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Ryan Hofmann is a designer and the founder and CEO of Alterra Studio, a design studio for funded startups.
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Everything you need to write about me or introduce me: bios in two lengths, a portrait, the facts and where to reach me. Please use them as they are.
// 01 — Bios
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Ryan Hofmann is a designer and the founder and CEO of Alterra Studio, a Seattle design studio for funded startups. The studio designs brand identities, websites, product UI and launch films for tech, SaaS, AI and Web3 companies. He also runs Alterra Editions, which publishes the history brand Then & Theory.
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Ryan Hofmann is a designer and the founder and CEO of Alterra Studio, a Seattle design studio for funded startups. The studio designs brand identities, websites, product UI and launch films for tech, SaaS, AI and Web3 companies.
He is self-taught. He started writing code at 10, designed graphics for esports organizations including Cyclone Esports, Version1 and Minnesota ROKKR in his teens, and at 19 moved to Florida to join the startup SMOK3 as creative director, later taking on the CMO role as well.
He founded Alterra Studio in 2024. Its work includes a launch video for iAgent that passed 1.9 million views, a launch film that drove more than 260,000 wallet connections for Watt2Trade, and a complete brand identity for the ticketing platform TICKIZ in four weeks. The studio is rated 5.0 on Clutch from three verified reviews.
He also runs Alterra Editions, which publishes Then & Theory, and the studio's free website audit, Auditvia. He writes letters to founders on ryanhofmann.com.
// 02 — Photo and facts
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- Name
- Ryan Hofmann
- Role
- Designer; founder and CEO, Alterra Studio
- Based in
- Seattle, WA
- Studio founded
- 2024
- Clutch
- 5.0 from 3 verified reviews
- Press contact
- hello@ryanhofmann.com
// 03 — Companies and profiles
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- C-01Alterra StudioFounder & CEOA design studio for funded startups. Brand identity, websites, product UI and launch films for tech, SaaS, AI and Web3 companies.alterra.studio
- C-02AuditviaBuilt by Alterra StudioA free website audit. Paste a homepage and it checks accessibility, SEO, AI search visibility, speed and copy in about a minute.alterra.studio/auditvia
- C-03Alterra EditionsFounderA media company that owns short-form educational brands.alterraeditions.com
- C-04Then & TheoryAlterra EditionsShort films and illustrated plates about the past: human origins, lost places, extinct animals, and how we know.thenandtheory.com
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