Homebase

San Francisco-based SMB HR / employee scheduling / time tracking / payroll platform. Founded 2014 by John Waldmann (with co-founder Rushi Patel).

Ravenna Relevance

Homebase anchors the cleanest customer-investor-crossover pattern in the AI ITSM cap-table dataset:

  • Khosla institutional → Homebase. Adina Tecklu led Khosla’s Homebase investment.
  • Khosla institutional → Ravenna. Tecklu also led Khosla’s Ravenna investment (Apr 2025).
  • Homebase → Ravenna. Homebase is a named Ravenna design-partner customer (per Apr 2025 funding announcement).
  • Homebase CEO John Waldmann → Ravenna. Waldmann is a personal angel investor.

This is the multi-edge crossover that makes Ravenna’s cap-table pattern denser than any other researched startup competitor.

See cap-table-patterns-across-startup-competitors for the broader pattern.