Sampling of our Portfolio Companies
The Yard Ventures invests in a broad range of venture-backed companies
to build high-quality, highly-diversified venture portfolios for our investors.

STRIVR
STRIVR
STRIVR has built a virtual reality software platform that that allows large organizations to run simulated training programs for its employees covering any and all situations they may encounter on the job.
Co-Investors
Georgian Partners, Great Point Partners, Signia Ventures

Lessonly
Lessonly
Creator of an enterprise learning software intended to offer companies an ability to create content, deliver trainings, assess performance and improve performance of their employees
Co-Investors
AXA Venture Partners, Openview Venture Partners

Kinside
Kinside
Developer of a marketplace app that is offered by employers to connect working parents with the optimal daycare and pre-school options for their children.

Rigetti
Rigetti
A full-stack quantum computing startup, focused on designing and manufacturing superconducting quantum integrated circuits and building software to enable quantum computing, as well as integrating its systems directly into existing cloud infrastructure.
Co-Investors
Bessemer Venture Partners

PetPlate
PetPlate
A pet food delivery company that provides healthy, all-natural and customized meals for dogs. Based on the size and breed, PetPlate creates a meal plan according to your dog's specific profile and needs.
Co-Investors
DFE Capital Management, 301 INC (venture capital arm of General Mills)

Oura
Oura
Developer of a wellness ring and software application that tracks multiple body measurements, all designed to help the wearer get more restful sleep and perform better.
Co-Investors
Forerunner Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Square, Marc Benioff

Jock Mkt
Jock Mkt
Jock Market allows users to trade shares based on daily fantasy sports players for cash. Users can feel the action of the game by trading real-money shares with other users in real-time.
Co-Investors
Accomplice, Will Ventures, Tim McSweeney

Own Up
Own Up
An online home loan marketplace designed to connect home buyers to home mortgage lenders.
Co-Investors
Link Ventures, Techstars Ventures

Plastiq
Plastiq
E-commerce payment platform that allows users to pay with credit cards where cards are not accepted.
Co-Investors
B Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Accomplice, Bling Capital, Khosla

Motif FoodWorks
Motif FoodWorks
Motif FoodWorks is an ingredients innovation company dedicated to reshaping the landscape of food through bio-science and technology.
Co-Investors
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, General Atlantic, Viking Global Investors, Louis Dreyfus Company, Anchorage Capital Group, Fonterra Ventures, CPT Capital

Olaris
Olaris
Developer of a precision medicine diagnostic platform designed to provide the most suitable treatment for each patient based on their individual case. Their mission is to fundamentally change how diseases are diagnosed and treated.
Co-Investors
Innospark, Bambu Ventures (Blue Cross Blue Shield), John Abele (Boston Scientific Co-Founder)

Wheels
Wheels
Wheels operates a global network of shared electric bikes that offer the convenience of micro-mobility alongside market-leading safety and stability.
Co-Investors
DBL Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, 3L Capital, Wavemaker Partners

HopSkipDrive
HopSkipDrive
Provider of a web and mobile-based platform which offers alternative transportation for children and teens mainly to assist with education.
Co-Investors
Repower Group/Cyrus Capital, Upfront, FirstMark, Greycroft

True Link Financial
True Link Financial
True Link provides payment cards, investment management, and other financial services for older adults, people with disabilities, and people recovering from addiction.
Co-Investors
Khosla Ventures, QED, Nippon Life, Deciens Capital, Exor Seeds, Trusted Insight, Initialized Capital, Collaborative Fund, Radicle Emerging Impact Fund, AngelList

Luma Health
Luma Health
Provider of an automation platform to help clinics orchestrate the patient journey, transforming the process from a series of transactions to a continuous and lasting relationship.
Co-Investors
PeakSpan Capital, USVP, Cisco Investments

Alyce
Alyce
An artificial intelligence powered corporate gifting platform enabling large corporations to customize their customer acquisition and retention strategies.
Co-Investors
Manifest Investment Partners, General Catalyst, Founder Collective, Boston Seed Capital, Golden Ventures, Mentors Fund

Digisure Inc
Digisure Inc
An insurance, verification and trust platform serving large marketplaces in the sharing economy by providing accurate individualized underwriting on a per usage or per rental basis.
Co-Investors
Morado Ventures, Revel Partners, Zelkova Ventures

