# BlueYard Capital: portfolio, investments and team

> BlueYard Capital is a vc firm based in Germany. 63 investments on record, 15 in the last 12 months, latest Oct 2026. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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# BlueYard Capital

Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 63 cheques on record.

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Deploying now New fund $16M, Oct 2025 VC firm

Pre-seed Seed Series A Computation & Intelligence Engineering Aerospace & Defense Biology & Chemistry

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**79%** of best year **15** **cheques in 12 months**, 63 on record

Since the last cheque **24** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$8.5M** Cheque size, as they say **$500K – $5.0M** Rounds led **4 of 63** Sole investor **5 rounds** Mostly in **United States, 39%**

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## BlueYard Capital highlights

- 01 15 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02 Mostly Series A and Venture: 58% of its rounds
- 03 Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $6.8M

## What they do

> At BlueYard, we invest in only two kinds of technologies: those that move us toward utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $500K – $5.0M as they say
- **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A
- **Sectors:** Computation & Intelligence Engineering Aerospace & Defense Biology & Chemistry
- **Based in:** Berlin, Germany
- **Cold pitches:** Not stated

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **63 appearances**

- **2026** 11 rounds
- **Oct** **[Sensible Biotechnologies](https://millionrounds.com/company/sensible-biotechnologies)** Series A · SK · The Recursive **$47M** With 12 others
- **Sept** **[Boxd](https://millionrounds.com/company/boxd)** Pre-seed · NL · Tech.eu **$2.0M** *Led*
- **Sept** **[Chemify](https://millionrounds.com/company/chemify)** Grant · GB **$30M** With 3 others
- **Jul** **[Transcripta Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/transcripta-bio)** Series A · US **$24M** With 2 others
- **Mar** **[Cryptio](https://millionrounds.com/company/cryptio)** Series B · FR · Ventureburn **$45M** With 8 others
- **Feb** **[Rapidata](https://millionrounds.com/company/rapidata)** Seed · CH **$8.5M** With 3 others
- **Feb** **[Aerska](https://millionrounds.com/company/aerska)** Series A · IE **$39M** With 3 others
- **Feb** **[Biomia](https://millionrounds.com/company/biomia)** Venture · DK **Undisclosed** With 1 other
- **Jan** **[bit.bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/bit-bio)** Series C **$50M** With 5 others
- **Jan** **[Visolis](https://millionrounds.com/company/visolis)** Grant · US **$2.9M** With 3 others
- **Jan** **[SeeQC](https://millionrounds.com/company/seeqc)** Venture · US **$19M** With 2 others
- **2025** 17 rounds
- **Dec** **[Corintis](https://millionrounds.com/company/corintis)** Growth · CH · Ventureburn **$25M** With 4 others
- **Dec** **[ETHGas](https://millionrounds.com/company/ethgas)** Seed · HK **$12M** With 4 others
- **Dec** **[ZeroPhase](https://millionrounds.com/company/zerophase)** Seed · DE **$6.8M** Sole investor
- **Dec** **[AnySignal](https://millionrounds.com/company/anysignal)** Series A · US **$24M** With 3 others
- **Sept** **[Sensible Biotechnologies](https://millionrounds.com/company/sensible-biotechnologies)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 4 others
- **Sept** **[Kindred](https://millionrounds.com/company/kindred)** Seed · US **$8.3M** With 3 others
- **Jul** **[Castelion](https://millionrounds.com/company/castelion)** Series B · US · TechCrunch **$350M** With 11 others
- **Jun** **[Manex](https://millionrounds.com/company/manex)** Seed · DE **$9.1M** With 1 other
- **May** **[Change Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/change-bio)** Grant · GB **$27K** With 2 others
- **Apr** **[Grouphug](https://millionrounds.com/company/grouphug)** Pre-seed · CA **$1.7M** With 2 others
- **Mar** **[Privy](https://millionrounds.com/company/privy)** US · AlleyWatch **$15M** With 6 others
- **Mar** **[Recall Labs](https://millionrounds.com/company/recall-labs)** Series A · US **$30M** With 5 others
- **Mar** **[Dance](https://millionrounds.com/company/dance)** Venture · DE **$13M** With 2 others
- **Feb** **[Miren](https://millionrounds.com/company/miren)** Seed · US **$3.0M** With 1 other
- **Feb** **[Zafrens](https://millionrounds.com/company/zafrens)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 2 others
- **Jan** **[Castelion](https://millionrounds.com/company/castelion)** Series A · US · Crunchbase News **$100M** With 6 others
- **Jan** **[SEEQC](https://millionrounds.com/company/seeqc)** Series A · US · NordicNinja (JB Nordic Fund I) **$30M** With 7 others
- **2024** 12 rounds
- **Dec** **[bit.bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/bit-bio)** Venture **$30M** With 3 others
- **Nov** **[Meatable](https://millionrounds.com/company/meatable)** NL · Silicon Canals **Undisclosed** With 3 others
- **Oct** **[Clock Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/clock-bio)** Seed · GB **$5.3M** With 1 other
- **Sept** **[CPTx](https://millionrounds.com/company/cptx)** Venture · DE **$29M** With 2 others
- **Aug** **[VSPARTICLE](https://millionrounds.com/company/vsparticle)** Series A · NL **$7.1M** With 2 others
- **May** **[ExpressionEdits](https://millionrounds.com/company/expressionedits)** Seed · GB **$13M** With 2 others
- **May** **[Insempra](https://millionrounds.com/company/insempra)** Series A · DE **$20M** With 2 others
- **Apr** **[Biofidelity](https://millionrounds.com/company/biofidelity)** Venture · GB **$24M** With 2 others
- **Apr** **[Transcripta Bio](https://millionrounds.com/company/transcripta-bio)** Venture · US **$10M** Sole investor
- **Mar** **[Agnostic](https://millionrounds.com/company/agnostic)** Seed · FR **$2.2M** With 1 other
- **Mar** **[Protocol Labs](https://millionrounds.com/company/protocol-labs)** Venture · US **$2.5M** With 5 others
- **Jan** **[Kiln](https://millionrounds.com/company/kiln)** Series A · FR **$17M** With 4 others

