# Baseline Ventures

> Baseline Ventures is a VC fund in Jackson backing Software and SaaS. See 187 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jackson, United States
- Total investments: 187
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last fund: Mar 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baseline-ventures/about/
- Website: http://www.baselinev.com

Baseline Ventures is a VC fund in Jackson focused on Software and SaaS. Baseline addresses the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 100 companies and helped more than 50 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by theseenterprises):PagerDuty (IPO) SFIX (IPO) Twitter (IPO) Instagram (Facebook) Freckle (Renaissance) Spacious (WeWork) Bloc.io (Thinkful) PacketZoom (Roblox) Apiary (Oracle) Datalot (Lightyear Capital) Pocket (Mozilla) TaskRabbit (IKEA) Gild (Citadel) Launchkit (Google) Pronoun (Macmillan) Librato (SolarWinds) Reverb (Wordnick) (News Distribution Network) TrialPay (Visa) TastemakerX (Rdio) ExactTarget (SalesForce) StackMob (Paypal) GoInstance (SalesForce) CoTweet (ExactTarget) Heroku (SalesForce) IndexTank (LinkedIn) Versly (Cisco) BookFresh (Sugar Media) DocVerse (Google) Stax (CloudBees) Town.me (fka MixerLabs (GeoAPI)) (Twitter) Parakey (Parakey) Shape Security Inc (F5 Networks) Machine Zone (AppLovin) n'Way (Animoca Brands) PopSugar (Group Nine) Weebly (Square) MangoHealth (TrialCard) Thinkful (Chegg) mLab (MongoDB) Smyte (Twitter) Appuri (Docusign) Iron.io (Xenon Ventures) Soma (Full Circle) Careport (Allscripts) Kanjoya (Ultimate Software) Piqora (Olapic) Blekko (IBM) Path (Daum Kakao) TellApart (Twitter) Citrus Lane Inc. (Care.com) Crashlytics (Twitter) Metaresolver (Millenial Media) Xobni (Yahoo) OMBPop (Zynga) Flowtown (Demandforce) Hunch (eBay) Instructables (Autodesk) Aardvark (Google) Cake Financial (E*Trade) ScanScout (Tremor Media) Yardbarker (Fox Sports) Sendori (IAC) Rupture (Electronic Arts) Parakey (Parakey)

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $850k–$5M |
| Series A | $2M–$15M |
| Series B | $3.2M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 39 | 21% |
| SaaS | 17 | 9% |
| Mobile | 15 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | 7% |
| Internet | 13 | 7% |

185 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 54 | 29% |
| Series A | 51 | 27% |
| Series B | 24 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 9% |
| Series C | 9 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 96 | 51% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Steve Anderson | Founder | 71 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-anderson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jarvio | Jarvio is a cloud‑based platform that enables brands to manage and scale sales on global marketplaces. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| ViaBot | ViaBot develops outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties, including retail spaces, sports arenas, and corporate buildings. Primarily used for outdoor cleaning, the ViaBot One also features vision-based security to capture details like vehicle license platesViaBot was founded in 2016 by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding and is basedin Santa Clara, California, United States. | $3M | Convertible Note | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Haus | Haus provides a marketing science platform that enables brands to conduct geo-experiments and measure the incrementality of their marketing investments. By focusing on real business outcomes rather than traditional metrics, Haus helps companies optimize their marketing spend effectively. The platform supports brands in making informed decisionsabout revenue, customer acquisition, and other key performance indicators. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| LucidLink | LucidLink provides a cloud-backed distributed file service allowing instant access to an unlimited, shared, and secure file space in the cloud. It believes cloud object storage has the power to transform the way individuals and businesses store and access their files.LucidLink aims to change that with universal distributed file system thatstreams data from cloud object storage. It purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. Simply stated, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage. | $75M | Series C | Nov 20, 2023 |  |
| ViaBot | ViaBot develops outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties, including retail spaces, sports arenas, and corporate buildings. Primarily used for outdoor cleaning, the ViaBot One also features vision-based security to capture details like vehicle license platesViaBot was founded in 2016 by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding and is basedin Santa Clara, California, United States. | $4.7M | Seed | Oct 13, 2023 |  |
| Haus | Haus provides a marketing science platform that enables brands to conduct geo-experiments and measure the incrementality of their marketing investments. By focusing on real business outcomes rather than traditional metrics, Haus helps companies optimize their marketing spend effectively. The platform supports brands in making informed decisionsabout revenue, customer acquisition, and other key performance indicators. | $17M | Series A | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| Patented.ai | Building the world's first infringement detector. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| LLM Shield | Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Infringements | Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Invalidate | IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |

10 of 187 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Upside Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upside-partnership) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Baseline Ventures invest in?

Baseline Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 187 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 Baseline Ventures's check size?

Baseline Ventures typically joins rounds of $850k–$5M at Seed, $2M–$15M at Series A and $3.2M–$45M 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 Baseline Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Baseline Ventures?

Public channels for Baseline Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Baseline Ventures?

The team at Baseline Ventures includes Steve Anderson (Founder). 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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