Ryan Baker

Formerly Co-founder & CEO of Timely (acquired by EverCommerce). Now investing in and advising founders.

📍 New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 New Zealand
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Jul 2024
As beauty pros we know how hard you work, and the quality of the business and relationships you make happen. For too long banks and outsiders havent understood the investment, passion, and what you have on the line. Memberships are a way to help the industry truly demonstrate their future earnings and potential and so get better support from lenders, landlords and everyone outside beauty. This translates into easier lending, higher business sales prices, and smoother cash flow and stress-levels. Our mission is to do for beauty pros what they do for their clients every day -deliver beautiful results that improve their lives.
Investor
Mar 2024
Prosaic connects to personal bank, card and mortgage accounts, using AI to automatically find GST and income tax deductions, such as home office expenses, motor vehicle, donations and more. Invite and manage clients, and instantly export to Xero as a journal or bill. Designed for small business owners and sole traders, and their accountants and bookkeepers, Prosaic helps automate GST and tax returns. Never look at another spreadsheet, search through your bank and bills, or chase clients for home office tax deductions again.
Investor / Adviser
Oct 2022
Aeroplanned is revolutionary resource planning software designed exclusively for the pilot training industry. Committed to empowering flight schools worldwide, we provide a comprehensive solution to track and manage student progress efficiently. With the capability to accurately predict required resources up to 3 years in advance, Aeroplanned offers critical visibility and valuable insights, enabling flight schools to optimise their operations for maximum efficiency and results. At Aeroplanned, we are dedicated to fostering success in the aviation community. Based in New Zealand and operating globally, our platform is meticulously crafted by experts who share an inherent passion for ensuring students finish on-time and progress seamlessly through a connected pilot pipeline.
Investor
Sep 2022
Tractor Ventures provides a range of flexible alt-capital funding options to help you grow your technology company sustainably, at the speed that suits you. We don’t believe the ability to access capital to achieve your goals should be so ambiguous and difficult. Companies generating revenue can access alt-capital and plan to fund the future, via a suite of funding options co-designed by ourselves and the companies we fund. Tractor Ventures is run, and funded, by a team of Australia and New Zealand’s most experienced tech founders, investors and operators.
Experience · 7 entries
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2024
Investor
Jul 2024
As beauty pros we know how hard you work, and the quality of the business and relationships you make happen. For too long banks and outsiders havent understood the investment, passion, and what you have on the line. Memberships are a way to help the industry truly demonstrate their future earnings and potential and so get better support from lenders, landlords and everyone outside beauty. This translates into easier lending, higher business sales prices, and smoother cash flow and stress-levels. Our mission is to do for beauty pros what they do for their clients every day -deliver beautiful results that improve their lives.
Investor
Mar 2024
Prosaic connects to personal bank, card and mortgage accounts, using AI to automatically find GST and income tax deductions, such as home office expenses, motor vehicle, donations and more. Invite and manage clients, and instantly export to Xero as a journal or bill. Designed for small business owners and sole traders, and their accountants and bookkeepers, Prosaic helps automate GST and tax returns. Never look at another spreadsheet, search through your bank and bills, or chase clients for home office tax deductions again.
2023
Investor / Adviser
Mar 2023
Loaded creates inspiring hospitality software for those who want to do more of the work they love and less of the stuff they dont. The simplest possible way to run and grow your bar, restaurant or cafe.
2022
Investor / Adviser
Oct 2022
Aeroplanned is revolutionary resource planning software designed exclusively for the pilot training industry. Committed to empowering flight schools worldwide, we provide a comprehensive solution to track and manage student progress efficiently. With the capability to accurately predict required resources up to 3 years in advance, Aeroplanned offers critical visibility and valuable insights, enabling flight schools to optimise their operations for maximum efficiency and results. At Aeroplanned, we are dedicated to fostering success in the aviation community. Based in New Zealand and operating globally, our platform is meticulously crafted by experts who share an inherent passion for ensuring students finish on-time and progress seamlessly through a connected pilot pipeline.
Investor
Sep 2022
Tractor Ventures provides a range of flexible alt-capital funding options to help you grow your technology company sustainably, at the speed that suits you. We don’t believe the ability to access capital to achieve your goals should be so ambiguous and difficult. Companies generating revenue can access alt-capital and plan to fund the future, via a suite of funding options co-designed by ourselves and the companies we fund. Tractor Ventures is run, and funded, by a team of Australia and New Zealand’s most experienced tech founders, investors and operators.
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