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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Blue Water Capital III, LLC
Blue Water Capital III, LLC
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venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicles
Importance
16
moderate
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
50
elevated
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 703-862-3296adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Jan 6, 2015
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- unknownreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Owners on Schedule A
- G. William Miller & Co. (Managing Director), B
- business phone
- 703-862-3296adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
34 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- fintech, hardware, crypto, media
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- venture capital
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 100%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 34
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Water Venture Fund III, LLC | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $0 Jan 6, 2015 | 16 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
13 current, 0 departed
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KIM Daniel Cooke
PartnerManaging Director · since Jun 1, 2002
Michael Cardozo
PartnerShareholder · since May 1, 2007
Steven Lynn Skancke
PartnerShareholder · since May 1, 2007
Wilbur Morgan Priester
PartnerManaging Director · since Jun 1, 2002
James Wayne Loving
Platform and operationsDirector And Chief Financial Officer · since Jun 1, 2002
Investments on record
34 edges, 34 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
2 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
6 dated events
- Sep 16, 2026BlueWatersTravel.com $1,888 no longer listed on Blue Water Capital III, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceBlueWatersTravel.com $1,888Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026BlueWaterSalon.com $1,888 no longer listed on Blue Water Capital III, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceBlueWaterSalon.com $1,888Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026BlueWaterSystem.com $1,888 no longer listed on Blue Water Capital III, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceBlueWaterSystem.com $1,888Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026BlueWaterConcepts.com $14,888 no longer listed on Blue Water Capital III, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceBlueWaterConcepts.com $14,888Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- May 31, 2012Blue Water Capital III, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- May 31, 2012Blue Water Venture Fund III, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Blue Water Capital III, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $10,130,179Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactBlue Water Venture Fund III, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
28 observations from 2 sources