Investors / Blue Bear Ventures
Blue Bear Ventures
Venture capital
Blue Bear Ventures invests in deep tech companies founded on research innovations from universities and research institutions. It works closely with founding teams from the earliest stages, advising them as they build companies around breakthrough science and technology.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechEducation
In its own wordsdeep techapplied biologysustainable economiesemerging techuniversity spinouts
Your fit with Blue Bear Ventures
Four questions about your startup
See how your round matches what it backs, point by point.
Or find every investor that fitsBlue Bear Ventures lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (50%), Education (18%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside CITRIS Foundry, Transitions First and ARTIS.
No funding round on record names Blue Bear Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Blue Bear Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 15. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 39th | 15 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1493%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company17%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 50% | 15% |
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Blue Bear Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aether Bio discovers proteins with high-impact applications, including building super materials and processing critical minerals, using artificial intelligence and robotic high-throughput screening labs. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aluna develops and provides a spirometer for measuring lung health at home | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ayar Labs develops and manufactures co-packaged optics for hyperscale AI infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| BioAmp Diagnostics develops precision diagnostics to counteract antibiotic resistance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Clarity provides air quality monitoring systems and solutions | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Coreshell builds batteries from Earth's most abundant materials to deliver high performance at lower costs | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Correlia Biosystems measures proteins with unparalleled efficiency for data driven biology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Particella, Inc. has developed an oral lipid nanoparticle technology to deliver nucleic acids to the intestinal epithelium. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| EngageLively provides a cloud analytics solution with multiple platforms for data, analytics, and visualization. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| ImpriMed helps oncologists, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies connect the right drug to the right patient | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| New Sun Road develops and provides microgrid remote monitoring and control solutions | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Resynergi converts waste plastic into valuable PyOil, a feedstock for new plastic products. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Unnatural Products pioneers the development of synthetic macrocyclic peptides | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| YourChoice Therapeutics is developing an oral contraceptive for men | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- bbv.io
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 15
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
Get Blue Bear Ventures' profile as data
Pull Blue Bear Ventures' portfolio, co-investors and changes through one API key or MCP, open every portfolio row, compare it with other firms, and get an email when it adds a company or files a fund.
Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in- Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
- API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/bbv.io
# also
GET /v1/firms/bbv.io/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/bbv.io/coinvestors
GET /v1/firms/bbv.io/news