Ride Ventures

Invests in early-stage tech startups across SaaS, FinTech, PropTech, marketplaces, platforms, consumer, and web3 sectors.

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Updated: Dec 5, 2025 ·

About

Early stage tech venture fund (SaaS, FinTech, PropTech, Marketplaces, Platforms, Consumer, Web3)

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Sep 1, 2025	Orchard Robotics	$22.0M Series A	—	Browder Capital, General Catalyst, Greylock, Yext
Jun 1, 2025	Aethero	$8.0M Seed	—	Alsop Louie Partners, Alumni Ventures, Matter Venture Partners, NEO, Tet Ventures, Trammell Venture Partners, Trucks Venture Capital, Gokul Rajaram
Jun 1, 2025	Pano	$44.0M Series B	—	1984 Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Ali Tamaseb, Giant Ventures, Initialized Capital, NEO, SNR, Touchdown Ventures, Trammell Venture Partners, Oleg Rogynskyy, Stephen Cole
Jun 1, 2025	Project 11	$6.0M Seed	—	Castle Island Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Y Combinator
Jun 1, 2025	Glean	$150.0M Series F	—	Kevin Hartz, Addition, Amplify Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Banana Capital, Battery Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, CapitalG, Cedar Capital Group, Coatue, Convective Capital, Coughdrop Capital, CRV, Daft Capital, Day One Ventures, DST Global, Emergence Capital, Felicis Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Flex Capital, Founders Fund, Friends & Family Capital, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, Goat Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Greylock, Dave Munichiello, Infinite Niches, In-Q-Tel, Insight Partners, Invariantes Fund, IVP, Jetstream, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Matrix, MS&AD Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, QBE Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Singular, Snowflake Ventures, Spark Capital, Summit Partners, SV Angel, Telescope Partners, The Hit Forge, Theory Forge Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Tribe Capital, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, YOBE Ventures, Andre Iguodala, Azeem Azhar, Ben Tossell, Bradley Horowitz, Brandon Philips, Jonathan Swanson, Joshua Reeves, Joshua Webster, Kulveer Taggar, Mathilde Collin, Paul Graham, Paul Stahura, Ryan Shea, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, Suhail Doshi, Thijn Lamers
Feb 1, 2025	DevAI	$6.0M Seed	—	9Yards Capital, Adeyemi Ajao, Rexhep Dollaku, Base10 Partners, Benchstrength, Construct Capital, Emergence Capital, Global Innovation Fund, Greenoaks Capital, Kamay Ventures, Next Ventures, Pear VC, Precursor Ventures, TCV, Ankit Jain, Arash Ferdowsi, Evan Moore, Felipe Villamarin, Juan Pablo Ortega, Jun Hwang, Luc Vincent, Simon Borrero
Jan 1, 2025	Raspberry AI	$24.0M Series A	—	2048 Ventures, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, LAUNCH, Pale Blue Dot, Prototype Capital, Sixth Street, Arash Ferdowsi, Ben Tossell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Parker Conrad, Scot Wingo
Dec 1, 2024	Durate	$500K Seed	—	Castle Island Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Y Combinator
Dec 1, 2024	Atlas	$27.0M Series B	—	2048 Ventures, Alt Capital, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, Flexcap, LAUNCH, Otherwise Fund, Pale Blue Dot, Prototype Capital, Sixth Street, Arash Ferdowsi, Ben Tossell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Kyle Vogt, Parker Conrad, Scott Belsky, Scot Wingo, Vishal Rao
Nov 1, 2024	Atlas.co	$2.0M Seed	—	2048 Ventures, Alt Capital, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, LAUNCH, Pale Blue Dot, Picus Capital, Prototype Capital, Sixth Street, Arash Ferdowsi, Ben Tossell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Parker Conrad, Scot Wingo
Nov 1, 2024	Atlas	$2.0M Seed	—	2048 Ventures, Alt Capital, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, LAUNCH, Pale Blue Dot, Prototype Capital, Seven Seven Six, Sixth Street, Arash Ferdowsi, Ben Tossell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Mark Pincus, Parker Conrad, Scot Wingo, Siqi Chen
Nov 1, 2024	Amigo AI	$6.0M Seed	—	AIX Ventures, General Catalyst, Greenoaks Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Kleiner Perkins, NEO, Stellar Capital, Claire Hughes Johnson, George Burke, Howie Liu, Scott Belsky, Spencer Kimball
Oct 1, 2024	Paren	$3.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Rexhep Dollaku, Base10 Partners, CRV, Data Tech Fund, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Infinite Niches, Khosla Ventures, LAUNCH, Next Ventures, Renegade Partners, Team Ignite Ventures, XFactor Ventures, Daniel Burka, Kevin Lin, Luc Vincent, Mark Pincus, Pieter Schoen, Zachary Sims
Sep 1, 2024	Glean	$260.0M Series E	—	Kevin Hartz, Addition, Amplify Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Banana Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Coatue, Convective Capital, Coughdrop Capital, CRV, Daft Capital, Day One Ventures, DST Global, Emergence Capital, Felicis Ventures, Flex Capital, Founders Fund, Friends & Family Capital, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, Goat Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Greylock, Dave Munichiello, Infinite Niches, In-Q-Tel, Invariantes Fund, IVP, Jetstream, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Matrix, MS&AD Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, QBE Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Summit Partners, SV Angel, The Hit Forge, Theory Forge Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, YOBE Ventures, Andre Iguodala, Azeem Azhar, Ben Tossell, Bradley Horowitz, Brandon Philips, Jonathan Swanson, Joshua Reeves, Joshua Webster, Kulveer Taggar, Mathilde Collin, Paul Graham, Paul Stahura, Ryan Shea, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, Suhail Doshi, Thijn Lamers
