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Blu Venture Investors

Founders David Krauskopf Dendy Young J.S. Gamble Jack Hangen James Hunt Kevin A. Hollins Paul Silber Pradeep Wahi W. Scott Berg

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Total investments 104
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 66
Rounds per year 7.43
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 5
Key employees 16
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Cyber Security
  • Software
  • Security
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tamnoon

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
$12M25 Sep 2024 Sammamish, Washington, United States

Bricklayer.ai

$2M02 May 2024 -

Procurement Sciences AI

B2B
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Software
$10M09 Apr 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

BINARLY

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Data Center
Enterprise
$10M26 Mar 2024 Pasadena, California, United States

LeakSignal

$1M21 Mar 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

BreachBits

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
SaaS
26 Feb 2024 Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Elidah

Fitness
Health Care
29 Jan 2024 -

Gentian Limited

Machine Learning
Software
$1M15 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Enveedo

Cyber Security
Information Technology
SaaS
$3M05 Dec 2023 Miami, Florida, United States
News
Ostendio Raises Series A Funding

– Ostendio is an Arlington, VA-based provider of always-on integrated risk management technology that makes it easy to build, operate, and showcase a security program.
– The company closed a Series A funding of undisclosed amount.
– The round was led by Osage Venture Partners and included follow-on investments from Blu Venture Investors, CIT GAP Funds, and other existing investors.
– The new investment will be aimed at the expansion of its network of audit partners (Auditor Connect) and its vendor risk management solution (Vendor Connect).

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Total investments 104
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 7.43
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tamnoon

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
$12M25 Sep 2024 Sammamish, Washington, United States

Bricklayer.ai

$2M02 May 2024 -

Procurement Sciences AI

B2B
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Software
$10M09 Apr 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

BINARLY

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Data Center
Enterprise
$10M26 Mar 2024 Pasadena, California, United States

LeakSignal

$1M21 Mar 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

BreachBits

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
SaaS
26 Feb 2024 Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Elidah

Fitness
Health Care
29 Jan 2024 -

Gentian Limited

Machine Learning
Software
$1M15 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Enveedo

Cyber Security
Information Technology
SaaS
$3M05 Dec 2023 Miami, Florida, United States
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