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Baseline Ventures
American venture capital investment firm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Baseline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on seed and growth-stage investments in technology companies.[1] The company was the first seed investor in Instagram,[2][3][4] an early investor of Twitter[5] and has been called "one of Silicon Valley's most successful — and smallest — investment firms" by Forbes.[6] It is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming.[7][8]
The company's founder and Managing Partner, Steve Anderson, was recognized on Fortune's 2012 list of "50 Businesspeople of the Year"[9] and included on the Forbes Midas List from 2012 to 2020.[10][11][12]
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History
Anderson founded Baseline in 2006.[9][13] He previously worked for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Microsoft, eBay and Starbucks.[13][14] Anderson has a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and has invested in companies founded by Stanford alumni including Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger of Instagram; Katrina Lake of Stitch Fix; and Jeff Seibert of Crashlytics.[15][16][17][18]
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Baseline Ventures has invested in software and web companies that include Instagram, Weebly, OMGPop, ExactTarget and Heroku.[19][20] Instagram was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012.[21] Later that year, Baseline-backed OMGPop was acquired by Zynga for approximately $200 million.[9] Salesforce.com acquired Heroku for $212 million in 2010.[22]
- Instagram (acquired by Facebook)[21]
- Parakey (acquired by Facebook)[23]
- Heroku (acquired by Salesforce.com)[22]
- ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce.com)[20][24]
- GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce.com)[25]
- CoTweet (acquired by ExactTarget and later Salesforce.com)[26]
- Smyte (acquired by Twitter)[27]
- Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter)[28]
- TellApart (acquired by Twitter)[29]
- GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter)[30][31]
- Pocket (acquired by Mozilla)[32]
- Iron.io (acquired by Xenon Ventures)[33]
- Soma (acquired by Full Circle)[34]
- Trialpay (acquired by Visa)[35]
- Datalot (acquired by Lightyear Capital)[36]
- Appuri (acquired by DocuSign)[37]
- Apiary (acquired by Oracle)[38]
- Bloc (acquired by Thinkful)[39]
- Stackmob (acquired by PayPal)[40]
- Aardvark (acquired by Google)[41]
- LaunchKit (acquired by Google)[42]
- DocVerse (acquired by Google)[43]
- YardBarker (acquired by Fox Sports)[44][45]
- Kanjoya (acquired by Ultimate Software)[46]
- Librato (acquired by SolarWinds)[47]
- Blekko (acquired by IBM)[48]
- Indextank (acquired by LinkedIn)[49]
- Rupture (acquired by Electronic Arts)[50]
- Sendori (acquired by Ask.com)[51]
- Versely (acquired by Cisco)[52]
- OMGPop (acquired by Zynga)[9]
- Xobni (acquired by Yahoo!)[53]
- Careport (acquired by Allscripts)[54]
- Metaresolver (acquired by Millennial Media)[55]
- TaskRabbit (acquired by IKEA)[56]
- Weebly (acquired by Square)[6]
- BookFresh (acquired by Sugar Media)[57][58]
- Cake Financial (acquired by E*Trade)[59][60]
- ScanScout (acquired by Tremor Media)[61]
- StaxNetworks (acquired by CloudBees)[62]
- Hunch (acquired by eBay)[14]
- Instructables (acquired by Autodesk)[63]
- Flowtown (acquired by DemandForce)[64]
- TastemakerX (acquired by Rdio)[65]
- Citrus Lane (acquired by Care.com)[66]
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