Vaughn Blake

Partner, Blue Bear Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States
10
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2
Early stage
6
Mid stage
1
Late stage
9y
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Portfolio

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Board Member, Investor
Jan 2025
Topanga is an enterprise foodservice technology company reducing food and packaging waste while driving environmental and economic impact. We’re here to challenge the status quo and build better, waste-free operations—because we actually care about the planet and your bottom line. We do this through our foodservice solutions: ReusePass, the leading track-and-trace reusables solution for dining programs and StreamLine, our AI-powered scale and intelligence platform to easily record and reduce food waste in commercial kitchens. Our team is a passionate mix of technologists, foodies, designers, and problem solvers who believe that building efficient systems can create a future of abundance.
Board Observer, Investor
Jul 2024
We specialize in optimizing transportation networks for enterprises, helping them achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, and operational excellence. Leveraging innovative solutions and data-driven insights, we transform how businesses move goods and manage their logistics. Our unique approach focuses on eliminating inefficiencies, improving delivery reliability, and creating scalable systems that empower enterprises to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced supply chains. Whether you need end-to-end network optimization or tailored transportation strategies, Warp is your trusted partner for achieving success. What We Offer: • Transportation network optimization tailored to your business needs. • Data-driven insights to streamline logistics and enhance efficiency. • Scalable solutions to support sustainable growth. • Expertise in cross-dock operations and delivery optimization. Our Mission: To revolutionize transportation networks by delivering smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions that empower enterprises to excel in their logistics operations. Let’s Connect: Partner with Warp to transform your logistics, streamline operations, and achieve transportation excellence. Together, we’ll pave the way for a more efficient future.
Board Observer, Investor
Sep 2023
Delos Insurance Solutions, a pioneering Managing General Agent (MGA), is at the forefront of transforming property insurance in climate-affected regions. Delos is currently active in California, writing policies in areas that other insurance providers are avoiding for wildfire exposure. Traditional insurance models have proven inadequate in an era marked by the impacts of climate change. Delos has embarked on a groundbreaking approach, integrating climate and catastrophe modeling expertise at every level of an insurance provider. Delos innovative programs leverage proprietary AI risk models (patented) developed by world-renowned professors within our team. Beginning with wildfire risk, these models have consistently outperformed industry standards, allowing Delos to underwrite policies profitably in areas where legacy carriers are swiftly withdrawing. This enables Delos to provide insurance coverage to millions of homes that would otherwise have limited options.
late stageInsurance
Board Member, Investor
Jan 2023
ChargerHelp! pioneers the future of EV charging with our innovative Reliability as a Service (RaaS) solution. Addressing core challenges in EVSE Operation & Maintenance (O&M), our data-driven approach maximizes charger uptime. Partnering with industry leaders and emphasizing community empowerment, were committed to elevating EVSE infrastructure reliability. Lets redefine the future of EV charging together. 🚗⚡
Board Observer, Investor
Jan 2023
Hydrosat uses thermal satellite data and AI to address societys most urgent challenges. We provide geospatial intelligence for food production, security, and natural resource management.
Board Member, Investor
Oct 2021
Chargetrip is the leading EV routing software company, routing 20% of European EV drivers every month through our customers apps. CPOs and eMSPs use Chargetrip routing to win more sessions and grow utilization. With EV routing, you can own the charging journey and take control over where your drivers go to charge. Drivers who use routing make twice as many transactions on your network. This means more charge sessions at your stations and more charge revenue. Get started with your own routing in as little as two weeks. Learn more on our website and see how to use routing to grow your business.
Board Member, Investor
Aug 2021
We are the world’s fastest-growing augmented reality company, transforming productivity for the Global 2000 workforce and the military. We deploy the industry’s most accessible and scalable AR solutions to enhance safety and oversight in industrial environments such as in the manufacturing of chemical explosives and maintenance of military equipment. Our award-winning AR headset is safety rated, compatible with PPE, and powered by smartphones, making us 10x more affordable and 10x faster to deploy. Our convenient Mira Connect software allows see-what-I-see video calls to enable remote subject-matter experts to effectively guide frontline workers in real-time, from anywhere, without having to travel. Our Mira Flow software allows our customers to gain unparalleled insight into operational data when utilizing our hands-free Augmented Reality headsets to guide engineers and technicians through complex workflows while providing managers with macro operational trends and insights. We are backed by the world’s top VCs, including Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, Marc Benioff, and others. Our headquarters are based in Los Angeles, California.
