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At BlueYard we invest in only two kinds of technologies: those that move us towards utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion

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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 17/08/2026
If only someone had taken those possibilities seriously. Welcome to The Counterfactual. counterfactual.blueyard.com
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The Counterfactual
A private dialogue on the future nobody is pricing in. Lake Tegernsee, 16-18 September 2026.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 17/08/2026
You arrive at an alpine lake. Waiting in your room is a newspaper dated September 16, 2035. You begin reading. Some headlines are exactly as expected. Others seem impossible. Yet somehow they happened. The assumptions everyone shared in 2026 turned out to be wrong.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 03/08/2026
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Run Your Own Bluesky PDS in 30 Minutes — Live on Miren
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 03/08/2026
"I miss having a global town square where I can talk. I don't have to miss that anymore, I just have to join a platform that is more humane." Watch the full livestream where miren.dev CEO @evanphx.dev and @chadfowler.com show how anyone can launch and manage their own PDS in minutes with Miren.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 24/07/2026
"There are plenty of places where you can dump your vibe-coded garbage – but this is not the same. Because you can actually scale up and do a legit system architecture with @miren.dev" Watch the full livestream with @chadfowler.com and @evanphx.dev here: www.youtube.com/live/1gjm9Gi...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 03/11/2025
The hardest conversations in AI need space to breathe. Last month, we hosted Climbing Hard AI Peaks—two days in the Alps with builders from across the ecosystem. Four camps. Winding trails. Fresh air. In a world heading toward utopia or oblivion, this was the former. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMdY...
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Climbing Hard AI Peaks
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 29/10/2025
Live today at 2pm ET – an open conversation with Carson Farmer and @chadfowler.com on building a decentralized skill market for Al with Recall Network. 📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...
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Building a decentralized skill market for AI with Recall
YouTube video by BlueYard Capital
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 23/10/2025
NEWS: We’re welcoming Mike Wax to BlueYard as a General Partner. Serial founder, prolific angel investor, friend and a keen student of technology and the world. He’ll help us back founders moving us closer to utopia & holding the line against oblivion. blueyard.medium.com/welcoming-mi...
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Welcoming Mike Wax to BlueYard as a General Partner
We’re excited to share that Mike Wax has joined BlueYard as a General Partner.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 22/10/2025
Streaming live now on X – @chadfowler.com joins Recall Network's In the Arena with Carson Farmer x.com/recallnet/st...
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Recall on X: "In the Arena with BlueYard CTO & GM Chad Fowler https://t.co/nXw93EoNji" / X
In the Arena with BlueYard CTO & GM Chad Fowler https://t.co/nXw93EoNji
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 15/10/2025
AI has a trust problem. Recall is addressing this with Skill Markets—combining competitions with economic signals to make AI discoverable based on performance, not promises. Excited to continue backing the Recall team on their mission to rebuild trust in the AI economy. app.recall.network
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Recall
Discover, rank, and compete AI agents on Recall.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 07/08/2025
Are you a seed-stage founder / builder (or soon to be) working on the hard frontier of AI? Then apply to join Climbing Hard AI Peaks, an immersive two-day summit for learning and exchange: blueyard.medium.com/climbing-har...
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Climbing Hard AI Peaks
AI founders are navigating a landscape that’s rapidly shifting — from the physical infrastructure, foundational model decisions…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 06/08/2025
@gordon.bsky.social on the origin of the name Samizdat – from his conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT. Watch the full conversation here: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...
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Censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 30/07/2025
Can discovery happen without exposure? Join @chadfowler.com and Seref Yarar for a conversation and live demo on how Index Network is building a privacy-first protocol for intent-driven discovery. 🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th | 3pm ET 📍 www.youtube.com/live/oFFs9je...
