# Vera Baker

> Vera Baker is a seed investor at Jua Fund (Paris) backing Food and Beverage and SaaS. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jua Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jua-kickstarter-fund)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/velizbaker/

Vera Baker is an Angel Investor for Atomico, and an Investment Advisor to The Jua Fund, an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. Additionally, she works directly with budding startups as a Director at the Founders Institute Paris Chapter and a mentor tounderrepresented founders at the Colors Accelerator in Paris and the Unconventional Accelerator in the Nordics.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $127k–$5.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| Banking | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 60% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adon Health | Adon Health is to create a future where innovation, compassion, accessibility, and high-quality medicine revolutionize men's healthcare. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| Juniper | Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Climate X | Climate X is a dual headquartered (London, UK and New York, US) global climate physical risk and resilience data analytics company whose customer's include leading global financial institutions across banking, real estate and insurance. Learn more by visiting www.climate-x.com. | $5.4M | Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Omni | Omni is a plant-based pet food company from the UK, that is developing healthy, sustainable food for dogs. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Sundial Foods | Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.The company is passionate about making the affordable, accessible, and nutritional value of plant-based meats, made from ingredients that customers know and created using simple processes.It is headquartered inBerkeley, California in 2019. | $127K | Seed | Nov 19, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voyagers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyagers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2100 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2100-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [noa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-o-proptech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asymmetry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FoodLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-food-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Jua Fund

VC Fund · Johannesburg, South Africa

EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.

3 contacts available at Jua Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vera Baker | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vera-baker |
| Adam Molai | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-molai |
| Mhanisi Malaba | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mhanisi-malaba |

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## FAQ

### What does Vera Baker invest in?

Vera Baker invests primarily in Food and Beverage, SaaS and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vera Baker's check size?

Vera Baker typically joins rounds of $127k–$5.4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vera Baker participates in.

### When did Vera Baker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vera Baker closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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