Which venture firm backed Burbn alongside Andreessen Horowitz in 2010?

Baseline Ventures backed Burbn alongside Andreessen Horowitz in 2010.

Burbn was Kevin Systrom’s early mobile check-in project, developed before Instagram became a dedicated photo-sharing service. On March 5, 2010, Systrom closed a $500,000 seed round from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. The funding helped him continue developing the product and later bring Mike Krieger onto the project.

Burbn originally combined location check-ins with plans, points, social interaction, and photo posting. Systrom and Krieger eventually concluded that the service was too complicated and that photo-sharing was its strongest feature. They stripped the product down, renamed it Instagram, and launched the new service in October 2010.

A common mix-up is confusing Baseline Ventures with later Instagram investors. Benchmark Capital led Instagram’s $7 million Series A round in February 2011, while Baseline Ventures was part of the earlier Burbn seed financing. Andreessen Horowitz was the other named firm in that initial round.