Ridgeline Ventures

Ridgeline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Boulder, Colorado, established in 2013. The firm focuses on natural foods and active lifestyle companies, investing in founders and businesses that seek more than just financial support. Ridgeline Ventures provides strategic guidance, operational expertise, and access to a broad network, drawing from its team’s experience as former operators. The firm is particularly interested in brands that emphasize healthy living and have strong, passionate teams. Ridgeline Ventures prioritizes flexibility in its investments, allowing it to engage at various stages of company development and lead investment rounds when appropriate. Their commitment to helping companies make a positive impact on people's lives drives their investment strategy.

Erich Tengelsen

Founder

15 past transactions

Composabl

Seed Round in 2024
Composabl is a company that develops a platform for creating intelligent autonomous agents capable of making real-time decisions and controlling various systems. Its technology allows businesses to assemble these agents by combining multiple algorithms into a cohesive unit, enhancing automation and mimicking human-like decision-making in diverse tasks. The platform supports the management of equipment such as bulldozers, drones, robotic arms, and chillers, as well as processes like scheduling, trading, and maintenance. By utilizing Composabl's innovations, companies can deploy autonomous agents that streamline operations and improve efficiency, thereby reducing the complexity of managing their business activities.

Sahajan

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2015, Sahajan is a New York-based company that develops skincare products based on ancient Ayurvedic traditions. Its products are made from natural and organic ingredients, aiming to promote radiant skin health.

Lifeforce

Series A in 2023
Lifeforce develops, produces, and sells cosmetics, sun protection products, food supplements, and micronutrients, and operates a clinically integrated health optimization platform. It offers a digital fitness program that provides personalized nutrition for midlife individuals. The platform uses quarterly blood-work review by a medical doctor to diagnose results and tailor a balanced nutrition plan, along with performance guidance for biology, goals, and daily life, enabling users to pursue body transformation through a structured diet routine.

Multiscale Technologies

Venture Round in 2022
Multiscale Technologies is a company focused on enhancing research and development in materials science through its advanced AI platform. This platform accelerates the discovery of new materials by a factor of 100, enabling manufacturing companies involved in R&D to optimize their processes effectively. By digitizing diverse forms of data, such as tabular data, PDFs, and simulations, the platform integrates this information through a unique knowledge fusion system. This allows for seamless connections between experiments, simulations, and domain expertise in materials science. As a result, Multiscale Technologies provides predictive analyses and actionable recommendations, fostering innovation and data-driven advancements in various research domains.

SatVu

Series A in 2021
Satellite Vu is a developer of high-resolution thermal imaging satellites designed to monitor the temperature of buildings and infrastructures globally. By utilizing infrared technology to capture heat emissions in near real-time, the company provides valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency, and carbon footprints. This information aids various sectors, including the energy industry, investors, natural disaster responders, and building operators, in making informed decisions related to sustainability and resource management. Through its innovative satellite imagery, Satellite Vu aims to enhance understanding of environmental impacts and support initiatives in sustainable finance and disaster response.

The Pro's Closet

Series B in 2021
The Pro's Closet, Inc. is an online retailer based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in the sale of new and used bicycles, cycling gear, and accessories. Founded in 2006 by Nick Martin, the company operates a web-based marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of premium pre-owned bicycles and cycling products. It caters to a diverse clientele, including athletes, teams, and independent bike dealers, providing services such as pickups and expert consultations. The Pro's Closet aims to promote sustainability in cycling by giving new life to quality products and helping customers find both popular and niche items in the cycling community.

The Pro's Closet

Series A in 2020
The Pro's Closet, Inc. is an online retailer based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in the sale of new and used bicycles, cycling gear, and accessories. Founded in 2006 by Nick Martin, the company operates a web-based marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of premium pre-owned bicycles and cycling products. It caters to a diverse clientele, including athletes, teams, and independent bike dealers, providing services such as pickups and expert consultations. The Pro's Closet aims to promote sustainability in cycling by giving new life to quality products and helping customers find both popular and niche items in the cycling community.