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Building a Privacy Preserving Intent-Driven Discovery Protocol
YouTube video by BlueYard Capital
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 22/07/2025
“AI can fake all kinds of things, but it cannot fake a cryptographic signature” – @gordon.bsky.social Watch the full conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 15/07/2025
Join @chadfowler.com for a livestream with Tim Robinson as he walks us through the motivation and architecture behind FreePay - the worlds first open source, fee-free payment terminal. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 23rd | 10:00am ET / 16:00 CET 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/eaqPCXq...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 30/06/2025
Join @chadfowler.com and @gordon.bsky.social for a livestream on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT (Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat") 🗓️ Wednesday, July 2nd | 9am ET 🎬 www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ... github.com/gordonbrande...
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Censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT
https://github.com/gordonbrander/szdt Signed Zero-trust DaTa. Pronounced "Samizdat". Signed CBOR for censorship-resistant data archives. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out Stream...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 06/06/2025
Join John Calabrese and @chadfowler.com as they explore Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade using open data tools from www.agnostic.engineering 🗓️ Tuesday, June 10th | 11am ET 🎦 www.youtube.com/live/xUJQL2N...
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Exploring Ethereum's Latest Upgrade, Pectra with Open Onchain Data
Exploring Ethereum's Latest Upgrade Pectra with Open Onchain Data Join John Calabrese and Chad Fowler as they explore Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade using open data tools from Agnostic. This live session w...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 03/06/2025
We are excited to be backing Manex AI on their mission to enable autonomous manufacturing. blueyard.medium.com/manex-ai-317...
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Manex AI
“The future of manufacturing is autonomous, powered by AI-based factory operating systems” is hardly a controversial statement. In fact, a…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 12/05/2025
Join our team as Head of Communications / PR to lead and evolve BlueYard’s communication strategy and help unlock the powerful narratives emerging from the fabric layer technologies we back. blueyard.medium.com/join-our-tea...
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Join our team as Head of Communications / PR (Full-Time or Part-Time)
BlueYard backs founders building fabric layer technologies that will underpin a world yet to come. The world feels full of potential — yet…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 29/04/2025
AI is going to redefine human relationships - love & hate, joy & sorrow, humour & cringe. Grouphug is exploring the intersection of human group interactions and AI. We are excited to be backing Felix Petersen & team on their new mission: techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/g...
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Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans to use AI inside WhatsApp groups | TechCrunch
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 03/04/2025
Join @chadfowler.bsky.social on April 16th for a livestream with Gabriela Moreira, Lead Quint Developer Informal Systems. Quint is a modern specification language built to increase trust in software. 🗓️ Wednesday, April 16 | 11am EDT 📽️ www.youtube.com/live/ww046k3...
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Live Coding with Quint
YouTube video by BlueYard Capital
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 30/03/2025
Congratulations to Marvel Fusion on the successful $120M raise - a key milestone that brings total funding to $415M. We are excited to continue supporting their quest to commercialize fusion-enabled baseload energy to power the world’s clean energy future. www.ft.com/content/c911...
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Germany’s Marvel Fusion raises €113mn as nuclear fusion race heats up
EQT Ventures and Siemens Energy among new backers in Munich-based start-up’s latest funding round
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 12/03/2025
Excited to see Castelion and AnySignal featured as two of the companies shaping the fight of the future in a16z's latest American Dynamism 50. a16z.com/american-dyn...
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The American Dynamism 50: Companies Shaping the Fight of the Future | Andreessen Horowitz
These 50 companies aren’t just strengthening our ability to avoid conflict, they’re re-industrializing America in the process.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 12/03/2025
Thrilled to see VSPARTICLE featured in The Economist for shaping the future of AI-driven materials discovery & creation! www.economist.com/science-and-...
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AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
Better batteries, cleaner bioplastics and more powerful semiconductors await
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 04/02/2025
We are excited to be backing veteran open source infrastructure developer Evan Phoenix and Miren on their journey to deliver cloud computing’s first major upgrade in decades. blueyard.medium.com/miren-bd717a...
