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Blue Water Capital

Founders Henry D. Barratt Kim Cooke Michael H. Acheson

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.23
Lead investments 4
Exits 4
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • E-Commerce
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software
  • Emerging Markets
Summary

Blue Water Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1995. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Mclean. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Security, Procurement. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cigital, Digital Focus, GetRelevant.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Blue Water Capital works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The fund was created by Henry D. Barratt, Kim Cooke, Michael H. Acheson.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Blue Water Capital, startups are often financed by Horizon Capital, H.I.G. Capital, Gemini Israel Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Washington Dinner Club, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Mid-Atlantic Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Signatures Capital, Revolution, Pamlico Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cigital

Consulting
Enterprise Software
Security
Software
$4M23 Aug 2002 Virginia, United States

E-Commerce
Emerging Markets
Internet
$14M08 Feb 2000 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

GetRelevant

Advertising
Internet
Marketing
$4M11 Jan 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

RedCelsius

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Internet
$10M14 Oct 1999 Georgia, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.23
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 4
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cigital

Consulting
Enterprise Software
Security
Software
$4M23 Aug 2002 Virginia, United States

E-Commerce
Emerging Markets
Internet
$14M08 Feb 2000 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

GetRelevant

Advertising
Internet
Marketing
$4M11 Jan 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

RedCelsius

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Internet
$10M14 Oct 1999 Georgia, United States
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