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BlueYard Capital

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BlueYard Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016, managing $500M in assets under management. It invests in pre-seed to Series A rounds as a lead or co-lead investor, focusing on computation, engineering, biology, and crypto sectors.

BlueYard Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in computation & Intelligence, Engineering, Aerospace & Defense, biology & Chemistry and crypto. Its stated cheque size is $500K – $5M. $500M under management, as it reports.

“At BlueYard, we invest in only two kinds of technologies: those that move us toward utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion.”

BlueYard Capital, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Pre-seedSeries A
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Sectors
Computation & Intelligence, Engineering, Aerospace & Defense, Biology & Chemistry, Crypto
Cheque size
$500K – $5M
Founded
2016
Assets under management
$500M

Team, as BlueYard Capital publishes it

  • Chad Fowler Investment Team
  • Ciarán O'Leary Investment Team
  • David Byrd Investment Team
  • Mike Wax Investment Team
  • Jason Whitmire Investment Team
  • Tim Robinson Investment Team
  • Alejo Salles Investment Team
  • Katie Hewitt Investment Team
  • Peter Read Investment Team
  • Philipp Banhardt Investment Team
  • Trent McConaghy Investment Team

Names and roles exactly as listed on blueyard.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.

Co-invests most often with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 121 co-investors found.

  • EQT Ventures 5 shared companies: parloa.com, marvelfusion.com, insempra.bio, seeqc.com…
  • Backed VC 4 shared companies: aerska.com, dxos.org, cytosolix.com, sensible.bio
  • Kima Ventures 4 shared companies: agnostic.engineering, cryptio.co, harmattan.ai, kiln.fi
  • ZAKA VC 4 shared companies: bit.bio, creasallis.com, momentous-therapeutics.com, sensible.bio
  • Atlantic Labs 3 shared companies: harmattan.ai, grouphug.xyz, centrifuge.io
  • Cambium Capital Management LP 3 shared companies: seeqc.com, groq.com, ionq.com
  • Paradigm Operations LP 3 shared companies: flashbots.net, privy.io, cosmos.network
  • Metaplanet 3 shared companies: protocol.ai, filecoin.io, bit.bio
  • Winklevoss Capital 3 shared companies: protocol.ai, filecoin.io, ethereum.org
  • 1confirmation 3 shared companies: filecoin.io, ethereum.org, cosmos.network

and 111 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page BlueYard Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 403 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high

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