BlueYard Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Berlin, Germany

Total investments

77

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

9.62

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.32

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologySaaSCollaborationManufacturingCryptocurrencyBlockchain

Summary

BlueYard Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016.

The real fund results show that this VC is 48 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Ciaru00e1n O'Leary, Jason Whitmire. The overall number of key employees were 3.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Filecoin, Pitch, VECTARY Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, FinTech.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the BlueYard Capital, startups are often financed by Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Fabric Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Digital Currency Group, Coinbase Ventures, zk Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AnalyticsBiotech/Life SciencesBlockchain/Crypto/Web3Cloud/Infrastructure
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 172000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-11

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
11
Rounds per year
9.62
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (24)
  • Internet (15)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Biotechnology (11)
  • Cryptocurrency (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
  • Germany (21)
  • Netherlands (5)
  • France (5)
  • United Kingdom (3)
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Peak activity year
2023

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
11M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Centrifuge 29 Oct 2019 Software, FinTech, Information Technology, Computer Seed 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Castelion 21 Apr 2023 Government, Aerospace, Manufacturing, National Security, Military Seed 5M United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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