Taylor Maya Dawson

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Founder & CEO at Ridge Health · Climate analytics · data, carbon accounting

Ridge Health
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Columbia University
English
Raising
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Overview

Building Ridge Health in Dallas - climate analytics. Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company. Before that: Databricks and Boston Consulting Group. Most at home with enterprise sales and carbon accounting. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Early customers and design partners
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Skills
enterprise salesdataclimate techcarbon accountingcompliance
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - API security for logistics fleets, $71k MRR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$71k
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$878k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$71k MRR after 19 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$71k MRR after 19 months. Looking for investors who know healthtech and can help with pricing.

Dallas, TX · remote OKenterprise salescomplianceclimate tech
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Ridge Health · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
    • Took Ridge Health from zero to $11 million ARR.
    • Signed 175 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2023 - Jun 2025
    Databricks · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 25 a week to 1.
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 844ms to 154ms.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
    Nike · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 789ms to 96ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 32 a week to 3.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
    American Express · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Sit on 4 boards.

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Education

  1. Columbia University
    BA, Business Administration
    2002 - 2006

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