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 these enterprises): 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)

Baseline Ventures

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology. DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investing partners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses. DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

DCM Ventures

Moatable offers businesses with management expertise, support services, and capital to scale. It develops innovative B2B SaaS technology solutions to provide operational expertise and financial resources.

Moatable

RPM Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with $750 million under management, has history of disrupting multi-billion-dollar markets within sectors where they are recognized as an industry thought leader. These sectors include FinTech, InsurTech, Real Estate Tech and they have a specific specialty in Mobility and Transportation.

RPM Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture fund in Silicon Valley investing in diverse entrepreneurial teams as well as Enterprise IT, EdTech, FinTech, Healthcare, and Sustainability startups.  Ulu is the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is one of the largest in the country with over $200M in assets under management. As well, the firm has designed its investment process to reduce risk and produce better, more consistent returns. Ulu’s process structures intuition and applies it intelligently to investments, avoiding cognitive biases common in VC; systematically identifies key drivers of risk and uncertainty, streamlining due diligence; and calculates a probability-weighted multiple(PWM) on invested capital, ensuring consistent decision-making.

Ulu Ventures

Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineering health, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com.

Innovation Endeavors

Third Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, a registered investment adviser based in New York, with approximately $5 billion of assets under management. The firm was founded in 1995 by Daniel S. Loeb. Third Point Ventures is led by Robert Schwartz, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in private equity and technology company management, and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Third Point Ventures

Grail Partners, LLC provides investment banking and financial advisory services to corporate and institutional clients. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions consulting, exclusive sales and divestitures, leveraged and management buyouts, and financial restructuring services. Additionally, it provides deal valuations, fairness opinions, and strategic and monetary advisory services. Grail Partners caters to financial institutions, banking, and asset management sectors. Its clientele include FrontPoint Partners LLC, Munder, Sentinel, Bank of Ireland, Caterpillar Investment Management, and Citigroup. Grail Partners is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York, New York; San Francisco, California; and London, United Kingdom.

Grail Partners

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund.  The company has expanded and broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London. Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Lakestar

SharesPost Investment Management manages a portfolio of funds including the public Sharespost 100 Fund (PRIVX) that invest in many of the leading private growth companies in the United States.  SharesPost Investment Management is a Registered Investment Advisor and an affiliate of SharesPost Inc.

SharesPost Investment Management

Wellington Management focuses on investment management. The company applies its full resources to meet the needs of the institutional clients they serve. Their investment approaches span equity, fixed income, currency, commodity, and alternative markets. They also offer asset allocation, multi-manager, and speciality approaches.

Wellington Management

IVP turns breakout companies into enduring market leaders. With a 40-year record of driving growth and 130+ IPOs, we’ve partnered with over 400 companies including Amplitude, Brex, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, Klarna, Slack, Snap, and Twitter. As trusted allies, IVP helps founders and CEOs meet the challenge of leading a rapidly growing company. Its proven system bolsters functions including those that are sometimes overlooked and partners serve as trusted allies to companies seeking to realize their full potential.

SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet, telecommunications, and digital television products. It is a multinational telecommunications and internet corporation focused on broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, the internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. The company operates through four segments. The mobile communications segment provides mobile communications services, produces and distributes online games for smartphones and other devices, offers mobile broadband services, provides supply chain solutions, handset protection, and insurance, buy-back and trade-in services, omnichannel solutions, and financial services, and sells mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and SoftBank smartphones. The Sprint segment offers mobile and fixed-line voice and data transmission services for individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. and sells mobile devices and accessories. The fixed-line telecommunications segment offers telecom services such as fixed-line telephone and data communications services to corporate customers and broadband services to individual customers. The internet segment is engaged in the operation of the Yahoo! Japan portal, the sale of internet advertising, the operation of e-commerce sites, the provision of membership services, the sale and marketing of data centers, the provision of online automobile-related information, and the operation of the internet affiliate system. SoftBank also generates and sells electricity from renewable energy sources; provides payment processing, invoice collections, and computation services for businesses; distributes video, voice, and data content via media; operates the IT information site ITmedia; provides solutions and services for online businesses; and operates online games and software downloads. Additionally, it is involved in the ownership of professional baseball teams, the operation of baseball games, the management and maintenance of baseball stadiums and other sports facilities, and the procurement of funds by issuing preferred securities.

