Ridge AI

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Location Seattle, Washington
Founded 2025
Latest Stage Pre-Seed
Total Raised $2.6M
Website https://ridgedata.ai
Sector
ai analytics developer-tools

Investors

Madrona Venture Group pre-seed (2026)

Founders

Ellie Fields CEO & Co-Founder
Jeff Heer Chief Scientist & Co-Founder

About

Ridge AI is a Seattle-based startup building AI-native embedded analytics for B2B software companies 12. Co-founded by Ellie Fields, who spent over a decade at Tableau before serving as Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Salesloft, and Jeff Heer, a Stanford professor whose open-source tools include Vega, Vega-Lite, D3.js, and the Mosaic framework 12. The platform enables companies to deploy interactive dashboards and AI data agents in hours using browser-native processing via DuckDB and WebAssembly, eliminating the need for server-side infrastructure 1. The company emerged from stealth on April 6, 2026 1.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-04-06 Pre-Seed $2.6M Madrona TheFounderVC, angels from Tableau, Trifacta, Streamlit 12

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Sources

  1. The AI Insider, “Ridge AI Emerges from Stealth with $2.6M Pre-Seed for AI-Native Analytics,” April 6, 2026. https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/04/06/ridge-ai-emerges-from-stealth-with-2-6m-pre-seed-for-ai-native-analytics-that-prove-a-product-teams-value-in-hours/↩↩↩↩↩

  2. GeekWire, “Data visualization all-stars unveil Ridge AI with $2.6M to fix the analytics problem for SaaS apps,” April 2026. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/data-visualization-all-stars-unveil-ridge-ai-with-2-6m-to-fix-the-analytics-problem-for-saas-apps/↩↩↩