Charles Baker

Charles Baker is an associate in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups. He focuses on venture capital and growth equity transactions at all stages of a company’s lifecycle. His clients include start-ups, high-growth companies, and venture capital investors.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Charles served as in-house legal counsel to Thought Machine.

Charles' representative experience includes:

• Convergence, a UK AI startup founded in April 2024 by two machine learning engineers, on its $12 million pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital
• Borderless, a workplace migration platform, on its £2.5 million seed financing
• Isometric, on its $25 million seed financing round
• Octopus Ventures and BGF on their investment in a £40 million Series C financing round in Orbex
• Tessian, on its $65 million Series C financing led by March Capital
• Index Ventures, on leading a £3m seed investment into One Garden
• Index Ventures, on leading a $4.7m seed investment into incident.io and subsequent $28.7m Series A financing
• Octopus Ventures, on its £1.5m seed investment into Anansi
• Octopus Ventures, on its £1.45m seed investment into Lvndr
• Octopus Ventures and Anthemis on leading a £1.8m seed investment into Hapi plan
• Octopus Ventures, on leading a £10m Series A financing into Kleene.ai
• Octopus Ventures, on leading a £2.5m seed investment into Mindset
• Moove Africa, on its $23m Series A financing led by Speedinvest and Leftlane Capital
• Protocol Labs, on leading a $30m Series B financing into New Vector
• Mojo Men, on its £3.25m seed financing led by Octopus Ventures and Kindred Capital
• Level Equity on leading a £7.28m Series B investment into PassFort
• Stride.vc (and others) on a £60m Series B investment into Huboo
• Lowercarbon Capital, on leading a $5.5m seed financing into TrueCircle and a subsequent $4m convertible loan financing
• Lowercarbon Capital, on leading an $11m seed financing into Epoch Biodesign
• Sequence, on its $15m seed financing led by A16z
• Selina Finance, on its $35m Series B financing led by Lightrock
• Lightspeed, on leading a $100m Series B extension round into Payhawk
• Tranch, on a £1.25m convertible loan financing ld by Flash Ventures
• Stage 2 Capital on an $8.4m loan note financing into Sales Impact Academy
• Manta Ray Ventures on a £1.5m loan note financing into HelloSelf
• Founders Circle Capital on its investment in Multiverse’s $220m Series D financing
• Keel, on its £4.6m seed financing led by LocalGlobe and Earlybird
• Danone Manifesto Ventures on leading a £16m Series B financing into Minor Figures
• Screenloop on its £5.74m seed financing led by Stride.vc
• Amadeus Capital Partners and Octopus Ventures on co-leading the $20m seed financing of Unlikely AI