SoftBank

Impact: 80+ startups. 31 exits. $150+ bn in value.

Chang Corporation

Discovery Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early and growth stage investments. It seeks to invest in information technology with a focus on hardware and software companies, communications sector that includes mobile technology that includes wireless and networking solutions, new media, health and life sciences focused on biotechnology, environmental and energy technology, water purification, electric power by wind energy and solar energy, and other advanced technologies focused on hardware and software, industrial, alternative energy, energy-saving technology solutions, and clean technology solutions investments.  Discovery Capital seeks to invest in companies based in British Columbia. It also provides capital for follow-on investments. It will invest in eligible small businesses that qualify under the Small Business Venture Capital Act.  Discover Capital invests in those firm in which their business, together with affiliates, must have less than 100 employees at the time of their initial investment. It may make additional investments if the employment level grows beyond 100.  Also, their business must pay at least 75% of its wages and salaries to B.C. employees. This may be reduced to 50% if their business is engaged in the export of goods or services outside B. C. It prefers to have successful exits by way of initial public offerings and sales of portfolio companies.  John McEwen and Harry Jaako founded Discovery Capital in 1986. It has its headquarters in British Columbia in Canada.

Discovery Capital

Thomvest is a cross-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage, growth-stage, start-up, and mid-venture investments. The company primarily focuses on opportunities with early-to-mid-stage companies in the fields of financial technology, marketing technology, cybersecurity, sales, and cloud infrastructure sectors. As part of their focus on these areas, they are committed to helping their companies become leaders in their fields through their work with them and through the focus on understanding where value can be created in these industries, as can be seen from the research they publish regularly.

Thomvest Ventures

QED Investors is an investment firm that supports high-growth companies and businesses. The firm typically provides a combination of both capital and capability. But common to all the firm's partnerships is a shared conviction that information plays a decisive role in the success of the company, a mutual desire for a high degree of direct engagement, and a shared enthusiasm for experimentation and learning.

QED Investors

Wicklow Capital, Inc. is a Chicago-based principal investment firm out of the family office of Dan Tierney, co-founder and board member of GETCO, Inc., once one of the world's leading market makers and financial innovators in financial and commodities markets.

Wicklow Capital

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

ThirdStream Partners is an investment firm that invests in venture and strategic opportunities in financial technologies (FinTech) and financial services. They make proprietary investments in a broad spectrum of companies, ranging from early-stage startups to late-stage private companies. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Thirdstream Partners

Group 11 invests in visionary entrepreneurs who are utilizing the unstoppable momentum of AI and FinTech to redraw the landscape of their respective industries. With a goal of creating change across generations and building long term value through technology, Group 11 has emerged as a coveted partner to veteran entrepreneurs at the forefront of their fields.  Since its inception in 2012, the top-decile performing firm has deployed over $580 million across six funds in some of the world’s most prominent and disruptive technology companies, including: Tipalti, Navan, Next Insurance, HomeLight, Sunbit, Masterschool, Healthee, Dream, and BridgeWise.

Group 11

General Global Capital makes concentrated growth-stage technology investments across various sectors including: Financial Technology, Enterprise/SaaS, CyberSecurity, Food Technology and Opportunistic growth.

General Global Capital

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies.

Silver Lake

MVP is a principal investor and advisory specializing in the secondary market for private venture-backed technology companies. MVP pioneered the institutionalization of this once-democratized asset class. Since 2010, the partners at MVP VC have been integral in the institutionalization of the Direct Secondary market. We are pioneers in this space, and the partners have collectively engaged in more than $10B of primary and secondary venture investments. Our belief is that Direct Secondaries are the evolution of the Secondary LP investing strategy established in the early 1980s and should be treated accordingly. MVP differentiates itself through its unique research and ability to streamline the secondary process by being a principal and advisory to private companies and their shareholders, as well as GPs and LPs. This is accomplished by bringing together the full expertise of our Secondary as a Service™ platform, investment banking expertise, research team, and the All-Star Funds (~$1B AUM Jan 2022).

Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)

Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited (SEHK: 86) is a leader in alternative investing headquartered in Hong Kong. Since its establishment in 1969, the Group has owned and operated market-leading platforms in Financial Services. The Group invests across public markets, alternatives and real estate and has an established track record of generating long-term risk adjusted returns for its shareholders. In recent years, it has extended its strategy to incubate, accelerate and support emerging asset managers in the Asian region. It is also the major shareholder of a leading Consumer Finance firm, United Asia Finance Limited.

Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited

GPI Capital (''GPI'') is an alternative investment firm specializing in non-control structured and growth equity investments in technology, consumer and industrial companies primarily located in North America.  GPI seeks to serve as a value-add partner rather than own businesses, and provides customized capital solutions enabling portfolio companies to fund transformational growth, including M&A and shareholder transitions.  GPI targets late-stage growth and mature companies that have achieved scale, typically with revenues over $100 million and equity values between $500 million and $5 billion.

GPI Capital

RSC Capital is a technology venture capital and growth equity firm. The firm is based in New York City.

RSC Capital

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Biologically protecting plants from pests

Biopesticides

Biotalys is an Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company that develops protein-based biocontrol solutions for crop and food protection. The company's AGROBODY technology platform allows it to discover and develop novel biological solutions that combine high efficacy, consistency, and safety, with new modes of action to combat resistance. Biotalys' first innovative biofungicide, Evoca, helps sustainably control economically important fungal diseases like Botrytis and powdery mildew in fruits and vegetables. Evoca is expected to obtain approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in early 2023.
In October 2022, Biotalys announced a successful feasibility study with Novozymes, where the latter obtained proof of concept for a new manufacturing process that offers potential cost and scaling advantages for Evoca. This could broaden the commercial potential of Evoca and potentially reduce time to market. In February 2024, Biotalys entered into academic collaborations to deepen its expertise in oomycetes and isolate new fungal strains, supporting its R&D programs for developing biofungicides against diseases like late blight in potatoes and leafspot in cowpeas.
Biotalys was founded in 2013 as a spin-off from the VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and is headquartered in the biotech cluster in Ghent, Belgium.

Wage is building an API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. It is an infrastructure software solution that allows its users to seamlessly and securely share payroll data. The company was originally founded as Verix in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Indigo Diabetes nv (Indigo) is a young high-tech medical device company founded by Danaë Delbeke and her team ended in 2016. Indigo develops the world’s first invisible sensor for people living with diabetes to address their need for accurate glucose monitoring with improved user experience. Indigo exploits groundbreaking photonics technology that revolutionized the Internet during the last decades and now aims at transforming diabetes management.

Partake Foods is a food and beverage company that specializes in selling allergy-friendly cookies. The company makes and sells allergen-free cookies Partake Foods is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with a registered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies. BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs.

PieSync creates deep integrations between web applications focused on business users.  Our goal: increasing your productivity drastically by combining the powers of your favorite cloud applications

CoScale provides full-stack performance monitoring, optimized for production environments. The CoScale platform continuously monitors your servers, containers, and applications, as well as the impact on user experience and key business metrics.   CoScale simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting with automated anomaly detection and contextual insights, so you can act proactively on performance changes that impact your bottom line.  CoScale is used by DevOps engineers, application owners, and marketing and business users in organizations that seek to improve their digital performance by creating faster and more available websites and applications, resulting in a better user experience and higher conversion rates.

neoScores is a pioneer in offering digital music scores. It gives musicians the opportunity to simply and securely purchase scores or to use and to share notes with fellow musicians, anywhere they are. Gustaf is an OS and device independent web platform that allows the distribution of digital sheet music. High in quality, easy and flexible, beautiful and stylish, Gustaf allows to use scores via smartphone, tablet or computer through any operating system. That is how neoScores® wants to change the way sheet music is used by musicians. neoScores® was founded in July 2013 by Bart Van der Roost, Bob Hamblok and Jonas Coomans, three professional musicians with a passion for new media.

GlobalYeast is a Belgian-Brazilian biotechnology startup focused on developing and deploying products and solutions for the fermentation industry. Base operations are strategically placed in both countries to better serve their clients globally. Their unique insight into fermentation processes is based on their strong knowledge of yeast metabolism and genetics and on applied research at the frontier of these sciences. Combined with their industrial know-how from years of experience in the Brazilian ethanol industry and multiple collaborations with yeast and fermentation industries world-wide, they are well equipped to understand their client’s needs and to deliver tangible results.  GlobalYeast provides unique products and services to key markets of the bio-based economy.

