Meet
Ben Bollinger
Across his 16 years as a technology leader at multiple tough tech and cleantech startups, Ben has played pivotal roles in landing over $115M in VC investment, 10 government grants, and 70 awarded patents, dramatically growing employee count and steering startups to the next funding stage and commercialization. He’s guided multiple technologies from bench-top to commercial scale—including as a co-founder and employee #1 through to sale—and built teams with a mentality of "We’re all in this together."
Ben has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly that startups can run into. Through his consulting company, Ridgeline Strategy, Ben leverages these experiences to help your startup avoid bumps in the road…and to help you reach your mountaintop.
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SustainX
Co-Founder and Chief Engineer
Drove over $40M in VC and non-dilutive capital, 59 awarded patents, and ultimate sale of the company while coordinating all technical disciplines.
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Altaeros
VP, Engineering
At this company spun out of MIT, Ben more than doubled the company's workforce, aligned engineering team across all disciplines and aspects of system design, and was critical in producing the world's first commercial aerial cell tower.
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Malta, Inc.
VP, Strategic Initiatives
At this cleantech offshoot of Alphabet, Inc., Ben was critical to early scaling of the engineering team, raising the company's $60M series B, and company relations with DOE, EPRI, and National Labs.