# Blue Collective

> Blue Collective is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 89 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 89
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 12%
- Fund size: $40M
- Last fund: Jul 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluecollective
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Blue_Investing
- Website: http://www.bluecollective.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blueinvesting

Blue Collective is a multi-strategy investment firm located in Brooklyn, NY. We believe phenomenal people build phenomenal businesses. We seek out, invest in, and support phenomenal people wherever and whoever they are. We have 2 main strategies: 1) Early-Stage Venture Capital - focus on US companies raising Pre-Seed and Seed Rounds (the earlierthe better). We are 100% category-agnostic and just interested in great founders 2) Later-Stage Buy-Out and Growth Equity - focus on global companies specifically in B2B SaaS. Looking for companies between 3-10 million ARR with a great product and looking to drive growth.If you are interested to chat with us, just email us at blue@bluecollective.com. Our job is to meet with interesting founders and operators - a cold email is as good as a warm one. Look forward to connecting!

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $250k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 10% |
| SaaS | 7 | 8% |
| FinTech | 7 | 8% |
| Health Care | 6 | 7% |

128 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 41 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 8% |
| Series A | 4 | 4% |
| Angel | 1 | 1% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 50 | 56% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Stafford | Founder & Venture Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-stafford |
| JJ Kasper | Founder and Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jj-kasper |
| Joshua Berns | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-berns |
| Nicole Friedman | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-friedman-63ac |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coditos | CODITOS is a consumer packaged goods (CPG) company that manufactures a plant-based snack called Crunchy Macaronis™ | $750K | Pre-Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Sahay AI | Smart Inspection solutions for infrastructure | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 27, 2025 |  |
| Juniper Genomics | Juniper Genomics brings modern genomics and data science to those trying to conceive to help overcome barriers and challenges facing IVF patients. | $4.6M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Domos | Domos' AI, augments a human to which property managers delegate tasks to. Domos' assistant can communicate via email, voice, and chat, connect to every internal system, and takes on the most manual, inconsistent and time-consuming tasks to improve operational efficiency and resident satisfaction. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 28, 2025 |  |
| Sprout Family | Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| Kapta Space | Kapta Space develops electrically steerable radar imaging technology for space, with an emphasis on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and earth observation. | $5M | Seed | Feb 21, 2025 |  |
| Sprout Family | Sprout Family is a digital concierge service based in Canada, focusing on assisting individuals and families on their journey to build a family. The company offers a range of services tailored to personal family-building needs, including insurance and employee benefit funds. With a team of 10 employees, Sprout Family aims to provide comprehensivesupport and resources for Canadians looking to navigate the complexities of family planning and growth. The platform offers users the ability to access their Sprout benefits online, ensuring a seamless and supportive experience. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2024 |  |
| studio 3e8 | Studio 3E8 offers an innovative platform that enhances accessibility to metal 3D printing and reduces costs significantly. | $2M | Seed | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| Avantos | Avantos is an AI-native operating system built on a knowledge graph that connects client data, products, teams, and work into a single, continuously updated system of context. This allows AI agents to reason across relationships, plan next steps, and take action with an understanding of where each client stands, what’s required, who’s involved, andwhat needs to happen next. The company's AI-native operating system systematizes and institutionalizes client data for financial services firms, enabling them to deliver better client experiences across wealth, protection, and retirement businesses. | $10M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Fair | The Instant and Honest Auto Warranty | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |

10 of 89 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [City Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-light-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Blue Collective invest in?

Blue Collective invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 89 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Blue Collective's check size?

Blue Collective typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M at Seed and $250k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Blue Collective participates in.

### How do I contact Blue Collective?

Public channels for Blue Collective include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Blue Collective?

The team at Blue Collective includes Brian Stafford (Founder & Venture Advisor), JJ Kasper (Founder and Partner) and Joshua Berns (Senior Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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