Private Equity & Venture Capital

Blackwells is an active Private Equity and Venture Capital investor.

We invest in businesses that fulfill our passions, while also meeting rigorous financial risk profile stress tests. Our businesses benefit from the capital, strategic insight, global relationships and operational expertise that, collectively, drive outperformance over the long term.

Blackwells believes in achieving a net zero economy, and our investments in cutting-edge renewable power, clean energy, and infrastructure solutions help form the backbone of a new-age economy focused on that goal.

The global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operations for Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastrophe solutions.

Star Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that interrogates areas of novel biology to develop life-changing therapies for as many patients as possible, initially addressing unmet needs in hematology and immunology. The company’s engine for innovation starts with identifying multiple diseases that share a common biology and then discovering novel therapeutics that can treat numerous diseases with a single therapy. Star consists of a constellation of companies, each focused on a specific area of biology with first-in-class therapies.

AltAir Fuels was created to produce low carbon fuels and chemicals derived from sustainable feedstock. For its first commercial project, AltAir partnered with Alon Energy USA (now Delek) to retool idled refining equipment on the 62 Acre Paramount refining facility, increasing the nation’s energy supply, while positively impacting the southern California economy.

A cutting-edge mobile advertising platform specializing in delivering optimum results for digital marketers through a quantitative approach to mobile data mining, analytics and targeting, as well as a highly effective creative-ad suite connecting mobile and web users to the world’s top brands.

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A team of experienced media and technology professionals working to develop innovative digital solutions for today’s news consumer, with our flagship product News In Brief pioneering crowd-sourced news to promote reporting transparency. Vandewater Media produced the 2015 hit movie “It Had to Be You”.

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Liqid composable infrastructure leverages industry-standard data center components to deliver a flexible, scalable architecture built from pools of disaggregated resources. Compute, networking, storage, GPU, FPGA, and Intel® Optane™ memory devices are interconnected over intelligent fabrics to deliver dynamically-configurable bare-metal servers, perfectly sized, with the exact physical resources required by each deployed application.

Xsight Systems is the market leader in advanced runway hazard detection solutions. Xsight’s multi-layered sensors continuously monitor the runway surface, for foreign objects and wildlife.

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A leading global provider of next generation entertainment, content and services for the digital consumer serving customers worldwide (previously Fox Mobile Group).

24X strives to change the dynamic for market participants so they can increase profitability through highly competitive fees and gain access to a multi-asset offering through a single brokerage interface.

A climate conscious incubator focused on advanced solutions – including adapted drones, thermo-technology, and synthetic material use – in order to alleviate the deleterious impacts of climate change on the planet.

An online marketplace system where sport enthusiasts can trade stocks valued by the performance of their favorite teams and players with the same methods of short-selling and buying that take place in traditional financial exchanges.

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A former leader in the collaborative work-space sector, Alley operates principally from its 9 coworking communities across the USA including its 50,000 Square foot of state-of-the-art flagship in Chelsea, NY.