Blue Star Capital plc - BLU

Blue Star Capital plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed, early stage, and late stage companies, including buy-outs. The firm provides funding for shell companies at the founder stage, upon IPO and operating businesses prior to IPO or alternative exit. It typically invests in homeland security sector which includes cyber security; border and perimeter security/surveillance; biometric identification and tracking; explosives and other hazardous materials detection; emergency planning/integrated response systems, communications, and screening (people, data, container) and the technology sector with a focus on applications within media and gaming. The firm typically invests between £250,000 ($387,850) and £2 million ($3.1 million) over the lifetime of an investment. The firm seeks to invest in quoted and unquoted companies. It invests between £50,000 ($77,570) and £0.5 million ($0.78 million) in the initial round and similar amounts are invested in subsequent funding rounds. The firm may take either a minority or a majority stake in its portfolio companies. In the latter case, the firm seeks to take a strategic control of investee businesses. It seeks to invest in companies with a positive cash flow and recurring revenue streams. The firm prefers to exit its investments between three to four years. Blue Star Capital plc is based in London, United Kingdom.