Akriti Dokania

Venture Partner at Ridge Ventures

๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom, United Kingdom๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 20 investments๐Ÿ“… 8 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Jul 2025
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Board Member
Jul 2025
Making enterprise projects easier to keep up with
Board Member
Aug 2024
Candosa is building the operating system for entrepreneurship in Europe. We help founders and small businesses start, run, and grow with less admin and more confidence by turning complex processes into simple, guided workflows. Candosa blends automation and AI with trusted human support where it matters most. What weโ€™re building: โ€ข Business formation and setup, made simple โ€ข Compliance and critical admin, handled through clear workflows โ€ข A single workspace to track status, next steps, and deadlines โ€ข Integrated financial tools that fit naturally into day-to-day operations Focus: Weโ€™re currently focused on Spain, building a faster, more reliable experience for entrepreneurs and SMEs, with the ambition to expand across Europe. If you care about building calm, high-quality products at the intersection of operations, compliance, and AI, follow us.
Board Member
Nov 2023
Recall.ai is the API to get recordings, transcripts, and metadata from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, In-person meetings, and more. We support several form factors to capture meeting data: 1. Meeting Bot API: Through Recall.ais API and fully managed bot infrastructure, you can easily white-label bots and send them to meetings to capture the audio, video, transcriptions, and metadata from the meeting-all through a simple API. 2. Desktop Recording SDK: Use our Desktop Recording SDK to get meeting data without a bot joining the call. 3. Mobile Recording SDK (coming soon): Use our Mobile Recording SDK to record phone calls and in-person meetings.
Board Member
Sep 2023
B2B commerce, simplified. The fastest way for companies to digitize manual quotes and orders. Essentially, we are making it easier for companies to communicate with each other in real-time, whether in the form of an email, PDFs, images, or other sources. Our vision and NLP model Saga extract the requested services or products, inject them directly into the company ERP, thereby removing the need for CSRs and salespeople to manually handle vast amounts of, e.g., quotes and orders. - From an average of 48 hours handling time down to seconds - Up to 30% capacity released in the CSR teams - 100% digital commerce in a previous completely offline channel At Go Autonomousโ„ข, our purpose is to empower people and enterprises to sustainably run and grow their business in a more autonomous future. We are on a mission to accelerate companies transition to autonomous commerce by making it possible to digitize and automate core sales processes, enabling operations-as-a-service and creating a platform for new ways of doing business. By this, the enterprise can deliver superior customer experiences and advance its digital journey with artificial intelligence, autonomy, and experience design as a driving force. Lets make tomorrow, today! #autonomousenterprise #amplifyhumancapabilities #tomorrowtoday
Board Member
Apr 2023
WireMock is a flexible open-soure platform that enables developers to mock APIs for use in unit, integration development and performance testing when internal or external 3rd party services aren't stable or ready. It helps development teams build stable and predictable development environments, enabling them to keep shipping new features when everything around them is changing rapidly. WireMock Inc. is a company driving the WireMock open-source project and the biggest contributor to it. We provide WireMock Cloud -a WireMock based SaaS offering that includes functionality such as rich GUI, team collaboration, Enterprise Readiness and Chaos Engineering, that shorten Mock development time, reduces maintenance overhead and increases developers productivity.
Investor
Apr 2023
Channel99 is a B2B performance marketing platform that unites marketing and finance teams to more effectively improve the value of marketing investment. By measuring the performance of vendors and channels driving high-quality website traffic, Channel99 helps B2B companies gain more meaningful and accurate insights into which investments reduce dollar inefficiencies, lower customer acquisition cost, and more predictably exceed sales pipeline numbers. Pioneering the next wave of B2B marketing, Channel99 provides the industryโ€™s only solution for measuring the quality of the channels generating pipeline. Learn more at www.channel99.com
Board Member
Dec 2022
๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€. ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ. Aeqium is the only compensation planning platform that gives Total Rewards teams ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป and ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น-๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—นโ€”without relying on consultants or vendor tickets. Trusted by leaders at Braze, Warby Parker, Mixpanel, and more, Aeqium adapts to your strategy the moment it changes. Update cycles instantly. Launch workflows that match your process. Track everything as it happens. ๐—จ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—น ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„, ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚โ€™๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป: ย ย โ€ข ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€: Disconnected. Error-prone. Impossible to scale. ย ย โ€ข ๐—›๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ฆ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜€: Rigid. Slow to update. No control over your own process. ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—”๐—ฒ๐—พ๐—ถ๐˜‚๐—บ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜: ๐Ÿญ. ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ: Design workflows, approvals, and rules to fit your exact strategy ๐Ÿฎ. ๐—ง๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น: Make instant updatesโ€”no vendor tickets or waiting days ๐Ÿฏ. ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น-๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†: Track cycle progress, approvals, and equity in real time ๐Ÿฐ. ๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ: Go live fast. Make changes on your own. Get support when you need it. ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€: ย ย 1. Connect your HR systems in minutes ย ย 2. Upload your bands and configure your cycle ย ย 3. Launch guided workflows for your managers ย ย 4. Track every update and decision as it happens ย ย 5. Push updates to employees with a single click Want to try it risk-free? Weโ€™ll build your compensation process in Aeqiumโ€”for free. See it live in 1 business day with your team. No pressure.
