BlueYard Capital
Investment Details
Investor Type
Venture Capital
Asset Class Focus
Venture Capital
Stage Focus
Seed, Series A, Series B, Pre-Seed, Early Stage
Geographical Focus
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Industries Focus
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Materials
- FinTech
- Cryptocurrency
- Artificial Intelligence
- Blockchain
- Life Sciences
- Biotech
- Cybersecurity
- Robotics
- Quantum Computing
- Machine Learning
- Fin-tech
- Developer Tools
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Investment Size:
500,000 to 5,000,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 2016
BlueYard Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Ciarán O’Leary and Jason Whitmire. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on companies that decentralize markets, empower users, and liberate data. With a thesis-driven approach, BlueYard supports visionary entrepreneurs across various sectors, including cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and frontier biology. Notable investments include Protocol Labs, Filecoin, Open Zeppelin, Radicle, Marvel Fusion, Meatable, BitBio, Biofidelity, Pitch, and Wonder. The firm has raised a total of $500 million across four funds, with the latest, BlueYard Capital Fund III, announced on June 8, 2022, totaling $185 million.
BlueYard Capital's investment strategy centers on identifying and supporting founders with transformative ideas that can reshape industries or create new ones. The firm believes in a world where individuals have more power and freedom, and societies are more open and inclusive. Their portfolio spans a diverse range of sectors, including Web3, synthetic biology, computation and engineering, and data. Typical investments range from €1.5 million to €3 million, primarily in Series A and B funding stages.
The firm's team comprises experienced professionals with backgrounds in technology and venture capital. General Partners include Ciarán O’Leary and Jason Whitmire, both of whom have extensive experience in the venture capital industry. BlueYard Capital operates with a global perspective, actively investing in companies across Europe and the United States. Their approach emphasizes a deep understanding of the technologies they invest in, aiming to back founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
Requirements
- Innovative technologies with the potential to decentralize markets and empower users
- Early-stage companies at Series A and B stages
- Founders with transformative ideas addressing significant global challenges
- Innovative technology solutions
- Scalable business models
- Strong founding teams
Contact
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Portfolio Companies
- Protocol Labs
- Filecoin
- Open Zeppelin
- Radicle
- Marvel Fusion
- Meatable
- BitBio
- Biofidelity
- Pitch
- Wonder
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