Investments: Learn more about the companies in The Yard's portfolio

Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

The Yard Ventures invests in a broad range of venture-backed companies to build
diversified venture portfolios invested alongside established venture firms.

Paro

http://paro.io

Paro has developed an AI-powered platform to match companies with finance experts from its vetted network of remote freelancers.

Co-Investors

Madrona Venture Group, Revolution Ventures, Sierra Ventures, KGC Capital

AllHere

http://allhere.com

AllHere is a conversational AI solution for K-12 education.

Co-Investors

Spero Ventures, Rethink Education, Softbank Opportunity Fund, Operator Collective, Potencia Ventures, Gratitude Railroad Ventures, Boston Impact Initiative

Jock Mkt

http://jockmkt.com

Jock MKT (”market”) is an app that allows users to buy and trade fantasy shares of sports players for cash.

Co-Investors

Left Lane Capital

Marble

http://marblepay.com

Marble is a loyalty rewards platform for the insurance industry.

Co-Investors

MS&AD Ventures, IA Capital Group

Alyce

http://Alyce.com

Alyce offers an AI-powered corporate gifting platform that better personalizes gifts for each recipient.

Co-Investors

General Catalyst

Knix

http://knix.com

Knix develops seamless, comfortable, and chafe-free women’s intimate apparel.

Co-Investors

TZP Group, Acton Capital, Wonderment Ventures

RapidSOS

http://rapidsos.com

RapidSOS links direct data from millions of connected devices (smartphones, wearables, connected cars, home IoT) to 911 and first responders.

Co-Investors

Insight Partners, Axon, Highland, Transformation Capital, Energy Impact Partners

SoLo Funds Inc

http://solofunds.com

SoLo is an online marketplace that allows members to access and supply nonpredatory, short-term loans.

Co-Investors

ACME Capital

Beam Organics Inc

http://beamtlc.com

Beam Organics is a CBD consumer products company that is reimagining wellness by pairing high-quality ingredients with innovative products.

Co-Investors

C2Ventures, Obvious Ventures

The Routing Company

http://theroutingcompany.com

The Routing Company is working to solve major operational gaps in the demand responsive transportation (DRT) market.

Co-Investors

The Engine, Converge, John Jarve (Partner Emeritus, Menlo Ventures), Index Ventures (Scout fund), Innospark, Underscore

Thistle

http://thistle.co

Thistle offers healthy, plant-based prepared meals, juices, and sides to consumers as a subscription service.

Co-Investors

PowerPlant Ventures

Harbor

http://helloharbor.com

Harbor is the app that makes disaster preparedness easy and accessible.

Co-Investors

Breyer Capital

Concerto Biosciences

http://concertobio.com

Concerto Biosciences discovers and develops microbial ensembles that accomplish useful functions in solving skin diseases and other medical conditions.

Co-Investors

8VC, Allston Venture Fund

Hydrow

http://hydrow.com

Hydrow is a fitness platform focused around a tech-enabled rowing machine.

Co-Investors

L Catterton

Swiftmile

http://swiftmile.com

Swiftmile provides fixed, standalone parking and charging stations for light electric vehicles (LEVs).

Co-Investors

Thayer Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Sinai Ventures, Colle Capital

Parsable

http://parsable.com

Parsable provides an enterprise SaaS solution that replaces legacy manufacturing productivity tools with mobile- and web-based systems.

Co-Investors

Activate Capital Partners, Glade Brook Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cisco Activate Capital Partners, Glade Brook Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cisco Activate Capital Partners, Glade Brook Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cisco Activa

Movandi

http://movandi.com

Movandi has developed an innovative technology for 5G mm wave deployments that removes many of the barriers to the adoption of 5G.

Co-Investors

Cota Capital, DNX Ventures, WRVI Capital, Sierra Ventures

STRIVR

http://strivr.com

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

http://lessonly.com

Lessonly provides a new model for enterprise learning software.

Co-Investors

AXA Venture Partners, Openview Venture Partners

Kinside

http://kinside.com

Kinside helps connect working parents with optimal daycare and pre-school options for their children.

Rigetti

http://rigetti.com

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

http://petplate.com

PetPlate is a pet food delivery company that develops healthy, all-natural, human-grade meals for dogs.

Co-Investors

Dane Creek Capital

Oura

http://ouraring.com/

Oura has created a ring that monitors the wearer’s sleep patterns.

