# Riadh Dridi

> Riadh Dridi is a Series B investor at Stripes backing Software and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stripes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stripesco)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riadhdridi

Riadh Dridi is a Series B investor at Stripes in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Machine Learning. Prior to joining RingCentral, he was VP of Americas Marketing at VMware where he was responsible for driving awareness and demand for the entire product portfolio across all routes to market. Before that, Riadh held various leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard based out of Europe and the US.He serves as a board member and advisor to several earlystage companies and is an advisor to the CMO Council.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Speech Recognition | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Balto | Balto unites agents and supervisors with AI to power better agent performance. Agents and managers trust Balto's real-time guidance to prevent missed sales opportunities, costly compliance mistakes, and negative customer experiences. Empowering agents results in happier customers, increased revenue, and better retention. Today, Balto hasguided over 150 million calls, provided over 185 million real-time recommendations, driven millions in increased revenue, and has a 4.8-star rating on G2.Balto is trusted by top contact centers, including National General Insurance, eHealth, American Homes for Rent, Spring Venture Group, and Cellular Sales. Want to learn more? Visit https://balto.ai. | $37.5M | Series B | Aug 19, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atreides Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atreides-management-lp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cultivation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jump Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OCA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oca-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [RingCentral Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ringcentral-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Stripes

VC Fund · New York, United States

Stripes is a growth equity firm that invests in enterprise and consumer businesses. Stripes’ software practice invests in leading horizontal and vertical software platforms servicing customers from SMB to Enterprise.

5 contacts available at Stripes.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Gertzog | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-gertzog |
| Christopher Carey | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-carey-2 |
| Gracie Zaro | Investor/Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gracie-zaro |
| Riadh Dridi | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riadh-dridi |
| Ron Doornink | Co-Investor & Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-doornink |

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## FAQ

### What does Riadh Dridi invest in?

Riadh Dridi invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Speech Recognition startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Riadh Dridi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Riadh Dridi closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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