BlueYard Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The firm invests in early-stage European technology startups across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, with check sizes ranging from $100,000 to $10 million. Co-founders Ciaran O'Leary and Jason Whitmire lead the firm, which focuses on companies addressing civilization-scale problems in areas including artificial intelligence infrastructure, blockchain and crypto networks, defense technology, fusion energy, and biotechnology. BlueYard's first fund raised €111 million in 2016 and achieved 3.4x DPI (Distributions to Paid-In capital). Notable portfolio companies include Protocol Labs (Filecoin), Privy (acquired by Stripe), Castelion (hypersonic defense systems), Marvel Fusion (fusion energy), and Chemify (compute-chemistry). The firm typically leads or co-leads rounds and has demonstrated early conviction in contrarian spaces, including crypto infrastructure investments beginning in 2016 and AI chip investments from 2018 onward.