Jul 1, 2024	Tezi	$9.0M Seed	—	8VC, Afore Capital, Audacious Ventures, Audrey Capital, South Park Commons, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo, Bhavin Turakhia, Justin Mateen, Kunal Shah, Marco Zappacosta, Mark Goines, Michael Ma, Pete Koomen, Sean Rad
May 1, 2024	Rubie	$3.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Y Combinator
May 1, 2024	OffDeal	$5.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, NEO, Red Swan Ventures, StillMark, Trammell Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Stephen Cole
Mar 1, 2024	Orchard Robotics	$3.0M Seed	—	AirAngels, Banana Capital, Benchmark, Browder Capital, Cyberlaunch, General Catalyst, Greylock, Initialized Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Makers Fund, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Roosh Ventures, TQ Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Y Combinator, Yext, Arash Ferdowsi, Cory Levy, Manuel Bronstein, Mattia Astori, Paul Graham
Feb 1, 2024	Glean	$200.0M Series D	—	Kevin Hartz, Addition, Amplify Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Banana Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Coatue, Convective Capital, Coughdrop Capital, CRV, Daft Capital, Flex Capital, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Goat Capital, Greylock, Dave Munichiello, Infinite Niches, In-Q-Tel, Invariantes Fund, IVP, Jetstream, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, MS&AD Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, QBE Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Social Impact Capital, Spark Capital, The Hit Forge, Thirty Five Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Tribe Capital, Uncork Capital, Y Combinator, YOBE Ventures, Andre Iguodala, Bradley Horowitz, Brandon Philips, Helen Liang, Jonathan Swanson, Joshua Reeves, Joshua Webster, Ryan Shea, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Suhail Doshi
Dec 1, 2023	TextQL	$4.0M Seed	—	.406 Ventures, Advisors Fund LLC, Alumni Ventures, BootstrapLabs, DCM, Mayfield, NEO, Oak HC/FT, SOSV, Trammell Venture Partners, Stephen Cole
Dec 1, 2023	Magma	$5.0M Seed	—	BITKRAFT Ventures, GFR Fund, Speedy Packets Inc., Watertower Ventures, Alex Rigopulos, Jon Goldman, Paul Heydon
Jun 1, 2023	Meanwhile	$19.0M Seed	—	2048 Ventures, Accel, Access Biotechnology, Acrew Capital, Afore Capital, AirAngels, Alt Capital, AngelList, Bain Capital Crypto, Adeyemi Ajao, Basis Set Ventures, BlockTower Capital, Broadhaven Capital Partners, C2 Investment, Coatue, Data Tech Fund, Elefund, Embedded Ventures, Exponent Founders Capital, Founder Collective, General Catalyst, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, LAUNCH, LGF, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, monashees, Mouro Capital, MS&AD Ventures, NEO, Pale Blue Dot, Patron, Polygon, Prototype Capital, Sarona Ventures, Scalar Capital, Sixth Street, Softbank Latin America Fund, Spark Capital, StillMark, The Hit Forge, True Ventures, venBio, Vouch Insurance, Westlake Village BioPartners, Xochi Ventures, Y Combinator, Aaron Levie, Ajit Tripathi, Akshay Kothari, Anne Wojcicki, Arash Ferdowsi, Ben Tossell, Biz Stone, Claire Hughes Johnson, Do Kwon, Dylan Field, Fidji Simo, Frederic Kerrest, Gokul Rajaram, Howie Liu, Hunter Horsley, Jeremy Stoppelman, Justin Mateen, Karim Atiyeh, Kunal Shah, Louis Beryl, Luca Ascani, Max Mullen, Neha Narkhede, Parker Conrad, Ricardo Weder, Roger Laughlin Carvallo, Sam Altman, Sam Blond, Scot Wingo, Sean Behr, Sean Harper, Sep Kamvar, Shishir Mehrotra, Tim Griffin, Wences Casares
Mar 1, 2023	Quisto	$870K Seed	—	Accel, ACME Capital, Bora&Sons, Flybridge, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Heartcore Capital, Outlander Labs, Passion Capital, Practical Venture Capital, Renegade Partners, Slow Ventures, StartupGym, Streamlined Ventures, Armando Biondi, Eric Ries, Hiten Shah, Jon Hallett, Naveen Selvadurai, Shervin Pishevar, William Mougayar
Jan 1, 2023	Fabric	$1.0M Seed	—	2048 Ventures, Acequia Capital, Afore Capital, Alt Capital, Better Food Ventures, C2 Investment, Coatue, Craft Ventures, Data Tech Fund, Entrepreneur First, GFT Ventures, Haatch, LAUNCH, MSM, Outrun Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Passion Capital, Playfair Capital, Project A Ventures, Prototype Capital, Sixth Street, TrueSight Ventures, Andrew Mullinger, Arash Ferdowsi, Ashley Brasier, Ben Holmes, Ben Tossell, Claire Hughes Johnson, Errol Damelin, Evelyn Bourke, Gokul Rajaram, James Meekings, Nkechi Iregbulem, Parker Conrad, Phillip Chambers, Rupert Loman, Scot Wingo, Will Martin
Aug 1, 2022	Fairmarkit	$36.0M Series C	—	Activant Capital, Balderton Capital, B Capital Group, BlueRun Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Company Capital, CrunchFund, Curated, Flex Capital, Founder Collective, Greylock, GSV Asset Management, Indeed.com, Insight Partners, Journey Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Notable Capital, Sequoia Capital, Toba Capital, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Rob Theis, Vipul Ved Prakash, William Hockey

