Blue Highway Capital is a U.S. based investment firm growing small middle market companies nationally, with a focus on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. We provide growth capital to primarily rural businesses that are at an inflection point. Our firm’s name refers to the backroads on traditional maps and atlases, which were drawn in blue.
Providing capital is just a starting point for how we can assist in achieving your vision. Our principals draw from a wealth of sector expertise, personal networks and investment experience to help companies develop growth strategies, recruit talent, execute company acquisitions and navigate the inevitable twists and turns of rapidly growing businesses.
Karin Gregory, J.D.
Karin Gregory, J.D.
Christine Jones
Christine Jones
Ryan Pierce
Ryan Pierce
Arinze Onyenezi
Arinze Onyenezi
Arinze joined Blue Highway Capital in 2024. Before joining Blue Highway Capital, he served as an independent investment associate and committee member at Kapor Capital, a venture capital fund specializing in gap-closing technologies and founders. In this role, Arinze focused on sustainability, digital health, gov tech, and fintech, while also providing valuation models and industry research support. Concurrently, he founded and managed Stonebase Capital, a private equity search and advisory firm focused on the lower middle market. In 2021, Arinze was an associate at Giant's Shoulders Capital, a UK-based private equity advisory firm. He started his career as an operations engineer at ExxonMobil and Shell, where he spent four years managing capital resources, enhancing operational, safety, and environmental efficiencies, and overseeing extended unit turnarounds.
Arinze holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Carolyn Harkins
Carolyn Harkins
Carolyn joined as an independent Investment Committee member at Blue Highway Capital in 2023. Previously, she worked for nearly two decades as an in-house advisor and Principal for TL Ventures, a venture capital firm, where she invested in early-stage software and services companies and served as a director and observer on portfolio company boards to help management teams execute strategic initiatives. From 2009 through 2017, Carolyn also served as a senior financial advisor and Partner for Penn Mezzanine, a regional mezzanine and subordinated equity fund that she co-founded. Carolyn also advised JDRF, a leading source of funding for type 1 diabetes research, in launching a venture philanthropy fund.
In addition to supporting JDRF, Carolyn is a frequent sponsor of fundraising initiatives for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and serves on the Leadership Advisory Council at The Agnes Irwin School. She is a graduate of Duke University where she earned a degree in Economics.