Steve Anderson
Founder, Baseline Ventures & Early Stage Seed Investor
Rivet & Sway Eyeing Big Opportunity to Sell Prescription Glasses
“Warby is a awesome proof point, but it seemed at the time to be focused on 20-something hipsters,” said Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures. “That’s a big market, but it’s also a niche market — and from my standpoint, they are killing it right now.” Anderson believed if Warby ... Read more »
Why our small, inside Series B round is exactly what we need
It also would likely have meant adding another person to our board, which currently includes Scott, myself, and Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures). In the end, you could say that Steve Anderson was the single reason we did this as an inside round. When we were raising our first ... Read more »
Stitch Fix Personal Shopping Service Mixes Data With a Human Touch
“Sales are doubling every month and the customers are rabidly excited,” said early Stitch Fix investor Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures. Anderson added of Lake, “She was a beaten down soldier in the fall. She was like ‘What’s wrong with me?’ Now it’s the total opposite. I tell ... Read more »
Gild Closes $8 Million Series A Round to Bring Meritocracy to Tech...
The investment is the largest Series A round in the tech hiring market, and was led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, with participation from SAP Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, and legendary Silicon Valley investor Mark Kvamme, an original investor in LinkedIn. By combining ... Read more »
Women 2.0: The Best $750 I Ever Spent Bootstrapping My Startup: One Plane Ticket West
Ann led our $1MM seed round of investment 30 days later, along with Steve Anderson at Baseline Ventures (to whom Tim also sent my pitch deck). It was a huge milestone for me and the company and the first major round of funding. This funding allowed me to move across the country... Read more »
What Instagram's Kevin Systrom Meant When He Said 'I Am The Board'
Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures merely describes himself as " associated " with Instagram. According to VCExperts.com, Instagram's articles of incorporation call for the board to have five members, though it may have fewer depending on the number of shares outstanding in various ... Read more »
Mango Health nabs $1.45M to build gamified mobile health apps
Mango is backed by Floodgate Fund, First Round Capital, Steve Anderson with Baseline Ventures, Zynga co-founder and CEO Mark Pincus and Square COO Keith Rabois. The founders say they plan to create a range of consumer health apps, which will employ the game design principles developed ... Read more »
TRUSTe secures $15M for increased online privacy managment
“TRUSTe has a unique combination of robust technology, an innovative compliance methodology, and the most trusted and recognizable privacy brand through its pervasive online trustmark – enabling it to continuously deliver industry leading privacy management solutions,” said Steve ... Read more »
TRUSTe Expands Privacy Management Product Suite to Address Exploding Big Data Privacy Challenges
"TRUSTe has a unique combination of robust technology, an innovative compliance methodology, and the most trusted and recognizable privacy brand through its pervasive online trustmark -- enabling it to continuously deliver industry leading privacy management solutions," said Steve ... Read more »
Software Developer Hiring Engine Gild Lands $8 Million Series A
Today Gild will announce that it has landed an $8 million series A round of venture capital funding led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures. Prior investors in Gild’s seed round also participated. They include SAP Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, and investor Mark Kvamme, best ... Read more »
With venture industry shifting, some high-profile investors launch their own boutique funds
As she was mulling a move after 13 years at Kleiner, Lee consulted friends like Steve Anderson, a former Kleiner Perkins colleague who launched seed fund Baseline Ventures in 2006. "They were like, 'Yes, there are lots of people who can write checks at seed stage, but there's not that ... Read more »
Investors make $77M bet that a startup can solve the student debt crisis
“When taking the current and foreseeable macro environment into account, there is a massive opportunity for SoFi to disrupt the entire finance market,” said Steve Anderson, founder of Baseline Ventures, in a statement. Baseline is leading the round, with participation from DCM, and ... Read more »
Salesforce buying GoInstant for over $70M, report says
Nova Scotia, Canada-based GoInstant was founded in 2010 and has raised $1.7 million to date from investors including Josh Felser and David Samuel at Freestyle Capital, Steve Anderson at Baseline Ventures, and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman. A diagram outlining how GoInstant works can be viewed below: ... Read more »
How we almost didn’t raise $800K in the worst investment market in years
That meeting went well and led to us sitting down for drinks with Steve Anderson (Principal at Baseline Ventures) at Perry’s on Union St. a week later. We spent two hours covering everything about the business. No deck. No pitch. Just us and him talking about the business and where we ... Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram
firm Andreessen Horowitz and the other half from Steve Anderson, of Baseline Ventures. Still, Burbn was fraught from the start, mostly because it didn’t seem sufficiently different from the scores of other popular and established location-based check-in services—such as the then red-hot ... Read more »
Press Release Stylish Glasses Provider Rivet & Sway Raises $2M in Funding, Celebrates with Valenti
It's really resonating in the market, and with this additional capital the company can grow even faster," said Baseline Ventures Founder Steve Anderson. "Rivet & Sway is redefining the way women shop for prescription eyewear and has an opportunity to build a company with intense customer ... Read more »
How Mobile Devices Can Inspire Consumers To Lead Healthier Lives [PSFK CONFERENCE SF]
The company is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including First Round Capital, Mike Maples ( Floodgate Fund ), Steve Anderson ( Baseline Ventures ), Mark Pincus ( Zynga ), and Keith Rabois ( Square ). From what you learned while you were in gaming, what are the opportunities ... Read more »
Threadflip Sews Up $6.5M Series A -peHUB
About Baseline Ventures Baseline Ventures is a seed-stage capital firm founded by Steve Anderson in late 2006. Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help ... Read more »
Stitch Fix Gets Series A
“The Stitch Fix team is pioneering a new wave of ecommerce and addressing a multi-billion dollar market opportunity that bridges the gap between the fashion industry and the consumer’s desire to access new and hard to find brands,” says Steve Anderson, Founder of Baseline Ventures. “The ... Read more »
Wiretap’s Wednesday wrapup: Venture capital deals in Silicon Valley
And, in San Francisco, Gild — the game-ification answer to developer job boards like Monster — is touting an $8 million Series A from Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, SAP Ventures, Globespan Capital and Mark Kvamme. (H/T to eagle-eyed reader Wendell Laidley for spotting this. ) ... Read more »
