Base Ventures
VC Fund
Berkeley, United States
Base Ventures is a VC fund in Berkeley focused on Software and Mobile. Base Ventures, founded by Erik Moore, is a seed-stage fund investing in technology companies. Current portfolio includes MOS, Blavity, Space Perspective, Genies, 6Sense Inc., AngelList, and others. Successful exits include Olly Nutrition (Acquired by Unilever) and Plangrid (acquired by Autodesk).
- Total investments:
- 134
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Base Ventures invests in
Stages Base Ventures invests in
Countries Base Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$1M
- Series A
- $1.2M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 28 (21%)
- Mobile 17 (13%)
- E-Commerce 13 (10%)
- Information Technology 13 (10%)
- SaaS 11 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 67 (50%)
- Series A 20 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (7%)
- Funding Round 7 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (4%)
Country
- United States 93 (69%)
- South Korea 5 (4%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Latvia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Erik Moore
Founder & Managing Director
|
Founder & Managing Director | Total investments: 84 | Find email | |
Kirby Harris
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Lisa Parks
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryan Diew
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryan Merket
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 38 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios. | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Vivadios’s mission is to build 10x Christian apps that transform the way people engage with the Bible and practice their faith daily, using innovative technology to make Bible learning more accessible, interactive, and meaningful. | Pre-Seed / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| Index Robotics is a startup developing upper-body humanoid robots based on high-precision actuator technology . | $1M / Seed / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| Bone is a defense tech company. It builds autonomous drones and mission-ready AI systems. It integrates advanced hardware, intelligent software, and end-to-end solutions to support complex operations across commercial, industrial, and defense applications. It develops autonomous robotics systems for national defense and disaster response. | $11.7M / Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Solomon AI is a legal AI company backed by Bessemer building the next generation of artificially intelligent legal assistants. | $8.5M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | ||
| Clobe AI is a SaaS-based financial management platform designed for businesses to monitor and manage cash flow and financial operations. The company provides services such as real-time aggregation of financial data from bank accounts, corporate cards, and tax invoices, along with automated accounting and tax handling. The platform also supportscash flow tracking, profit and loss analysis, and automated settlement workflows, including transaction mapping and invoice processing, enabling centralized financial reporting and operational control. | $4.9M / Seed / Apr 29, 2025 | ||
| Doeat is a mobile delivery application intended to offer meals from the nearest restaurants. The company's application offers food delivery services with no delivery fee with a minimum order amount and connects single-person households with neighbors, enabling users to receive affordable food delivery. | $21.4M / Series A / Jan 24, 2025 | ||
| Fine Stay is a mobile application that is designed to offer reservation services. The company's application offers travel and tourism-related services, enabling clients to make bookings at lodging houses and select from carefully curated lodging options. | $4.4M / Series A / Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Provider of AI-powered research tools designed to support academic and scientific workflows. The platform offers intelligent search across large-scale publication databases, automated summarization, citation management, research analytics, and integration capabilities, thereby enabling researchers, students, and institutions to streamlineliterature review, grant proposal drafting, and impact analysis. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| Mansa develops a streaming platform featuring black culture. They are removing obstacles and integrating all formats. With tales from all over the world, they're displaying both fresh talent and seasoned pros. With their "Watch Out Loud Feature," they're linking viewers with one another, and with Web3 features, they'll beconnecting creators with their audiences. | $8M / Seed / Apr 18, 2023 | ||
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FAQ
What does Base Ventures invest in?
Base Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 134 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 Base Ventures's check size?
Base Ventures typically joins rounds of $120k–$7M at Seed, $125k–$1M at Pre-Seed and $1.2M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Base Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Base Ventures?
The team at Base Ventures includes Erik Moore (Founder & Managing Director), Kirby Harris (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Lisa Parks (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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