BlueYard Capital

Venture Capital
67investments
5exits
$3Braised by its portfolio in 12 months
603open roles in its portfolio

Overview

BlueYard Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm backing founders who build the fabric of the future. It invests early in breakthroughs across computation and software, engineering, biology and crypto networks, supporting companies in Europe, the United States and beyond. The firm was founded in 2016 by Jason Whitmire and Ciaran O'Leary and is known for its thesis-driven, open-network approach.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
67
41 of them startups
Hiring now
19
603 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
18
$3B raised
Exits
5
Focusshare of its companies
Blockchain & Crypto 25%Artificial Intelligence 19%Hardware 13%Science & Engineering 10%Health Care 10%Military 8%Financial Services 8%Software 8%
Where its companies are
United States 30%Germany 9%United Kingdom 9%France 3%Switzerland 3%Turkey 1%Iceland 1%Israel 1%
Stage of its companies
Series A 54%Pre-seed & seed 25%Series B 14%Series C and later 7%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 67 investments
CastelionSeries C $1B · 2 mo ago · 228 roles GroqSeries A $350M · 2 mo ago · 27 roles Sensible BiotechnologiesVenture round $13.5M · 2 mo ago Protocol LabsVenture round $200k · 3 mo ago Transcripta BioSeries A $24M · 3 mo ago STARK DefenceVenture round $540M · 4 mo ago · 4 roles bit.bioVenture round · 7 mo ago CryptioSeries B $45M · 8 mo ago · 1 role RapidataSeed $8.5M · 8 mo ago AerskaSeries A $39M · 9 mo ago CPTxVenture round · 9 mo ago Harmattan AISeries B $200M · 9 mo ago · 152 roles
603 open roles at 19 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Castelion69 new roles in 30 days IonQ34 new roles in 30 days Harmattan AI33 new roles in 30 days Groq10 new roles in 30 days Marvel Fusion7 new roles in 30 days Corgi Insurance6 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Andreessen Horowitz 5 shared Y Combinator 4 shared a16z Frontier 4 shared Borderless Management LLC 4 shared Winklevoss Capital 3 shared Meta Planet 3 shared Backed VC 3 shared Amino Collective 3 shared 1confirmation 3 shared Sequoia Capital 3 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Andreessen Horowitz a16z Frontier Draper Associates Lightspeed Venture Partners Abstract Ventures DCVC Sequoia Capital GV
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3

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Shared investors1
Vintage Investment PartnersVia a fund
81 portfolio companies: RobCo, Veho, Onyx and 78 more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Berlin Germany
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