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.

Notable investments include Protocol Labs, Filecoin, Open Zeppelin, Radicle, Marvel Fusion, Meatable, BitBio, Biofidelity, Pitch, and Wonder. The firm has raised a total of $500 million across four funds, with the latest, BlueYard Capital Fund III, announced on June 8, 2022, totaling $185 million.