We help companies prove value.

Ridge is a small, well-backed team helping companies prove their value story with data. We use the best technology and research to make working with data easy for anyone, anywhere.

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Leadership

The founders

Ellie and Jeff built Ridge because they knew data could be better – faster, more interactive, and in a tighter loop with action.

Ellie Fields

"I spent 12 years at Tableau, where I saw the power of making data accessible to many people. I believe that when people can understand and act on data in the flow of work, they're able to get real value from thier data."

Jeff Heer

"I’ve seen the value (and joy!) of a-ha moments of discovery. However, I’ve also seen people struggle and flail when using data. With Ridge I want to bring new research out of the lab and into the marketplace."

Mission

Ridge empowers anyone to understand, share, and act on data.

People

The team

The people building the future of embedded analytics.

Ellie Fields

CEO and Co-Founder

Long-time Tableau leader and former Salesloft CPTO who helped build and scale Tableau Public and Tableau Online. Stanford MBA, Rice University B.S. and B.A.

Jeff Heer

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder

UW professor and co-creator of widely used data visualization systems D3.js, Vega, Vega-Lite, and Mosaic. Co-founder of Trifacta. U.C. Berkeley B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.

Andy Caley

Founding Engineer

Engineer with experience building large-scale systems at AppOmni, Tableau, Expedia, and Getty Images, focused on performance and data infrastructure. Gonzaga University B.S.

Fritz Lekschas

Founding Research Engineer

Researcher and engineer working at the intersection of AI and data visualization. Former Head of Visualization Research at Ozette. Harvard Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin M.S.

Elias Mahfoud

Staff Software Engineer

Engineer with experience building scalable analytics and cloud platforms at Tableau, specializing in high-performance data applications. UNC Charlotte M.S.

Join us

We're looking for people want to change how people work with data.

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Investors

Backed by leading investors

Ridge is funded by venture firms and individuals who understand infrastructure and data at the deepest level.

Madrona Ventures

Early-stage VC backing visionary founders from seed through growth.

TheFounderVC

Founder-led VC backing the next generation of AI-native companies.

Chris Stolte

CTO and Co-Founder of Tableau

Adrien Treuille

Founder of Streamlit

Carlos Guestrin

Co-founder of Turi currently Director of the AI Lab, Stanford

Diego Oppenheimer

Co-founder of Algorithmia

Ben Eidelson

Founding Partner at Climate Papa

Elissa Fink

Legendary CMO of Tableau

Kelly Wright

Founding Sales Leader of Tableau

Frank Dale

Founder of Costello

Luis Ceze

OctoAI founder, now VP at Nvidia

Mark Nelson

Former CEO of Tableau

Sean Kandel

Trifacta CTO and co-founder

Adam Wilson

Trifacta CEO and SVP, Alteryx

Jake Sunshine

Founder, Sound Life Sciences and Research Scientist at Google

Jeff Hammerbacher

Founder Cloudera

Arieh Steinberg

Founder, Vamo and formerly AirBnB and Facebook

Zaheera Valani

VP Engineering and Site Leader, Databricks Seattle

Our product principles guide our work.

Make data actionable and accessible.

We help people understand and act on data. We use AI thoughtfully in service of this goal, and apply best practices for visual understanding of data.

Be open and interoperable.

We prioritize integrating data into our customers’ world. Ridge is interoperable and composable with other systems to serve the best value for our customers.

Build with quality, craftsmanship & urgency.

We exist to raise the bar on the level of quality of analytics. We build for the long term. We deliver for our customers and take price in our work.