A Silicon Beach venture studio.
Blue Skies Ventures has backed, built, and partnered alongside 60+ early-stage companies across consumer tech, fintech, gaming, web3, and media — through direct investments, venture-studio work, and partnerships with leading early-stage funds.
Key Metrics
- 60+ Portfolio Companies
- $10M+ Capital Deployed
- 10 Exits & IPOs
- 2016 Founded
01 — About
Founded in 2016, Blue Skies Ventures started as an active venture studio building and accelerating early-stage companies out of the heart of Silicon Beach. Our work has evolved across investment, operating, and advisory roles ever since.
Today we steward positions built up through direct investments, venture-studio work, and partnerships with early-stage funds that we backed. We are also founders at heart and in practice and continue to build.
02 — Approach
Three ways we deploy capital and time.
01
Direct Positions
We back founders we believe in — through direct investments, co-invested SPVs with syndicate platforms like Launch and Sydecar, and earned equity from venture-studio work where our operating experience adds tangible value.
02
Fund Partnerships
We hold LP positions in leading early-stage funds whose theses and portfolios complement our own — expanding reach across consumer, commerce, and emerging tech.
03
Help When We Can
We are not a big shop, but every now and again our network may cut deep or provide an introduction at the right time. After the fact, we mostly hang back and cheer but do try to pick the right moments where we can help.
03 — Portfolio
Companies in the Blue Skies portfolio.
60+ companies in extended portfolio
- BST Films
- Capital (Party Round) Acquired by Rho
- Catch Acquired privately
- Drinklyte
- Fabfad
- Gather Labs
- Genusee
- Giggster
- Gryps
- Hawke Media
- Honeycomb
- Icon Source
- Junction AI
- Milk Video Acquired by Oktopost
- Nira Acquired by Dropbox
- PvP Acquired Privately
- Serve Robotics IPO · April 2024
- Shipsomnia
- Symbl.ai Acquired by Invoca
- The Sill
- Vstream Acquired by Vshojo
- Ware Acquired by Gather AI
- Zaraz Acquired by Cloudflare
We show exits from Fund-to-Fund partners to amplify their success.
Fund to Fund
04 — Founding Partners
The people behind Blue Skies.
Co-Founder
Phil Stover
A founder and entrepreneur working across tech, web3, and startups for over a decade.
After his first two founder stints at Blue Skies and PvP, he went on to co-found Honeycomb and Gryps.
Co-Founder
Scott Taylor
Co-founded internet company VirtualRelocation.com which was acquired by Monster.com.
Scott went on to found TAOW Modern Marketing, Green Endeavor Inc., and BST Films.