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **2 named**

CO **Ciaran O'Leary** Managing Director of Managing Limited Partner i Filing they signed

JW **Jason Whitmire** Managing Director of Managing Limited Partner i Filing they signed

We also hold **7** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.

## What the register says

From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law

**$948M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** BY Capital Management GMBH
- **SEC number:** CRD 282922

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**43** of 60 we have independently watched raise

[Aerska](https://millionrounds.com/company/aerska)[Agnostic](https://millionrounds.com/company/agnostic)[Airtm](https://millionrounds.com/company/airtm)[Anysignal](https://millionrounds.com/company/anysignal)[Biomia](https://millionrounds.com/company/biomia)[Castelion](https://millionrounds.com/company/castelion)[Centrifuge](https://millionrounds.com/company/centrifuge)[Chomp](https://millionrounds.com/company/chomp)[Corgi](https://millionrounds.com/company/corgi)[Corintis](https://millionrounds.com/company/corintis)[Cosmos](https://millionrounds.com/company/cosmos)[Cptx](https://millionrounds.com/company/cptx)[Cryptio](https://millionrounds.com/company/cryptio)[Dimo](https://millionrounds.com/company/dimo)[Ethgas](https://millionrounds.com/company/ethgas)[Expressionedits](https://millionrounds.com/company/expressionedits)[Farcast](https://millionrounds.com/company/farcast)[Filecoin](https://millionrounds.com/company/filecoin)[Flashbots](https://millionrounds.com/company/flashbots)[Forta](https://millionrounds.com/company/forta)[Freedomfi](https://millionrounds.com/company/freedomfi)[Graviton](https://millionrounds.com/company/graviton)[Groq](https://millionrounds.com/company/groq)[Grouphug](https://millionrounds.com/company/grouphug)[Harmattan](https://millionrounds.com/company/harmattan-ai)[Ingonyama](https://millionrounds.com/company/ingonyama)[Insempra](https://millionrounds.com/company/insempra)[Ionq](https://millionrounds.com/company/ionq)[Kiln](https://millionrounds.com/company/kiln)[Marvelfusion](https://millionrounds.com/company/marvel-fusion)[Miren](https://millionrounds.com/company/miren)[Pitch](https://millionrounds.com/company/pitch)[Privy](https://millionrounds.com/company/privy)[Rapidata](https://millionrounds.com/company/rapidata)[Seeqc](https://millionrounds.com/company/seeqc)[Sensible](https://millionrounds.com/company/sensible)[Spaceknow](https://millionrounds.com/company/spaceknow)[Syndicate](https://millionrounds.com/company/syndicate)[Transcriptabio](https://millionrounds.com/company/transcripta-bio)[Vectary](https://millionrounds.com/company/vectary)[Vsparticle](https://millionrounds.com/company/vsparticle)[Zafrens](https://millionrounds.com/company/zafrens)[Zerophase](https://millionrounds.com/company/zerophase) Blockspace Clock Creasallis Decred Dxos Ethereum Foresightdatamachines Grid Helium Infinex Inkandswitch Inpho Massa Metapalsclub Momentous-therapeutics Peak Pinkbot and 6 more

Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.

