All Blue Capital

All Blue Capital is a private equity and venture capital investment firm based in London, with additional offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Toronto. The firm specializes in seed, growth, and late-stage investments, focusing on a variety of sectors including private equity, real estate, and blockchain technology. All Blue Capital invests in buyouts, growth capital, turnaround situations, and distressed assets, seeking to identify attractive opportunities across different asset classes and geographies. The firm also engages in investments related to cryptocurrencies, blockchain hardware, and software services. With a strong global presence and a commitment to entrepreneurialism and innovation, All Blue Capital aims to deliver excellent risk-adjusted returns for its investors.

Daniel Cookson

Head of Legal

Yu Du

Head of Asia Pacific

Matt Novak

Managing Partner

30 past transactions

AEye

Debt Financing in 2020
AEye is an artificial perception pioneer and creator of iDAR, a perception system that acts as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. Since the demonstration of its solid-state LiDAR scanner in 2013, AEye has pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by world-renowned investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Taiwania Capital, Hella Ventures, LG Electronics, Subaru-SBI, Aisin, Intel Capital, Airbus Ventures, and others.

Didi

Secondary Market in 2016
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.

China Literature

Secondary Market in 2017
China Literature is a pioneer of the online literature market and operates a leading online literature platform in China. The Company’s shares were listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 0772 on November 8, 2017. China Literature is a market leader as measured by the scale and quality of writers, readers and literary content offerings. As of December 31, 2018, the Company had 7.7 million writers and 11.2 million online literary works, covering over 200 genres and reaching millions of readers. During 2018, the Company had on average 213.5 million monthly active users on its platform and its self-operated channels on partner distribution platforms. The Company owns nine major branded products, among which QQ Reading serves as a flagship product and is a unified mobile content aggregation and distribution platform, while the other products focus more specifically on individual genres and their respective fan bases. China Literature’s blue-chip shareholder and strategic partner, Tencent, provides the Company with exclusive content distribution access via its suite of leading mobile and Internet products, including Mobile QQ, QQ Browser, Tencent News, Weixin Reading and Tencent Video. The Company also licenses the content to third-party partners such as Baidu, Sogou, JD.com and Xiaomi Duokan for distribution, thus further broadening its user reach.

HotelTonight

Secondary Market in 2018
HotelTonight, Inc. provides mobile applications for booking same-day unsold hotel deals. It offers a marketplace for hotels to fill tonight only and last-minute rooms that would otherwise remain empty; and enables guests to book the deals using their smartphones and tablets. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of April 15, 2019, HotelTonight, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.

Robinhood

Series F in 2020
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application. Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt established the company in Menlo Park, California in 2013.

Ripple

Angel Round in 2013
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. "Ripple offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enabling enterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis.

Wish

Secondary Market in 2017
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wish is an e-commerce platform, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide. Wish employs big data principles, machine-learning, and search technologies to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized browsing experience for each user. The company leverages a global network of direct suppliers, providing access to top quality, affordable products to anyone with a smartphone. As of 2018, Wish has more than 80 million monthly active users, over one million merchants, and sells nearly 1 billion products annually. For more information about the company or to download the Wish mobile app.

Airbnb

Secondary Market in 2016
Airbnb, Inc. operates a platform for stays and experiences to guests worldwide. The company’s marketplace model connects hosts and guests online or through mobile devices to book spaces and experiences. It primarily offers private rooms and luxury villas. The company was formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc. and changed its name to Airbnb, Inc. in November 2010. Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dash Core Group

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Dash is the e-commerce and payments-focused digital currency, and the rising alternative to bitcoin. Experiencing significant growth since its beginnings in 2014, Dash is now accepted at more than 4,000 merchants, including 2,200+ in Venezuela, in addition to being accessible via 400+ ATMs and 90+ exchanges worldwide- making it one of the few offering safe, decentralized financial solutions to real world problems. Dash offers a form of money that is portable, inexpensive, divisible, and fast. It can be spent easily and instantly online at merchants across the globe, at much lower fees than credit and debit cards. With over 60 members on the team and a unique blockchain mining and treasury model, Dash is the only major self-funded, self-governed organization in the cryptocurrency industry. This allows for constant development and funding for the entire project.

