Blue Haven Initiative
bluehaveninitiative.com Direct + LP
Blue Haven Initiative is a family office that invests across asset classes for both financial returns and social and environmental impact. It makes direct investments in companies and also invests through third-party managers and funds.
Blue Haven Initiative is a family office headquartered in United States, founded in 2012. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to undefined, in climate, clean energy, education technology and financial services.
“When investing directly into companies, the team seeks to put capital to work in highly productive ways: helping mission-driven projects and companies achieve scale, supporting entrepreneurs whose innovations spur change, and partnering with other investors to accelerate economic progress.”
— Blue Haven Initiative, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Family office
- Stage
- Seed – Not stated
- Headquarters
- United States
- Invests in
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Founded
- 2012
Team, as Blue Haven Initiative publishes it
- Liesel Pritzker Simmons Co-Founder & Principal
- Ian Simmons Co-Founder & Principal
- Kelly Escobedo Managing Director
- Hari Joy Managing Director of Private Investments
- Simon Thompson Managing Director of Civics
- Karinelis Ayala-Gonzalez Operations Coordinator
- Lauren Rosales Farello Director of Operations & Impact
- Megan McCarthy Director of Partnerships
- Sanzida Mohsin Project Coordinator
- Nick Panagiotou Executive Assistant/HR Manager
- Daniel Wanjira Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives
- Dereka Young Executive Assistant
Names and roles exactly as listed on bluehaveninitiative.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 43 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Alter Global 3 shared companies: reachcapital.com, quona.com, btv.vc
- Cygnum Capital 2 shared companies: thegiin.org, act.is
- DBL Partners 2 shared companies: thegiin.org, impinvalliance.org
- AHL Venture Partners 2 shared companies: m-kopa.com, cim-llc.com
- Broadscale Group LLC 2 shared companies: m-kopa.com, generatecapital.com
- Accion Impact Management LLC 2 shared companies: cim-llc.com, varthana.com
- AXECO Participaties 1 shared company: resilience.vc
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: resilience.vc
- Cauris Investment Management, LLC 1 shared company: thegiin.org
- Ford Foundation 1 shared company: thegiin.org
and 33 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Blue Haven Initiative publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.bluehaveninitiative.com/name, is_investor, type, description, status
- https://www.bluehaveninitiative.com/about-us/our-story/layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, founded
- https://www.bluehaveninitiative.com/about-us/meet-the-team/people
- https://www.bluehaveninitiative.com/terms/hq_country
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Record 6474 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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