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Blossom Capital
Blossom Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded by Ophelia Brown that invests in European technology companies at the Series A stage, with early bets on Checkout.com and MoonPay.
BlossomHill Therapeutics
BlossomHill Therapeutics is a clinical-stage San Diego biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 by J. Jean Cui, developing macrocyclic cancer therapies including the EGFR inhibitor BH-30643.
Blowing from a gun
Blowing from a gun was a method of execution in which the condemned was tied to a cannon's front and killed by a blank charge. A Mughal punishment for mutiny, adopted by the British in India and used in Persia and Afghanistan into the twentieth century.
Blue and White (כחול לבן) (political alliance)
Blue and White (Kachol Lavan) is an Israeli centrist political alliance founded by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz and named for the colors of the Israeli flag.
Blue Bear Capital Partners
Blue Bear Capital Partners is a Los Angeles venture capital firm investing in AI software for energy, infrastructure, and climate, which raised a $160 million third fund in 2024.
Blue chip (stock market)
A blue chip is the stock of a large, long-established, well-financed company regarded as a sound investment, typically a market leader with stable earnings and a strong brand.
Blue Delta Capital
Blue Delta Capital is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 in Tysons, Virginia, investing exclusively in companies serving the US federal government market.
Blue Division
Blue Division (División Azul, División Española de Voluntarios), Spanish volunteer infantry division in the Wehrmacht's 250th Division, fought at Leningrad 1941-43, about 50,000 men, withdrawn October 1943.
Blue Dog Coalition
Blue Dog Coalition, caucus of fiscally conservative and moderate House Democrats founded in 1995 after the 1994 midterms; named for George Rodrigue's blue dog paintings; peaked at 54 members, later about 10.
Blue Electric Auto (蓝电汽车)
Blue Electric Auto (蓝电汽车) is a mass-market electric vehicle brand launched by China's Seres Group in Chongqing in March 2023, selling plug-in hybrid and electric SUVs priced from RMB 99,800.
Blue Energy
Blue Energy (Blue Energy Global Inc.) is an American startup founded in 2023 that builds prefabricated, project-financeable nuclear power plants for data centers and other large electricity customers.
Blue Heron Capital
Blue Heron Capital is a Richmond, Virginia-based growth equity firm investing $5 to $10 million per deal in healthcare and enterprise technology companies, mostly east of Dallas.
Blue Homeland
Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan) is Turkey's maritime doctrine, coined by Admiral Cem Gürdeniz in 2006 and promoted by Cihat Yaycı, claiming 462,000 km² of the Black Sea, Aegean, and Eastern Mediterranean, contested by Greece and Cyprus under UNCLOS.
Blue Horde
The Blue Horde, or Kök Orda, was the eastern Left Wing of the Mongol Jochid Ulus, generally identified with the appanage of Orda, Jochi's eldest son, centered at Signaq.
Blue House
Cheongwadae (청와대), the Blue House, was South Korea's presidential office and residence in Seoul from 1948 to 2022, named for its 150,000 blue roof tiles; opened to the public in 2022, closed again in 2025.
Blue House raid
Blue House raid (1·21 사태): failed January 21, 1968 attempt by 31 North Korean Unit 124 commandos to assassinate President Park Chung Hee at Cheongwadae in Seoul; 28 killed, Kim Shin-jo captured, followed two days later by the USS Pueblo seizure.
Blue Jam
Blue Jam: Chris Morris's ambient, surreal dark comedy radio series on BBC Radio 1, three series 1997–1999 in early-morning slots; Sony Gold winner, adapted into Channel 4's Jam (2000).
Blue Lake Capital (蓝湖资本)
Blue Lake Capital (蓝湖资本) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ray Hu that invests in enterprise software and advanced manufacturing start-ups in China.
Blue law
Blue laws, also called Sunday Closing Laws or Lord's Day Acts, are US state statutes restricting Sunday commerce such as alcohol sales, car dealerships, and hunting; upheld as secular rest laws in McGowan v. Maryland (1961) and still enforced in many states.
Blue laws in the United States
Blue laws, also called Sunday closing laws, are US statutes restricting Sunday activity, most commonly alcohol sales, car sales, and hunting, with the first adopted in Virginia in 1610.
Blue Lives Matter
Blue Lives Matter is a pro-police countermovement founded in the United States in 2014 in response to Black Lives Matter; it advocates hate crime statutes covering police, enacted in Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas.
Blue men of the Minch
Blue men of the Minch (na fir ghorma, storm kelpies) are blue-skinned sea spirits of Scottish Gaelic folklore inhabiting the Minch strait between the Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland, raising storms and challenging captains to rhyming contests recorded by Campbell (1900) and Mackenzie (1917).
Blue Monday (date)
Blue Monday is the supposed "most depressing day of the year," the third Monday of January, coined in 2005 by psychologist Cliff Arnall for a Sky Travel travel marketing campaign. It has no scientific basis and is rejected by mental health experts and charities.
Blue Network
Blue Network: NBC's second national radio network (1927-1943), flagship WJZ New York, named for blue pencil lines on network maps; carried news and cultural programming until FCC rules forced its $8 million sale to Edward Noble, after which it became ABC in 1945.
Blue Ocean 4Impact
Blue Ocean 4Impact LP is a Cayman Islands private equity fund managed from New York by EnTrust Global, part of its Blue Ocean maritime and energy finance strategy, with about $1.45 billion in assets.
Blue Ocean Robotics
Blue Ocean Robotics is a Danish robotics company founded in Odense in 2013 by Claus Risager, known for its UVD ultraviolet disinfection robots used in hospitals.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy is a 2005 business book by INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne arguing firms should create new markets rather than compete.
Blue Peter badge
Blue Peter badge: award given by the BBC children's TV programme Blue Peter since 1963, featuring Tony Hart's galleon logo; seven badge types including the rare Gold; holders aged 5-15 get free entry to 200+ UK attractions with a paying adult.
Blue Point Capital Partners
Blue Point Capital Partners is a Cleveland-based private equity firm spun out of KeyCorp in 2000, making control investments in lower-middle-market manufacturing, services, and distribution companies.
Blue Ridge Capital (hedge fund)
Blue Ridge Capital was a New York-based hedge fund founded in 1996 by John Griffin, a former Tiger Management president, which managed up to $9 billion before closing in 2017.