Ed Baker
Angel Investor
Palo Alto, United States
Ed Baker is a seed investor in Palo Alto focused on Internet and Software. Ed Baker is the ex VP of Product and Growth at Uber. He is known as one of the architects of the consumer Internet growth discipline, and has deep insight into and experience with viral and social products. Ed was the founder and CEO of Friend.ly, a social Q&A site with over 25 million registered users. After Facebook acquired Friend.ly, Ed ran Facebook’s international growth team. Ed has an A.B. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford. In his free time, Ed likes to run marathons, kiteboard, and compete in triathlons.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Ed Baker invests in
Stages Ed Baker invests in
Countries Ed Baker invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $675k–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $2M–$4.1M
- Series B
- $7M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 6 (26%)
- Software 4 (17%)
- Wellness 4 (17%)
- E-Commerce 4 (17%)
- Apps 3 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (17%)
- Series B 2 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (9%)
- Angel 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 16 (70%)
- Brazil 1 (4%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Further is on a mission to empower first-time home buyers to achieve their dream of homeownership with confidence and ease. We simplify the complex home buying process through innovative tools and personalized guidance, ensuring that buyers are well-prepared every step of the way. Our platform offers financial planning, tailored insights, andresources designed to make homeownership more accessible. At Further, we believe that with the right support, anyone can realize their goal of owning a home. Join us as we help make the path to homeownership clear and attainable for all. | $4.1M / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2024 | ||
| Videowise is a review application platform that automates product video reviews for online stores. It automatically searches, verifies, syncs, and serves product video reviews, provides real-time analytics and ROI tracking, and other related features, and helps eCommerce businesses increase customer conversions, shopper engagement, and customervalue.Videowise was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware. | $3M / Seed / Mar 27, 2023 | ||
| Parallelz builds a platform that enables anyone to instantly create, and share “impossible” versions of their favorite mobile games. | $2.9M / Pre-Seed / Jun 22, 2022 | ||
| Elo creates a smart nutrition service that uses biomarkers to deliver nutrition with confidence for optimal health and aging. It employs biomarkers, artificial intelligence, and expert guidance to deliver supplements that are precisely calibrated for the individual's needs. It uses Smart Nutrition products to identify and fill nutrient gapsbased on blood testing, activity data, and one-on-one dietitian support. | $5M / Seed / Feb 10, 2022 | ||
| Tagg is an app that lets content-creators earn crypto for being engaging. Our platform uses web3 elements (tokens) to reward content-creators for building personalized profiles, curating links, and posting content. | $2M / Seed / Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| At Felt (formerly Mine'd), we believe emotional well-being begins with building better relationships with yourself and those around you.We are the first interactive feelings school to help you improve your relationships and navigate life's hardest moments. Through immersive Felt Courses, live coaching and on-demand content, the toptherapists, coaches and experts, we'll teach you the relationship skills you never learned in school.ABOUT US We have grown really fast, totally organically (we acquired over 100k users with over one million videos watched in the last 6 months alone!) We also raised a $3.5MM seed round from some amazing investors including Listen Ventures (early VC behind Calm), Jefferey Katzenberg's fund WNDRCO (President of Dreamworks), Able Partners (VC behind Goop, Bumble, Oura Ring, Bulletproof, Daily Harvest), Ed Baker (former VP of Growth at Facebook and Uber), Jillionaire from Major Lazer, and more.ABOUT OUR TEAM Our team cares deeply about celebrating emotional wellness and breaking the rules while doing it to drive more access. We are constantly working to push the norm and reinvent how folks think about and interact with emotional health support. We lead with compassion and curiosity, work hard but celebrate in the process, and love strong opinions balanced with strong collaboration.We have a diverse, world-class team. Some of us come from reputable enterprises in tech and media while others are self-made personal growth experts. We create deep and meaningful connections and relationships with everyone in the company as we are all building Mine'd together. Mine'd is a meritocracy founded in collaboration and innovative minds.Come join us in our mission is to celebrate emotional and relational wellness.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York. | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| Enabling each individual to curate for the many | Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | ||
| Enabling each individual to curate for the many | Pre-Seed / Aug 30, 2021 | ||
| Bacon develops a gig-work app that connects established businesses to local gig workers. The app allows users to choose one another based on ratings, reviews, and performance. Businesses can post one or multiple shifts on the Bacon app while workers can apply for these shifts and work when it fits their schedule. | $3M / Series A / Aug 01, 2021 | ||
| Supersapiens is a sports technology company focused on energy management systems. They develop innovative insights around glucose data using biowearable technology, resulting in long-term positive behavior change and assisting in unlocking better performance and recovery. The company's real-time glucose visibility enables them to make informeddecisions that can improve glucose levels, metabolism, and, as a result, energy levels.Supersapiens was founded in 2019 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. | $13.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 27, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ed Baker invest in?
Ed Baker invests primarily in Internet, Software and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ed Baker invest in?
Ed Baker typically joins rounds of $675k–$9M at Seed, $2M–$4.1M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$70M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ed Baker's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ed Baker took part in.
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When did Ed Baker last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ed Baker closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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