Board Member, Investor
Oct 2020
First Resonance builds the ION Factory OS, the leading Factory OS powering leading manufacturers in aviation, energy, automative, and more. It's flexibility, first-class API, and data platform allow manufacturers to conduct the day-to-day operations in the factories and connect workflows to power modern operations from production to supply chain procurement and quality. Hardware companies of every size - from startups to large scale manufacturers - use ION to reliably track and manage parts, processes, and data through their product life cycle. Our customers are building complex products such as NASA’s lunar lander, next generation eVTOLs, in-space satellite propulsion, robotic farms, and more. We believe in empowering engineers, operators, and managers with the proper tools to push the boundaries of the physical world and build a brighter tomorrow.
Board Member, Investor
Mar 2020
Site assessment platform for renewable energy developers Transects platform helps discover and assess high-quality sites in minutes. Its a game-changer for developers, offering real-time analysis for renewable energy, utilities, oil and gas, and infrastructure projects. With Transect, you can find and assess ideal sites in minutes, not weeks. Key features include swift site pinpointing, critical issues analysis, real-time data updates, versatility across industries, user-friendly interface, efficiency for cost savings, and proactive risk mitigation. Make informed, sustainable decisions with Transect, your partner in shaping a responsible future.
Board Observer, Investor
Jan 2017
Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards of our generation—its time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others. The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed. We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games.
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (10)
Board (10)
2025
Board Member, Investor
Jan 2025
Topanga is an enterprise foodservice technology company reducing food and packaging waste while driving environmental and economic impact. We’re here to challenge the status quo and build better, waste-free operations—because we actually care about the planet and your bottom line. We do this through our foodservice solutions: ReusePass, the leading track-and-trace reusables solution for dining programs and StreamLine, our AI-powered scale and intelligence platform to easily record and reduce food waste in commercial kitchens. Our team is a passionate mix of technologists, foodies, designers, and problem solvers who believe that building efficient systems can create a future of abundance.
2024
Board Observer, Investor
Jul 2024
We specialize in optimizing transportation networks for enterprises, helping them achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, and operational excellence. Leveraging innovative solutions and data-driven insights, we transform how businesses move goods and manage their logistics. Our unique approach focuses on eliminating inefficiencies, improving delivery reliability, and creating scalable systems that empower enterprises to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced supply chains. Whether you need end-to-end network optimization or tailored transportation strategies, Warp is your trusted partner for achieving success. What We Offer: • Transportation network optimization tailored to your business needs. • Data-driven insights to streamline logistics and enhance efficiency. • Scalable solutions to support sustainable growth. • Expertise in cross-dock operations and delivery optimization. Our Mission: To revolutionize transportation networks by delivering smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions that empower enterprises to excel in their logistics operations. Let’s Connect: Partner with Warp to transform your logistics, streamline operations, and achieve transportation excellence. Together, we’ll pave the way for a more efficient future.
2023
Board Observer, Investor
Sep 2023
Delos Insurance Solutions, a pioneering Managing General Agent (MGA), is at the forefront of transforming property insurance in climate-affected regions. Delos is currently active in California, writing policies in areas that other insurance providers are avoiding for wildfire exposure. Traditional insurance models have proven inadequate in an era marked by the impacts of climate change. Delos has embarked on a groundbreaking approach, integrating climate and catastrophe modeling expertise at every level of an insurance provider. Delos innovative programs leverage proprietary AI risk models (patented) developed by world-renowned professors within our team. Beginning with wildfire risk, these models have consistently outperformed industry standards, allowing Delos to underwrite policies profitably in areas where legacy carriers are swiftly withdrawing. This enables Delos to provide insurance coverage to millions of homes that would otherwise have limited options.
late stageInsurance
Board Member, Investor
Jan 2023
ChargerHelp! pioneers the future of EV charging with our innovative Reliability as a Service (RaaS) solution. Addressing core challenges in EVSE Operation & Maintenance (O&M), our data-driven approach maximizes charger uptime. Partnering with industry leaders and emphasizing community empowerment, were committed to elevating EVSE infrastructure reliability. Lets redefine the future of EV charging together. 🚗⚡
Board Observer, Investor
Jan 2023
Hydrosat uses thermal satellite data and AI to address societys most urgent challenges. We provide geospatial intelligence for food production, security, and natural resource management.
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