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Eamon Leonard

Founder of Baseline Community

Dublin, County Dublin

Overview 

Eamon Leonard is a Dublin-based expert generalist and pre-seed investor known for his successful ventures like Baseline Community + Workspace and Boundless. He has a strong track record of investing in early-stage startups, with notable investments in companies like XMTP and Intercom. Leonard's career highlights include co-founding successful ventures like Baseline Community + Workspace and Boundless, as well as making strategic investments in companies like XMTP and Intercom. His expertise lies in start-up leadership, product development, and fundraising, making him a valuable asset in the tech and start-up ecosystem.

Work Experience 

BC

Baseline Community + Workspace

  • Co-Founder

    2024 - Current

TN

This Next Thing

  • Co Organizer

    2023

    This Next Thing is an annual gathering of 200 founders, investors, creatives, and inventors in the Swiss alps.

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Broadstone

  • Partner

    2022

    Broadstone is a pre-seed syndicate investing in founders in Ireland and across Europe. We're typically first money in, and get hands on with the fundraising process. As a syndicate we invest €150k - €400k, in pre-seed rounds. Our syndicate members are a mix of experienced founder / operators and HNWs from tech and non-tech backgrounds.

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Boundless

  • Co-Founder

    2019 - 2021

    Boundless makes it easy to employ people in other countries, by handling payroll, taxes and employment law compliance.

CI

Cohort, Inc.

  • Founder

    2015 - 2018

    Cohort was created to help people develop relationships in their professional network. Built on a bespoke social graph mined from public and private data, Cohort predicted the strength of relationships and how that intersected with knowledge, skills and abilities within a given group of people.

EY

Engine Yard

  • VP Engineering / Developer Relations

    2011 - 2014

    A pioneer in Platform as a Service, backed by Benchmark, NEA and Amazon, Engine Yard made it easy for developers of apps to deploy and scale in the cloud. I joined Engine Yard as VP Eng when they acquired Orchestra. I transitioned to VP Developer Relations and along with a solid team of community focussed engineers,helped to define the foundation of modern DevRel.

Engine Yard is Platform-as-a-Service providing tools for creating, testing, deploying web applications.

Raised $37,500,000.00 from Top Tier Capital Partners.

engineyard.com

Orchestra Platform

  • Co-Founder

    2011 - 2011

    A cloud platform for deploying, scaling and managing web apps. Bootstrapped and sold to Engine Yard in a multimillion euro deal, within 6 months of launch.

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echolibre

  • Co-Founder

    2008 - 2011

    echolibre was a small devshop building apps for startups and medium sized businesses. Over the course or 3 years we helped design, develop, ship and support backend software projects for 50 clients around the world. We developed Orchestra as a side project to initially automate the laborious process of setting up and maintaining cloud based environment for app deployments. It was subsequently spun out as a stand alone project and acquired after 6 months by Engine Yard.

Various

  • Various technical & developer roles

    1998 - 2008

    Before starting a dev shop in 2008, I held various technical / developer roles in a variety of SMBs: - Lead developer at web agency for a few years - Early developer at a leading travel booking web company - Technical support for a leading ISP - Database administration for a charity / non-profit - General IT contractor at various SMBs

Education 

Investments 

XMTP

Series A

Total funding: $25M

Cohort

Angel

Total funding: $17M

PicStash

Seed

Total funding: $680K

Circa

Convertible Note

Total funding: $6.2M

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