A community and fund for early-stage founders building breakout companies with breakthrough tech.

We believe that

Startups are a series of increasingly complex experiments.

There are no shortcuts, blueprints or playbooks, only iterations.

Breakthroughs happen when founders share in a community.


COMMUNITY + SPACE

COMMUNITY + SPACE

Baseline is a community and space for early-stage founders who are building breakout and break-through tech companies. It's a space where founders can experiment, build velocity, and be plugged into a global network of like-minded founders.

Learn More: About Baseline | Apply to Join | Community Guidelines

REBASE

REBASE

We run a weekend retreat twice a year, in April and October, called Rebase. It's 60 people max, half are Irish pre-seed / seed founders, the other half are founders of international Series A+ companies. The third edition of Rebase will be in April 2026.

Learn More: About Rebase

PRE-SEED FUND

PRE-SEED FUND

A €5m fund, we're Ireland's only dedicated and privately backed pre-seed VC, investing €100,000 as first cheque investors into pre-seed companies building AI native SaaS, with a bias towards intelligent automation, and infrastructure for execution-heavy or regulation-heavy environments.

Learn More: About the Fund


Upcoming Events at Baseline


19
DEC

Christmas Party 🎄

Join us as we celebrate a fantastic year for Baseline, our founder community, and portfolio companies.

Time: 20:00 to Late · Event Details »

19
DEC

The Pressure Cooker - Wrap Up

As the third cycle of The Pressure Cooker comes to an end, we reflect on the past 8 weeks of building in teams of founders.

Time: 13:00 to 15:00

17
JAN

Give(a)Go: Automating with Browser agents

A full builder day building browser agents with browser-use, agents that literally click, scroll, log in, read pages, fill forms and move across the web like a real per...

Time: 09:00 · Event Details »

26
JAN

AI Tinkerers Dublin

A meetup for practitioners with technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds who are actively building and working with foundation models.

Time: 18:30 to 21:00 · Event Details »

17
APR

Rebase - Spring 2026

Twice a year we bring together a unique mix of growth and later stage European founders, with pre-funding, pre-seed, and seed Irish founders, in an incredible lakeside setting.

Event Details »

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From the Blog


We've raised a fund!

16th December 2025 · Let's go! 🚀

Today we're announcing the first close of Baseline Venture Fund I at €4M, with a target of €5M total. We'll be investing €100,000 first checks into 50 Irish and European startups over the next three years. The fund is backed only by private investors, all founders and high-net-worth individuals from Ireland, Europe, and the US. No government money. No institutional capital. Just people who believe in what we're building here.

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