About Blue Cloud Ventures
Blue Cloud Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. It is primarily based out of New York City, United States. As of Feb 2026, Blue Cloud Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 49 companies, with 4 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series C round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Enterprise Infrastructure and FinTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of RapidFort Overall, Blue Cloud Ventures portfolio has seen 9 unicorns, 2 IPOs and 24 acquisitions including key companies like Go1, Druva and Weave. A lot of funds co-invest with Blue Cloud Ventures, with names like Catalyst Investors sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Blue Cloud Ventures has team of 24 people including 7 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series C, Series D & 4 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Unicorns
Blue Cloud Ventures' List of Top Investments
Blue Cloud Ventures has a portfolio of 49 companies, including 9 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Exein and Knowde.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, Australia and 6 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, FinTech and 13 other sectors, across stages such as Series C, Series D and 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by Blue Cloud Ventures:1. Go1
Cloud-based LMS platform for multi-industry. The product allows employers to manage the training portal and works on an aggregation model that enables users to add courses from the marketplace, create a new course with the company materials, or upload existing content. The platform provides solutions for government, enterprises, and content creators.
Key facts about Go1
2. Druva
Provider of cloud-based platform for data protection, security, and governance. The platform delivers cyber resilience, automated threat response, and data recovery. It offers data protection, cyber response and recovery, and eDiscovery and compliance capabilities. The platform supports public cloud, hybrid cloud, SaaS applications, and endpoint environments.
Key facts about Druva
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Santa Clara (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series H
- Total Funding till date: $475M
- Employee Count: 1,376 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: ADS Ventures, Founders Circle Capital and 41 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series H, Apr 19, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Weave
Omnichannel customer engagement software for businesses. It offers software and hardware solution for businesses to engage and communicate with the customer and manage payment verifications. It serves businesses such as dental, optometry, medical, and veterinary. It allows users to identify new customers, enables text messaging, and provides team messaging solutions. It provides tools for forms, reminders and communication management, meetings and appointments scheduling, and more. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
Key facts about Weave
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Provo (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $204M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $156M
- Employee Count: 1,136 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: BYU Cougar Capital, 2B Global and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Nov 04, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Public
4. Clari
Provider of revenue operations platform. It offers a mobile first sales productivity tool that leverages real time big data analytics to help salespeople do business. It is a platform for meeting preparation and followup to updating the contact database and forecasting sales revenues. It helps sales reps to manage the deals and relationships on the go. Also, enables sales managers and sales ops teams to view deal progress in real time along with predictive analytics.
Key facts about Clari
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series F
- Total Funding till date: $510M
- Employee Count: 697 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Silver Lake, Sapphire Ventures and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, Jan 19, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of an AI platform for customer support and service teams. The platform offers tools for ticket classification, omnichannel support, and agent assistance. It aims to streamline processes and improve customer experiences. The platform provides integrations with helpdesk systems.
Key facts about Forethought AI
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $117M
- Employee Count: 139 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Industry Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures and 34 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 23, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Blue Cloud Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Blue Cloud Ventures has invested in 49 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 4 investments, while as of Feb 2026, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in RapidFort and most recent follow-on round was in Crisp.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2025 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
2021 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2019 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Blue Cloud Ventures' Investments by Stage
Blue Cloud Ventures is primarily an Late Stage Investor investor majorly investing in Series C (18) rounds where average round size is $939M, Series D (10) rounds where average round size is $558M and Series B (6) rounds where average round size is $159M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series C | 18 |
Series D | 10 |
Series B | 6 |
Series A | 1 |
Series E | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Blue Cloud Ventures' Investments by Sector
Blue Cloud Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Vertical SaaS, High Tech and Retail. Notably, it has invested in 47 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 47 Tech companies, 43 Software companies and at least 39 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 34 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 15 |
