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Baobab Ventures
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Baobab Ventures is an operator-led, solo GP $15M fund backing global pre-seed and seed stage technical teams in AI, robotics, and defence. Founded by Carles Reina — an operator-turned-investor with experience at ElevenLabs, Uber EMEA, Tractable AI, and Sonantic — the fund deploys $300k–$350k per startup and provides hands-on support in GTM, product strategy, customer introductions, hiring, and operations to help founders reach Momentum quickly. The thesis centres on the belief that building companies has dramatically changed: startups can now close enterprise deals in under 60 days and use product-led growth as a catalyst for product-led sales. Baobab targets deeply technical founding teams with global ambitions from day one, helping them build across the US, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, LatAm, and the Middle East.
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“Building companies has dramatically changed over the past 3 years. What previously worked is no longer useful. Startups can close enterprise deals in <60 days and use PLG as a catalyst for PLS. To do so, they need to reach Momentum. Quickly. This means they need to nail GTM & distribution, deploy products weekly and spend extra time with customers.”
“All of these companies had global ambitions from day one and are building to scale. They are also very technical founders who build products themselves while spending time directly with their customers or potential customers. That's the kind of founder I want to back; someone with a bold vision that has global expansion in their sights from the very beginning, yet is technically driven.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theker Robotics | Pre-seed | — | 2025-02-03 |
| Omnia | Seed | $4m | 2025-10-01 |
| Murphy AI | Pre-seed | — | — |
| Altan AI | Pre-seed | $3m | 2025-09-01 |
| Wabi AI | Pre-seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| JME Ventures | 2 |
| Concept Ventures | 2 |
| VentureFriends | 1 |
| 4Founders Ventures | 1 |
| Visionaries Club | 1 |
| Index Ventures | 1 |
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