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Blue Bear Capital

10250 Constellation Boulevard Suite 100, Los Angeles, California, 90067, United States

Overview

Blue Bear Capital is a venture capital investor supporting companies that apply AI and data-driven technologies to energy infrastructures. The firm specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and clean energy investments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Total investments
51
Lead investments
21
Investments · 12mo
6
Active investors
7

Sector focus

  • CleanTech
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Industrial
  • Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • SaaS
  • Software
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Investment portfolio

  • Lastwall

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    Lastwall develops IDCommand, an identity verification platform that assesses over 200 characteristics of each login attempt—such as keystroke cadence, mouse movement, and hardware configuration—to prompt additional authentication and alert security teams when anomalous activity is detected. The company pursued enterprise-grade customers from the outset, working with the U.S. Department of Defense and earning FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for use across the U.S. federal ecosystem. Lastwall’s technology is positioned to protect government agencies and critical infrastructure providers across North America, and the company plans to scale its deployments with the new financing. Leadership highlighted the growing threat of nation-state cyberattacks and the expanding blast radius of identity compromise in the AI era as drivers for demand. The company has existing investors including Blue Bear Capital, 18West, and Blue Wing Ventures, and noted the possibility of future fundraising and venture debt from banking partners.

  • Hydrosat

    Participated · Series B · Jan 2026

    Hydrosat operates a thermal-infrared satellite constellation combined with AI and machine-learning analytics to provide daily, field-scale “thermal intelligence.” With two satellites already in orbit, the company collects more than 10 million km² of imagery per day—an order-of-magnitude increase over existing commercial alternatives. Its data are used to monitor water consumption, optimize irrigation, detect vegetation stress, and generate temperature-based signals for defense and intelligence customers, even at night. Hydrosat’s platform currently oversees millions of hectares for clients such as NOAA, the National Reconnaissance Office, Bayer, SupPlant and Nutradrip. The firm plans to expand its presence in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, India and Latin America while building a larger next-generation satellite fleet and broadening its crop and water-management solutions. The newly raised capital strengthens its balance sheet and supports this global expansion strategy.

  • Energy Robotics

    Led · Series A · Oct 2025

    Headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, Energy Robotics offers a full-stack, hardware-agnostic operating system that integrates with eight leading robot and drone manufacturers to automate visual inspections, thermal scans, and leak detection in energy, chemical, industrial, and utility facilities. The platform’s AI analytics library interprets multimodal sensor data, an LLM-driven mission control generates and executes inspection tasks, and each mission updates an evergreen digital twin that feeds directly into customer workflows. To date, the company has logged more than one million inspections across five continents for clients such as Shell, BP, Repsol, BASF, Merck, and E.ON, saving over 32,000 hours of hazardous human labor and cutting operating costs by up to 40%. Its emphasis on data privacy keeps sensitive inspection data within customer-controlled IT systems, while early gas-leak detection contributes to emissions reduction. Energy Robotics targets the growing need for safer, more efficient maintenance of aging industrial assets amid a shrinking skilled workforce. The new capital will be used to scale commercial deployment across energy, chemicals, industrial, and security sectors.

  • The Nuclear Company

    Led · Series A · Sep 2025

    Nuclearn develops a domain-specific artificial intelligence platform designed for the highly regulated nuclear power sector. Trained on millions of industry documents and diagrams, the software understands nuclear terminology, operational context, regulatory obligations, and safety requirements, allowing it to automate tasks such as condition report analysis, outage planning, and regulatory paperwork. The system can be deployed on-premise, in hosted environments, or in secure government clouds, giving utilities flexibility without compromising security or compliance. Nuclearn’s solution is already in use at more than 65 reactors worldwide, helping plants mitigate looming workforce shortages as one-quarter of nuclear employees near retirement. By accelerating historically manual processes, the platform frees experts to focus on higher-value decision-making and preserves institutional knowledge. The company plans to use new capital to enhance its product, enter additional markets, and scale its engineering and nuclear operations teams amid growing global demand for carbon-free baseload power.

  • Nuclearn

    Led · Series A · Sep 2025

    Nuclearn develops AI models and software to automate repetitive tasks and generate routine documentation for nuclear reactor operators. Its models are trained on nuclear industry-specific terminology and the company can train custom models for utilities on request. The software runs in the cloud, and Nuclearn can also help reactors set up on-site hardware to satisfy security protocols. Reactor operators can set thresholds for automation and review and sign off on AI-generated outputs; the company positions the tools as a "junior employee." Founders Bradley Fox and Jerrold Vincent started the company while working at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. Nuclearn says its tools are being used in more than 65 nuclear reactors worldwide and it recently raised a $10.5 million Series A. Nuclearn.ai provides AI- and ML-based process automation solutions tailored to the nuclear and utility sectors, with products such as Nuclear AutoCAP Screener and Nuclearn Evaluator. The company is developing AtomAssist, its Nuclear Language Model (LLM), alongside other utility-focused product use cases. Co-founded by Jerrold Vincent and Bradley Fox, Nuclearn.ai emphasizes innovation, privacy, and security in its offerings. The company raised $2.5M in seed funding to support growth and product development. Planned use of proceeds includes hiring relationship-based sales teams targeting the North American nuclear power market and the broader utility market. The firm’s roadmap centers on commercializing LLM capabilities and expanding sales coverage in utility-focused segments.

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