Investments
105Portfolio Exits
7Funds
2Partners & Customers
1About Blu Venture Investors
Blu Venture Investors is a venture capital investment company supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, and North Carolina). The company's members are experienced, successful operating executives with experience in a broad range of industries and business models.
Blu Venture Investors Headquarters Location
1577 Spring Hill Drive
Vienna, Virginia, 22128,
United States
703-775-2114
Latest Blu Venture Investors News
Aug 11, 2022
Spin Technology, Inc. , a Palo Alto, CA-based developer of a SaaS data protection platform for mission-critical SaaS apps, closed a $16m Series A financing. The round was led by Blueprint Equity with participation from Santa Barbara Venture Partners and Blu Venture Investors. In conjunction with the funding, Blueprint Equity’ Sheldon Lewis, Santa Barbara Venture Partners’ Dan Engel, and Blu Venture Investors’ Robert Struble will take seats on Spin’s Board. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth, expand its SaaS offerings, and grow the marketing, sales, and engineering teams. Led by Dmitry Dontov, CEO and Founder, Spin Technology provides ‘SpinOne,’ a SaaS data protection platform designed specifically for mission-critical SaaS apps. SpinOne is a combination of four innovative offerings, including: Ransomware monitoring and response – Automated ransomware protection for SaaS environments that provides 2 hours incident response against ransomware attack on SaaS data, as a result, it reduces recovery costs by as much as 90 percent. Apps risk assessment – Automated risk assessments of cloud SaaS apps and browser extensions reducing the manual efforts of SecOps teams and helping businesses increase their cybersecurity posture. Data leak prevention (DLP) – Understand which data is shared in the cloud and with whom, and get full visibility over your business-critical data in the cloud. Backup and recovery – Compliance friendly enterprise-grade backups to secure cloud environments with versioning and granular recovery capabilities. The dashboard, which extends security across multiple environments, including Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce, provides a single view of cybersecurity and data protection to cloud SaaS environments based on next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In addition, the company provides tools to address modern cybersecurity challenges in cloud SaaS environments. SpinOne delivers cyber defense, SaaS data management, and protection for more than 1,600 organizations worldwide. FinSMEs
Blu Venture Investors Investments
105 Investments
Blu Venture Investors has made 105 investments. Their latest investment was in Spin Technology as part of their Series A on August 8, 2022.
Blu Venture Investors Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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8/9/2022 | Series A | Spin Technology | $16M | Yes | 4 | |
6/13/2022 | Seed VC | Zeeve | $2.65M | Yes | 2 | |
3/28/2022 | Series A | Sprockets | $10M | Yes | 3 | |
3/17/2022 | Series A | |||||
1/5/2022 | Seed VC |
Date | 8/9/2022 | 6/13/2022 | 3/28/2022 | 3/17/2022 | 1/5/2022 |
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Round | Series A | Seed VC | Series A | Series A | Seed VC |
Company | Spin Technology | Zeeve | Sprockets | ||
Amount | $16M | $2.65M | $10M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 4 | 2 | 3 |
Blu Venture Investors Portfolio Exits
7 Portfolio Exits
Blu Venture Investors has 7 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Signal Vine on January 12, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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1/12/2022 | Acquired | 2 | |||
Date | 1/12/2022 | ||||
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Exit | Acquired | ||||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 2 |
Blu Venture Investors Fund History
2 Fund Histories
Blu Venture Investors has 2 funds, including Blu Cyber Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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6/20/2022 | Blu Cyber Fund | $25M | 3 | ||
BVI Core Q12021-3 Series |
Closing Date | 6/20/2022 | |
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Fund | Blu Cyber Fund | BVI Core Q12021-3 Series |
Fund Type | ||
Status | ||
Amount | $25M | |
Sources | 3 |
Blu Venture Investors Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
Blu Venture Investors has 1 strategic partners and customers. Blu Venture Investors recently partnered with NewConnect on August 8, 2017.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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8/9/2017 | Partner | United States | D.C.-Based NewConnect Receives Capital Raise from Blu Venture Investors Blu Venture Investors , LLC , a Virginia-based Primary Source Venture Capital firm , has been a strategic partner of NewConnect , LLC for over 18 months and sees the value in a second round to further expand NewConnect , LLC 's growth efforts . | 1 |
Date | 8/9/2017 |
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Type | Partner |
Business Partner | |
Country | United States |
News Snippet | D.C.-Based NewConnect Receives Capital Raise from Blu Venture Investors Blu Venture Investors , LLC , a Virginia-based Primary Source Venture Capital firm , has been a strategic partner of NewConnect , LLC for over 18 months and sees the value in a second round to further expand NewConnect , LLC 's growth efforts . |
Sources | 1 |
Blu Venture Investors Team
10 Team Members
Blu Venture Investors has 10 team members, including current Founder, Managing Principal, J.S. Gamble.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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J.S. Gamble | Comcast, McKinsey & Company, and PwC | Founder, Managing Principal | Current |
Robert Proctor | Founder | Current | |
Joaquin J Hangen | Founding Partner | Current | |
Kevin A Hollins | Founding Partner | Current | |
G.L. Kohlenberger | Founding Partner | Current |
Name | J.S. Gamble | Robert Proctor | Joaquin J Hangen | Kevin A Hollins | G.L. Kohlenberger |
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Work History | Comcast, McKinsey & Company, and PwC | ||||
Title | Founder, Managing Principal | Founder | Founding Partner | Founding Partner | Founding Partner |
Status | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
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