Jebbit
Jebbit
A mobile marketing solution designed to collect and activate the most relevant consumer data through innovative mobile experiences.
Co-Investors
K1

Juno
Juno
Juno is building an end-to-end platform to connect and streamline the entire real estate development process
Co-Investors
Khosla Ventures, MetaProp, Founders Fund, Canaan Partners

Knix
Knix
Maker of women's seamless, chafe-free intimate apparel.
Co-Investors
Wonderment Ventures

Dough
Dough
Operator of a marketplace platform intended to discover and promote products made by women.
Co-Investors
Flybridge

LandIt
LandIt
Landit is the market leader in personalized career pathing, creating a turnkey “one size fits one” solution that enables companies to effectively develop and retain high-potential diverse and underrepresented talent at scale.
Co-Investors
NEA, WeWork, Morgan Stanley, Female Founders Fund, Cue Ball Capital

Getaround
Getaround
Provider of a peer-to-peer, car-sharing marketplace.
Co-Investors
Softbank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Correlation Ventures

ConcealFab
ConcealFab
ConcealFab is a designer and manufacturer of infrastructure products serving the needs of the Commercial Wireless and Government Telecom sectors.

Akorda
Akorda
Akorda is an AI-based platform for legal contract analysis, workflow, and standardization that allows teams to manage execution risk with fewer resources. Open issues are resolved quickly, approvals are tracked, and contracts are signed faster.
Co-Investors
Bloomberg Beta, Revel Partners

CumulusDS
CumulusDS
CumulusDS is an Internet of Things platform designed to manage end-to-end workflow. The company's platform collects and structures data from digitally-enabled tools to verify the quality and duration of a task.
Co-Investors
Shell Ventures

Wrench
Wrench
Wrench provides an online platform designed to book appointments for on-site car repairing services.
Co-Investors
Tenaya Capital

Getaway
Getaway
Getaway develops and operates a growing portfolio of "tiny houses", located within a short drive of major cities offering its customers a way to completely disconnect while enjoying short vacations in nature.
Co-Investors
L Catterton

Honor
Honor
Honor is a software and tech-enabled services company that utilizes AI to improve in-home senior care. The company's mission is to provide high-quality non-medical home care for the increasing market of older adults.
Co-Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Naspers, Thrive Capital, 8VC

Apprentice Health
Apprentice Health
Apprentice Health uses blue tooth low energy beacons on badges and wristbands to identify inefficiencies in hospital/medical workflows, and recommends steps to improve scheduling, staffing, and facility utilization.
Co-Investors
Mindset Ventures, Workplay Ventures

Sunbit
Sunbit
Sunbit is a provider of a financing and payment platform intended to split up purchases into easier and smaller payments. Similar to a credit card, Sunbit allows the customer to pay over time for larger purchases.
Co-Investors
Chicago Ventures

OpenInvest
OpenInvest
OpenInvest is dedicated to using technology to bring honesty and transparency to financial services, while making socially responsible investing easy and more accessible.
Co-Investors
QED, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

CommonBond
CommonBond
A student loan platform, refinancing student loans for young working adults, providing in-school loans for college and graduate students, and offering student loan benefit programs to employers.
Co-Investors
Fifth Third Capital

Lacework
Lacework
Lacework brings automation, speed and scale to cloud security so that security and DevOps teams can keep data and applications in the cloud safe.
Co-Investors
Sutter Hill Ventures

High Brew Coffee
High Brew Coffee
High Brew Coffee is a leader in the high growth "Ready to Drink" cold brew coffee market, providing consumers a convenient, shelf-stable, premium cold-brew experience made from 100% Fair Trade Certified Arabica beans.
Co-Investors
Charles Street Partners, CAVU Venture Partners

Dataminr
Dataminr
Dataminr is the world's leading real-time information discovery platform, leveraging AI/machine learning in detecting and disseminating critical events for businesses and governments.
Co-Investors
IVP, Venrock, Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs

Tethr
Tethr
A communications intelligence platform designed to surface insights from large volumes of customer phone conversations to influence business decisions.
Co-Investors
Grotech Ventures

