# William Blake III

> William Blake III is a Series A investor at Beringea (Farmington) backing Software and Analytics. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Beringea](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beringea)
- Location: Farmington, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-blake-iii/16/1b9/204

William Blake III is a Series A investor at Beringea in Farmington focused on Software and Analytics. William Blake III - Vice President @ Beringea

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |
| Cloud Management | 1 | 25% |
| Cloud Data Services | 1 | 25% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |
| Series D | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $54M | Series D | Jun 03, 2023 |  |
| Rush ReCommerce | Rush ReCommerce is an organization that is addressing a major issue of consumer returns from e-commerce. | $12.9M | Series A | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $27M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Flywheel.io | Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT. | $15M | Series B | Feb 03, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Great North Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-north-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [dRx Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drx-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hewlett-packard-enterprise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intuitive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intuitive-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Beringea

VC Fund · Farmington Hills, United States

Beringea is an international venture capital and private equity firm dedicated to finding, funding and nurturing exceptional companies in growth industries. Founded in 1988, the firm currently has more than 60 portfolio companies in a range of emerging sectors, including media, health care and life sciences, Internet technologies, advancedmanufacturing, clean tech and specialized consumer goods. With capital, experience and offices in the U.S. and U.K., Beringea is in a unique position to offer entrepreneurs and their management teams the resources to develop strategy, evaluate growth opportunities, solve problems and build value. Beringea is the co-manager of the Michigan Growth Capital Partners Funds in the U.S., as well as the ProVen VCT family of funds in the UK, among others.

5 contacts available at Beringea.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Bernstein | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-bernstein |
| Eyal Malinger | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eyal-malinger |
| Leslie A. Shipley | Director, Operations; CCO, US | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leslie-a-shipley |
| Maria Wagner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-wagner |
| William Blake III | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-blake-iii |

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## FAQ

### What does William Blake III invest in?

William Blake III invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Cloud Management startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did William Blake III last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Blake III closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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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