David Byrd
Venture Partner @ BlueYard Capital
Seattle, United States
David Byrd is a seed investor at BlueYard Capital in Seattle focused on Internet and Software. David Byrd is the Venture Partner at BlueYard Capital.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 83%
Last updated:
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Industries David Byrd invests in
Stages David Byrd invests in
Countries David Byrd invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 1 (17%)
- Software 1 (17%)
- Aerospace 1 (17%)
- CleanTech 1 (17%)
- Electronics 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
Country
- Switzerland 2 (33%)
- United States 2 (33%)
Investments
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| Rapidata is a data processing platform that offers human-verified innovative data labeling and data processing services at scale. | $8.5M / Seed / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
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Corintis develops cooling technologies for high performance semiconductors. | $24M / Series A / Sep 25, 2025 | |
| Rapidata is a data processing platform that offers human-verified innovative data labeling and data processing services at scale. | $1.7M / Jul 17, 2023 | ||
| Visolis, a bioengineering company, develops carbon-negative and sustainable chemicals. Its systems approach integrates innovations in synthetic biology, chemical catalysis, and process scale-up to enable new bio-based manufacturing platforms. Visolis' bio-based process helps in achieving true carbon negative chemical synthesis. It beganoperation in 2012, with its headquarters in Berkeley in California. | $8M / Seed / Jan 11, 2023 | ||
| Unlocking satellite internet capacity through user terminal innovation | $8M / Series A / Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Rapidata is a data processing platform that offers human-verified innovative data labeling and data processing services at scale. | $1.7M / Seed |
Co-Investors
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 David Byrd invest in?
David Byrd invests primarily in Internet, Software and Aerospace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for David Byrd closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 6 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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