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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
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.
"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.
"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...
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...
Climbing Hard AI Peaks
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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...
Building a decentralized skill market for AI with Recall
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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...
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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Streaming live now on X – @chadfowler.com joins Recall Network's In the Arena with Carson Farmer x.com/recallnet/st...
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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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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Discover, rank, and compete AI agents on Recall.
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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...
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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@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...
Censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT
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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...
Building a Privacy Preserving Intent-Driven Discovery Protocol
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“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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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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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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“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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
Live Coding with Quint
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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...
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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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...
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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Thrilled to see VSPARTICLE featured in The Economist for shaping the future of AI-driven materials discovery & creation! www.economist.com/science-and-...
AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
Better batteries, cleaner bioplastics and more powerful semiconductors await
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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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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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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...
“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...
Congrats Meatable for being recognized as one of Time's Best Inventions of 2024 – for its mission to create a sustainable & post-animal economy.
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...
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...
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...
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...
