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Blue Collective

Founders Brian Stafford JJ Kasper

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Total investments 61
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 6.78
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • E-Commerce
  • Medical
Summary

Blue Collective is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Brooklyn.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Communities, FinTech. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zocdoc, MediaMath, Unqork 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 exact preference 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Blue Collective, startups are often financed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Marc Benioff. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Winklevoss capital, VentureSouq. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Switch Ventures, e.ventures, Zetta Venture Partners.

The fund was created by Brian Stafford, JJ Kasper. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Blue Collective performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Blue Collective is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arogga

Android
Apps
E-Commerce
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Health Insurance
iOS
Medical
$4M25 Oct 2023 Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Turtle Health

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$5M06 Dec 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Thermaband

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Health Care
Wearables
Wellness
$550K10 Sep 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Breathwrk

Fitness
Personal Health
Wellness
28 Mar 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Topl

Blockchain
Information Technology
Social Impact
Supply Chain Management
$3M21 Dec 2020 Houston, Texas, United States

Breathwrk

Fitness
Personal Health
Wellness
28 Aug 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

CRM
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Marketing
Natural Language Processing
Product Management
SaaS
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
15 Jun 2020 California, United States

Lemonada Media

Content
Media and Entertainment
Podcast
$1M11 Jun 2020 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Taptap Send

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Payments
$13M21 May 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 61
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 6.78
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.44

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arogga

Android
Apps
E-Commerce
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Health Insurance
iOS
Medical
$4M25 Oct 2023 Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Turtle Health

Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$5M06 Dec 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Thermaband

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Health Care
Wearables
Wellness
$550K10 Sep 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Breathwrk

Fitness
Personal Health
Wellness
28 Mar 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Topl

Blockchain
Information Technology
Social Impact
Supply Chain Management
$3M21 Dec 2020 Houston, Texas, United States

Breathwrk

Fitness
Personal Health
Wellness
28 Aug 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

CRM
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Marketing
Natural Language Processing
Product Management
SaaS
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
15 Jun 2020 California, United States

Lemonada Media

Content
Media and Entertainment
Podcast
$1M11 Jun 2020 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Taptap Send

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Payments
$13M21 May 2020 London, England, United Kingdom
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