Blu Venture Investors

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Vienna, United States

Total investments

102

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

64

Rounds per year

7.29

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSBig DataCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity

Summary

Blu Venture Investors appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Vienna. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Blu Venture Investors, startups are often financed by CIT GAP Funds, Stephen Smoot, Mach37. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NextGen Venture Partners, CIT GAP Funds, Stephen Smoot. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IrishAngels, TCP Venture Capital, Silicon Valley Bank.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Telecommunications, Security. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ThreatQuotient, Sensics, Senseware

The fund was created by J.S. Gamble, James Hunt, Kevin A. Hollins, W. Scott Berg. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Opposing the other organizations, this Blu Venture Investors works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Blu Venture Investors is 10-50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
TelecommunicationsHealthcareMedia/ContentBiotech/Life SciencesCybersecurity Show 4 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries APre-SeedSeries B
Geo focus
United States, District of Columbia
Check size
50K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 25000000
Fund raised date
2021-05-24

Analytics

Total investments
102
Lead investments
18
Exits
5
Rounds per year
7.29
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Cyber Security (40)
  • Software (34)
  • Security (27)
  • SaaS (22)
  • Information Technology (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (96)
  • Canada (4)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
42M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
10
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
aiden 03 May 2023 Software, Information Technology, SaaS Seed 4M United States, Texas, Plano
Bricklayer.ai 02 May 2024 Seed 2M

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