We're Building the future

Forming, investing in, and building the next generation of purpose-driven companies for a more secure, sustainable, and healthier world.

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Our methods

As company builders, this is our calling. We tackle the most ambitious challenges with breakthrough innovations in the most important global markets.

Builder Capitalism

We take the long-view approach, strategically focusing on world-changing technologies and dedicating time and energy to our teams with hands-on operating roles.

Experience Matters

We draw from our track record of lasting impact; having founded, invested in, and scaled market leading companies for over 20 years.

Community is at the core of what we do

We grow for long-term impact by leveraging our community of true company builders…

Main themes of investment

Securing our future

Cyberattacks rise with technology innovation because innovators haven’t had access to security from the outset. As attacks occur more frequently, those who are impacted the most are those who have the least. BlueIO focuses on creating radically simple, proactive resiliency that is designed to secure our future.

Sustaining the world

With heightened awareness, powerful technology, and system- focused breakthroughs, we have the opportunity to scale and offer fresh, natural food and nutrients with the power to sustainably heal. BlueIO focuses on a sustainable model for living where we treat our health, communities, and earth as one.

Saving lives

Advances in integrated biology, chemistry, physics and technology have brought a new age of personalized and precision medicine to the world. BlueIO focuses on saving lives by making accessible market-defining new treatments, methods, and products aligned with this dramatic shift.

Empowering communities

For social, economic, and environmental progress, the human connection is everything. BlueIO focuses on solutions that help humans transcend expectations, empowering communities, families, and purpose-led organizations to create the world we strive to live in for generations to come.

About us

BlueIO's mission is to build ground-breaking global companies that are solving the world’s most pressing problems through deep technical innovation and a purposeful, long-term approach. The team has an exceptional track record of founding, investing in, and building market leading companies for over 20 years.

Billion dollars

1.2

Value of companies co-founded
Percent

300%

Value appreciation of companies since 2018
Current jobs

1000+

Created from companies founded
More than

1600+

Patents held by BlueIO companies

Team

In 2012, Dave Furneaux formed BlueIO, making the transition from traditionally venture investing in companies that advanced the Internet age to building companies that have a direct positive impact on society, our human experience, and future generations.

At its core, the team identifies itself as ‘builder capitalists’ versus venture capitalists, playing an active strategic and operational role in each of the companies, completely aligning themselves with the entrepreneurs by embracing a no-fail, long-view approach. Today, BlueIO consists of a community of 40 builders who are responsible for forming and building some of the most seminal companies in the world, including Analog Devices, Fisher Scientific, EMC, among others.

Jan Haas, a 30 year veteran of technology finance and an active investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, joined the management team as President in 2017 to scale the activities of BlueIO. Dave’s oldest daughter, Alison Furneaux, was also actively involved in BlueIO company building activities before formally joining the team soon after.

Our Community

BlueIO finances its companies through their lifecycles, beginning directly in their founding stages and through special purpose vehicles in the growth, cross-over and pre-IPO stages. The team has strong technology and operational backgrounds that allow them to credibly focus on a unique set of markets and opportunities, while building at the intersection of purpose and profit. At BlueIO’s core is the multigenerational community of advisors, investors, operators and innovators who come together for maximum impact across all of its companies.

Past notable successes include Aironet (IPO: NASDAQ), Appnexus (Acquired by AT&T), Blaze (Acquired by Akamai), Channel Advisor (IPO: NYSE), Extreme (Acquired by MicroSemi), Philsar (Acquired by Skyworks), Skystone (Acquired by Cisco Systems), Watchfire (acquired by IBM), WHERE (Acquired by Paypal), Solantro Semiconductor Corp.

Our companies clients

BlueIO finances its companies through their lifecycles, beginning directly in their founding stages

Mend

MEND is a Life sciences and biotechnology company with a mission to help people to heal.

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Lufa Farms

Lufa is more than rooftop farming. Bringing together hyper-local food production of all shapes and sizes, and multiple operating farms,

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Virsec Systems

Instead of relying on signatures of past attacks to guess what’s coming next, Virsec precisely pinpoints threats at the source, within applications - protecting from the inside.

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Lumicell

Lumicell illuminates cancer and other diseased tissues at the molecular level, enabling physicians to take action in real-time during surgeries to improve patient outcomes.

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CyberSaint

CyberSaint’s mission is to empower organizations to manage cybersecurity as a business function, allowing security leaders to showcase cybersecurity resilience as a business enabler

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Greenlight Biosciences

GreenLight Biosciences delivers on the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels using its patented Cell-free bioprocessing technology platform.

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