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Baseline Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2006 · San Francisco, United States

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗X / Twitter ↗

Invest in awesome founders. Early investor in Twitter and founding investor in Instagram.

102 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $2.9B invested · 173 investments · Investor rank #1,081 · Last investment 7/2024
Portfolio companies 102 ↑ 12% 5y
Decacorns 1
Thoroughbreds 8
Power Law #200Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 2%
Exits

Baseline Ventures’ biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Baseline Ventures’ transaction record.

SoFi
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $19BFintech
Liftoff
$3.8B IPO · 2026
Entered Series ANow $5.3BMarketing
ExactTarget
$1.6B IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $2.5BMarketing
Expensify
$2.2B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $117MFintech
PagerDuty
$1.8B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $769MMarketing
Stitch Fix
$1.4B IPO · 2017
Entered SeedNow $435MFashion
Shape Security
$1.0B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series ASecurity
Instagram
$1.0B acquisition · 2012
Entered SeedMedia
Portfolio analysis

Where Baseline Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 102 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA103
  2. Canada2
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software26
  2. Marketing17
  3. Media14
  4. Fintech10
  5. Telecom9
  6. Education5
  7. Security5
  8. Energy4
  9. Fashion4
  10. Food4
  11. Gaming4
  12. Health4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed52
  2. Series A44
  3. Series B+9
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth61
  2. Breakout Stage24
  3. Late Growth20
Portfolio market map

Inside Baseline Ventures’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 102 tracked.

SoFi
Fintech · Decacorn
$19B
CircleCI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.7B
MZ (Machine Zone)
Gaming
$500M
Good Eggs
Food
$22M
Pantheon
Hosting · Unicorn
$1.0B
Homebase
Jobs Recruitment
$550M
ExactTarget
Marketing · Unicorn
$2.5B
Shape Security
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Afresh Technologies
Food
$575M
PagerDuty
Marketing
$769M
AltSchool
Education
$160M
Sun Basket
Food
$120M
LucidLink
Enterprise Software
$500M
TrustArc
Legal
$280M
Dusty Robotics
Real Estate
$250M
Adara Media
Travel
$16M
Digit
Fintech
$213M
Blekko
Hosting
$120M
Instagram
Media · Unicorn
$1.0B
LoanSnap
Fintech
$120M
Dishcraft Robotics
Food
$80M
Stitch Fix
Fashion
$435M
Haus
Marketing
$80M
Xobni
Telecom
$40M
TaskRabbit
Telecom
$52M
Weebly
Marketing
$365M
Future Logos
Media
$140M
crayon
Marketing
$88M
Projector
Enterprise Software
$40M
ScanScout
Media
$34M
Expensify
Fintech
$117M
Retain
Enterprise Software
$92M
J. Hilburn
Fashion
$55M
Gild
Health
$54M
Threadflip
Fashion
$52M
nWay
Gaming
$7.7M
Iron
Enterprise Software
$14M
Spruce Health
Health
$60M
OMGPOP
Gaming
$200M
Pocket
Media
$30M
Apiary
Security
$77M
Formspring
Media
$46M
Heroku
Enterprise Software
$212M
Reverb Technologies
USA
$6.4M
Spacious
Travel
$36M
Front Row Education
Education
$21M
Pronoun
Fintech
$14M
Piqora (formerly Pinfluencer)
Marketing
$31M
NCS Analytics
Fintech
$44M
Rivet Games
Gaming
$40M
TinyPulse
Enterprise Software
$9.1M
PacketZoom
Enterprise Software
$20M
MLab.com
Hosting
$68M
Bloc.io
Education
$24M
Quartz
Real Estate
$31M
sendwithus
Energy
$20M
StackMob
Enterprise Software
$30M
HEARTWORK
Real Estate
$6.4M
Soma
Energy
$4.8M
Octane11
Enterprise Software
Portfolio founders

Where Baseline Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

104 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States85
  2. Argentina1
  3. Canada1
  4. Czechia1
  5. Finland1
  6. India1
  7. Israel1
  8. Luxembourg1
  9. Netherlands1
  10. Saint Kitts and Nevis1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University10
  2. Penn State University7
  3. Cornell University6
  4. Harvard Business School5
  5. Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  7. London School of Economics and Political Science2
  8. MIT Sloan School of Management2
  9. New York University2
  10. Rutgers university2
Previous companyCount
  1. IBM5
  2. Alphabet | Google4
  3. Microsoft4
  4. FOX Sports3
  5. X.3
  6. Activa Live2
  7. Amazon2
  8. BlueFox2
  9. ExactTarget2
  10. KKR2
How Baseline Ventures stacks up

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Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

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Tiger Global
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Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#847 rank 2,278 companies $250B portfolio
NEA
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#36 rank 1,186 companies $2.5T portfolio
Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.