# Base Ventures

> Base Ventures is a VC fund in Berkeley backing Software and Mobile. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last fund: Feb 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/base-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/basevc
- Website: http://base.ventures
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/basevc

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).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $346k–$7M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 26 | 22% |
| Mobile | 16 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 12 | 10% |
| SaaS | 10 | 8% |

163 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 65 | 55% |
| Series A | 19 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 6% |
| Series B | 4 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 91 | 76% |
| South Korea | 5 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Latvia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erik Moore | Founder & Managing Director | 79 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-moore |
| Kirby Harris | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirby-harris |
| Lisa Parks | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-parks |
| Ryan Diew | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-diew |
| Ryan Merket | Venture Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-merket |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vivadios | 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 | Index Robotics is a startup developing upper-body humanoid robots based on high-precision actuator technology . | $1M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Bone | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Clarcap | 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 | 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 |  |
| Octane11 | Octane11 is a B2B-focused analytics and collaboration platform that connects siloed data across Sales, Marketing, Product, Human Resources and Finance to drive real business impact. We believe data is the fuel that drives business - and Octane11 is the missing ingredient that makes your data work even harder. Octane11 was launched in 2019 inpartnership with Oracle Data Cloud, LiveRamp, MediaMath, Bombora and Intersection, and is already helping some of the largest B2B companies break down data silos and turn every digital signal into an actionable insight. | $4.5M | Seed | May 13, 2022 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [VTF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vegastechfund) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Expansion Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expansion-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Outlander Fund I Archimedes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Base Ventures invest in?

Base Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 119 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 $346k–$7M at Seed and $1.2M–$24M 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.

### How do I contact Base Ventures?

Public channels for Base Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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