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Brickyard

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Brickyard writes ten $500-$800k checks per year to early-stage teams and hosts about 20 portfolio companies at a time in its private in-person facility. Teams relocate to build intensively until reaching a self-selected ARR of $1-3m, typically staying around 18 months.

Invests inCybersecurityAI & Machine Learning

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1portfolio companies
1funding rounds on record
1rounds, last 12 months
$1M to $5Mtypical round it comes in at
Seedmost frequent entry

Brickyard lists 1 checked portfolio company on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Cybersecurity (50%) and AI & Machine Learning (50%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Alumni Ventures, Array Ventures and Base10 Partners.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Brickyard, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.

Entry stage

share of companies by the stage of its first round

Brickyard does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed100%
Series A0%
Series B0%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
Alumni Ventures 1Array Ventures 1Base10 Partners 1Liquid 2 Ventures 1PearX 1Sarah Smith Fund 1Xevin Investments 1
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Co-investors
Share
Alumni Ventures1
Array Ventures1
Base10 Partners1
Liquid 2 Ventures1
PearX1
Sarah Smith Fund1
Xevin Investments1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers1100%
  • No longer answers00%
  • Points to another company00%
  • Parked or sold domain00%

A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.

Investment themes

share of its checked companies
Cybersecurity 50%AI & Machine Learning 50%

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Investment themes
This firmAll checked companies
Cybersecurity50%4%
AI & Machine Learning50%18%

Co-investor network

who it backs companies with, and who they back together
6 shared companies4 shared companies3 shared companies2 shared companies2 shared companies2 shared companies2 shared companies2 shared companies2 shared companiesAlumni Ventures: 1 shared companiesAlumni Ventures1Array Ventures: 1 shared companiesArray Ventures1Base10 Partners: 1 shared companiesBase10 Partners1Liquid 2 Ventures: 1 shared companiesLiquid 2 Ventures1PearX: 1 shared companiesPearX1Sarah Smith Fund: 1 shared companiesSarah Smith Fund1Xevin Investments: 1 shared companiesXevin Investments1
Shared portfolio companies with BrickyardFirms that also back companies together

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Compare Brickyard head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back
vs Alumni Ventures1 shared companyvs Array Ventures1 shared companyvs Base10 Partners1 shared companyvs Liquid 2 Ventures1 shared companyvs PearX1 shared companyvs Sarah Smith Fund1 shared company

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Brickyard
DateCompanyStage
7 Oct 2026Hilthilt.aiSeed

Round details for Brickyard

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Brickyard's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

1 company checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
Hilthilt.ai · United StatesHilt provides data movement governance services to companies to prevent sensitive data from moving to unauthorized locations
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
Oct 2026SeedFunding round

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026
The homepage of Brickyard, as last read
justlaybrick.com as VCinfo last read it
Site
justlaybrick.com
Last read
5 Nov 2026
Watching since
6 Nov 2026
Rounds since
7 Oct 2026
Companies checked
1

Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.

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