Blues Makes Every Thing Smarter

• Ray Ozzie’s Blues collapses IoT hardware + cloud into one plug-and-play stack.
  • Notecard: cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, long-range in a single module.
  • Notehub: cloud control layer, no custom infra required.
• Sequoia led Blues’ 2024 round; Botha joined board after four-year partnership.
• Blues spans agriculture, shipping, healthcare, cranes, retail, energy — one platform.
  • Caribbean telehealth and port crane monitoring cited as live deployments.
• Moat: rare combination of hardware simplicity, cost, and multi-protocol support.
• Customer signal: “No one can do what Blues can do” — flexibility + team responsiveness.

Roelof Botha (Sequoia Managing Partner), on Ray Ozzie (Blues founder, ex-Microsoft CTO, Lotus Notes creator) · 2026-01-14 · Read on sequoiacap.com