# Jay Baer

> Jay Baer is a seed investor at Penguin Random House backing Software and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Penguin Random House
- Location: Bloomington, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaybaer/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jaybaer
- Website: http://jaybaer.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaybaer

Jay Baer is a seed investor at Penguin Random House in Bloomington focused on Software and SaaS. Jay Baer is the Founder, of the content marketing strategy, social media strategy, word of mouth strategy, and CX strategy of Convince & Convert. Jay Bae attended the University of Arizona.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $339k–$1.5M |
| Series A | $2.4M–$2.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 44% |
| SaaS | 3 | 33% |
| Social Media | 3 | 33% |
| B2B | 2 | 22% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 67% |
| Canada | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CoSchedule | CoSchedule is the marketing industry’s leading provider of content calendar, content optimization, and marketing education products. Its dynamic family of agile marketing management products serve more than 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value. Collectively,CoSchedule products empower nearly 100,000 marketers to complete more high-quality work in less time. As recognized with accolades from Inc. 5000, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, and G2Crowd, CoSchedule is one of the fastest-growing and most valued companies its customers recommend. | $2M |  | May 17, 2017 |  |
| Terminus | Founded in 2014, Terminus is the industry’s first account-based marketing platform that enables B2B marketers to target companies, engage decision-makers on their terms, and accelerate sales pipeline velocity at scale. Launched in early 2015, Terminus is already proven to better align sales and marketing teams, deploy account-based marketing atscale and increase close rates; and is used by brands including Dun & Bradstreet, SalesLoft, and Influitive. Backed by notable investors in the B2B marketing space, Terminus is headquartered in the Terminus 100 building in Atlanta. | $10.3M | Series B | May 15, 2017 |  |
| CloudPeeps | CloudPeeps is an all-in-one platform, marketplace and community that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. |  | Angel | Dec 31, 2015 |  |
| Uberflip | Uberflip is a content experience platform that empowers marketing and sales to create engaging, relevant content destinations quickly for every campaign, audience, and stage of the customer journey. Marketers use our platform to scale how they incorporate content into every touchpoint and remove friction from the customer journey by surfacing theright content at the right time. For more information, visit uberflip.com | $1M | Angel | Apr 02, 2015 |  |
| Addvocate | Addvocate is a cloud-based platform for authentic employee advocacy and social selling. The platform helps companies to engage with buyers and drives sales. employee advocacy, social marketing, brand awareness, collaboration, and social workforce management . | $2.4M | Series A | Jul 24, 2013 |  |
| Breather | Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 05, 2013 |  |
| Addvocate | Addvocate is a cloud-based platform for authentic employee advocacy and social selling. The platform helps companies to engage with buyers and drives sales. employee advocacy, social marketing, brand awareness, collaboration, and social workforce management . | $339K | Seed | May 15, 2013 |  |
| CMP.LY | CMP.LY — the standard for making disclosures in social and digital media — helps brands and agencies fulfill regulatory obligations while improving the effectiveness of their marketing and corporate communications programs.The company provides easy-to-deploy, purpose-built disclosure and compliance solutions for contests and promotions, brandadvocate programs, investor relations, financial services, affiliate marketing, healthcare marketing and employee social media.CMP.LY’s patent-pending framework is based on easily identifiable icons and URLs providing a universally recognizable convention that communicates required disclosures across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, blogs and other digital media channels. | $2.4M | Series A | Jun 01, 2012 |  |
| Buffer | Build your audience and grow your brand on social media. Plan and schedule thumb-stopping content that drives meaningful engagement and growth for your business. | $450K | Seed | Dec 20, 2011 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arthur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atlanta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlanta-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DoubleRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doublerock) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Edison Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edison-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gen7 Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gen7-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Penguin Random House

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Penguin Random House Canada is the Canadian division of Penguin Random House, the world’s most global trade book publisher which was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%,respectively. Penguin Random House comprises the adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa, and Penguin’s trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial’s Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors. In Canada, Penguin Random House Canada is comprised of Penguin Canada and Random House of Canada, trade publishers and distributors of books from their sister imprints in the U.S. and the U.K.

5 contacts available at Penguin Random House.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Elizabeth Comstock | Book Author & Imagine It Forward | — |
| Tom Weldon | CEO Penguin Random House U.K. | — |
| Azeem Azhar | Author | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azeem-azhar |
| Beth Comstock | Book Author, Imagine It Forward | — |
| Coram Williams | CFO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jay Baer invest in?

Jay Baer invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Social Media startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 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 Jay Baer's check size?

Jay Baer typically joins rounds of $339k–$1.5M at Seed and $2.4M–$2.4M 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 Jay Baer participates in.

### How do I contact Jay Baer?

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### When did Jay Baer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jay Baer closed in May 2017. Shizune tracks 9 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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