Mir Arif
Founder & Managing Partner @ Blue Cloud Ventures
New York, United States
Mir Arif is a Series D investor at Blue Cloud Ventures in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Mir Arif is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Blue Cloud Ventures. Mir previously worked at Madison Park Group as a Founder & Chairman. Mir Arif attended the Columbia University.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Mir Arif invests in
Stages Mir Arif invests in
Countries Mir Arif invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (64%)
- SaaS 10 (45%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (23%)
- Information Technology 5 (23%)
- Recruiting 3 (14%)
Stage
- Series D 5 (23%)
- Series C 3 (14%)
- Private Equity 3 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
Country
- United States 13 (59%)
- Canada 2 (9%)
- Denmark 2 (9%)
- Australia 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Impact Analytics
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We build 360-degree data science solutions to empower enterprises to turn their data into dollars. We synthesize business wisdom from top-tier strategy consultants, advanced machine learning from experienced data scientists and cutting-edge product development by expert application designers and developers to create solutions that enable ourclients to win. The team comprises top-tier consultants from McKinsey and BCG, data scientists with advanced machine learning experience and product developers who have built winning mobility products. We bring the best of data science to your team. Our delivery model and experience allow us to help clients achieve data science excellence, but at a minimal cost. | $15M / Series D / May 07, 2025 | |
ZENSAI
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LMS365 provides a complete LMS for Office 365 and SharePoint, making learning accessible, anytime, anywhere. | $20M / Series A / Apr 13, 2023 | |
Go1
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GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | $100M / Series D / Jun 06, 2022 | |
Pax8
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Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers. It helps grow its partners' cloud practices by delivering aggregated cloud services from vendors such as Symantec, SilverSky, Infrascale, and InterCall through a single platform. This platform,called the Pax8 Command Console, unifies and streamlines quoting, ordering, provisioning, support, and billing for multiple cloud services. Pax8 enables new client growth for partners with its proven, collaborative customer acquisition programs, marketing on-demand, and sales on demand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. | $185M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 11, 2022 | |
Paradox
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Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions. The company is helping HR and talent teams automate administrative tasks and deliver real-time candidate and employee communicationsParadox's flagship product is Olivia, the AI recruiting assistant obsessedwith improving and reinventing the candidate experience. It delivers one-to-one candidate experience at scale and even handles interview scheduling. It also allows talent acquisition and human resources professionals to focus on what they do best, human interaction, while focusing on experience, automation, and intelligence. | $200M / Series C / Dec 27, 2021 | |
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Paradox
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Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions. The company is helping HR and talent teams automate administrative tasks and deliver real-time candidate and employee communicationsParadox's flagship product is Olivia, the AI recruiting assistant obsessedwith improving and reinventing the candidate experience. It delivers one-to-one candidate experience at scale and even handles interview scheduling. It also allows talent acquisition and human resources professionals to focus on what they do best, human interaction, while focusing on experience, automation, and intelligence. | $200M / Series C / Dec 27, 2021 | |
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Go1
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GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | $200M / Series D / Jul 19, 2021 | |
Templafy
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Templafy is a fast-growing B2B Software-as-a-Service company, helping more than 1.5 million users improve productivity, branding, and compliance across business documents, presentations, and emails. Templafy’s platform assists enterprise employees in each stage of the document creation workflow, delivering productive, compliant and enjoyable waysof working in office applications. It’s a solution that communications and compliance teams can control, IT can trust, and employees love using.Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2014, Templafy’s team leveraged more than 15 years of experience in template management and document automation to develop a cloud service solution now used by enterprise customers from all industries. Templafy’s offices are currently located in New York, Copenhagen, Berlin and Eindhoven, representing 40+ nationalities, and the Templafy team serves customers all over the world. | $60M / Series D / Jun 16, 2021 | |
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Pax8
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Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace focused on the delivery of cloud-based solutions to a global network of channel partners and their customers. It helps grow its partners' cloud practices by delivering aggregated cloud services from vendors such as Symantec, SilverSky, Infrascale, and InterCall through a single platform. This platform,called the Pax8 Command Console, unifies and streamlines quoting, ordering, provisioning, support, and billing for multiple cloud services. Pax8 enables new client growth for partners with its proven, collaborative customer acquisition programs, marketing on-demand, and sales on demand. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. | $96M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 06, 2021 | |
Hireology
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Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries.It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform,Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago. | $27M / Series D / Apr 15, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Blue Cloud Ventures
Blue Cloud Ventures (BCV) is a software-focused growth equity venture capital firm based in New York City. The fund targets investments in leading SaaS, infrastructure and open source software companies. BCV offers entrepreneurs an alternative to raising a traditional growth round by being flexible on amount invested, ownership requirements, boardrepresentation and exit horizon. BCV supports entrepreneurs in raising the optimal growth round and enables early-stage investors to double down on their most promising companies.
Blue Cloud Ventures Contacts
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Eric Guardiola
Principal
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Mir Arif
Founder & Managing Partner
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Satish Tadikonda
Advisory Board Member
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Chris Eu
Analyst
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Joel Lou
Co-Founder & Operating Partner
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FAQ
What does Mir Arif invest in?
Mir Arif invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 22 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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When did Mir Arif last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mir Arif closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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