“Unfortunately a lot of technological effort in the past 40 years has gone into NOT trusting people and locking the data away, so in the absence of good technology people establish and maintain trust manually. Now is the time that's no longer tenable. The scale has passed its tipping point.”

“Public key infrastructure is pretty nerdy stuff, but it's important. We see ourselves as sort of revolutionaries—or rebels, maybe, depending on your perspective—trying to democratize the space.”

“…in electrification, there are whole segments of the industry where almost no meaningful engineering has been done, so the opportunities to make huge impacts are really incomparable.”

People often underestimate the power of places outside Silicon Valley in venture capital. The advantage of Ridgeline is their relationships with their strategic corporate limited partners (LPs)—including Fortune 500 companies FedEx, AutoZone, and Dollar General, all headquartered in Tennessee—representing foundational industries that impact the lives of many Americans every day.