Board Member
Feb 2022
ORCA Computing develops full-stack photonic quantum computers with the aim of unlocking new fields of applications and helping transform industries. By combining proprietary technology with off-the-shelf telecom components, we provide a unique approach to deliver the performance, scalability and usability to begin addressing use cases such as machine learning and optimization. WE ARE HIRING!! Get in touch with us at careers@orcacomputing.om or see open positions at: https://www.orcacomputing.com/careers
Board Member
Jan 2022
LifeScore marries the time-tested 400-year-old technology of musical notation with its proprietary Cellular Composition algorithms, creating a radically innovative, endlessly original platform for musical composition. At LifeScoreโ€™s core lie its audio assets โ€“ musical building blocks featuring world-class musicians, the finest instruments, historic and cutting edge recording technologies and production in the worldโ€™s greatest recording studio. Employing the techniques and processes of professional composers, including those of CEO and Founder Philip Sheppard, LifeScoreโ€™s technology rapidly assembles these musical components across multiple audio channels to generate original, unique, adaptive music that is either fully autonomous or responsive in real-time to user and environmental data inputs. LifeScoreโ€™s technology can operate across any musical genre โ€“ from ambient and classical to pop, EDM, funk and heavy rock โ€“ and can be integrated into a vast array of applications across many industry sectors, inextricably linking user-generated, bespoke music to all aspects of life. LifeScore joined the Abbey Road Red Incubator in December 2018.
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Board Member
Dec 2021
The BKwai analytics platform delivers structural health insights for infrastructure assets, groundworks and construction projects. By analysing multi-sourced site monitoring data, BKwai pinpoints asset movement, and helps identify root cause of change. Combining the ability to overlay multiple data sets as well as data-driven forecasting; BKwai offers invaluable insights beyond standard site monitoring solutions.
Board Member
Sep 2021
vHive is the only software solution that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives to create digital twins of their assets. To learn more: www.vHive.ai or try@vHive.ai
Board Member
Sep 2021
Situational hearing loss is a huge and growing problem worldwide, affecting over 80% of people over 40. Often called โ€˜The Cocktail Party Problemโ€™, this means that sufferers can hear speech clearly in quiet rooms, but in noisy situations they find it hard to follow conversations. AudioTelligenceโ€™s aisoโ„ข technology can supercharge hearing enhancement on your device. Aisoโ„ข goes a step further than other solutions which simply reduce background noise, by isolating and extracting the speech or sound that the user wants to hear from surrounding noise and unwanted sounds. With aisoโ„ข, users can effectively regain their ability to hear in noisy environments. Aisoโ„ขs source separation and noise suppression technology deliver clean speech directly to TWS earbuds, allowing users to hear what matters most. Our technology portfolio includes: โœ”๏ธ Assistive Listening โœ”๏ธ Video Recording โœ”๏ธ Video Calling To learn more email enquiries@audiotelligence.com
Board Member
Sep 2021
We dont make drones, we make them safe. Our technologies help unlock the potential of drones to revolutionise businesses, and transform lives, by providing the digital infrastructure required to deliver UTM services, globally.
