# Blake Ross

> Blake Ross is a seed investor at Uber (San Francisco) backing Local and Mobile. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Uber](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uber)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Nov 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakejross
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/blakeross
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Local | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile | 1 | 100% |
| Internet | 1 | 100% |
| Logistics | 1 | 100% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |

9 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Miles & Company Services | Fluc (which is Miles & Company Services now) is building the world’s first social marketplace for consumers to search, discover, and purchase freshly-made food. Whether people desire a cup of coffee or a freshly cooked pacific trout, Fluc powers the connection between consumers and local food merchants.Fluc wraps complex logistics into asimple and affordable consumer experience, enabling anyone to access thousands of food items from the palm of their hand. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 24, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [WI Harper Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wi-harper-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Uber

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ridesharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request that is routed to crowd-sourced partner drivers.Its smartphone application connects drivers with people who need a ride. Its application enables users to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services withthird-party providers. They take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world. It also provides Windows Phone App, iPhone App, Blackberry App, and Android App. Uber serves customers in North, Central, and South Americas as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia PacificGarrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick founded UberCab in March 2009 which became Uber Technologies in October 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco California, and an engineering center in Bengaluru in India as well as a regional office in Singapore.

5 contacts available at Uber.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhinav Anand | Senior Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-anand-2 |
| Andrew Mager | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-mager |
| Apurva Dalal | Head of India Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apurva-dalal |
| Blake Ross | Product Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-ross |
| Brooks Entwistle | Chief Business Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/l-brooks-entwistle |

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## FAQ

### What does Blake Ross invest in?

Blake Ross invests primarily in Local, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Blake Ross last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Blake Ross closed in Nov 2014. Shizune tracks 1 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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