Co-Investors

Forerunner Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Square, Marc Benioff

Own Up

http://ownup.com

Own Up is an online home loan marketplace designed to effectively connect home buyers to home mortgage lenders.

Co-Investors

Link Ventures, Techstars Ventures

Deserve Series C

http://deserve.com

Deserve offers credit cards—no credit history or deposit required—using machine learning and many non-traditional data points that correlate to the user's credit worthiness

Co-Investors

Goldman Sachs PSI, Sallie Mae, Pelion, Accel, Aspect, Mission Holdings

Plastiq

http://plastiq.com

Plastiq is an 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

http://madewithmotif.com

Motif FoodWorks is an ingredient 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

http://olarisbor.com

Olaris is a precision medicine diagnostic platform that is personalized for each patient.

Co-Investors

Innospark, Bambu Ventures (Blue Cross Blue Shield), John Abele (Boston Scientific Co-Founder)

HopSkipDrive

http://hopskipdrive.com

HopSkipDrive is a web and mobile-based platform that offers alternative transportation for children and teens to assist with education.

Co-Investors

Repower Group/Cyrus Capital, Upfront, FirstMark, Greycroft

True Link Financial

http://truelinkfinancial.com

True Link develops payment cards, investment management, and other financial services for older adults, people with disabilities, and people who are recovering from addictions.

Co-Investors

Khosla Ventures, QED, Nippon Life, Deciens Capital, Exor Seeds, Trusted Insight, Initialized Capital, Collaborative Fund, Radicle Emerging Impact Fund, AngelList

Luma Health

http://lumahealth.io

Luma Health is an automation platform that helps clinics orchestrate the patient journey.

Co-Investors

PeakSpan Capital, USVP, Cisco Investments

Digisure Inc

http://digisureinc.com

DigiSure is 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

http://jebbit.com

Jebbit is a mobile marketing solution designed to collect and activate the most relevant consumer data through innovative mobile experiences.

Co-Investors

Juno

http://juno.co

Juno is reimaging how multifamily housing is designed and built while delighting residents and reducing costs.

Co-Investors

Khosla Ventures, MetaProp, Founders Fund, Canaan Partners

Dough

http://joindough.com

Dough is a feminist-inspired marketplace that discovers and promotes products made by women.

Co-Investors

Flybridge

Landit

http://landit.com

Landit develops personalized career pathing, using a turnkey “one size fits one” solution.

Co-Investors

NEA, WeWork, Morgan Stanley, Female Founders Fund, Cue Ball Capital

Getaround

http://getaround.com

Getaround is a peer-to-peer, car-sharing marketplace that enables users to get around easily.

Co-Investors

Softbank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Correlation Ventures

ConcealFab

http://concealfab.com

ConcealFab develops and manufactures infrastructure products that serve the needs of the commercial wireless and government telecom sectors.

Akorda

http://akorda.com

Akorda is an AI-based platform for legal contract analysis, workflow, and standardization, allowing teams to manage execution risk.

Co-Investors

Bloomberg Beta, Revel Partners

CumulusDS

http://cumulusds.com

CumulusDS is an Internet of Things platform designed to manage end-to-end workflow.

Co-Investors

Shell Ventures

Wrench

http://getwrench.com

Wrench is an online platform designed to book appointments for on-site car repair services.

Co-Investors

Tenaya Capital

Getaway

http://getaway.house

Getaway develops and operates a growing portfolio of tiny houses located within a short drive of major cities.

Co-Investors

L Catterton

Honor

http://joinhonor.com

Honor is a software and tech-enabled services company that utilizes AI to improve in-home senior care.

Co-Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Naspers, Thrive Capital, 8VC

Apprentice Health

http://apprenticehealth.com

Apprentice Health develops software that helps care teams keep their workdays personalized, smooth, on-time, and profitable.

Co-Investors

Mindset Ventures, Workplay Ventures

Sunbit

http://sunbit.com

Sunbit is a financing and payment platform that is intended to split up purchases into smaller, more achievable payments.

Co-Investors

Chicago Ventures

OpenInvest

http://openinvest.co

OpenInvest develops technology for an easy-to-use impact investing solution.

Co-Investors

QED, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

CommonBond

http://commonbond.co

CommonBond is a student loan platform designed to make education more accessible to everyone.

