BlueRun Ventures

Investor- Venture Capital

Overview

BlueRun Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in the United States, Shanghai, Beijing, and Korea. BlueRun invests in information technology, mobile and consumer technologies, with an emphasis on early stage mobile opportunities.

Country: United States

Founded: 1998

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Asia

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • Institutional Investments and Trading
  • WealthTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Data and Analytics
  • Real Estate

Investment Stage

  • Angel
  • Seed
  • Early Stage Venture
  • Series A
  • Series B
  • Series C
  • Series D

Summary

BlueRun Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in the United States, Shanghai, Beijing, and Korea. We strive to help entrepreneurs build businesses that will transform industries. The journey from idea to startup to success is long and the relationships built along that journey define us as investors, entrepreneurs, and changemakers.

BlueRun invests in information technology, mobile and consumer technologies, with an emphasis on early stage mobile opportunities. We focus on early stage opportunities across mobile software and services and financial technology. Our team leverages our individual and collective experience across mobile networks, development, design and partnership to help early stage companies build transformational businesses.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

December 2015

Zig Bang

$33m

Venture

Real Estate

Korea South

October 2015

Kabbage

$135m

Series E

Jonathan Ebinger

Lending

United States

August 2015

Qufenqi

$200m

Series E

Kwan Yoon

Investment Platform

China

July 2015

BlueCart

$4m

Series A

Jonathan Ebinger

E-Commerce

United States

July 2015

Radius

$50m

Series F

Jonathan Ebinger

Data Analytics

United States

December 2014

Qufenqi

$100m

Series C

Kwan Yoon

Investment Platform

China

September 2014

Radius

$54.7m

Series C

Jonathan Ebinger

Data Analytics

United States

August 2014

Qufenqi

$25m

Series B

Investment Platform

China

May 2014

Kabbage

$50m

Series D

Jonathan Ebinger

Lending

United States

January 2014

Radius

$13m

Series B

Jonathan Ebinger

Data Analytics

United States

June 2013

ChannelBreeze

$2.2m

Venture

E-Commerce

Korea South

January 2013

Radius

$8.4m

Series A

Jonathan Ebinger

Data Analytics

United States

October 2012

Topsy Labs

$5.3m

Venture

John Malloy

Data Analytics

United States

September 2012

Kabbage

$30m

Series C

Jonathan Ebinger

Lending

United States

July 2012

SaveUp

$5m

Series A

Jonathan Ebinger

Personal Finance

United States

March 2012

Radius

Undisclosed

Undisclosed

Jonathan Ebinger

Data Analytics

United States

September 2011

SaveUp

$2m

Seed

Jonathan Ebinger

Personal Finance

United States

August 2011

Kabbage

$17m

Series B

Jonathan Ebinger

Lending

United States

July 2011

Varolii

$8m

Series D

John Malloy

Cybersecurity

United States

June 2011

EggCartel

$1m

Seed

E-Commerce

United States

Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

2015

BRV Aster

$200m

2014

Fund V

$150m

2013

BRV Lotus

$175m

Fund 4

$250m

Key Employees

John Malloy
Partner

Cheryl Cheng
Partner

Jui Tan
Partner

Jonathan Ebinger
Partner