Verity Studios
Verity Studios
Verity’s technology enables the safe use of large numbers of drones indoors and above people for verticals including entertainment and industry. The company's Synthetic Swarm drone show combines its proprietary software with its new LucieTM micro drones.
Co-Investors
Fontinalis Partners, Sony
Unity Biotechnology
Unity Biotechnology
Unity Biotechnology is a developer of small molecule medicines that potentially halt, slow, or reverse age-associated diseases, while restoring human health.
Co-Investors
Fidelity, ARCH Ventures, Venrock, Founders Fund

Kano
Kano
Kano is a do-it-yourself computer kit designed to allow anyone, especially children, to build a computer and learn basic computer coding skills.
Co-Investors
Breyer Capital, Index Ventures, Thames Trust, Collaborative Fund, Marc Benioff

ScopeAI
ScopeAI
ScopeAI uses natural language processing to connect trends found in customer conversations to business metrics that can then be used to make strategic product and operational decisions.
Co-Investors
Quiet Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Social Capital

Henry
Henry
Henry the Dentist is a provider of dental services to corporate offices through a mobile dental practice. The company offers a state-of-the-art mobile dental service that provides polishing, repairing, whitening, and crowning to its customers.
Co-Investors
Brand Foundry, Trail Mix

Social Bicycles (Converted to Uber Available Stock)
Social Bicycles (Converted to Uber Available Stock)
JUMP Bikes (formerly named Social Bicycles) offers affordable and scalable bikeshare technology.
Co-Investors
Menlo Ventures

Relayr
Relayr
Relayr has developed an industrial IoT middleware platform designed to facilitate interoperability through industrial-grade platforms.
Co-Investors
HSB, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Munich Venture Partners, Munich RE

Exicure
Exicure
Developing a new class of immunomodulatory and gene silencing drugs.
Co-Investors
Eric Lefkofsky, Bill Gates, AbbVie Ventures, Katalyst Securities

Wheels Up
Wheels Up
Wheels up is a revolutionary membership-based private aviation company that reduces the upfront cost to fly privately while providing unparalleled flexibility, service and safety.
Co-Investors
NEA, Corigin Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Investments

Analytical Space
Analytical Space
A satellite network of in-orbit relays that utilize laser communication to increase speed and amount of data transmitted.
Co-Investors
Space Angels, The Engine, NXT Ventures

NewLeaf
NewLeaf
An agricultural biotechnology company that develops and researches Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs (PPFMs), which are symbiotic bacteria that aid in plant germination and crop yield.
Co-Investors
Otter Capital, S2G Ventures, Monsanto

SuperPhone
SuperPhone
A full-featured, scalable CRM for managing any volume of SMS, Text or Messenger conversations. SuperPhone allows people that have hundreds of thousands of followers and fans to manage direct interaction with those fans on a scalable basis.
Co-Investors
Bessemer, Runway Venture Partners, FryFly Ventures

SimpliSafe
SimpliSafe
SimpliSafe provides do-it-yourself home security products designed to help people live safely without introducing complexity, hassle or annoyance into their lives.
Co-Investors
Sequoia Capital

Sqrrl Proceeds Reinvested
Sqrrl Proceeds Reinvested
Industry-leading threat hunting platform
Co-Investors
Spring Lake Equity, Rally Ventures, Matrix Partners, Accomplice

Rinse
Rinse
Provider of dry cleaning and laundry delivery service.
Co-Investors
ParTech Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Arena Ventures

Sidecar Interactive
Sidecar Interactive
E-commerce optimization allowing retailers precise control of their Product Level Marketing across all channels.
Co-Investors
Harbert Growth Partners, Ascent Venture Partners, Osage Venture Partners

Domo
Domo
Domo develops intuitive software for enterprise users, that connects employees with disparate data that resides in silos across their organization, to improve business results.
Co-Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, SV Angel, IVP, Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, Greylock Partners, TPG Growth, BlackRock

Mic
Mic
Media brand and news platform for the Millennial generation.
Co-Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner, Advancit Capital

AdmitHub
AdmitHub
Artificial intelligence-powered mobile chat platform helping current and prospective students engage with colleges and universities.
Co-Investors
Relay Ventures, Reach Capital, University Ventures

Conversica
Conversica
Artificial intelligence-based sales automation platform designed to improve customer engagement.
Co-Investors
Kennet Partners, Toba Capital, Providence Growth