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Brendan Baker

Venture Partner at Ridge Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Brendan Baker is a Venture Partner at Ridge Ventures, where he has successfully invested in and advised multiple Series A companies like Chord, Loop, and ASIMILY. With an impressive educational background including an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and an MBA with Distinction from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Brendan specializes in backing software teams tackling valuable, boring problems in sectors such as IoT, Enterprise, and SaaS in the Seattle/Portland and San Francisco Bay Area regions.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Partner

    2018 - 2024

  • Series A Investor

    2023

Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.

Raised $40,000,000.00 from Spencer Slaine, Foundation Capital, White Star Capital, Anti Fund, GC1 Ventures, Rose Street Capital, Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM), Imaginary Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative and Eclipse Ventures.

  • Series A Investor and Board Observer

    2019

Loop is a return portal that automated all the returns and refunds of products.

Raised $125,450,000.00 from Harmony Partners, Renegade Partners, Peterson Ventures, Ridge Ventures, CRV, Lerer Hippeau, Shopify and FirstMark.

  • Series A Investor and Board Member

    2021

Asimily's IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care.

Raised $19,970,000.00 from Ridge Ventures, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Engineering Capital, New Leaf Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners and Eileses Capital.

  • Advisor

    2019

Aumni is an investment analytics platform that offers a solution that VC firms use for a competitive edge and operational efficiency.

Raised $63,000,000.00 from Zeno Partners, SVB Financial Group, Prelude Fund, Citadel Securities, First Trust Capital Partners, NEXT Frontier Capital, Kera Capital Partners, Kickstart, Pelion Venture Partners and DLA Piper.

  • Series A Investor

    2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

Grabango is a checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale grocery, and convenience stores.

Raised $93,775,000.00 from Honeywell Ventures, Vela Partners, Greenhouse Capital Partners, Launchpad Capital, WIND Ventures, Quiet Capital, Commerce Ventures, Bias Capital, Unilever Ventures and Founders Fund.

  • Board Member

    2021

Sama is a training data partner trusted by organizations to develop accurate artificial intelligence and machine learning models.

Raised $84,800,000.00 from Vistara Growth, Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Salesforce Ventures and First Ascent Ventures.

  • Advisor

    2018

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