Blue Bear Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Los Angeles, United States

Total investments

59

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

7.38

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaSHardwareEnergyRenewable EnergyPredictive AnalyticsSolarOil and Gas

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the San Rafael. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Ernst Theodor Sack, Tim Kopra. The overall number of key employees were 4.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Internet of Things. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MineralSoft, GoExpedi, Mission Secure. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. When the investment is from Blue Bear Capital the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. This Blue Bear Capital works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Blue Bear Capital, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, Tahoma Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SaaS Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Bowery Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SaaS Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Hack VC.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EnergyClimate techLogisticsAI/Big Data
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 150000000
Fund raised date
2021-09-21

Analytics

Total investments
59
Lead investments
14
Exits
1
Rounds per year
7.38
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Energy (16)
  • Software (15)
  • Predictive Analytics (11)
  • Analytics (10)
  • Renewable Energy (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (50)
  • Germany (2)
  • Netherlands (2)
  • Norway (3)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
416K
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mission Secure 02 Aug 2017 Cyber Security, Hardware Seed 3M United States, Virginia
Shoreline 08 Jun 2022 Analytics, B2B, SaaS, Enterprise Software, GreenTech, Simulation Early Stage Venture 7M Rogaland, Norway, Norway

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