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Meet the founder.
Plover Hexstrom founded Ridgeline in 2022 after a decade leading design systems at Stripe and GitHub. This page collects everything press needs to write about the company and its founder.
Founder bio
The long version.
Plover Hexstrom spent ten years at Stripe and GitHub building design systems for tens of thousands of engineers. In 2022 they returned to Lisbon, their hometown, to start Ridgeline.
Ridgeline builds a design substrate — a runtime that treats design tokens as the primary interface between humans, agents, and frameworks. The company has raised $17M, hired 48 people, and signed on more than 800 design teams as customers.
Eli speaks regularly at Config, SmashingConf, and the annual Design Systems Coalition gathering. They are available for select press interviews.