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Miren
Cloud computing hasn’t seen a fundamental upgrade since Amazon launched EC2 in 2006. Software development is fundamentally changing in the…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 29/01/2025
We are excited to continue supporting Cryptio on their mission to ensure financial integrity within the crypto economy. Read more about their $25m Series A financing and launch of their Bedrock data platform: blog.cryptio.co/cryptio-rais...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 16/12/2024
“The games of money tend not to be sensitive to evidence ... if we create a game that permits both money & evidence to exist simultaneously, then maybe we also get to create a new type of economic system on top of that.” full convo w/ @chadfowler.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/FVz11m6...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 01/11/2024
Congrats Meatable for being recognized as one of Time's Best Inventions of 2024 – for its mission to create a sustainable & post-animal economy.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 22/10/2024
Live in 90mins: @chadfowler.bsky.social & Connor McCormick discuss the next socioeconomic system. Will Mars be a democratic republic? Or can we do better? Connor outlines a criteria for governance systems and describes a possible approach to achieve it. 🎬 www.youtube.com/live/FVz11m6...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 30/09/2024
Join @chadfowler.bsky.social, Tom Walton-Pocock, and Tim Robinson for a conversation on the importance of private state blockchains to crypto’s adoption, new technologies coming online in 2024, and the limitations / constraints developers may face. www.youtube.com/live/tdmTnRg...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 23/09/2024
We are excited to be backing Infinex on their mission to unlock the full potential of DeFi through a transformative, user-focused experience. blueyard.medium.com/infinex-aa38...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 16/09/2024
Join Seref Yarar, co-founder @ Index Network, and @chadfowler.bsky.social tomorrow for a livestream on building a decentralized protocol for user-centric discovery. 🗓️ Tuesday, Sept 17th at 2:00pm ET 🎦 Streaming live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/BUOv-jk...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 17/07/2024
BlueYard Crypto 3: backing the ultimate capital x compute coordination machine with our latest $75m early-stage crypto fund. blueyard.medium.com/blueyard-cry...
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BlueYard Crypto 3: backing the ultimate capital x compute coordination machine with our latest $75m…
As we began to deploy our 3rd dedicated crypto fund, BlueYard Crypto 3* (raised last year), we took a step back to reflect on our thesis…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 24/06/2024
Join Tim Robinson and @chadfowler.bsky.social for a livestream exploring how liquidity can be made to flow seamlessly and automatically throughout the Ethereum L2 ecosystem. 🗓️ Thursday, June 27th: 9:30am ET / 3:30pm CET 🎦 Streaming live on youtube: www.youtube.com/live/OWA_gcC...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 23/05/2024
We're pleased to welcome Tom Walton-Pocock and Benjamin Levy, some of the deepest thinkers on the fundamentals of crypto and the chasms it still has to cross, as our new Venture Partners.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 12/04/2024
Join our team as a Crypto Associate – backing entrepreneurs that are solving critical crypto compute and infrastructure challenges. blueyard.medium.com/join-our-tea...
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Join Our Team as a Crypto Associate
Backing open-ended breakthrough research is at the core of BlueYard’s investing philosophy, whether it’s nuclear fusion, programmable stem…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 09/04/2024
Join Fluence's CTO / Co-Founder Dmitry Kurinskiy and host Chad Fowler for a walkthrough of Fluence's motivation and the "cloudless" computing architecture they have launched. 🗓 Friday April 12th: 10am ET / 4pm CET 📽 Streaming live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/Zt-4x5f...
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The Technical Architecture of Fluence
Join Fluence's CTO, Dmitry Kurinskiy, for a walkthrough of Fluence's motivation and the
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 24/01/2024
We’re offering $100k to thoughtful researchers and builders to better understand and unlock crypto’s potential as the ultimate capital x compute x data x algorithms coordination system. More details on BlueYard DYOR and application below. blueyard.medium.com/announcing-t...
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Announcing the BlueYard DYOR (Do Your Own Research) Funding Program
Backing open-ended breakthrough research is at the core of BlueYard’s investing philosophy, whether it’s nuclear fusion, programmable stem…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 23/01/2024
We are excited to be backing Ingonyama on their mission ​​to democratize the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs. blueyard.medium.com/ingonyama-a0...
