Company
Blue Star Capital PLC
LON:BLU
Blue Star Capital PLC is an investment company with a clear focus on capital appreciation from a diversified portfolio of unquoted investments across new, disruptive technologies in the fast growing areas of blockchain, e-sports and payments. The company focuses on businesses that have the capacity for substantial growth and increase in value. Blue Star’s geographical range is global and will actively co-invest in larger deals. It can take positions in investee companies by way of equity, debt or convertible or hybrid securities.
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Blue Star Capital moves into the black
"The company has enjoyed an excellent year with diversification into the fast-growing esports sector and strong progress at our tech payments businesses"
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Proactive news headlines: Blue Star Capital, Amryt Pharma, Open Orphan, MaxCyte …
A glance at some of the day's highlights from the Proactive Investors newswire
Blue Star Capital provides update in respect of its esports portfolio and its investee companies
Blue Star's esports portfolio is now valued at £3,715,890, showing an unrealised gain of £2,035,890 and an increase of approximately 120%
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Blue Star Capital investee SatoshiPay inks money transfer deal with German bank
SatoshiPay has signed the agreement with Bankhaus von der Heydt to integrate the bank’s fully-compliant euro-backed stablecoin into its cross-border money transfer service
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Blue Star Capital confident of bright future for Dynasty eSports after latest agreements
Blue Star Capital said Dynasty eSports, in which it has a 13% stake, is making rapid progress
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Blue Star Capital boosted as David Beckham’s eSports firm raises £20mln in London IPO
"The successful IPO of Guild is an excellent illustration of the potential upside from Blue Star's esports portfolio."
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Blue Star Capital expands esports focus with new investment
The group has invested around £115,500 for a 9.6% stake in Formation, a company focusing on esports opportunities in contact sports such as rugby
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Blue Star Capital says investee SatoshiPay launches new payments platform
DTransfer looks to facilitate instant cross-border payments for businesses
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Blue Star Capital adds glamour to mix as David Beckham's Guild eSports floats
Recently raised £900,000 to invest into e-sports franchises
David Beckham’s Guild eSports to launch London IPO
With Beckham's brand appeal and new shareholder capital Guild intends to become a 'top-10' eSports franchise in the world.
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Blue Star Capital notes investee company Guild Esports intends to float on the London Stock Exchange main market later this year
Guild, in which Blue Star holds 11.7% of the issued share capital, expects to be the first esports franchise to join the LSE main market
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Blue Star Capital investee company SatoshiPay sees traction from the publishing sector
German giant Axel Springer has been an early adopter of the technology
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Blue Star Capital says portfolio firm Dynasty eSports has completed a fundraising
The company said it has invested a further £225,000 to maintain its 13% holding in Dynasty, which is now valued at around £1.3mln
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Blue Star Capital raises £550,000 via share placing partly to maintain stake in Dynasty eSports
Dynasty eSports is about to embark on a £1.5mln (US$2mln) funding round and Blue Star wants to keep its holding at 13%
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Blue Star Capital portfolio firm Sthaler launches new FinGo brand of identification products
FinGo’s products include the ability to capture and store user contact details securely which can then be activated as part of coronavirus test and trace efforts
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Blue Star Capital value rises as esports and micropayments build momentum
Ex England and Manchester United star David Beckham is working with one of Blue Star's investee companies
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Small Cap Movers: Blue Star Capital receives ‘Becks’ boost
A look back at some of the more interesting stories from London's AIM market this week
Blue Star Capital portfolio firm Guild Esports signs David Beckham as new investor
Guild is planning to coach UK esports players through the traditional academy model to provide them will the skills to compete professionally
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Blue Star Capital's portfolio firm Dynasty eSports inks partnership deal with Malaysia Esports Federation
Under the deal Dynasty will provide its eSports portal management platform to enable “effective management and control” of the eSports ecosystem in Malaysia
Blue Star Capital chuffed with success of Blue Leaf investment
Far from "going up in smoke", Blue Star's investment in Leaf Mobile, the company behind the "Cheech and Chong Bud Farm" game, is doing well.
