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Blue Bear Capital

Founders Ernst Theodor Sack Tim Kopra

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Total investments 58
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 7.25
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Software
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Renewable Energy
  • Analytics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pioneer

Information Technology
$2M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Delos

Aerospace
Big Data
Computer Vision
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Predictive Analytics
$7M14 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

ACCURE - Battery Intelligence

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Battery
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
$8M22 Aug 2023 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

TruckLabs

Industrial
Service Industry
Transportation
01 Aug 2023 Redwood City, California, United States

Hydrosat

Aerospace
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Geospatial
Information Services
Machine Learning
$22M25 Apr 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Chargetrip

Electric Vehicle
Navigation
Predictive Analytics
Software
$11M21 Mar 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

ChargerHelp!

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Software
Transportation
$17M14 Feb 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Axiom Cloud

SaaS
Software
$7M18 Jan 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Return Protocol

Cryptocurrency
$2M04 Nov 2022 Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States
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Urbint, which uses AI to predict threats to infrastructure, nabs $60M

– Urbint, a company developing software that can predict threats to critical infrastructure, announced that it raised $60 million in a series C funding round led by Energize Ventures with participation from American Electric Power, and OGCI Climate Investments, as well as existing investors Energy Impact Partners, National Grid Partners, Blue Bear Capital, and Salesforce Ventures.
– Founder and CEO Corey Capasso said that the proceeds will enable Urbint to scale its technology, introduce new solutions, and enter new verticals of infrastructure as well as expand its workforce.

EnMass Energy Raises $2.15M in Funding

– EnMass Energy from Durham NC develops a digital procurement and operations platform for global waste-to-energy supply chains.
– The company raised $2.15M in funding.
– The round was led by Blue Bear Capital, with participation from Looking Glass Capital, and Climate Cloud.
– The new investment will be aimed at launching an online marketplace for waste to energy procurement.

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Total investments 58
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 7.25
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pioneer

Information Technology
$2M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Delos

Aerospace
Big Data
Computer Vision
Financial Services
Insurance
InsurTech
Predictive Analytics
$7M14 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

ACCURE - Battery Intelligence

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Battery
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
$8M22 Aug 2023 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

TruckLabs

Industrial
Service Industry
Transportation
01 Aug 2023 Redwood City, California, United States

Hydrosat

Aerospace
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Geospatial
Information Services
Machine Learning
$22M25 Apr 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Chargetrip

Electric Vehicle
Navigation
Predictive Analytics
Software
$11M21 Mar 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

ChargerHelp!

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Software
Transportation
$17M14 Feb 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Axiom Cloud

SaaS
Software
$7M18 Jan 2023 Oakland, California, United States

Return Protocol

Cryptocurrency
$2M04 Nov 2022 Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States
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