Bluesky ECONOMIC

Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

• No public evidence identified of Bluesky Social, PBC acting as an importer of record, procuring Israeli goods or services, using Israeli exporters or distributors, maintaining an Israeli white-label supplier, or conducting seasonal procurement from Israeli suppliers.^{1, 2, 3}

• Bluesky’s Terms allow unnamed “trusted partners,” including content-moderation providers, to use content as necessary to support the service, but the Terms do not identify an Israeli partner.¹

• Bluesky describes its service as human- and automation-moderated, with user-selectable moderation options, and its published Community Guidelines do not identify an Israel-specific content policy.⁴

• Bluesky open-sourced Ozone as a moderation tool and described independent moderation services that users may subscribe to alongside Bluesky’s own service; this product architecture does not establish a relationship with an Israeli state, military, settlement, or reseller entity.⁵

• Bluesky’s 2025 Transparency Report identifies Hive as a third-party image-assessment provider, but does not identify Israeli suppliers, Israeli data centres, Israeli offices, or an Israeli research-and-development facility.³

• Bluesky’s Series A announcement names commercial partners including Buffer and Namecheap, but does not identify Israeli suppliers or Israel-linked procurement.²

• No public evidence identified of Bluesky services being supplied to Israeli settlements, settlement municipalities, the Israel Defense Forces, Israel’s Ministry of Defense, or Israeli state agencies through a contract, authorised intermediary, enterprise deployment, or mobile-device-management arrangement.^{6, 7, 3}

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

• Bluesky’s privacy policy identifies Bluesky Social, PBC as the owner and operator of its mobile and desktop applications.⁸

• Bluesky’s Community Guidelines identify Bluesky Social, PBC as the service provider.⁴

• Bluesky’s Brand Guidelines identify the company as Bluesky Social, PBC and a Public Benefit Corporation, but do not state an incorporation jurisdiction or registered address.⁹

• Bluesky’s September 2024 trust-and-safety update said its moderation service must remain flexible while ensuring compliance in applicable geographies, without identifying Israel, Palestinian territory, Israeli government requests, or a jurisdiction-specific arrangement.¹⁰

• Bluesky’s 2024 moderation report presents aggregate moderation and legal-request information, identifying German, United States, Brazilian, and Japanese law-enforcement authorities as the principal sources of 2024 legal requests; it does not separately identify Israeli authorities or Israel/Palestine-specific moderation outcomes.¹¹

• Bluesky’s 2025 Transparency Report states that it received 1,470 legal requests in 2025 and identifies Germany, the United States, and Japan as the majority sources, with additional requests from the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, South Korea, Australia, and the Netherlands; Israel does not appear in the report text or its stated geographic list.³

• The 2025 report’s no-listing of Israel is document-scoped and does not establish that no Israeli request existed.³

• Apple’s Israeli App Store listing makes the Bluesky Social app available through that storefront and identifies its developer as “Bluesky PBLLC.”¹²

• A 2024 UN report discusses moderation of Gaza-related and Palestinian speech across social-media platforms generally, but the cited material does not identify Bluesky as the subject of a specific finding.¹³

• No public evidence identified of Israel-specific product labeling, Israeli import compliance, Israeli regulatory filings, or an Israel-specific moderation policy in the reviewed materials.^{4, 8, 10, 12}

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

• Bluesky announced a $15 million Series A in October 2024 led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat, and Joe Beda, among others.²

• Kinjal Shah, a Blockchain Capital partner, joined Bluesky’s board in connection with the Series A financing.²

• Bluesky announced a $100 million Series B raised in April 2025 and led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation, and True Ventures.¹⁴

• Bluesky also stated that Automattic and True Ventures were investors, and described Toni Schneider as an investor in and adviser to the company since 2024.^{15, 16}

• Schneider’s first-party account states that he remained a True Ventures partner on becoming Bluesky’s interim CEO and had previously invested in and advised Bluesky; True Ventures describes his investment remit only at a broad sector level.^{15, 17, 18} The reviewed disclosures do not establish whether his Bluesky investment was personal or fund-held, his ownership percentage, or control over every True Ventures portfolio company.^{15, 17, 18}

• Blockchain Capital identifies Kinjal Shah as a general partner responsible for investment diligence and portfolio support, while Bluesky’s Series A announcement ties her board appointment to the firm’s investment.^{2, 19} This establishes a firm role and board connection, but not personal ownership of the firm’s entire portfolio or control of each portfolio company.^{2, 19}

• The completed principal-and-vehicle searches identified no named Israeli company, Israel-focused fund, Israeli sovereign-debt instrument, defence company, settlement-active business, or OHCHR-listed recipient attributable to Graber, Schneider, Miller, Masnick, Shah, or Dorsey through a documented personal holding or controlled vehicle.^{17, 18, 19} This is a bounded searched absence and does not resolve undisclosed private holdings or every holding of True Ventures or Blockchain Capital.^{17, 18, 19}

• The published financing announcements and Company FAQ do not disclose investor ownership percentages, a cap table, beneficial ownership, investor voting rights, or investor board-designation rights beyond Shah’s disclosed Series A-related board appointment.^{2, 14, 20}

• No public evidence identified, in the reviewed primary corporate disclosures and completed targeted searches, of Israeli controlling ownership, Israeli state ownership, or Israeli governance rights; this does not disconfirm undisclosed minority ownership or investments.^{2, 14, 20}

