# Steve Anderson

> Steve Anderson is a seed investor at Baseline Ventures (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 71 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 71
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveatbaseline
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/standers
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/steven.pt.anderson

Steve Anderson is a seed investor at Baseline Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. A Seattle native, Steve Anderson is a seed investor. Steve founded Baseline Ventures, a privately held early stage seed investor in 2006.Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help entrepreneurs build and grow their ideas intocompanies. Steve was also named to the Forbes Midas list three years running (peaking at #5) for earning top returns for entrepreneurs and investors. Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 90 companies and helped more than 30 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. Baseline is proud to be a seed investor associated with the following highly promising companies: Instagram (founding investor) and Parakey (both acquired by Facebook)Heroku, ExactTarget, GoInstant and CoTweet (all acquired by Salesforce.com)Crashlytics and GeoAPI (both acquired by Twitter)IndexTank (acquired by LinkedIn)Librato (acquired by SolarWinds)Rupture (acquired by EA)Sendori (acquired by Ask.com)Versely (acquired by Cisco)Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google)Yardbarker (acquired by Fox Sports)BookFresh (acquired by Sugar Media)Cake Financial (acquired by E*Trade)ScanScout (acquired by Tremor Media)StaxNetworks (acquired by Cloudbees)Hunch (acquired by eBay)Instructables (acquired by AutoDesk)Flowtown (acquired by DemandForce)OMGPop (acquired by Zynga)Xobni (acquired by Yahoo!)Metaresolver (acquired by Millenial Media)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$5M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$17M |
| Series B | $1.5M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 28% |
| SaaS | 10 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 11% |
| Mobile | 7 | 10% |

102 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 34% |
| Series A | 20 | 28% |
| Series B | 9 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 7% |
| Series C | 3 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 36 | 51% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Reasoner | Problems solved: - Multi-hop reasoning - Compound system data portability - Sub-second, multi-thousand data point synthesization - Multi-domain, multi-topic, multi-subject simultaneous analysis - Lossless recall - Zero hallucinations - And many, many more...Built. In Production. (Currently the reasoning engine powering Patented.ai to solve thehardest problems in litigation.) |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $20M | Series B | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Dusty Robotics | Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. Their flagship product, the FieldPrinter, turns digital BIM designs into fully-constructible layouts in the field quickly and accurately. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States. | $45M | Series B | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Dusty Robotics | Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. Their flagship product, the FieldPrinter, turns digital BIM designs into fully-constructible layouts in the field quickly and accurately. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States. | $16.5M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 71 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Baseline Ventures

VC Fund · Jackson, United States

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)

1 contacts available at Baseline Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Steve Anderson invest in?

Steve Anderson invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 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 Steve Anderson's check size?

Steve Anderson typically joins rounds of $750k–$5M at Seed, $1.1M–$17M at Series A and $1.5M–$50M 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 Steve Anderson participates in.

### When did Steve Anderson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steve Anderson closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 71 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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