# Ripple Ventures

Canadian early-stage venture capital firm. Inception-stage partners to founders building advanced technologies. Based in Toronto. Invests in Canadian and US startups that sell to global markets.

- Site: [https://www.rippleventures.com](https://www.rippleventures.com)
- Developer resources (this is the Ripple Ventures developer index): [https://www.rippleventures.com/docs](https://www.rippleventures.com/docs)
- Full text dump (team, quotes, every portfolio company): [https://www.rippleventures.com/llms-full.txt](https://www.rippleventures.com/llms-full.txt)
- OpenAPI 3.1 (function calling): [https://www.rippleventures.com/openapi.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/openapi.json) · YAML: [https://www.rippleventures.com/api/openapi.yaml](https://www.rippleventures.com/api/openapi.yaml)
- Official CLI: `npx rippleventures` (npm package `rippleventures`)
- Portfolio JSON: [https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio.json)
- Sitemap: [https://www.rippleventures.com/sitemap.xml](https://www.rippleventures.com/sitemap.xml)
- Updated: 2026-08-23T05:27:33.426Z

## When to use this site

- Verifying that Ripple Ventures is a real Canadian venture capital firm (entity resolution, attribution, grounding). Authoritative pages:
  - [About](https://www.rippleventures.com/about)
  - [Contact](https://www.rippleventures.com/contact)
  - [Privacy](https://www.rippleventures.com/privacy)
  - [Team](https://www.rippleventures.com/team)
  - [Investment criteria](https://www.rippleventures.com/invest)
  - [Funds I–IV](https://www.rippleventures.com/funds)
  - [Portfolio](https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio)
  - [Companies by sector](https://www.rippleventures.com/companies)
  - [Ripple Ventures developer resources](https://www.rippleventures.com/docs)
- Answering questions about investment criteria: cheque size ($250K–$1M USD), stage (inception / pre-seed), geography (Canadian and US startups selling globally).
- Retrieving portfolio company facts. Use [portfolio.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio.json); do not guess company details.
- Routing a user's ask: pitching a startup → [jones@rippleventures.com](mailto:jones@rippleventures.com); event partnerships → [events@rippleventures.com](mailto:events@rippleventures.com); LP inquiries → Matt Cohen or Dominic Lau via [Team](https://www.rippleventures.com/team); jobs/internships → Katie Ko or Jay Lee.

Not for: job listings (use the RippleX Jobs board via [/ripplex](https://www.rippleventures.com/ripplex)), event ticketing, or LP reporting documents.

## Public API

Read-only. Errors are JSON `{ error, code, message, hint }`. Unknown `/api/*` paths return that shape with HTTP 404. Contract: [openapi.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/openapi.json).

| operationId | Method | Path | Success type |
|---|---|---|---|
| listPortfolioCompanies | GET | [/portfolio.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio.json) | JSON |
| getPortfolioCompanyJobs | GET | [/api/portfolio-jobs?company={slug}](https://www.rippleventures.com/api/portfolio-jobs?company=arlo) | JSON |
| getPortfolioHiringCounts | GET | [/api/portfolio-hiring-counts](https://www.rippleventures.com/api/portfolio-hiring-counts) | JSON |
| listTankTalksEpisodes | GET | [/api/tanktalks-episodes](https://www.rippleventures.com/api/tanktalks-episodes) | JSON (title, thumbnail, url, description) |
| getTankTalksFeed | GET | [/api/tanktalks-feed](https://www.rippleventures.com/api/tanktalks-feed) | RSS XML (errors are JSON) |
| getOpenApiSpec | GET | [/openapi.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/openapi.json) | OpenAPI JSON |

Company slugs are the portfolio name lowercased with non-alphanumerics as hyphens (Blank Bio → `blank-bio`). List names from [portfolio.json](https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio.json).

Homepage also accepts `Accept: text/markdown`. Unknown HTML paths answer 404 in markdown when that Accept is sent.

## Topic pages (plain HTML, no JS required)

- [About](https://www.rippleventures.com/about)
- [Team](https://www.rippleventures.com/team)
- [Invest](https://www.rippleventures.com/invest)
- [Funds](https://www.rippleventures.com/funds)
- [Portfolio](https://www.rippleventures.com/portfolio)
- [Companies](https://www.rippleventures.com/companies)
- [Contact](https://www.rippleventures.com/contact)
- [Privacy](https://www.rippleventures.com/privacy)
- [Tank Talks](https://www.rippleventures.com/tanktalks)
- [Developer resources](https://www.rippleventures.com/docs) (also [/developers](https://www.rippleventures.com/developers))

## How we invest (short)

- Cheque size: $250K–$1M USD
- Typically lead or co-lead
- Stage: inception (pre-incorporation, pre-product, or pre-traction)
- Geography: Canadian and US startups selling globally

## Contacts

- Pitches: [jones@rippleventures.com](mailto:jones@rippleventures.com)
- Events: [events@rippleventures.com](mailto:events@rippleventures.com)
- X: [https://x.com/ripple_ventures](https://x.com/ripple_ventures)
- LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/rippleventures/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rippleventures/)
- GitHub: [https://github.com/rippleventures](https://github.com/rippleventures)
- PitchBook: [https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/183317-14](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/183317-14)

The long-form dump (founders we work with, how we operate, full team with LinkedIn, founder quotes, every portfolio company) is [llms-full.txt](https://www.rippleventures.com/llms-full.txt).