BlueYard Capital

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.

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Investment thesis

BlueYard Capital invests in founders with transformative ideas that decentralize markets, empower users, and liberate data. The firm believes in supporting technologies that distribute capabilities, level the playing field, and open markets. Their investment focus includes areas such as open-source protocols, decentralized finance, programmable biology, and tools that enhance user autonomy.

Invest in

  • Baltics
  • Nordics
  • Western Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Central Eastern Europe

Customer types

  • B2B2C
  • Consumers
  • Large enterprises
  • Small and medium enterprises

Product type

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Software-enabled hardware

Industries / verticals

  • AI
  • BigData
  • BioTech
  • Crypto / Blockchain / Web3
  • Data & Analytics
  • Defence / Military
  • Engineering / Manufacturing
  • Enterprise Software
  • SpaceTech / Aviation
http://blueyard.com/
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Investment details

Investment role

Lead and follow

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A

First ticket size

€1,000,000 - €3,000,000

Related contacts

Advisor & Venture Partner

Philipp Hartmann

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Head of Platform

Jonah Kaplan

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General Partner

Ciaran O'Leary

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Principal

Juan Pinilla

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Venture Partner @ BlueYard // Board

Tom Walton-Pocock

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