Ciarán O'Leary
General Partner and Co-Founder @ BlueYard Capital
Berlin, Germany
Ciarán O'Leary is a seed investor at BlueYard Capital in Berlin focused on Software and SaaS. Ciarán O’Leary is a co-founder of BlueYard Capital, a $120m early stage fund based in Berlin that invests in founders decentralizing markets, empowering users and liberating data. Ciarán's investments include Wunderlist, Carto, BigchainDB, Vectary, deepstream and others from Palo Alto to Bratislava. Prior to founding BlueYard, Ciarán set-upEarlybird Venture Capital's Berlin office as a partner and before that was at The Carlyle Group.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Ciarán O'Leary invests in
Stages Ciarán O'Leary invests in
Countries Ciarán O'Leary invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (50%)
- SaaS 4 (40%)
- Collaboration 3 (30%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (20%)
- Information Technology 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Series A 4 (40%)
- Series B 2 (20%)
Country
- Germany 5 (50%)
- United States 2 (20%)
- France 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Manex
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Manex AI is revolutionizing process steering and industrial quality management through its manufacturing optimization agents. | $9.1M / Seed / Jun 03, 2025 | |
Kiln
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Kiln creates an enterprise-level pledge platform and provides one-click pledge services for encrypted assets. It develops validator-independent APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. Digital assets can be staked wherever they are held, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the industry evolves and the need to integratemultiple stakeholder players becomes apparent, Kiln is in an excellent position to act as an aggregator and accelerate it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France. | $17.6M / Series A / Nov 28, 2022 | |
Next Matter
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Next Matter is a modern purpose-built cloud platform for operations. COOs and operations teams automate and orchestrate their operations with Next Matter without code. Our customers - some of the fastest-growing, technologically-advanced companies globally - use Next Matter to build and run their operations.Learn more athttps://nextmatter.com | $16M / Series A / Jun 14, 2022 | |
Lottie
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Lottie's mission is to change the way young kids experience technology and to bring peace of mind to parents, by building a magical experience that the whole family can love. | Seed / Feb 01, 2021 | |
humm
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humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment! | $2.6M / Seed / Dec 19, 2019 | |
Pitch
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Built for collaboration and created with modern teams in mind, Pitch is changing how presentations are crafted and knowledge is shared. With a focus on real-time communication, smart workflows, and customizable templates, Pitch makes it easy for teams to work together to develop beautiful presentations. That’s why brands like Slack, Framer, andMetaLab love using Pitch. Founded by the team that created Wunderlist, Pitch has raised $50 million in funding since its founding in 2018. | $19M / Series A / Oct 09, 2018 | |
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Pitch
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Built for collaboration and created with modern teams in mind, Pitch is changing how presentations are crafted and knowledge is shared. With a focus on real-time communication, smart workflows, and customizable templates, Pitch makes it easy for teams to work together to develop beautiful presentations. That’s why brands like Slack, Framer, andMetaLab love using Pitch. Founded by the team that created Wunderlist, Pitch has raised $50 million in funding since its founding in 2018. | $3.3M / Seed / Feb 20, 2018 | |
CARTO
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Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements. From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioralmarketing, strategic store placements, and much more.Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science.Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform.Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including Mastercard, Vodafone, Bain & Company and Coca-Cola, and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by G2, Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space. | $23M / Series B / Sep 10, 2015 | |
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CARTO
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Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements. From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioralmarketing, strategic store placements, and much more.Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science.Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform.Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including Mastercard, Vodafone, Bain & Company and Coca-Cola, and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by G2, Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space. | $8M / Series A / Sep 10, 2014 | |
Wunderlist
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Wunderlist is a cloud-based task management application. 6Wunderkinder is a young and innovative software startup that was founded by six friends in Berlin, Germany, on 30 August 2010. 6Wunderkinder designs and develops a cloud-based, cross platform productivity application called, which was first launched in November 2010. Today, Wunderlist is oneof the most popular productivity applications and is used by millions of people around the world. | $30M / Series B / Nov 12, 2013 |
Co-Investors
Kibo Ventures
2 deals together
Lightspeed Venture Partners
2 deals together
Alven
1 deal together
Atomico
1 deal together
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
1 deal together
Capmont
1 deal together
About BlueYard Capital
BlueYard invests in founders with transforming ideas that decentralize markets and empower humanity. Typically $1-3m as an initial investment; active around the world. Most active in crypto / web 3 (e.g. Protocol Labs, Filecoin, Open Zeppelin, Radicle), technologies that help us overcome our largest planetary challenges (e.g. Marvel Fusion,Meatable, Dance), frontier biology to help us live long and prosper (e.g. BitBio, Biofidelity) and vertical software un-bundling monopolies (e.g. Pitch, Wonder).
BlueYard Capital Contacts
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Chad Fowler
General Manager
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Ciarán O'Leary
General Partner and Co-Founder
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David Byrd
Venture Partner
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Jason Whitmire
General Partner and Co-Founder
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Philipp Hartmann
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Ciarán O'Leary invest in?
Ciarán O'Leary invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Collaboration startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Ciarán O'Leary last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ciarán O'Leary closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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