Board Member
Aug 2020
Market leaders in contract acceleration. The problem with contract negotiation is that it is slow and inefficient, and therefore expensive. Each individual lawyer can waste hundreds of hours per year reading every word in every contract when most of the language is common and represents little or no risk. Once a lawyer has read the contract and understood the key issues, managing those issues to resolution is manual, time-consuming, and error-prone. Creating an issue list each time is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to maintain, so keeping stakeholders informed and collaborating on issues with colleagues is handled via email and phone calls. As a result, negotiations often descend into โ€˜redlining battlesโ€™ and interminable iterations of back and forth. The key to efficient contracting is the rapid discovery of issues, and effective management of the negotiation around those issues. Our technology uses AI to identify issues based on your playbook, previously signed agreements, and agreements negotiated by others. And it does so in minutes. You can then triage agreements, rapidly create and maintain issues lists, and collaborate with colleagues, empowering your lawyers to negotiate with more confidence and close deals faster with less risk. We intend to banish the phrase stuck in legal from the vocabulary of business. To find out more about our contract acceleration platform or to arrange a demo, please visit our website: www.thoughtriver.com ThoughtRiver operates from offices in Cambridge, London, New York and Singapore.
Board Observer
Sep 2019
The leading platform to discover independent boutiques and brands. Trouva connects a global customer-base with the best independent bricks-and-mortar boutiques from across the UK and Europe. Our independent community offers a unique curation of established, new and emerging brands across homewares, fashion and lifestyle, that you wonโ€™t find anywhere else. Trouva is one of Europes 50 fastest growing companies (2020 FT 1000) and was recently named Retail Weeks Best Retailer Under ยฃ250M.
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Jul 2025
Making enterprise projects easier to keep up with
2024
Board Member
Aug 2024
Candosa is building the operating system for entrepreneurship in Europe. We help founders and small businesses start, run, and grow with less admin and more confidence by turning complex processes into simple, guided workflows. Candosa blends automation and AI with trusted human support where it matters most. What weโ€™re building: โ€ข Business formation and setup, made simple โ€ข Compliance and critical admin, handled through clear workflows โ€ข A single workspace to track status, next steps, and deadlines โ€ข Integrated financial tools that fit naturally into day-to-day operations Focus: Weโ€™re currently focused on Spain, building a faster, more reliable experience for entrepreneurs and SMEs, with the ambition to expand across Europe. If you care about building calm, high-quality products at the intersection of operations, compliance, and AI, follow us.
2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
Recall.ai is the API to get recordings, transcripts, and metadata from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, In-person meetings, and more. We support several form factors to capture meeting data: 1. Meeting Bot API: Through Recall.ais API and fully managed bot infrastructure, you can easily white-label bots and send them to meetings to capture the audio, video, transcriptions, and metadata from the meeting-all through a simple API. 2. Desktop Recording SDK: Use our Desktop Recording SDK to get meeting data without a bot joining the call. 3. Mobile Recording SDK (coming soon): Use our Mobile Recording SDK to record phone calls and in-person meetings.
Board Member
Sep 2023
B2B commerce, simplified. The fastest way for companies to digitize manual quotes and orders. Essentially, we are making it easier for companies to communicate with each other in real-time, whether in the form of an email, PDFs, images, or other sources. Our vision and NLP model Saga extract the requested services or products, inject them directly into the company ERP, thereby removing the need for CSRs and salespeople to manually handle vast amounts of, e.g., quotes and orders. - From an average of 48 hours handling time down to seconds - Up to 30% capacity released in the CSR teams - 100% digital commerce in a previous completely offline channel At Go Autonomousโ„ข, our purpose is to empower people and enterprises to sustainably run and grow their business in a more autonomous future. We are on a mission to accelerate companies transition to autonomous commerce by making it possible to digitize and automate core sales processes, enabling operations-as-a-service and creating a platform for new ways of doing business. By this, the enterprise can deliver superior customer experiences and advance its digital journey with artificial intelligence, autonomy, and experience design as a driving force. Lets make tomorrow, today! #autonomousenterprise #amplifyhumancapabilities #tomorrowtoday
Board Member
Apr 2023
WireMock is a flexible open-soure platform that enables developers to mock APIs for use in unit, integration development and performance testing when internal or external 3rd party services aren't stable or ready. It helps development teams build stable and predictable development environments, enabling them to keep shipping new features when everything around them is changing rapidly. WireMock Inc. is a company driving the WireMock open-source project and the biggest contributor to it. We provide WireMock Cloud -a WireMock based SaaS offering that includes functionality such as rich GUI, team collaboration, Enterprise Readiness and Chaos Engineering, that shorten Mock development time, reduces maintenance overhead and increases developers productivity.
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