Gordon Ritter

Founder and General Partner of Emergence Capital

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jun 2025
Building the trust infrastructure for AI agents. On a mission to underwrite super-intelligence.
Board Member
Jan 2025
Automate every customer interaction with AI Phone Agents built specifically for enterprise.
Board Member
Apr 2022
The only AI-native platform that spans the full policy lifecycle and changes the way insurance work gets done. Our Agentic AI creates complete, fully explained, on-strategy quotes for underwriter review in minutes.
early stageInsurance
Board Member
Apr 2021
We built an AI-powered platform to help customer and service teams drive repeatable success. Email us to talk about how we can help you. hello@retain.ai
Board Member
Feb 2021
Hi Marley is the first intelligent conversational platform built for P&C insurance and powered by SMS. Designed by insurance professionals, Hi Marley enables lovable, convenient conversations across the entire ecosystem, saving money and time for carriers while building customer loyalty through delightful interactions. Hi Marleys industry-leading collaboration, coaching and analytics capabilities deliver crucial insights that streamline carrier operations while enabling a frictionless customer engagement experience . The solution is made for the enterprise; it’s fast to deploy, easy to use and seamlessly integrates with core insurance systems. Through its advanced conversational technology, Hi Marley reduces friction – empowering innovative carriers to reinvent the customer and employee experience.
mid stageInsurance
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Jul 2020
Whistic is a leading provider of proactive vendor security and an innovator in changing the way that companies publish and evaluate security posture to build trust. Whistic is the single source of trust for both buyers and sellers, helping companies speed up the pace of business. The Whistic Trust Catalog® now contains nearly 15,000 company profiles that can be assessed on-demand, and notable customers include Airbnb, Okta, Betterment, Vonage, Qualtrics, and other world-leading brands within healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and education.
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Jun 2019
We are the worlds most trusted sales engagement platform for financial institutions. Our mobile-first platform solves over 18 deep industry-relevant use cases for frontline personnel, sales managers, and business heads through intelligent nudges and industry playbooks. What makes Vymo unique is our deep focus on solving real challenges for banks, insurance, and financial services. And whats more, salespeople dont just use Vymo, they love us! Our daily active usage is upwards of 75%. Were able to impact their lives tangibly. Follow us to hear from industry experts and leaders about how they are using Vymo to #DoMore
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Jul 2017
Guru is the all-in-one tool that keeps your team connected and puts all the information they need in one place. It's more than a knowledge base—it's your team's home base.
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Dec 2015
Textio has developed the world’s most advanced workplace language guidance, so you can see where social bias is hiding—and know exactly how to fix it. Our solutions help organizations attract, develop, and retain diverse, inclusive, and equitable teams—at scale. Textio was named Washington’s Best Midsize Company to Work for by Seattle Business Magazine and one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Textio was founded in Seattle, but now we’re a fully distributed team working from eight states across the U.S. If you live in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas, or Washington, let’s talk!
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Jun 2015
Chorus by ZoomInfo uses proactive AI-powered recommendations and insights that keep your finger on the pulse of every account and opportunity, giving you a better line of sight for maximizing revenue. Integrated fully into the ZoomInfo platform, Chorus can capture and analyze the voice of the customer to make better strategic decisions based on market insights and customer feedback, and help your team collaborate to drive next steps forward with direct customer context. For the latest news, visit our ZoomInfo social page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zoominfo
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May 2015
High Alpha is a venture capital firm that helps founders, and the companies they lead, reach their full potential. Based in Indianapolis, IN, we invest in early-stage B2B enterprise software companies across the United States and North America. Within High Alpha, we also operate a Studio, which we use to co-create startups with exceptional founders. To date, weve started 45+ companies through our Studio, including Lessonly, Zylo, Visible, Tenon, and more. Founding partners of High Alpha include: Scott Dorsey, former Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of ExactTarget (sold to Salesforce.com); Mike Fitzgerald, former EVP Corporate Development at ExactTarget and Co-Founder of Gravity Ventures; Eric Tobias, Founder and CEO of iGoDigital (sold to ExactTarget); and Kristian Andersen, Founder of Studio Science and Co-Founder of Gravity Ventures. The High Alpha portfolio of over 90 companies includes leading cloud companies Logik.ai, Attentive, SalesLoft, LogicGate, and more. Subscribe to our newlsletter at highalpha.com/jet-stream
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Jun 2013
Insightly, the new breed of CRM, helps modern businesses of all sizes build lifelong customer relationships and grow faster than ever before. Insightly's out of the box capabilities allow you to tailor each user's experience for every customer facing role. It is easy to use, easy to set up, highly customizable to your industry, and offers fast time to value at a low total cost of ownership. Join more than 1.5M Insightly users who are already building better customer relationships. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, Insightly is backed by $38 million in funding over three rounds from leading venture capital firms: Emergence Capital Partners, Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Scott Bommer and Sozo Ventures.
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Jun 2012
Top Hat is transforming student engagement by empowering educators to deliver personalized, meaningful and equitable learning. More than 3 million students at 750 of the top 1,000 colleges and universities in North America have used Top Hat.
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Mar 2007
Khoros award-winning enterprise software makes it easier for complex brands to engage with customers at scale across digital, social, and brand-owned channels. Whether for service and support, communications, or sales, the solutions powered by advanced automation and AI unlock more consistent, personalized, and helpful omnichannel interactions between brands and their audiences. For more information, visit khoros.com.
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Board Member
Jun 2025
Building the trust infrastructure for AI agents. On a mission to underwrite super-intelligence.
Board Member
Jan 2025
Automate every customer interaction with AI Phone Agents built specifically for enterprise.
2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
The only AI-native platform that spans the full policy lifecycle and changes the way insurance work gets done. Our Agentic AI creates complete, fully explained, on-strategy quotes for underwriter review in minutes.
early stageInsurance
2021
Board Member
Apr 2021
We built an AI-powered platform to help customer and service teams drive repeatable success. Email us to talk about how we can help you. hello@retain.ai
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