Vertical SaaS | 12 |
High Tech | 7 |
Retail | 3 |
Others | 17 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Blue Cloud Ventures' Investments by Geography
Blue Cloud Ventures has made most investments in United States (29), followed by Canada where it has made 3 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 29 |
Canada | 3 |
Australia | 1 |
Denmark | 1 |
India | 1 |
Others | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Blue Cloud Ventures' recent investments
Blue Cloud Ventures has made 1 investments in 2026 so far - RapidFort.Here are the most recent investments by Blue Cloud Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Feb 03, 2026 | United States | Series A | 2539 | [+8] | |
Dec 18, 2025 | Italy | Series C | 1132 | [+3] | |
Dec 10, 2025 | United States | Series B | 1118 | ||
May 23, 2025 | United States | Series D | 1271 | [+8] | |
May 06, 2025 | Netherlands | Series D | 7939 | [+1] |
Unicorns in Blue Cloud Ventures' Portfolio
Blue Cloud Ventures has 9 unicorns in its portfolio - Arctic Wolf, Pax8, CloudBees and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Arctic Wolf. It became a unicorn in 2022, 2 years after Blue Cloud Ventures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Blue Cloud Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
67 | Provider of managed detection, incident response, and security awareness solutions | 2012 | Eden Prairie | Series G | ruzsuwk | ||
68 | AI powered cloud marketplace | 2011 | Greenwood Village | Series E | zmsfrob | ||
63 | Provider of software delivery platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery | 2010 | San Jose | Series F | jejghte | ||
80 | Cloud-based LMS platform for multi-industry | 1998 | Brisbane | Series D | lzzvjza | ||
71 | Cloud based omnichannel personalized marketing platform | 2013 | San Francisco | Series E | trassty |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Blue Cloud Ventures' Portfolio
2 of Blue Cloud Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. Weave got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in Nov 2021 at marketcap of $1.51B and Shift Technologies got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $10.Here are Blue Cloud Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2021 | - | - | 5275 | |
Jun 04, 2019 | - | - | 1499 |
Acquired companies in Blue Cloud Ventures' Portfolio
24 companies from Blue Cloud Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Forethought AI in Mar 2026 by Zendesk.Here are Blue Cloud Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 11, 2026 | May 23, 2025 | Series D | 9029 | |
Aug 21, 2025 | Dec 27, 2021 | Series C | 3586 | |
Jan 09, 2024 | - | - | 9000 | |
Jul 07, 2023 | - | - | 3777 | |
Oct 04, 2021 | May 2017 | Series C | 2224 |
Team profile of Blue Cloud Ventures
Blue Cloud Ventures has a team of 24 members including 7 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 2 Principals located in United States, India and 2 more locations. Blue Cloud Ventures' team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Blue Cloud Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | New York City | - | ||
Partner | New York City | |||
Partner | London | - | ||
Partner | New York City | - | ||
Partner | New York City | - | - | |
Partner | Zurich | - | - | |
Partner | Hyderabad | - | - | |
Venture Partner | New York | - | ||
Principal | Wayne | - | ||
Principal | Berkeley Heights | - |
Co-investors of Blue Cloud Ventures
Over the past 13 years, 371 investors have co-invested in Blue Cloud Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Blue Cloud Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and 215 others have invested in rounds before Blue Cloud Ventures. There are 4 companies where Bain Capital Ventures has invested before Blue Cloud Ventures and 4 companies where New Enterprise Associates has invested before Blue Cloud Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Blue Cloud Ventures: 93 investors entered a company along with Blue Cloud Ventures. These include investors like Catalyst Investors (3 companies).
- Invested after Blue Cloud Ventures: A total of 61 investors have invested in Blue Cloud Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Viking Global Investors (3 companies), Silver Lake (3 companies) and Neuberger Berman (2 companies).
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Trellix Partners With RapidFort to Strengthen Software Supply Chain Security Across Product PortfolioBusiness Wire•Feb 18, 2026•Trellix, RapidFort, Florida Funders, Evolution Ventures and 8 others
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RapidFort Raises $42M to Enhance Software Supply Chain SecuritySiliconAngle•Feb 03, 2026•RapidFort, Brave Capital, Florida Funders, Evolution Ventures and 7 others
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Fuse Energy achieves $5B valuation following $70M funding round from Balderton and LowercarbonTech Funding News•Dec 18, 2025•Exein, HV Capital, Geodesic Capital, Blue Cloud Ventures and 2 others
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Crisp Closes Series B1 of $26M to Expand Vertical AI Solutions for RetailBusiness Wire•Dec 10, 2025•Paine Schwartz Partners, DNX Ventures, FirstMark, Wellington and 13 others
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Forethought Secures $25 Million Series D Funding for Agentic AIPulse 2.0•May 23, 2025•Forethought AI, Blue Cloud Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Industry Ventures and 2 others
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Impact Analytics Secures Series D FundingFinSMEs•May 08, 2025•Impact Analytics, Blue Cloud Ventures, Sageview Capital, Vistara Growth
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Knowde secures funding to digitise chemical industryEco-plastics in Packaging•Aug 13, 2024•Knowde, Blue Cloud Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Socium Ventures
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Sequoia-backed Knowde raises Series C at a valuation cutTechCrunch+•Aug 01, 2024•Knowde, TechCrunch+, Blue Cloud Ventures, Point72 and 1 other
