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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 

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Rackhouse Venture Capital

  • Partner

    2025 - Current

    Rackhouse leads and co-leads the first round for teams tackling large, unsexy areas with AI-powered software. Portfolio companies include Codeium, Fathom, Nash, Pogo, and others.

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Valence

  • Advisor

    2017

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Passport

  • Advisor

    2018

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GoodDay Software

  • Investor and Observer

    2023 - 2024

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Chord

  • Investor

    2023 - 2024

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.

chord.co
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Spare

  • Investor

    2021 - 2024

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ASIMILY

  • Investor and Board Member

    2021 - 2024

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.

asimily.com
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Sama

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2024

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.

sama.com
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Loop

  • Investor and Observer

    2019 - 2024

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.

loopreturns.com
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Ridge Ventures

  • Partner

    2018 - 2024

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