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Blueyard

Venture Capital

BlueYard Capital is a venture capital firm that backed companies such as VSParticle, Next Matter, and Housecat.

Portfolio

3

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • AI/ML£38.5M
  • BioTech£10.2M

By location

  • Glasgow£37.0M
  • Cambridge£10.2M
  • London£1.5M

Portfolio companies

Chemify

Chemify

Chemify develops automated systems that digitise and program chemical synthesis.

ExpressionEdits

ExpressionEdits

ExpressionEdits uses artificial intelligence and proprietary intron technology to optimise protein expression.

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Tromero

Tromero builds cost-effective alternatives to major cloud computing providers by repurposing crypto mining infrastructure for artificial intelligence training.


Recent investments

Series B
£37.0M

The oversubscribed round will scale automated laboratories and molecular design operations.

"Chemify aims to become the global digital backbone of chemistry, enabling fast design and discovery. Our vision is that Chemify will be able to design and make any molecule on demand for our customers across all of chemistry from drug discovery to new catalysts and electronic materials. The next step in our evolution is nothing short of a revolution in the digitization and automation of chemical discovery and manufacturing."
— Lee Cronin, CEO and Founder
Seed
£10.2M

The seed round was co-led by Octopus Ventures and redalpine to support preclinical candidate selection and pipeline development.

"At ExpressionEdits, we’re revolutionizing gene expression by putting introns back where they belong, resulting in significant improvements in production"
— Kärt Tomberg, CEO & Co-Founder
Seed
£1.5M

The seed round was led by BlueYard Capital and will fund the expansion of the team and delivery of a beta product.

"In an industry that struggles to keep pace with the soaring demand for machine learning training, our new way of mining cryptocurrency ensures that GPUs are no longer wasted on meaningless hashing, like they are currently, but are utilised to solve meaningful problems requiring AI solutions,"
— Sophia Kalanovska, Co-founder