Adeyemi Ajao
Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Base10 Partners
San Francisco, United States
Adeyemi Ajao is a seed investor at Base10 Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Adeyemi Ajao invests in
Stages Adeyemi Ajao invests in
Countries Adeyemi Ajao invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $770k–$6.1M
- Series A
- $5.2M–$32M
- Series B
- $3.6M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (22%)
- SaaS 9 (17%)
- Mobile 8 (15%)
- Internet 7 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 20 (37%)
- Series A 12 (22%)
- Series B 8 (15%)
- Series C 3 (6%)
- Angel 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 31 (57%)
- Spain 6 (11%)
- Chile 1 (2%)
- India 1 (2%)
- Italy 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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HappyRobot
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HappyRobot provides a system that creates and manages a workforce of AI workers. The platform builds fully custom workflows and integrates with a variety of systems. The service helps businesses remove data silos and automate tasks in real time. | $150M / Series C / Aug 04, 2026 | |
Prosper AI
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Prosper's AI Agents handle calls to payors and patients with human-like expertise while cutting costs by over 50%. Whether it’s claims status checks, benefit verification, prior authorizations, patient scheduling, or balance reminders, our agents are always on call - literally. Our bigger goal? To wipe out $200B in admin waste, freeinghealthcare to focus on what it does best—healing, not holding. | $30M / Series A / Jun 22, 2026 | |
Denki
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Denki is an AI-powered platform designed to automate internal auditing tasks, enhancing compliance with regulations like SOX 404 and BSA/AML through efficient evidence collection and financial reconciliation. The company integrates with existing systems such as Auditboard and Jira, automating control processes and facilitating bettercompliance through features mapped to frameworks like COSO. | $4.1M / Seed / Mar 05, 2026 | |
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HappyRobot
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HappyRobot provides a system that creates and manages a workforce of AI workers. The platform builds fully custom workflows and integrates with a variety of systems. The service helps businesses remove data silos and automate tasks in real time. | $44M / Series B / Sep 03, 2025 | |
Jet HR
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Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc). | $28.7M / Series A / Jun 18, 2025 | |
TaxDown
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TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings. | $4.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 22, 2025 | |
DevAI
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DevAI builds Network Intelligence Agents to help enterprise IT teams accelerate productivity and improve their source of truth. | $6M / Seed / Feb 06, 2025 | |
Buk
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Buk is a cloud-based human resource management software system that unifies a wide range of HR functionality into one system. The software provides benefits, talent management, payroll, time tracking, and recruiting solutions. The Buk App allows teams to be managed more effectively, providing notifications, document signing, and access to payrolldetails directly from mobile devices. | $50M / Series B / Jan 06, 2025 | |
Sightglass
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Sightglass is an AI-powered investor relations platform serving both investment managers and capital allocators. | $3M / Seed / Dec 05, 2024 | |
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TaxDown
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TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings. | $5.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 10, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Base10 Partners
Founded by Adeyemi Ajao and TJ Nahigian, Base10 is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund investing in founders who believe purpose is key to profits and in companies that are automating sectors of the Real Economy. Through its program the Advancement Initiative, Base10 donates 50% of profits to underfunded colleges and universities to supportfinancial aid and other key initiatives. Portfolio companies include Notion, Figma, Nubank, Stripe, Popmenu, Aurora Solar, and Chili Piper.
Base10 Partners Contacts
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Rexhep Dollaku
Partner
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TJ Nahigian
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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Adeyemi Ajao
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Ajani Smith-Washington
Investment Associate
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Andrew Lebovitz
Partner, Head of Direct and Co-Investments
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FAQ
What does Adeyemi Ajao invest in?
Adeyemi Ajao invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Adeyemi Ajao's check size?
Adeyemi Ajao typically joins rounds of $770k–$6.1M at Seed, $5.2M–$32M at Series A and $3.6M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Adeyemi Ajao participates in.
When did Adeyemi Ajao last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Adeyemi Ajao closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 54 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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