venture partner @blueyard

Joined April 2012
Team @blueyard at Slush
Replying to @ciaranoleary
@ciaranoleary, @alexjkorman and I are heading to Slush 🧊 🇫🇮 to represent @blueyard We'd love to connect. We'll be hosting a Jeffersonian debate dinner on a counterfactual future, going for an icy group run and will be hanging out at our lounge all day(s) to meet founders driving us towards utopia and holding the line against oblivion. Links / sign-ups in the next tweet!
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Congrats @maex242 @hgprimer @pstanislaus on this funding milestone and excited for what's ahead!
We raised a $20M seed led by @Base10 and are ready to take @causaprimaai further. Our money man has never been busier!
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Philipp Banhardt retweeted
what if the moat is the friends we made along the way
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After we have determined all the proofs, discovered all the drugs, found all the new materials, we will have to face the reality that our deepest problems are political, philosophical and psychological.
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We'll be in New York next week hosting a curated conversation with our friends at @buildexante on how we can use this historic inflection point to re-claim our digital agency and invent and start to (re)invent the internet we deserve. Apply below!
The internet is up for grabs. AI is rewriting how we search & use software, feeds are flooded with synthetic junk, & platform power is harder to ignore. Builders & investors watching it rearrange: join us, @buildexante @zweinberg in NYC. 9/29 at 6:30pm. luma.com/p08fg2mh
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This is the kind of thing that gets built in the dead of crypto winter and quietly changes what’s possible in the next cycle. Infrastructure compounds, and future apps and use cases thrive as a result. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I was skeptical of this category when I first met this team, but then they demoed @boxd_sh I see a lot of demos and have very few genuine "holy sh*t" moments anymore. These guys have given me several. It’s not just that the VMs are fast. What they’ve built has changed how I think about using compute. When you can create environments in milliseconds and fork a running machine, state and all, in under a second, especially with coding agents, entirely new ways of working become possible. That’s why we invested. Very happy BlueYard Capital is leading boxd’s €2M pre-seed. Congrats @KehrerHidde, @michielmv , and @i_am_laurci !
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"the runaway trend of people in our industry (tech) being increasingly unwilling to entertain or have thoughtful discourse around points of view that threaten their bags or critique the views they have levered aggressively to in order to accumulate capital"
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Excited for @KayZizzle and @chompdotfyi to announce their backing from us and other wonderful folks as they build towards a more honest reflection of the world
We raised $3.6M to do something slightly insane: map the beliefs of the world. How? A surprisingly simple, fun social game about how well you can read the room. Chomp V1 had 50K users share 2M answers. Now it’s time to stop gatekeeping the fun and let everyone Chomp 🧵
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Excited to make new friends in Zürich together with @productmatt_ and the broader @veryearlyxyz crew Sep 2nd! Come through for Mezze and cold drinks
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Excited for @zkmaier and the @nudgexyz ecosystem to partner up with @nounsdao and to continue building the reallocation network. This is an incredible milestone and I'm grateful for so many wonderful shared memories along this journey that started as Violet in 2021. Onwards!
🧵 Big day for @Nudge_xyz. Today, @nounsdao officially announced Nudge as an ecosystem project. For me, it’s also a special milestone. Two years after starting Nudge, it’s exciting to see the project continue to grow with a community that genuinely shares the vision
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Philipp Banhardt retweeted
Almost everything in crypto that failed the first time will eventually work sometime in the future. Bitcoin looked like it had failed many times in the past. The same will happen with NFTs, creator tokens, DAOs, gaming, TCRs, onchain reputation, rebase tokens, decentralized storage etc As time passes each of these ideas will make even more sense. I just think we’re still too early for many of them, and we don’t quite understand the need yet. But eventually it’ll make sense.
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Amazing opportunity to work with the wonderful @enaraxr and bcap team!
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Who would dare not to use Causa Prima? Thrilled to support @maex242 @hgprimer @pstanislaus on the chase ahead
Introducing @causaprimaai - coming out of stealth today with a $10M raise. I spent 25 years building software that moves money between companies. But every tool I built only ever sat inside one company. AP tools for the buyer. AR tools for the supplier. Nobody built anything for the space between them. The moment a payment had to move between two companies, the software stopped and a human stepped in. @hgprimer , @pstanislaus , and I spent too long watching this happen to not do something about it. So we built the solution. Causa Prima is an agent-to-agent network between the buyer and the supplier. AI agents on both sides handle disputes, negotiate payment timing, and capture early pay discounts automatically in real time. We have 3000+ active accounts on the network already. And we’re just getting started.
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Excited to be talking about fixing the internet, protecting individual sovereignty, upgrading the world's financial system and all in between in NYC June 10th!
When we started investing in crypto back in 2016, the industry was raw, deeply philosophical, and full of wonderful experiments and rebellious folks unified through a deep sense of purpose and ambition. There has been a lot of success. ETFs are approved. Institutions are here. Finance is fully moving on-chain. The technology has matured. But somewhere along the way, the dream shrank. Crypto is more than currencies and financialization. There is no reason at all that crypto shouldn’t be the fabric to protect individual sovereignty, to fix the internet, to coordinate infrastructure at unmatched scale, and to provide a secure, trustless foundation for the next agent-dominated age of the Web. So @privy_io, @AmbushCapital and BlueYard are calling a timeout. On June 10th we are gathering 100 of the most serious founders, builders, and OGs in New York. No stages, no panels. Just honest debates and a bias toward action to rekindle the chaotic, cyberpunk, world-eating ambition that got us here in the first place. More details to follow. Applications are now open: luma.com/2jd3y9m6
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.@chadfowler and my DMs open. Crypto is more than currencies and financialization. Beyond finance we remain excited about crypto as a set of technologies to protect individual sovereignty and fix the internet
We at @blueyard have been committed to crypto since 2016. Investments since include @protocollabs , Flashbots, @privy_io , @Kiln_finance, @ETHGasOfficial and many great teams. We are very active and excited for what's happening now and in the near future. The tech is mature and ready to fulfill it's promise.
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Philipp Banhardt retweeted
Really excited for this; I’ve been a fan of DWeb for a while and it’s so cool that the event is coming to Berlin this summer! Berlin summer is beautiful so I recommend coming and extending your trip to spend time in the city / hang out by the lakes.
𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 🎉 ⛺ Join us at Alte Hölle on 8–12 July to shape the decentralized, democratic, and open tech we truly need. 💡 Submit your proposal and take part in the conversation! 🎟 Tickets + CfP → dwebcamp.org
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BlueYard Summit coming up. We’re sponsoring flights + hotel for a select group of founders building at the frontier. AI infra, defense, physical AI, next-gen compute. If that’s you or someone you know — reach out.
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