STEVE ANDERSON FOUNDER OF BASELINE VENTURES

Driven by an avid love for effecting change, and my diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, I founded Baseline to address the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.

Baseline Ventures has invested in more than 100 companies, with founders and investors alike exiting profitably from over 30. Most recently, I was fortunate to be included on the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Forbes Midas List, an annual ranking of the best venture capital firms in tech.

We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by these enterprises):

  • Instagram and Parakey (Facebook)
  • Heroku, ExactTarget, GoInstant and CoTweet (Salesforce.com)
  • Smyte, Crashlytics, TellApart and GeoAPI (Twitter)
  • Pocket (Mozilla)
  • Iron.io (Xenon Ventures)
  • Soma (Full Circle)
  • Trialpay (Visa)
  • Blekko (IBM)
  • IndexTank (LinkedIn)
  • Rupture (EA)
  • Sendori (Ask.com)
  • Versely (Cisco)
  • OMGPop (Zynga)
  • Xobni (Yahoo!)
  • Careport (Allscripts)
  • Metaresolver (Millennial Media)
  • TaskRabbit (IKEA)
  • Weebly (Square)
  • Datalot (Lightyear Capital)
  • Appuri (Docusign)
  • Apiary (Oracle)
  • Bloc (Thinkful)
  • Stackmob (Paypal)
  • Aardvark, LaunchKit and DocVerse (Google)
  • Yardbarker (Fox Sports)
  • Kanjoya (Ultimate Software)
  • Librato (SolarWinds)
  • BookFresh (Sugar Media)
  • Cake Financial (E*Trade)
  • ScanScout (Tremor Media)
  • StaxNetworks (Cloudbees)
  • Hunch (eBay)
  • Instructables (AutoDesk)
  • Flowtown (DemandForce)
  • TastemakerX (Rdio)
  • Citrus Lane (care.com)
  • Instagram's First Investor: How One-Man Deal Machine Steve Anderson Struck Gold

  • Made the Forbes Midas List Tech's Top Investors in 2016

  • Steve Anderson on being a Founder: take risks and trust your instincts

  • Made the Forbes Midas list Tech's Top Investors in 2017