# BlackRock Innovation Capital

> BlackRock Innovation Capital is a VC fund backing Analytics and Health Care. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

BlackRock Innovation Capital is a growth stage investment fund formed by BlackRock. BlackRock Innovation Capital leads equity and debt investments in growth-stage companies applying technology to reshape their industries.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 3 | 17% |
| Health Care | 3 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |
| FinTech | 2 | 11% |
| Software | 2 | 11% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 5 | 28% |
| Private Equity | 3 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series F | 2 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 17% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| William Abecassis | Head of Innovation Capital | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-abecassis |
| Brett Buchness | Portfolio Manager, Innovation Capital | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-buchness |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leightal Capital Management | Leightal Capital Management is a global hedge fund that invests in a variety of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, and commodities. The fund is managed by a team of experienced professionals with a proven track record of success. Leightal Capital Management is committed to providing its investors with superior returns over the longterm. The fund's investment philosophy is based on the belief that alpha can be generated by identifying and investing in mispriced assets. The fund's investment team uses a variety of research and analysis techniques to identify mispriced assets. The team also has a strong focus on risk management and capital preservation. Leightal Capital Management is a good choice for investors who are looking for a long-term investment partner with a proven track record of success. | $5.5M | Debt Financing | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| JumpCloud | JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere. JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen, providing simple, secure access to corporate technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single,cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply Zero Trust principles. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 100,000 organizations, with over 3,000 customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud is backed by BlackRock, General Atlantic, OpenView, and Foundry Group. | $159M | Series F | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Tricolor Holdings | Tricolor Holdings is a mission-driven company that utilizes advanced data analytics and technology to advance financial inclusion. | $90M | Convertible Note | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| Exscientia | Exscientia combines human expertise with AI and machine learning to enhance drug discovery. The company focuses on precision engineering of medicine candidates, enabling faster and more efficient development of new treatments. By integrating innovative experimental techniques, Exscientia aims to improve patient outcomes and revolutionize thepharmaceutical industry. | $40M | Series C | Mar 04, 2021 |  |
| JumpCloud | JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere. JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen, providing simple, secure access to corporate technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single,cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply Zero Trust principles. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 100,000 organizations, with over 3,000 customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud is backed by BlackRock, General Atlantic, OpenView, and Foundry Group. | $25M | Series E | Jan 12, 2021 |  |
| Loadsmart | Loadsmart is the end-to-end AI freight platform for shippers with embedded services. Shippers run their entire freight operation through one system: procurement, execution, dock scheduling, yard, multi-modal capacity, and settlement. ShipperGuide (TMS) handles transportation management. OpenDock runs the largest dock scheduling and yard managementnetwork in the world. AI agents execute repetitive tasks on your behalf. Our multi-modal embedded services support customers with FTL, LTL, intermodal, and drayage operational expertise when and if needed. Enterprise software with services built in, on one data layer, with AI Agents running across the entire stack. | $90M | Series C | Nov 20, 2020 |  |
| JumpCloud | JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere. JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen, providing simple, secure access to corporate technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single,cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply Zero Trust principles. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 100,000 organizations, with over 3,000 customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud is backed by BlackRock, General Atlantic, OpenView, and Foundry Group. | $75M | Series E | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| DoubleVerify | DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.DoubleVerify provides online media verification and campaign effectiveness solutions for brand marketers, agencies, advertising networks, demand-side platforms, exchanges, and digital publishers looking to ensure quality advertising environments, campaigntransparency, and performance. DoubleVerify technology platform provides advertisers with consistent and unbiased data and analytics that can be used to optimize the quality and return on digital ad investments. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York City, New York. | $350M | Private Equity | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Arrival | Arrival is a technology company that develops a generation of two electric vehicles. It develops software, materials, components, and scalable skateboard platforms and its micro-factories allow them to make vehicles and adapt to any mobility ecosystem. It is a zero-emission solution for cities and a human-centered, intelligent design to revitalizepublic transportation.The company’s new method uses low CapEx, rapidly scalable Microfactories that can be placed anywhere in the world to serve the regions they are located in.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England. | $118M | Series B | Oct 14, 2020 |  |
| Nuvia | Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world. It designs processing chipsets for data center servers, thereby delivering a faster, power-efficient, and secure experience to existing data center processors. | $240M | Series B | Sep 24, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-atlantic) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [MONASHEES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monashees-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blackstone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackstone) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Connecticut Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connecticut-innovations) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does BlackRock Innovation Capital invest in?

BlackRock Innovation Capital invests primarily in Analytics, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Private Equity stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at BlackRock Innovation Capital?

The team at BlackRock Innovation Capital includes William Abecassis (Head of Innovation Capital) and Brett Buchness (Portfolio Manager, Innovation Capital). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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