Financial History

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Leadership Team

Key people at Ride Ventures.

Greg Arrese

Investor

Leadership Team

Key people at Ride Ventures.

Greg Arrese

Investor

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Ride Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to accelerating the growth of technology startups with high potential for market disruption. The firm’s mission centers on partnering with visionary founders to help them scale rapidly, focusing on sectors where innovation is reshaping industries. Ride Ventures’ investment philosophy emphasizes non-lead, collaborative participation in seed rounds, typically writing checks between $100K and $500K alongside top-tier co-investors. Their core sectors include SaaS, FinTech, PropTech, marketplaces, platforms, consumer tech, and Web3, reflecting a strategic bet on digital transformation and decentralized technologies. By supporting startups at the earliest stages, Ride Ventures plays a vital role in nurturing the next generation of tech leaders and driving innovation across the startup ecosystem.

Origin Story

Founded as a solo-GP micro fund by Greg Arrese, Ride Ventures emerged from a vision to empower early-stage founders with both capital and strategic guidance. Arrese, leveraging his experience in technology and venture, built the fund to operate nimbly and focus on sectors where he saw the most potential for disruption—particularly software, financial technology, and mobility. Over time, Ride Ventures has evolved into a respected partner for founders, known for its collaborative approach and ability to connect startups with valuable networks. The firm’s roots in New York City, with a presence in California, have allowed it to tap into diverse innovation hubs and stay close to the pulse of emerging trends.

Core Differentiators

Non-Lead, Collaborative Model: Ride Ventures typically participates as a non-lead co-investor, partnering with marquee firms like Tiger Global, Valar Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures, which enhances deal flow and founder support.
Sector Focus: Deep expertise in SaaS, FinTech, PropTech, marketplaces, platforms, consumer tech, and Web3 enables targeted, high-impact investments.
Network Strength: Strong relationships with leading investors and operators provide portfolio companies with access to strategic resources and follow-on funding.
Track Record: With over 30 investments and multiple exits, including notable acquisitions like Truework, Ride Ventures has demonstrated a consistent ability to identify and back successful startups.
Operating Support: Beyond capital, the firm offers hands-on guidance, helping founders navigate growth challenges and market expansion.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Ride Ventures is riding the wave of digital transformation, where software, financial innovation, and decentralized technologies are redefining how businesses operate and consumers interact. The timing is critical, as sectors like FinTech and Web3 are experiencing rapid adoption and regulatory evolution, creating fertile ground for early-stage disruption. Market forces such as the rise of remote work, the demand for financial inclusion, and the shift toward decentralized platforms are working in Ride Ventures’ favor. By backing startups at the intersection of these trends, the firm not only benefits from the growth of these sectors but also helps shape the future of technology by supporting pioneers who challenge the status quo.

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Ride Ventures is well-positioned to continue identifying and nurturing high-potential startups as the tech landscape evolves. The firm’s focus on collaborative investing and sector specialization will likely remain a key advantage, especially as the lines between traditional and decentralized technologies blur. Trends such as AI-driven automation, blockchain adoption, and the expansion of digital marketplaces will shape Ride Ventures’ journey, offering new opportunities for impact and growth. As the startup ecosystem becomes increasingly interconnected, Ride Ventures’ role as a connector and catalyst will only grow in importance, reinforcing its reputation as a forward-thinking partner for founders building the future.

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Non-Lead, Collaborative Model: Ride Ventures typically participates as a non-lead co-investor, partnering with marquee firms like Tiger Global, Valar Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures, which enhances deal flow and founder support.
Sector Focus: Deep expertise in SaaS, FinTech, PropTech, marketplaces, platforms, consumer tech, and Web3 enables targeted, high-impact investments.
Network Strength: Strong relationships with leading investors and operators provide portfolio companies with access to strategic resources and follow-on funding.
Track Record: With over 30 investments and multiple exits, including notable acquisitions like Truework, Ride Ventures has demonstrated a consistent ability to identify and back successful startups.
Operating Support: Beyond capital, the firm offers hands-on guidance, helping founders navigate growth challenges and market expansion.