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 leading venture firms.

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

PetPlate

http://petplate.com

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

http://oura.com

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

LTSE

http://ltse.com

Transforming public stock markets by creating a new stock exchange, with the vision to reduce the focus on short-term pressures & short-term thinking, and instead align companies & shareholders around innovation & investment in long-term value creation

Co-Investors

Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, Collaborative Fund

Own Up

http://ownup.com

An online home loan marketplace designed to connect home buyers to home mortgage lenders.

Co-Investors

Link Ventures, Techstars Ventures

Plastiq

http://plastiq.com

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, Top Tier Venture Capital

Motif FoodWorks

http://madewithmotif.com

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

Zeus

http://zeusliving.com

Zeus provides expertly appointed, full-service corporate housing units for today’s global professional.

Co-Investors

Initialized Capital, Airbnb, Comcast Ventures

Olaris

http://olarisbor.com

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

http://takewheels.com

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

http://hopskipdrive.com

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

Luma Health

http://lumahealth.io

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

http://Alyce.com

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

http://digisureinc.com

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

Hydrow

http://hydrow.com

Hydrow has developed a connected fitness platform that initially is focused around a rower.

Co-Investors

L Catterton

Jebbit

http://jebbit.com

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

Co-Investors

Knix

http://knix.com

Maker of women's seamless, chafe-free intimate apparel.

Co-Investors

Wonderment Ventures

Dough

http://joindough.com

Operator of a marketplace platform intended to discover and promote products made by women.

Co-Investors

Flybridge

LandIt

http://landit.com

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

http://getaround.com

Provider of a peer-to-peer, car-sharing marketplace.

Co-Investors

Softbank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Correlation Ventures

ConcealFab

http://concealfab.com

ConcealFab is a designer and manufacturer of infrastructure products serving 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 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

http://cumulusds.com

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

http://getwrench.com

Wrench provides an online platform designed to book appointments for on-site car repairing 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 offering its customers a way to completely disconnect while enjoying short vacations in nature.

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. 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

http://apprenticehealth.com

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

http://sunbit.com

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

Freebird

http://getfreebird.com

Freebird is a provider of a mobile re-booking tool designed to allow disrupted travelers instantly book a new ticket on any airline at no additional cost in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection.

Co-Investors

Amex Ventures, Accomplice, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures

OpenInvest

http://openinvest.co

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

http://commonbond.co

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

http://lacework.com

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

http://highbrewcoffee.com

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

http://dataminr.com

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

http://tethr.com

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

http://veritystudios.com

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

http://unitybiotechnology.com

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

RapidSOS

http://rapidsos.com

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

Co-Investors

Microsoft Ventures, Highland Capital

Kano

http://kano.me

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

http://getscopeai.com

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

http://henrythedentist.com

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)

http://jump.com

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

Co-Investors

Menlo Ventures

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

Developing a new class of immunomodulatory and gene silencing 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 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

http://analyticalspace.com

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

http://newleafsym.com

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

http://superphone.io

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

Freshly

http://freshly.com

Freshly is the market leader in the prepared meals space delivering healthy, gourmet, ready to heat meals to your door.

Co-Investors

Highland Capital, Insight Ventures, Nestle

SimpliSafe

http://simplisafe.com

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

http://sqrrl.com

Industry-leading threat hunting platform

Co-Investors

Spring Lake Equity, Rally Ventures, Matrix Partners, Accomplice

Rinse

http://rinse.com

Provider of dry cleaning and laundry delivery service.

Co-Investors

ParTech Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Arena Ventures

Sidecar Interactive

http://side.cr

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

http://domo.com

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

http://mic.com

Media brand and news platform for the Millennial generation.

Co-Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner, Advancit Capital

Admit Hub

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

Artificial intelligence-based sales automation platform designed to improve customer engagement.

Co-Investors

Kennet Partners, Toba Capital, Providence Growth

Compass Therapeutics

http://compasstherapeutics.com

Antibody discovery and development company co-founded by Adimab.

Co-Investors

OrbiMed, F-Prime Capital Partners (formerly Fidelity Biosciences), Borealis Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Thiel Capital

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The Yard Portfolio

Sampling of Our Portfolio Companies

STRIVR

PetPlate

Oura

LTSE

Own Up

Plastiq

Motif FoodWorks

Zeus

Olaris

Wheels

HopSkipDrive

Luma Health

Alyce

Digisure Inc

Hydrow

Jebbit

Knix

Dough

LandIt

Getaround

ConcealFab

Akorda

CumulusDS

Wrench

Getaway

Honor

Apprentice Health

Sunbit

Freebird

OpenInvest

CommonBond

Lacework

High Brew Coffee

Dataminr

Tethr

Verity Studios

Unity Biotechnology

RapidSOS

Kano

ScopeAI

Henry

Social Bicycles (Converted to Uber Available Stock)

Relayr

Exicure

Wheels Up

Analytical Space

NewLeaf

SuperPhone

Freshly

SimpliSafe