# Blu Venture Investors

> Blu Venture Investors is a VC fund backing Software and Cyber Security. See 125 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, United States
- Total investments: 125
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/blu_venture
- Website: https://www.bluventureinvestors.com

Blu Venture Investors is a venture capital investment company that supports early-stage entrepreneurs. Their investors are experienced, successful operating executives with experience in a broad range of industries and business models. Each of their investors has successfully launched new companies, products or services. The company providesinitial growth-stage funding and active mentorship to early-stage companies while delivering strong returns for its members and the entrepreneurs they support.Blue Ventures Investors was founded in 2010 and is based in Vienna, Virginia, United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 30% |
| Cyber Security | 31 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 23 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 23 | 18% |
| SaaS | 17 | 14% |

113 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 45 | 36% |
| Series A | 37 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 7 | 6% |
| Series B | 6 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 77 | 62% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| J.S. Gamble | Co-Founder & Managing Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-s-gamble |
| Kevin A. Hollins | Founding Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-a-hollins |
| Theodore Olsen | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theodore-j-olsen |
| W. Scott Berg | Founder and President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/w-scott-berg |
| Bob Proctor | Founding Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-proctor |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| E3 Electric.Ai | E3 Electric.Ai is an electric mobility company developing AI-powered, modular electric scooters designed specifically for the Indian market. | $7.8M | Series A | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Icarus Medical Innovations | Icarus Medical Innovations specializes in the design and manufacture of custom knee braces to treat osteoarthritis. | $7.2M | Series A | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Dark Watch | Dark Watch is an international security firm that specializes in threat intelligence and is committed to identifying and exposing the most dangerous criminal networks on the planet. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Cydelphi | Cydelphi provides an AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) platform designed to improve cyber resilience and accelerate recovery from security breaches. The platform uses AI-driven workflows, automated forensic playbooks, and recovery automation to reduce incident response and recovery times. It helps enterprises, MSSPs, andsecurity teams investigate, contain, and recover from ransomware and other cyber incidents at machine speed. | $3M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Hardshell | Hardshell is an AI cybersecurity company that offers protection for sensitive data in AI/ML systems by detecting vulnerabilities. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Sorcero | Sorcero provides an AI-powered intelligence platform tailored for life sciences teams. It enables medical affairs, safety, scientific communications, and medtech groups to extract meaningful insights from unstructured and structured biomedical data. Through its Instant Insights Engine and agentic AI framework, users can ask conversational questionsand quickly receive medically validated answers linked to their source material. Sorcero also offers tools for literature monitoring, safety signal detection, and converting complex science into clear, plain-language summaries. The platform supports compliant workflows by providing auditability, AI guardrails, and access controls to manage insights securely. | $42.5M | Series B | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Procurement Sciences AI | Procurement Sciences AI is a Vertical AI SaaS that offers a transformative platform powered by advancements in generative AI. A growth-stage vertical AI SaaS company was disrupting the government contracting procurement process from start to finish with various AI tools, copilots, and autonomous agents. | $30M | Series B | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| InnerActiv | InnerActiv is a cybersecurity software company that protects organizations from insider threats, fraud, and data loss at the endpoint. Built with an AI-driven, behavior-based approach, InnerActiv delivers real-time visibility into how users interact with sensitive data, systems, and devices—detecting risky activity such as data grazing, policytesting, and low-and-slow reconnaissance before it leads to a breach. The platform’s lightweight, encrypted agents and endpoint-first design provide proactive protection, faster response, and seamless integration with existing security stacks. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Trially | Trially brings deep knowledge of the clinical trial landscape together with cutting-edge AI, offering unprecedented agility to research. | $4.7M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Returnalyze | Returnalyze is an ecommerce analytics company focused on helping retailers understand their product returns data. Returnalyze is the return optimization platform that increases top-line and bottom-line while allowing for a better consumer experience | $6M | Series A | Sep 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 125 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Virginia Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cit-gap-funds) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-hunt-holdings) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Dreamit Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dreamit-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [StoneMill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stonemill-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jhh-vc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Blu Venture Investors invest in?

Blu Venture Investors invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 125 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Blu Venture Investors?

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### Who are the partners at Blu Venture Investors?

The team at Blu Venture Investors includes J.S. Gamble (Co-Founder & Managing Principal), Kevin A. Hollins (Founding Principal) and Theodore Olsen (Partner), among 18 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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