New fund on file

**$16M**

raised in Oct 2025

From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy.

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$8.5M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$6.8M**

Led 4 of 63 rounds **6%**

- **Said size:** $500K – $5.0M
- **Sole investor:** 5 rounds
- **Last cheque:** Oct 2026

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Series A said *16*
- Venture *15*
- Seed said *15*
- Pre-seed said *4*
- Grant *3*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Nov 2023 Oct 2026

Often in the room with

- [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) 6
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andreessen-horowitz) 5
- [Backed VC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/backed-vc) 4
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coinbase) 4
- [EQT Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eqt-ventures) 4
- [Protocol Labs](https://millionrounds.com/fund/protocol-labs) 4

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as BlueYard Capital. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**Y Combinator** Accelerator **6** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator)[**Andreessen Horowitz** VC firm **5** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/andreessen-horowitz)[**Backed VC** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/backed-vc)[**Coinbase Ventures** Corporate VC **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coinbase)[**EQT Ventures** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eqt-ventures)[**Protocol Labs** Corporate VC **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/protocol-labs)[**Union Square Ventures** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures)[**Lightspeed Venture Partners** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners)[**Multicoin Capital** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/multicoin-capital)[**ZAKA VC** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/zaka-vc)[**ARCH Venture Partners** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/arch-venture-partners)[**Alven** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alven)

## Recently backed

The latest companies BlueYard Capital put money into.

[**Sensible Biotechnologies** $47M · Oct 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/sensible-biotechnologies)[**Boxd** $2.0M · Sept 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/boxd)[**Chemify** $30M · Sept 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/chemify)[**Transcripta Bio** $24M · Jul 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/transcripta-bio)[**Cryptio** $45M · Mar 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/cryptio)[**Rapidata** $8.5M · Feb 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/rapidata)

## Books by the people here

3 books written by people at BlueYard Capital: [Chad Fowler](https://millionrounds.com/person/chad-fowler) and [David Byrd](https://millionrounds.com/person/david-byrd).

- The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development [Chad Fowler](https://millionrounds.com/person/chad-fowler) · 2009 3.95 from 4,356 ratings on Goodreads About the book Success in today's IT environment requires you to view your career as a business endeavor. In this book, you'll learn how to become an entrepreneur, driving your career in the direction of your choosing. You'll learn how to build your software development career step by step,… On AmazonListen on Audible[Author's Podcasts](https://millionrounds.com/person/chad-fowler#podcasts)
- My Job Went to India (And All I Got Was This Lousy Book): 52 Ways to Save Your Job [Chad Fowler](https://millionrounds.com/person/chad-fowler) · 2005 3.95 from 201 ratings on Goodreads About the book You've already lost your job. You may still be drawing a paycheck, but the job you were hired to do no longer exists. Your company has changed, the technology has changed, the economy has changed, and the ways you can add value have changed. Have you adapted to these changes?… On AmazonListen on Audible[Author's Podcasts](https://millionrounds.com/person/chad-fowler#podcasts)
- Tripping Point in Leadersship [David Byrd](https://millionrounds.com/person/david-byrd) · 2008 4.43 from 44 ratings on Goodreads About the book The Tripping Point in Leadership will show you how to become the leader you were meant to be. Make positive choices, have a clear vision for success, and take action! On AmazonListen on Audible
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## Quick answers about BlueYard Capital

### What does BlueYard Capital invest in?

BlueYard Capital invests most often at Series A and Venture (58% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Computation & Intelligence, Engineering Aerospace & Defense and Biology & Chemistry.

### How active is BlueYard Capital?

63 investments on record, 15 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 4. The most recent was in Oct 2026.

### What has BlueYard Capital invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Sensible Biotechnologies (Series A, Oct 2026), Boxd (Pre-seed, Sept 2026) and Chemify (Grant, Sept 2026).

### How big are BlueYard Capital's cheques?

The median round it joins is $8.5M. It says it writes cheques of $500K to $5.0M.

### Does BlueYard Capital lead rounds?

Sometimes: it led 4 of its 63 investments on record (6%).

### Where does BlueYard Capital invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (39%), the United Kingdom (13%) and Germany (13%).

### Is BlueYard Capital investing now?

Yes: it is actively investing, with 15 investments in the last 12 months.

### Who does BlueYard Capital invest alongside?

Most often Y Combinator (6 rounds together), Andreessen Horowitz (5 rounds together) and Backed VC (4 rounds together).

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