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Blu Venture Investors

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About Company
Blu Venture Investors is a venture capital investment company that supports early-stage entrepreneurs.

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Blu Ventures, Blu

founded date

01.01.2010

Number of employees

IPO status

Private

Description

Blu Venture Investors, founded in 2010 and based in Vienna, Virginia, provides initial growth-stage funding and active mentorship to early-stage companies in the Mid-Atlantic Region. They seek to invest in companies operating in various sectors, including software, information technology, materials, cybersecurity, and defense. The company's investors are experienced and successful operating executives who have launched new companies, products, or services. Blu Ventures Affiliate Program is a group of accredited investors who invest alongside the Blu principals and benefit from their close engagement with portfolio companies. They have the opportunity to invest via an opt-in model, which affords them exposure to deal flow, substantive due diligence, and institutional-quality documentation and governance.
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People

Founders
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W. Scott Berg
W. Scott Berg

W. Scott Berg

Member of Blu Venture Investors. Founder and President of Advanced Technology Applications, a “Big Data” and risk management consulting company. Sixteen years experience in the federal sector serving in both industry and government roles. Former Navy fighter pilot with three combat tours. Worked at DARPA on a variety of advanced technology programs. Board member for the Security and Risk Management Association and also affiliated with the Potomac Institute of Policy Studies. Education – University of Virginia (BA), Darden School of Business, University of Virginia (MBA) Industry Expertise – Strategic Planning, Business Analytics, Advanced Technology & Engineering, and Information Technology Functional Expertise – Big Data, Technology Integration, Entrepreneurship, Management Consulting, Process Engineering, Strategic Planning, B2G Sales and Contracting

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Pradeep Wahi
Pradeep Wahi

Pradeep Wahi

Pradeep Wahi is the Founding Member of Blu Venture Investors. Currently Chairman and CEO, ARA Inc. and Chairman, PowerMax Global LLC. Current and past Board Director of other Privately held and Public Traded Companies. Entrepreneur and Advisor for Cross-National Ventures. 35+ years in Technology Development and Management of Technology companies including investments in Revere Bank, Straighterline, Oculis Labs, Kanasao, PowerMax Global, and Elumen.

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David Krauskopf
David Krauskopf

David Krauskopf

David Krauskopf is the Founding Member of Blu Venture Investors. Serial entrepreneur experienced in starting, financing and growing companies with direct experience in software, computer, travel and hospitality. GM of Apple Computer in Russia from (1993-1999): owned the exclusive representative for Apple Computer in Russia and the Ukraine. Founded a printing and press room solutions company in Russia in 1996. The combined companies in 2007 had 200M+ in revenue. Developed & own a high-end boutique resort in Belize, Central America. Hamanasi is consistently ranked number one in Central America (2008 – 2012) on website TripAdvisor.com. Board Chairman, LATISTA Technologies.

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Dendy Young
Dendy Young

Dendy Young

Dendy Young is managing partner of McLean Capital, LLC, a private equity firm based in McLean, VA, which is focused on government information technology. From January 1996 to February 2006, Young was chief executive officer of GTSI Corp. (NASDAQ: GTSI), an enterprise services and solutions provider. He served as chairman of the board from 1998 until May 2007. Prior to GTSI, Dendy served as chief executive officer of Falcon Microsystems, Inc., the second of two companies he founded and sold between 1981 and 1994. In less than 10 years, Falcon Microsystems grew to become a nationally recognized, multi-platform federal reseller and integrator before being sold to GTSI in August 1994. Young holds a S.B. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Employee Profiles
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