• No public evidence identified of direct Bluesky investment in Israel or the occupied territories, including acquisitions, controlled Israeli subsidiaries, Israeli real estate, factories, R&D facilities, logistics sites, Israel-focused funds, Israeli sovereign bonds, or Israeli technology partnerships.^{2, 14, 20}

• No public evidence identified of Bluesky underwriting Israeli sovereign debt or Israel Bonds, lending to Israeli defence or settlement-active companies, or underwriting Israeli state, military, or settlement operations; Bluesky’s published materials describe a social-network service rather than a financial-sector business.^{1, 4}

• The supplied document-scoped scan did not find Bluesky in the cited 2025 UN Human Rights Council report or the 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database update; this does not establish absence from all editions, databases, or underlying records.^{6, 7}

Operational Presence & Market Activity

• No public evidence identified of Bluesky offices, data centres, support centres, warehouses, sales operations, authorised resellers, developer channels, enterprise distribution channels, or government contracts in Israel or the occupied territories.^{20, 3}

• No public evidence identified of sales, listings, sourcing, distribution, or revenue specifically attributable to settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.^{12, 3}

• The Israeli App Store listing establishes application availability through Apple’s Israeli storefront as retrieved in September 2026, but does not establish an Israeli branch, workforce, office, tax registration, local revenue, supplier, settlement customer, settlement availability, storefront payments to Bluesky, or settlement-related sales.¹²

• Bluesky’s current FAQ states that the company has operated independently since its 2021 formation and that its prior Twitter service agreement for protocol-development work ended in late 2022.²⁰

• Bluesky’s official materials reviewed do not identify Israeli personnel, an Israeli workforce, Israeli tax registration, Israeli suppliers, or Israel-attributable revenue.^{8, 20, 3}

• The available public corporate materials do not provide audited financial statements, a verified workforce figure, revenue by geography, or an Israeli tax-residency record.^{8, 20}

• No public evidence identified in the completed exact-entity searches of official Israeli-government sources, corporate-record sources, and targeted office, workforce, supplier and procurement terms establishing Israeli tax residency, workforce, office, R&D presence, Israel-attributable revenue, profit repatriation to Israel, suppliers, or settlement-specific sales.

• No public evidence identified, within the authoritative documents and completed targeted searches, of an Israeli state-financing, settlement-enterprise, procurement, or other Israeli economic relationship involving Bluesky; no activity of that kind was identified as continuing after 19 July 2024 or after November 2024.^{6, 7, 3}

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

• Bluesky describes its current legal entity as Bluesky Social, PBC, a Public Benefit Corporation, owned by Jay Graber and the Bluesky team.²⁰

• The company was initially announced as an independent Bluesky PBLLC/Public Benefit LLC, formed in late 2021 with initial funding from Twitter.²¹

• Bluesky’s account of its origins states that Twitter initiated the bluesky project in 2019, nominated Jay Graber to lead it in 2021, and established the independent PBLLC in late 2021.²²

• Bluesky lists Jay Graber, Jeremie Miller, Mike Masnick, and Kinjal Shah as its current board members.²⁰

• Mike Masnick’s board appointment was announced in August 2024, and Kinjal Shah joined the board in connection with the October 2024 Series A.^{23, 2}

• Toni Schneider became Bluesky’s CEO in July 2026, while Jay Graber became Chief Innovation Officer and board chair.¹⁶

• Bluesky’s official FAQ does not disclose a cap table, ownership percentages, a shareholder register, or beneficial holders of 10% or more.²⁰

• No primary corporate-registry certificate, entity-detail page, or filing image establishing Bluesky Social, PBC’s incorporation jurisdiction, registered address, or principal place of management was retrievable from the Delaware or Washington official dynamic registry portals; accordingly, third-party registry-mirror details are not treated here as verified primary-record facts.^{24, 25}

• A public ARIN registration lead identifies Bluesky Social, PBC as a United States organization and gives a Seattle mailing address, but the direct ARIN endpoint could not be retrieved; this network-registration lead is not a corporate-registry filing and does not establish corporate domicile or principal place of management.²⁶

• No public evidence identified in the completed searches of Israeli-government and corporate-record source classes of an Israeli company, branch, or tax-registration record for Bluesky Social, PBC.

• No public evidence identified, within the completed searches, of an Israeli registered branch; this searched absence does not confirm that no such registration exists.

• No public evidence identified of an Israeli parent, Israeli headquarters or principal management presence, Israeli tax residency, Israeli state ownership, Israeli government-appointed directors, Israeli critical-infrastructure status, or Israel-specific governance rights.^{2, 14, 20}

• No public evidence identified of an acquired or controlled Israeli operating subsidiary, Israeli corporate registration, Israeli manufacturing entity, Israeli office, warehouse, or R&D centre.^{20, 24, 25, 3}

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

• No public evidence identified of Israel-attributable Bluesky revenue, Israeli tax payments, profit repatriation into Israel, Israeli workforce compensation, or a documented role as an Israeli sector employer or infrastructure provider.^{8, 20, 3}

• The reviewed corporate materials do not establish Bluesky’s incorporation jurisdiction, registered address, formal parent-subsidiary structure, audited revenue, workforce, tax residency, or geographic profit allocation.^{8, 20, 24, 25}

• No audited financial statements, tax returns, payroll records, Israeli VAT records, employee register, supplier list, customer list, revenue-by-geography data, or internal cap table were publicly located in the scoped research record.^{2, 14, 20, 24, 25}

• No public evidence identified of Bluesky charitable matching, reservist-pay policy, principal-linked foundation grants, or other documented Israel- or Palestine-related economic contribution within the bounded research record.^{15, 16, 20}