Porphyrio specializes in smart management systems for modern livestock facilities. Porphyrio’s products focus on operational excellence by allowing farm managers to get the most out of available production data. These systems provide pro-active early warning based on advanced statistical algorithms.

Biotalys is an Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company that employs its proprietary Agrobody technology platform to develop crop and food protection products. The company develops a new generation of protein-based biocontrol solutions, shaping the future of sustainable and safe food supply. Biotalys' unique protein-based biocontrols combine the high-performance characteristics of chemicals with the clean safety profile of biologicals, making them ideal crop protection agents for both pre- and post-harvest applications. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the Biotech hub in Ghent, Belgium.

SoFi is a financial company that provides lending and wealth management services, primarily targeting early-stage professionals. They offer a variety of products, including personal loans, MBA loans, and mortgage refinancing. Additionally, SoFi provides financial services designed to help individuals borrow, save, spend, and invest money. They also assist clients in saving for retirement and managing their student loan repayments.

<div> SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, andprotect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. </div>

SoFi’s New Robo-Advisor Platform Expands Everyday Investors’ Access to Diversified Asset Classes

Retail investors demanding sophisticated passive investment strategies are looking for an edge.

Retail Trading Infrastructure

Robo advisory startups that offer automated investment services directly to individuals solely via digital platforms.

Robo advisory startups that offer automated investment services to individuals via both digital platforms and human financial advisors.

Provide solutions for financial advisors/asset managers to automate wealth management and administration functions.

Robo advisory startups that offer automated investment services to businesses via both digital platforms and human financial advisors.

Provides solutions for financial institutions to set up their own robo-advisory function and offer services to clients.

Startups that offer online platforms for investors to trade various securities such as stocks, ETFs, and options directly via the platform

Helping employers provide personalized, high-touch, and holistic financial wellness tools to their entire workforce.

Financial Wellness Tools

Offers end-to-end financial wellness solutions ranging from educational resources to interactive platforms/tools for managing finances as well as access to registered investment advisors.

Provides a platform for employees, through their employers, to access earned wages or obtain emergency interest-free funds/loans, which are settled through their paycheck.

Provides a platform for employers to provide resources such as tools and advice to manage employee debt (with an increased focus on student loan debt).

Apps and platforms that allow consumers to obtain personalized financial advice, automate savings, create budgets, and track and manage spending.

Offers interactive platforms/tools for employers to provide personalized financial education resources and/or coaching to its employees.

Solutions that enable companies to offer and manage employee-sponsored emergency savings accounts through automated payroll deductions.

Platforms for employers to support employees with other debts such as mortgages, credit card debt, etc. through repayment assistance, refinancing options, and automated administrative processes.

Democratizing financial technology with a suite of API-based solutions

FinTech Infrastructure

Platforms that allow FinTechs to integrate banking services such as opening and maintaining accounts, facilitating card payments, etc.


Platforms that enable FinTechs to integrate a range of payment-related services such as one-time payments, subscriptions, and receipt management for domestic and cross-border transactions.


Companies that enable organizations to embed anti-money laundering (AML), identity verification, and know-your-customer (KYC) solutions.


Platforms that allow FinTechs to integrate lending services,  by typically applying AI/ML technology to a spending analysis to analyze creditworthiness.

Companies providing APIs and integrations for FinTechs to access securities markets, facilitate transactions and clearing, and provide insights to help end-users manage their finances.

Buy Now, Pay Later

The providers plug into merchant checkouts and convert business purchases into installments.

These platforms integrate with the merchant’s e-commerce checkout and primarily offer the BNPL solution through their app. Consumers are restricted to shopping at merchants integrated with the provider in most cases.

These providers integrate with the merchant’s e-commerce checkout. The service is offered through the provider’s app or a virtual card that facilitates in-store application, including non-partnered retailers.

These companies offer merchants and financial institutions a white-label product to provide in-house BNPL solutions.

Making banking work, without the paperwork

Neobanks

Platforms offering digital checking and savings accounts that target all types of individual consumers

Platforms offering digital checking and savings accounts that target businesses and freelancers

Platforms offering loans and/or other forms of credit to consumers, solely via digital channels

Platforms offering loans and/or other forms of credit to businesses, solely via digital channels

Platforms offering digital checking and savings accounts that target niche consumer segments with specific interests such as kids, teens, and ethnic minority groups

Platforms, apps, and cards to keep the corporate wallet in check

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