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Ingonyama
Ingonyama is developing hardware to speed up zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic scheme that secures much of web3 and is a critical…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 18/01/2024
We are excited to be investing in Kiln again and continuing to support their mission to democratize access to crypto staking for both institutions and retail blueyard.medium.com/kiln-579910d...
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Kiln
Crypto token staking is a rapidly growing multi-billion market, set for further rapid expansion as more Proof of Stake (PoS) becomes the de…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 18/12/2023
Tune in this Wed, Dec 20th for our next live coding stream – with Shell Protocol and @chadfowler.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Dec 20th (9am PST / Noon EST / 6pm CST) 🔔Set a reminder to be notified when the stream goes live: youtube.com/live/PdOT4LL...
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The Technology Behind Web 3: Live Coding with Shell Protocol
We'll explore the power of true DeFi composability with Shell Protocol as we look at its purpose and architecture and build a plugin adapter for an external ...
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 13/12/2023
We are excited to continue our partnership with Nucleate in 2024 to unlock the potential of science founders at the earliest stages across university campuses blueyard.medium.com/blueyard-nuc...
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BlueYard × Nucleate Partnership (and Announcing the 2023 Venture Prize Winners)
We are entering a new frontier in life sciences unparalleled in human history, as emerging technologies are changing the biotech industry…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 12/12/2023
We are excited to be backing Zafrens on their mission to democratize access to therapeutics, irrespective of modality blueyard.medium.com/zafrens-ab9f...
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Zafrens
Biology operates at the single-cell level: human tissues are composed of highly heterogeneous cells interacting and regulating each other…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 29/11/2023
We are excited to be backing @3num.co on their mission to update the core infrastructure of mobile communications with the world’s first globally routable web3 phone number. blueyard.medium.com/3num-0c30e05...
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3NUM
Phone numbers are pervasive and continue to proliferate as digital identifiers. In many ways, they are a person’s most personal digital…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 21/11/2023
When we first backed Henri and Asta they were on a mission to transform crypto UI/UX away from an "eating glass" experience. 1 million users later & powering many of crypto's breakthrough apps we are excited to invest in their A again www.privy.io/blog/series-...
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Privy Blog | Announcing Privy’s $18M Series A led by Paradigm
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 20/11/2023
We are excited to be backing the Biomia team on their mission to revolutionize the treatment landscape for numerous mental and physical disorders through novel, nature-inspired molecules. blueyard.medium.com/biomia-63298...
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Biomia
Plants have long produced potent human therapeutics and contributed to over 20% of drugs approved since the 1980s, including Morphine and…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 17/10/2023
We are excited to be working with AnySignal on their mission to master the radiofrequency (RF) domain through end-to-end solutions that cover communications, radar, navigation, and RF sensing for advanced aircraft, satellites, and national security anysignal.medium.com/anysignal-cl...
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AnySignal Closes $5M Seed Round to Build Multi-Domain Radio Platform
The radiofrequency technology company plans to use the funds to execute on considerable customer backlog by growing production and R&D…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 05/10/2023
We're pleased to welcome Alejo Salles, Flashbots steward and one of the leading research minds in crypto, as our new Venture Partner.
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 02/10/2023
As new tooling, entrepreneurial accessibility and AI continue to unlock evolution’s algorithms, programmable biology is moving from vision to reality at increasing speed. We're looking forward to an evening of stimulating conversations in London on Oct 4: blueyard.medium.com/programmable...
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Programmable Biology: Conversations over Dinner & Drinks in London
As new tooling, entrepreneurial accessibility and AI continue to unlock evolution’s algorithms, programmable biology is moving from vision…
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BlueYard @blueyard.com · 01/09/2023
We are excited to be backing clock.bio on their mission to extend and improve the quality of life by reversing the harmful effects of aging in our cells. blueyard.medium.com/clock-bio-72...
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clock.bio
As humans age the chances of dying from specific diseases (cancer, coronary, neurological, etc.) increase, where the rate of aging is…
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