Snap

Secondary Market in 2016
Snap Technologies, Inc. operates an online distributed media network. Its products are used on Websites and blogs. The company’s Snap Shots enables site owners to empower their readers with enhanced hyperlinks that display previews, text summaries, videos, stock charts, MP3s, and product info. Snap Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Perfect Market Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Venice, California.

Palantir Technologies

Series D in 2016
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Stripe

Series G in 2020
Businesses on Stripe rank access to capital as their biggest obstacle to growth. Traditional lenders aren’t set up to serve internet businesses, typically requiring lengthy applications, complex collateral obligations, and fixed payment schedules. They built Stripe Capital to cut through the red tape. Their goal is to provide access to fast, flexible financing that helps online businesses invest in growth.

Cybereason

Secondary Market in 2017
Cybereason is the leader in endpoint protection, offering endpoint detection and response, next-generation antivirus, and managed monitoring services. Founded by elite intelligence professionals born and bred in offense-first hunting, Cybereason gives enterprises the upper hand over cyber adversaries. The Cybereason platform is powered by a custom-built in-memory graph, the only truly automated hunting engine anywhere. It detects behavioral patterns across every endpoint and surfaces malicious operations in an exceptionally user-friendly interface. Cybereason is privately held and headquartered in Boston with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.

Mahtay

Series A in 2016
Mahtay Holdings Limited manufactures energy drink. The company’s product includes yerba mate tea, acai berries, coconut water, and co2. Mahtay Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Basic Attention Token

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Digital advertising is broken. It is a market filled with middlemen and fraudsters, hurting users, publishers and advertisers. The Basic Attention Token (BAT) was developed to address this. BAT, an ERC20 token built on top of Ethereum, will be the token of utility in a new, decentralized, open source and efficient blockchain-based digital advertising platform.

View

Venture Round in 2020
View, Inc. designs and manufactures glass systems for workplace, healthcare, education, and hospitality projects. It markets its products through direct sales and representatives in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Soladigm, Inc. and changed its name to View, Inc. in November 2012. View, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Milpitas, California, with manufacturing facilities in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

SpaceX

Secondary Market in 2016
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

Roku

Secondary Market in 2015
Roku pioneered streaming for the TV, and we aspire to power every TV in the world. We developed a streaming platform that delivers a best-in-class user experience. At the heart of the Roku platform is our proprietary operating system, the Roku OS, which we built from the ground up. Roku is recognized for streaming innovation. This is demonstrated by our growing, passionate and highly engaged customer base who love Roku streaming devices because of our coveted content selection, ease of use, and value.

Meta

Secondary Market in 2011
Facebook Audience Network can help publishers and developers grow their business by driving advertiser value and engaging people through positive user experiences.

Twitter

Secondary Market in 2011
Microblogging

Dropbox

Secondary Market in 2015
Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It aims to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. 500 million registered users around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go. Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, Hamburg, Washington DC, and Tokyo.

Uber

Series F in 2015
Uber is evolving the way the world moves. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our app, we make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers. From our founding in 2009 to our launches in over 300 cities today, Uber's rapidly expanding global presence continues to bring people and their cities closer.

Palantir Technologies

Secondary Market in 2016
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Pinterest

Secondary Market in 2017
Pinterest, Inc. provides visual discovery engine in the United States and internationally. The company’s engine allows people to find inspiration for their lives, including recipes, home and style ideas, travel destinations, and others. It shows them visual recommendations based on people personal taste and interests. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Qudian

Secondary Market in 2015
Qudian is an electronics retailer from China that provides installment payment and investment management platform for micro-lending to fulfill short term financial needs.

Alibaba Group

Secondary Market in 2013
China-based Alibaba Group was founded in 1999 by 18 founders, led by Jack Ma. In addition to Alibaba.com, the company owns a wide range of assets across the e-commerce, online payment and cloud computing spaces, including online shopping sites Taobao and Tmall, and electronic payment channel Alipay. Jonathan Lu, the former Taobao head will replace Jack Ma as CEO in May 2013.

SendGrid

Secondary Market in 2015
SendGrid is a proven, cloud-based customer communication platform that drives engagement and business growth. SendGrid is a leader in email deliverability and its proven, cloud-based platform successfully delivers over 30 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare as well as more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

Didi

Secondary Market in 2017
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.