Blue Bear Ventures

BBV (Blue Bear Ventures) is a US-based deep tech venture capital firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in science-driven startups emerging from top research institutions, particularly in areas such as AI, synthetic biology, energy systems, semiconductors, and life sciences. It is closely connected to university ecosystems, especially UC Berkeley, and often invests in companies spun out of academic research labs. BBV typically supports scientist-founders at seed and early stages, providing both capital and technical-commercialization expertise to translate research into scalable companies. The firm positions itself as a specialist investor in frontier science and industrial innovation, with a strong emphasis on deep technical due diligence and long-term value creation.