He was a founding partner of the VC funds CMEA Capital, Formation 8 and is now the managing director of his family office: Baruch Future Ventures (BFV).

Baruch then was founder and CEO of Microwave Technology, Inc., a supplier of gallium arsenide (GaAs) integrated circuits for defense applications and value-added sub-systems.

[3][4][5] While at CMEA, Tom led investments including major IPO's and significant liquidity events for Aclara Biosciences, which merged with Monogram Biosciences (MRGM); Netro (NTRO); Entropic Communications, Inc. (ENTR); Flextronics (FLEX); Symyx Technologies (SMMX); Silicon Spice, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Codexis, Inc (CDXS), and Intermolecular (IMI).

Tom has pioneered CMEA’s investments in companies that apply combinatorial synthesis including Codexis, Intermolecular, Symyx Technologies, and Wildcat Discovery.

The strategy included strong corporate collaborations leading to an investment focus at the intersection of IT with inefficient markets in energy, banking, finance, education, real estate, insurance and government.

BFV is a venture capital and family office fund that works with innovators and entrepreneurs to address pain points in resource limited and climate sensitive markets in: BFV’s investment strategy is based on the hypothesis that population growth up to a peak of 11 to 12 billion people (vs. 7+ billion currently) will place a tremendous burden on resource availability for a growing earth population having increasing amounts of discretionary spending capability.

[18] Baruch is on the board of the Sierra Club Climate Recovery Partnership,[19] as a member of the "Brain Trust" of the ARPA-E program within the U.S. Department of Energy.