Construction is a massive, yet highly antiquated market ripe for disruption. We've found the vast majority of technology companies serve the mid-market and enterprise, leaving smaller-sized commercial and residential subcontractors largely underserved. Why is this so? SMB contractors are a difficult to serve audience - they are simply too busy and margins are too thin to have the time and resources to adopt expensive software that's not purpose-built for their smaller practice. We first connected with the CompanyCam team almost two years ago, having heard positive reviews of its product from a number of industry sources who raved about its application and its ease of use - we believe the lat ...read more

Drug and alcohol (particularly opioid) abuse is a worldwide epidemic and unfortunately, it’s not getting any better. The number of patients in treatment has grown almost 20% over the last decade, yet the number of facilities treating these patients has stagnated. Treatment facilities are inundated with referrals yet these operators are forced to divert their time and attention away from patient care in order to manage their facilities. Why was this so? Our research indicated that incumbent technologies have been largely unchallenged and have had little reason to evolve. We found these incumbent solutions to be (i) siloed, (ii) antiquated in their implementation and support, (iii) cost prohib ...read more

Does the world need another investment firm? In all honesty, probably not. Record amounts of capital are being raised / deployed. And fewer and fewer firms / businesses are recipients of that capital. What does that mean? Everyone is moving up-market and who could blame them? As a fund manager, a bigger fund means bigger fees (salary) for me. How can I turn that down? As an entrepreneur, if someone is willing to write me a big check, how can I turn that down too? If I don't take the money, perhaps my competitor will, and I'll be in big trouble. We founded Blueprint to provide expansion capital to businesses that have just scratched the surface of their potential. It's our brea ...read more