Auxon

Funding Round in 2020
Auxon develops Modality, a software test platform that automates root-cause analysis and risk assessment for autonomous systems. Serving industries like transportation, robotics, and defense, Auxon helps engineers deliver complex software predictably.

Bobo’s Oat Bars

Series B in 2019
On a rainy afternoon in 2003, Beryl Stafford and her daughter “Bobo” baked oat bars that soon became a Boulder, CO cafe favorite. This humble oat bar has since captivated loyal fans nationwide, with no compromise to the original recipe, small-batch baking process, or mother-daughter tradition.

The Pro's Closet

Venture Round in 2017
The Pro's Closet, Inc. is an online retailer based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in the sale of new and used bicycles, cycling gear, and accessories. Founded in 2006 by Nick Martin, the company operates a web-based marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of premium pre-owned bicycles and cycling products. It caters to a diverse clientele, including athletes, teams, and independent bike dealers, providing services such as pickups and expert consultations. The Pro's Closet aims to promote sustainability in cycling by giving new life to quality products and helping customers find both popular and niche items in the cycling community.

Bonafide Provisions

Venture Round in 2017
Bonafide Provisions, LLC is a family-run company based in Carlsbad, California, that specializes in producing organic frozen bone broth and drinkable vegetable products. Founded in 2011 and formerly known as Real True Foods LLC, the company aims to deliver the healing benefits of traditional bone broth to a wide audience. Its offerings include pasture-raised chicken and grass-fed beef broths, as well as nutrient-dense soups. Bonafide Provisions utilizes traditional cooking methods, simmering bones and water with apple cider vinegar for over eighteen hours to create broths rich in collagen and essential amino acids. This approach ensures that the products are not only low in calories but also balanced in macronutrients, supporting overall wellness, gut health, immunity, and skin health. The company sells its products through both online channels and retail stores.

NOKA Organics

Venture Round in 2017
Noka, LLC. is a company based in Pacific Palisades, California, that specializes in the production and distribution of superfood smoothies and nut butter smoothies. Founded in 2013, the company offers a variety of flavors, including strawberry, banana, cocoa, pineapple, blueberry, beet, vanilla, blackberry, mango, cherry, coconut, acai, sweet potato, and goji. Noka focuses on providing portable, nutritious beverages made from organic fruits, vegetables, and superfoods, which are enhanced with plant proteins and healthy fats while containing no added sugar. The aim is to offer delicious, refreshing, and wholesome options that nourish the body and support an active lifestyle.

Cotopaxi

Series B in 2017
Cotopaxi is a direct-to-consumer outdoor gear and apparel company focused on social impact. Based in Salt Lake City, it links its products to humanitarian causes in developing countries, with each sale supporting education, clean water, or health projects. The company offers travel packs, activewear, outerwear, footwear, and water bottles made from responsibly sourced materials, and a portion of revenue is dedicated to charitable initiatives. The business emphasizes transparency about the impact of its donations.

Bobo’s Oat Bars

Series A in 2017
On a rainy afternoon in 2003, Beryl Stafford and her daughter “Bobo” baked oat bars that soon became a Boulder, CO cafe favorite. This humble oat bar has since captivated loyal fans nationwide, with no compromise to the original recipe, small-batch baking process, or mother-daughter tradition.

The Pro's Closet

Venture Round in 2016
The Pro's Closet, Inc. is an online retailer based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in the sale of new and used bicycles, cycling gear, and accessories. Founded in 2006 by Nick Martin, the company operates a web-based marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of premium pre-owned bicycles and cycling products. It caters to a diverse clientele, including athletes, teams, and independent bike dealers, providing services such as pickups and expert consultations. The Pro's Closet aims to promote sustainability in cycling by giving new life to quality products and helping customers find both popular and niche items in the cycling community.
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