnered and Invested in 2018
Acquired
Harmonize↗ built by Johnny↗ Dean↗
→ Cybersecurity // Acq. by Drata (Press)↗
OnCall Health↗ built by Nicholas↗
→ Healthcare // Acq. by Qualifacts (Press)↗