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Blue Star Capital raises £500,000 to fund further investments
Chief executive Tony Fabrizi said the latest cash inflow would be used to provide working capital and investment funds
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Blue Star Capital notes SatoshiPay unveils investment from partner SDF
SDF has invested US$500,000 to support SatoshiPay in the development of a B2B solution for commercial, cross-border payments and digital wallets using blockchain
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Blue Star Capital follows up esports investment, gets Canadian boost
Blue Star also reported good news about an investment in Canadian mobile games supplier Leaf Digital Studios last month
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Blue Star Capital invests in Canadian mobile games group
"Despite the traumatic impact of COVID-19 on all our lives, we are pleased with the overall performance of our portfolio companies"
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Blue Star Capital boosted by rising value of micropayments associate
SatoshiPay has just launched a joint venture with Axel Springer to enable readers to pay for the German publisher’s content
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Blue Star Capital’s Aussie investment agrees AEL e-sports tournie operator
Diemens Esports has agreed to merge with Critical Hit Entertainment, which runs the Australian Esports League
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Blue Star Capital expects stake in esports investee firm to increase ahead of acquisition
The investment firm, which owns a 13.6% stake in The Drops Esports, said it expects this to rise to 18.6% prior the completion of an all-share acquisition of the investee group by Canadian company Fibresources
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Blue Star Capital pleased with progress at SatoshiPay
SatoshiPay's new mission statement is: "to connect the world through instant payments"
Blue Star Capital to raise £900,000 for shift into eSports
Investments will be in two tranches with the placing to be carried out through two fundraises of £450,000 each.
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Payment systems the future for Blue Star Capital
Blue Star is now a payments solutions investor - blockchain and biometrics
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Blue Star Capital boosted by soaring value of micro-payments associate
Net assets in year to September 2018 increased to £5.5mln from £3.5mln
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Local Shopping REIT slides as offer terms from Thalassa disappoint
A look at the day's major movers, including SDL, First Derivatives, Ferrexpo, InfraStrata, W H Ireland, Blue Star Capital and Electrocomponents
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Sylvania Platinum fails to flatten 'em - the sceptics, that is - with its production update
A look at the day's major movers, including Cambridge Cognition, SRT Marine, Redhall, FireAngel, Challenger Acquisitions, Alexander Mining and Blue Star Capital
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AorTech in good heart
A look at the day's major movers, including Tri-Star Resources, Quixant, Metals Exploration, NCC Group, Primary Health Properties, MedicX Fund, Nautical Marine Services, Blue Star Capital and Gama Aviation.
Vela Technologies flying high after investee company bags deal with American Airlines
Vela Technologies PLC flying high after investee company bags deal with American Airlines
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Proactive news round-up: Brave Bison Group, Firestone Diamonds, Abenza …
A glance at some of the stories on the Proactive newswire today
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FastForward Innovations cashes in Blue Star Capital shares
FastForward was originally subject to lock-in agreements, but Blue Star waived these claiming the stock overhang had weighed on the share price
UK shares lower with Anglo American biggest loser
A drizzly Friday saw UK shares sink lower with Footsie 64 points lower at 6,316 and small cap shares also lower.
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Aim stocks seeking direction
The week seems to be fizzling out, with blue-chips following US markets lower while Aim stocks mark time
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Blue Star Capital edges lower on dip into red
Net assets rose slightly to £1.88mln and were unchanged at 0.4p on a per share basis.
Risers & fallers: Burberry Group, Pearson, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sports Direct, Weir, William Hill
Tristel ends a rough week on a high note as directors buy more than 100,000 shares in the company.
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Risers & Fallers: Paragon Diamonds, AB Dynamics, Resource Holding Management, Grafenia and more
Below are the main share news-driven price movements at 4pm.