Blue Water Capital III, LLC
Micro VC, with 34 portfolio companies on record.
Composed from this organization's classification, location and filed figures.
7 additional team members, 31 additional investments, funds and LPs, 1 verified contact (1 firm phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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What matters now
- 12 dealswith Mastercard
Invests most often alongside Mastercard (12 shared deals) and Length (5 shared deals).
pair last observed on record 1 Oct 2026, not a deal date · The firms it syndicates with are the likeliest to see the same deals and to fill out its rounds.
Measuredshared rounds and portfolio companies on recordFor Founders building a round, co-investorsCo-investors →
People to know
View all people- Managing DirectorWhy: Managing directorNo route on file yet
- Managing DirectorWhy: Managing directorNo route on file yet
- ShareholderWhy: Named with investment responsibilityNo route on file yet
Relationship network
47 connected entities
From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.
Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.
Click any name or line for the rounds and sources behind it. Line weight is rounds together; dashed lines are inferred.
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- Company
- Fund or vehicle
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›How strength and recency are read
Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.
Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
How am I connected?
Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Blue Water Capital III, LLC: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.
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Investing
34 companies on record, 0 new in 12 months
Investments on record
What these amounts mean“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.Acquired, Public, Exited and Active are what the firm’s own portfolio card says, read on the date shown when you hover the chip; they are not deal dates. A company with no chip is one whose card states no outcome: DFX does not assume it is active.| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 Referring Domains | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| 298 Backlinks | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| 720.0 Keyword Total Volume | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
- 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
Team
11 current, 2 departed
Decision makers
- Henry Drayton Barratt · Managing DirectorWhy this person: Managing director; Named with investment responsibility
- Kim Daniel Cooke · Managing DirectorWhy this person: Managing director; Named with investment responsibility
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
Investment team
How the team is orderedPartners who lead rounds first (rounds led, then deals attributed, then seniority), then the rest of the investment team, then investor relations, finance and operations. A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once.- Managing Director
- Managing Director
- Shareholder
Contacts
1 firm phone on record, each with its source. Values open with the complete profile.
Funds and LPs
1 vehicle, 0 LPs disclosed
Funds and vehicles
What these amounts meanGAV 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.| 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 |
Limited partners
Known LPs and allocators
What these amounts and dates areEach commitment is counted once across the pension tape and the allocator graph. A commitment date prints only when the source printed one; otherwise the row carries the report date. A foundation’s 990-PF line is a holding at fair value, never a commitment. Rows without a fund on the venture graph are commitments to this manager.Relationships across DFX
2 co-investors
Co-investors
- 2026-10-0112 shared deals · very strong
- 2026-10-015 shared deals · strong
Evidence and history
2 dated events, 35 observations from 2 sources
Timeline
- May 31, 2012Blue Water Capital III, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)
- May 31, 2012Blue Water Venture Fund III, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Blue Water Capital III, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $10,130,179
Identity and regulatory footprint
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Jan 6, 2015 · 1 private fundsShowHide
Website description: BlueWaterCapital.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- BLUEWATERCAPITAL.COM
- 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, adviser total
- 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), owns 10% to 25%
Classification history
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried1 on recordShowHide
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%)Venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicle
Evidence
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC adviser type | Exempt reporting adviser | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2012-05-31 | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1 | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2015-01-06 | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Business phone | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Contact page url | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Contact page url | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 14, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Self-described type | Venture capital “venture capital firm” | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | |
| Self-described type | Venture capital “venture capital firm” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Self-described type | Venture capital “venture capital firm” | Sep 14, 2026 | Fact | |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Portfolio page | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Portfolio page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Portfolio page | Sep 14, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Private funds reported | 1 | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Stated sectors | Fintech, hardware, crypto, media “sector words on the home page” | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | Fintech, hardware, crypto, media “sector words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | Fintech, hardware, crypto, media “sector words on the home page” | Sep 14, 2026 | Fact | |
| Team page | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Team page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Team page | Sep 14, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Venture funds reported | 1 | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Website | Jan 6, 2015 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Site title | Oct 1, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Site title | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Site title | Sep 14, 2026 | Fact |
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersMicro VC, probableShowHide
Venture manager, reported GAV $0.0M across 1 vehicle
- importance
- gav: 0 · funds: 0.08 · people: 0.24 · investments: 0.57 · co investors: 0.12
- active deployment
- investments 12m: 0 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: not scored
- emerging manager
- fund count: 1 · reported gav: $0 · first adv filing: 2012-05-31 · years since first filing: 14.3
Fits, record history and connections
scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge
Record history
- Adviser's first ADV filing2012-05-31source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.
Not yet on record: reported fund assets, latest vintage.