Baseline Ventures
Venture capitalJackson · Seed · 1 people tracked
Also known as BASELINE INDUSTRIES, L.P.
Investment thesis
Seed-stage micro-VC run solely by Steve Anderson, personally sourcing, deciding and partnering via concentrated checks, offering rapid gut-based decisions and founder-focused, high-conviction support that backed Instagram.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 28, 2026.
Team · 1 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 20 of 121 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×6SaaS ×5AI & Machine Learning ×4Cloud Computing ×4Marketplaces ×4Consumer ×3E-commerce ×3Gaming ×3
HQs:United States×17
Investments · 121 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
eBay is an online marketplace platform that enables buyers and sellers to trade a wide variety of goods across categories including technology, fashion, collectibles, vehicles, and home goods.
E-commerceMarketplacesSan Jose, US
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Electronic Arts is a video game publisher and developer that creates and distributes interactive entertainment titles across franchises such as EA SPORTS FC, Battlefield, The Sims, Apex Legends, and UFC.
GamingMedia & Entertainment
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Expensify offers a corporate expense management card and platform that issues Visa cards to employees, automatically syncs transactions, codes receipts, enforces spend controls, and integrates with accounting software.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS<UNKNOWN>
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PagerDuty provides a platform for incident response and operations management that enables teams across technical and business functions to respond to critical events in real time.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Solomon(Founder/CTO)inJennifer Tejada(Executive Officer, Director)John O'Farrell(Director)Steven Gatoff(Executive Officer)Ethan Kurzweil(Director)Dan Alexandru Solomon(Director)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
San Francisco, US
Marka Hansen(Director)Scott Darling(Executive Officer)John William Gurley(Director)Sharon McCollam(Director)Steven Anderson(Director)Katrina Lake(Executive Officer, Director)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Seattle, US
DAMON DANIELI(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)ROBERT SHURTLEFF(Director)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
San Francisco, US
Sean Sullivan(Director)Lawrence Marcus(Director)Lief Storer(Executive Officer, Director)John Ziesler(Director)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Care.com operates a marketplace that connects families with professional caregivers for childcare, senior care, pet care, and household services.
B2B MarketplacesHealthtechHR TechMarketplaces
Brad Wilson(Chief Executive Officer)Chekesha C. Kidd(General Manager, CareBenefits)Wes Burke(Chief People Officer)Bill Chase(General Manager, Consumer)Amit Goyal(Chief Technology Officer)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Crashlytics is a crash and error reporting tool that captures app crashes and ANRs in realtime, groups them by user impact, and provides AI-powered insights via Gemini to help developers find root causes faster.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
San Carlos, US
ROB HAYES(Director)LINDA POULIOT(Executive Officer, Director)PAUL BIRKMEYER(Executive Officer, Director)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Good Eggs is an online grocery marketplace that curates and delivers fresh, locally-sourced food products with strict standards for quality, flavor, transparency, and ethical sourcing.
E-commerceFoodTechMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
Alon Salant(Executive Officer, Director)Bentley Hall(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Pucker(Director)Rob Spiro(Cofounder)
BoardDanny Rimer(Director)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that integrates AI agents to automate business workflows across sales, service, marketing, and other departments, enabling organizations and AI to work collaboratively.
AI & Machine LearningCloud Computing
Marc Benioff(Founder & CEO)
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
PartnerSteve Anderson· solo GP
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Baseline Ventures invest at?
- Baseline Ventures invests at the Seed stage.
- What is Baseline Ventures's typical check size?
- Baseline Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $1M.
- What sectors does Baseline Ventures focus on?
- Baseline Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Baseline Ventures located?
- Baseline Ventures is headquartered in Jackson, US.
- Does Baseline Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Baseline Ventures leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamSteve Anderson on Founding Baseline Ventures | TechCrunch
Steve Anderson · techcrunch.com
The Midas touch: Steve Anderson in conversation | Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures: Instagram's first investor and the number two on the Midas list on why investing is more art than spreadsheets. | By Web Summit
Steve Anderson · facebook.com
Co-investors · 86
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Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1999 by former partners from leading venture firms, focusing on early-stage technology companies across multiple sectors. The firm leverages its partners' technology investment experience and an extensive network of entrepreneurs and industry contacts to support portfolio company growth.
Benchmark is a venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco and Woodside that invests in early-stage startups.
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▶74 more co-investors
SV AngelMenlo VenturesUnion Square Ventures (USV)Sapphire VenturesSlow VenturesForerunner VenturesScale Venture Partners8VCMatrixCowboy VenturesHigh AlphaS28 CapitalArthur VenturesBrighton Park CapitalBrightCap Investment Advisor ADGreylock PartnersTechstarsLong Journey VenturesFounder CollectiveBoxGroupDCVC (Data Collective)Spark CapitalTrue VenturesSound VenturesCRV (Charles River Ventures)Canaan PartnersSOSVFundersClubNextView VenturesFreestyle CapitalKapor CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersSouth Park CommonsUlu VenturesAcrew CapitalIA VenturesLowercase CapitalDCM VenturesHarrison MetalAccompliceVillage GlobalUncorrelated VenturesBetaworks Ventures Management, LlcFuel Venture CapitalNextGen Venture PartnersMarch Capital PartnersDnx VenturesThird Point VenturesUpside PartnershipAnorak VenturesKohlberg Kravis RobertsCapital FactoryCrosscut VenturesK9 VenturesVitalStage VenturesPredictive VCDrive CapitalMontage VenturesBIOSPRING PARTNERSRoot Ventures Manager, LlcGlobal Innovation FundGFT VenturesCyfrinBINARY CAPITALGriffin Gaming PartnersCredo VenturesIlluminate VenturesWestern Technology InvestmentBoston Seed CapitalConvergence Ventures186 VenturesImpellent VenturesFathom CapitalLemnos VC
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