# Blue Chip Venture Company

> Blue Chip Venture Company is a VC fund backing Advertising and Internet. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cincinnati, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-chip-venture-company/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bluechipvc
- Website: http://www.bcvc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bluechipventures?ref=hl

Blue Chip Venture Company is a venture fund focusing on technology companies serving the digital media and big data industries.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 10 | 23% |
| Internet | 6 | 14% |
| Software | 5 | 12% |
| Analytics | 5 | 12% |
| Health Care | 5 | 12% |

67 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 13 | 30% |
| Series A | 11 | 26% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 21% |
| Series C | 4 | 9% |
| Series D | 4 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 70% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher McCleary | CFO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-mccleary |
| Jack Wyant | Managing Director | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-jack-h-wyant |
| Angie Fischer | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angie-fischer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AKRU | AKRU’s commercial real estate investment platform uses blockchain technology to create a secure and easy-to-use marketplace. AKRU offers investors the opportunity for fractionalized ownership for as low as $1,000 in the form of security tokens. The platform’s technology enables instantaneous transactions to be recorded on an immutable ledger,building investor trust. Tokenization shortens the transaction cycle and is able to compress the closing and settlement period of assets to mere seconds – making the world’s largest investment class more accessible and liquid for investors. Since launching the paid beta in October 2020, AKRU has secured 14 assets and over 50 investors for the marketplace. AKRU relaunched its platform in March of 2021 as the Title Sponsor for the Security Token Summit. Akru has been mentioned in major publications like Coin Telegraph, Investor.com, securities.io & Business Journals. | $2M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Orca Bio | Orca Bio is a clinical-stage cell therapy company dedicated to delivering curative medicine to patients. Orca Bio has developed a pipeline of proprietary technologies that have the potential to impact over 100 malignant and auto-immune diseases. Orca has assembled a team of world-leading experts and technologists to execute this vision. | $192M | Series D | Jun 17, 2020 |  |
| FC Cincinnati | FC Cincinnati is a professional soccer club that plays in the United Soccer League.The club plays in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). It reached a multiyear deal with First Financial Bank to serve as the club's exclusive banking and financial services partner.Carl Henry Lindner III and Jeff Berding formed the club inCincinnati, Ohio in 2015. |  |  | Aug 12, 2015 |  |
| Bidtellect | Bidtellect is the leading paid content distribution platform providing marketers with one platform to execute Native campaigns across all formats and devices including text, imagery and video. Marketers leverage Bidtellect’s proprietary real-time optimization algorithms, first- and third- party data targeting, advanced KPI optimization and a teamof industry experts, to drive real results for paid content distribution campaigns to deliver smart advertising. Bidtellect delivers access to the world's most expansive Native ecosystem of premium placements in order to achieve unparalleled scale. The company is headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida and was launched in 2013 by the digital media industry’s most successful ad tech pioneers. | $22.4M | Series B | Jul 16, 2015 |  |
| Adelphic | Adelphic is a leading people-based cross-channel demand-side platform. Adelphic provides an enterprise-ready self-service software solution for agencies, brands and other large media buyers to make meaningful engagements with consumers across all devices and formats. The company’s platform is fully RTB-enabled and delivers global scale throughaccess to all leading inventory providers. | $11M | Series B | Dec 17, 2014 |  |
| Core2 Group | Core2 Group is a business service company that offers early insights on the country, sector, business, and brand performance. Its customers and partners are capitalizing on this time advantage to maximize returns and minimize risk. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mclean, Virginia. | $4.3M | Series A | Sep 02, 2014 |  |
| Kinetic Social | Kinetic is a technology enabled full service provider of social advertising solutions across all leading platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. Our comprehensive suite of services was developed for marketers seeking to maximize their return across social channels and includes campaign design, delivery, measurement, andoptimization. | $18M | Series B | Apr 15, 2014 |  |
| Genesis Media | Genesis is the only video solution that uses real-time analytics to create viewable ad opportunities within quality content. Genesis uses proprietary attention data to optimize video opportunities to the most engaging pages, and adaptive formats to find the best video format in real-time for each page. | $10M | Series B | Apr 10, 2014 |  |
| Kinetic Social | Kinetic is a technology enabled full service provider of social advertising solutions across all leading platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. Our comprehensive suite of services was developed for marketers seeking to maximize their return across social channels and includes campaign design, delivery, measurement, andoptimization. | $8M | Series A | May 07, 2013 |  |
| ShareThis | ShareThis transforms authentic human sharing behavior into actionable data outputs at scale for marketers and publishers. It has been collecting and synthesizing social share data since 2007. | $23M | Series C | Mar 20, 2013 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hummer Winblad Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hummer-winblad-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [RC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/river-cities-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Montreux Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/montreaux-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Osprey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/osprey-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Queen City Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/queen-city-angels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Blue Chip Venture Company invest in?

Blue Chip Venture Company invests primarily in Advertising, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 43 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 Blue Chip Venture Company?

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### Who are the partners at Blue Chip Venture Company?

The team at Blue Chip Venture Company includes Christopher McCleary (CFO), Jack Wyant (Managing Director) and Angie Fischer (CFO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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