Co-Investors

Fifth Third Capital

Lacework

http://lacework.com

Lacework develops cloud security with automation and scale, so that security and DevOps teams can safely keep data and applications in the cloud.

Co-Investors

Sutter Hill Ventures

High Brew Coffee

http://highbrewcoffee.com

High Brew Coffee develops 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

http://dataminr.com

Dataminr is a real-time information discovery platform that leverages AI and machine learning to detect and disseminate critical events for businesses and governments.

Co-Investors

IVP, Venrock, Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs

Tethr

http://tethr.com

Tethr is a communications intelligence platform designed to surface insights from large volumes of customer phone conversations, in order to help guide businesses’ decisions.

Co-Investors

Grotech Ventures

Verity Studios

http://veritystudios.com

Verity is a platform designed to enable safe use of large numbers of drones indoors and above people for verticals including entertainment and industry.

Co-Investors

Fontinalis Partners, Sony

Kano

http://kano.me

Kano develops do-it-yourself computer kits 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

http://getscopeai.com

ScopeAI uses natural language processing to connect trends from customer conversations to business metrics.

Co-Investors

Quiet Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Social Capital

Henry

http://henrythedentist.com

Henry the Dentist links dental services to corporate offices through a simple, accessible mobile dental practice.

Social Bicycles (Converted to Uber Available Stock)

http://jump.com

JUMP Bikes (formerly named Social Bicycles) offers affordable and scalable bikeshare technology.

Relayr

http://relayr.io

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

http://exicuretx.com

Exicure is developing a new class of immunomodulatory and gene regulating drugs.

Co-Investors

Eric Lefkofsky, Bill Gates, AbbVie Ventures, Katalyst Securities

Wheels Up

http://wheelsup.com

Wheels Up is a revolutionary membership-based private aviation company.

Co-Investors

NEA, Corigin Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Investments

Analytical Space

http://analyticalspace.com

Analytical Space is a satellite network of in-orbit relays that uses laser communication to increase the speed and volume of data transmission.

NewLeaf

http://newleafsym.com

NewLeaf is an agricultural biotechnology company that is aimed at developing sustainable agriculture.

SuperPhone

http://superphone.io

SuperPhone is a full-featured, scalable CRM for managing all volumes of SMS, text, or Messenger conversations.

Co-Investors

Bessemer, Runway Venture Partners, FryFly Ventures

SimpliSafe

http://simplisafe.com

SimpliSafe develops 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

http://sqrrl.com

Sqrrl is a Big Data analytics company that lets organizations pinpoint and react to unusual activity by automatically uncovering hidden connections in their data.

Co-Investors

Spring Lake Equity, Rally Ventures, Matrix Partners, Accomplice

Rinse

http://rinse.com

Rinse is a delivery service for laundry and dry cleaning.

Co-Investors

ParTech Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Arena Ventures

Sidecar Interactive

http://side.cr

Sidecar helps retailers deliver powerful performance marketing campaigns to consumers on the channels they use most.

Co-Investors

Harbert Growth Partners, Ascent Venture Partners, Osage Venture Partners

Domo

http://domo.com

Domo develops intuitive software solutions for enterprise users.

Co-Investors

Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, SV Angel, IVP, Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, Greylock Partners, TPG Growth, BlackRock

Mic

http://mic.com

Mic is a media brand and news platform for the Millennial generation.

Co-Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner, Advancit Capital

AdmitHub

http://admithub.com

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

http://conversica.com

Conversica is an AI-based sales automation platform designed to improve customer engagement.

Co-Investors

Kennet Partners, Toba Capital, Providence Growth

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The Yard Portfolio

Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

Paro

AllHere

Jock Mkt

Marble

Alyce

Knix

RapidSOS

SoLo Funds Inc

Beam Organics Inc

The Routing Company

Thistle

Harbor

Concerto Biosciences

Hydrow

Swiftmile

Parsable

Movandi

STRIVR

Lessonly

Kinside

Rigetti

PetPlate

Oura

Own Up

Deserve Series C

Plastiq

Motif FoodWorks

Olaris

HopSkipDrive

True Link Financial

Luma Health

Digisure Inc

Jebbit

Juno

Dough

Landit

Getaround

ConcealFab

Akorda

CumulusDS

Wrench

Getaway

Honor

Apprentice Health

Sunbit

OpenInvest

CommonBond

Lacework

High Brew Coffee

Dataminr