Base Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund co-founded by Erik Moore and Kirby Harris that backs pre-seed through Series A companies in modern consumer and enterprise technology. Base Ventures's Twitter Score is 5.7 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #166,464 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Base Ventures was co-founded by Erik Moore as Founder and Managing Director and Kirby Harris as Founder and Managing Partner. The fund was created after more than a decade of angel investing and has since raised three funds, backed 136 founders, and invested in more than 100 startups. Portfolio companies have collectively raised a reported $1.6 billion in capital.
Base Ventures is a generalist investor with a focus on seed and pre-seed opportunities across consumer and enterprise technology, with a particular interest in crypto infrastructure and blockchain projects. The fund participated in NuCypher's $750,000 seed round, backing privacy-preserving cryptography infrastructure, and joined Onboard Wallet's $1.9 million strategic round for self-custody digital asset infrastructure. Base Ventures has invested alongside firms including NEA, Bain Capital, GV (Google Ventures), Andreessen Horowitz, and Sequoia.
Base Ventures has received backing from investors including GV (Google Ventures), Serena Williams, Prakash Janakiraman, Harper Reed, and Eric Ryan. The late Tony Hsieh was also previously a backer of the fund. Base Ventures has published 475 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 24 accounts a total of 43 times.
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