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Blue Haven Initiative

Founders Ian Simmons Liesel Simmons

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.09
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.26
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Financial Services
  • Human Resources
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

In 2012 was created Blue Haven Initiative, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cambridge. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Ian Simmons, Liesel Simmons.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mosaic, M-KOPA, PEG. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Clean Energy, Digital Media.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Blue Haven Initiative, startups are often financed by Spring Ventures, Investisseurs & Partenaires, Ignition Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Energy Access Ventures, Serious Change, Lundin Foundation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TLcom Capital Partners, SunFunder, International Finance Corporation.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Blue Haven Initiative performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2014.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BlueMark

Finance
Financial Services
Impact Investing
$10M18 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

TIBU Health

Health Care
Hospital
Logistics
26 Apr 2021 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Field

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Pharmaceutical
Supply Chain Management
$3M11 Mar 2020 Federal Capital Territory

PEG

Commercial Lending
Electronics
Energy
Financial Services
Solar
$5M20 Mar 2019 Accra, Ghana

Shortlist

Recruiting
Software
$2M28 Jan 2019 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

NewsGuard

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Journalism
News
$6M06 Mar 2018 New York, United States

PEG

Commercial Lending
Electronics
Energy
Financial Services
Solar
$13M31 Aug 2017 Accra, Ghana

Twiga Foods

Agriculture
E-Commerce
Grocery
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$10M31 Jul 2017 Nairobi

PEG Africa

$7M21 Jun 2016 Dakar Region, Senegal

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Total investments 23
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 2.09
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.26
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BlueMark

Finance
Financial Services
Impact Investing
$10M18 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

TIBU Health

Health Care
Hospital
Logistics
26 Apr 2021 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Field

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Pharmaceutical
Supply Chain Management
$3M11 Mar 2020 Federal Capital Territory

PEG

Commercial Lending
Electronics
Energy
Financial Services
Solar
$5M20 Mar 2019 Accra, Ghana

Shortlist

Recruiting
Software
$2M28 Jan 2019 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

NewsGuard

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Journalism
News
$6M06 Mar 2018 New York, United States

PEG

Commercial Lending
Electronics
Energy
Financial Services
Solar
$13M31 Aug 2017 Accra, Ghana

Twiga Foods

Agriculture
E-Commerce
Grocery
Marketplace
Retail
Shopping
$10M31 Jul 2017 Nairobi

PEG Africa

$7M21 Jun 2016 Dakar Region, Senegal
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