<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Early stage technology investor, </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Blume</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> Ventures</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">, has announced its </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">first close of $30+ Mn</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> for Fund II. With this, Blume has raised just over half of its Fund II target corpus of $60 Mn. Its second and final close for Fund II is expected shortly, in 1st quarter of 2016.</span>