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BlueYard Capital is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm invests in founders building breakthrough technologies across computation, engineering, biology, and crypto that move humanity toward utopia or hold the line against oblivion.
Average disclosed round size is $25.2M (across 46 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
42
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
5
Team
CO
Ciarán O'Leary
General Partner
DB
David Byrd
General Partner
MW
Mike Wax
General Partner
AK
Alex Korman
Investor
CF
Chad Fowler
Investor
MS
Mariola Szenk
Deep Tech Venture
PB
Philipp Banhardt
Investor
JD
Jason D. Whitmire
Co-founder
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
56 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Cryptio | Series B | $45M | Mar 2026 |
 Rapidata | Seed | $8.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Biofidelity | Series A | $12M | Jan 2026 |
 ZeroPhase | Seed | — | Dec 2025 |
 AnySignal | Series A | $24M | Dec 2025 |
 Aerska | Seed | $21M | Oct 2025 |
 Corintis | Series A | — | Sep 2025 |
 Castelion | Series B | $350M | Jul 2025 |
 Manex AI | Seed | — | Jun 2025 |
 Manex AI | Seed | — | Jun 2025 |
| Castelion | Series A | $70M | Jan 2025 |
| Manex AI | Seed | — | Jan 2025 |
 SEEQC | Series A | — | Jan 2025 |
 Chemify | Series B | $50M | Jan 2025 |
 Insempra | Series A | $20M | May 2024 |
| Biofidelity | Series A | $24M | Apr 2024 |
 CPTX | Unknown | $29M | Jan 2024 |
| Insempra | Series A | $20M | Jan 2024 |
 Privy | Series A | $18M | Nov 2023 |
| AnySignal | Seed | $5M | Oct 2023 |
| Castelion | Seed | $14.2M | Oct 2023 |
 Meatable | Growth | $35M | Aug 2023 |
| CChemify.io | Series A | — | Aug 2023 |
 VSParticle | Unknown | $15.8M | Jul 2023 |
 Tableland | Series A | $8M | Apr 2023 |
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Top Co-Investors
EQT Ventures6 shared
Sequoia Capital6 shared
First In6 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners5 shared
Possible Ventures5 shared
Octopus Ventures4 shared
Capmont3 shared
Agilent Technologies3 shared
Bayern Kapital3 shared
Lavrock Ventures3 shared
Protocol Labs3 shared
Triatomic Capital3 shared
The Slack Fund2 shared
Backed VC2 shared
Crane Venture Partners2 shared
Agronomics2 shared
NordicNinja VC2 shared
Interlagos2 shared
Andreessen Horowitz2 shared
Cantos2 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026