Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
Blue Haven Initiative is a family office action tank that focuses on how a family can impact the world by investing different kinds of capital and communicating that story to inspire others. The firm is focused primarily on early-stage companies in emerging and pioneer markets.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Blue Haven Initiative invests in
Stages Blue Haven Initiative invests in
Countries Blue Haven Initiative invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2M–$11M
- Series B
- $12M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (17%)
- Solar 3 (13%)
- Finance 3 (13%)
- Energy 2 (8%)
- FinTech 2 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (38%)
- Series B 5 (21%)
- Seed 3 (13%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Grant 1 (4%)
Country
- Kenya 6 (25%)
- United States 6 (25%)
- Ghana 1 (4%)
- India 1 (4%)
- Rwanda 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Liesel Simmons
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Beverly Hellner
Operations Coordinator
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Operations Coordinator | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ian Simmons
Co-Founder & Principal
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Co-Founder & Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kelly Escobedo
Managing Director Operations; Executive Vice President
|
Managing Director Operations; Executive Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lauren Cochran
Investment Committee Member
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Investment Committee Member | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
M-KOPA
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M-KOPA provides connected asset financing solutions for underbanked customers. Its platform combines digital micropayments and IoT connectivity to offer access to products including solar lighting, televisions, fridges, smartphones, financial services, and more. | $55M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 15, 2023 | |
BlueMark
|
BlueMark engages in providing independent impact verification services for investors and companies. It focuses on strengthening trust in impact investing and helps bring more accountability to the impact investment process.The company was founded in 2020 with a belief that impact verification is a key ingredient for establishing and maintainingtrust between impact investors and their stakeholders. | $10M / Series A / Apr 18, 2023 | |
TIBU Health
|
TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services. | Seed / Apr 26, 2021 | |
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TIBU Health
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TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services. | Seed / Apr 26, 2021 | |
Field
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Health supply chain technology and services across Africa | $3.6M / Series A / Mar 11, 2020 | |
PEG
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PEGAfrica is an asset financing company currently selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG’s Pay As You Go solar systems give our customers access to better quality light, mobile phone charging, and appliances like radios and televisions. Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller foundedPEG in 2013. It has its headquarters in Accra in Ghana. | $5M / Series C / Mar 20, 2019 | |
PEG Africa
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PEG provides financing for life-changing and useful products such as solar home systems. | $5M / Series C / Mar 20, 2019 | |
Yusudi
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Yusudi is a social enterprise focused on providing high quality trained interns to SME and Corporate organisations to contribute to the growth of the organisation and the young person. | $250K / Grant / Mar 12, 2019 | |
Shortlist
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Shortlist works in India and East Africa to help growing enterprises hire based on skills and potential, rather than pedigree. The Shortlist platform screens candidates using predictive chat-based interviews and online competency-based assessments, letting employers skips the most time-consuming and bias-prone phases of hiring. | $2M / Series A / Jan 28, 2019 | |
NewsGuard
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NewsGuard will address the fake news crisis by hiring dozens of trained journalists as analysts to review the 7,500 news and information websites most accessed and shared in the United States. NewsGuard will license its ratings and Nutrition Labels to the various social media and search platforms and other aggregators of news and information sothat they can offer the ratings and Nutrition Labels with their feeds. | $6M / Seed / Mar 06, 2018 | |
| See all 24 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Blue Haven Initiative invest in?
Blue Haven Initiative invests primarily in Financial Services, Solar and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Blue Haven Initiative's check size?
Blue Haven Initiative typically joins rounds of $2M–$11M at Series A and $12M–$22M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Blue Haven Initiative participates in.
How do I contact Blue Haven Initiative?
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Who are the partners at Blue Haven Initiative?
The team at Blue Haven Initiative includes Liesel Simmons (Co-Founder), Beverly Hellner (Operations Coordinator) and Ian Simmons (Co-Founder & Principal), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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