Baseline Ventures is an venture capital investment firm that focuses on seed and growth-stage investments in technology companies. Baseline was the first seed investor in Instagram and an early investor of Twitter. Baseline Ventures founder and Managing Partner Steve Anderson was named one of Fortune Magazine's 50 businesspeople of the year for 2012 and Forbes Magazine's Midas list for the years 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Baseline Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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History
Steve Anderson founded Baseline in 2006. Anderson previously worked for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Microsoft, eBay and Starbucks. Steve Anderson has a Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University and has invested in companies founded by Stanford alumni including Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger of Instagram; Katrina Lake of Stitch Fix; and Jeff Seibert of Crashlytics.
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Partners and portfolio
Baseline Ventures has invested in software and web companies that include Instagram, Weebly, OMGPop, ExactTarget and Heroku. Instagram was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012. The same year Baseline-backed OMGPop was acquired by Zynga for approximately $200 million. Salesforce.com acquired Heroku for $212 million in 2010. Other Baseline Ventures investments include:
- Instagram (acquired by Facebook)
- Parakey (acquired by Facebook)
- Heroku (acquired by Salesforce.com)
- ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce.com)
- GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce.com)
- CoTweet (acquired by ExactTarget and later Salesforce.com)
- Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter)
- GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter)
- Indextank (acquired by LinkedIn)
- Rupture (acquired by Electronic Arts)
- Sendori (acquired by Ask.com)
- Aardvark (acquired by Google)
- DocVerse (acquired by Google)
- YardBarker (acquired by Fox Sports)
- BookFresh (acquired by Sugar Media)
- Cake Financial (acquired by E*Trade)
- ScanScout (acquired by Tremor Media)
- StaxNetworks (acquired by CloudBees)
- Hunch (acquired by eBay)
- Instructables (acquired by Autodesk)
- Flowtown (acquired by DemandForce)
- OMGPop (acquired by Zynga)
- Xobni (acquired by Yahoo!)
- Metaresolver (acquired by Millennial Media)
References
External links
- Official site
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