Investors / Rock Yard Ventures
Rock Yard Ventures
Venture capital
Rock Yard Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building companies in critical industries. It typically writes $50k-$100k checks in pre-seed and seed rounds, usually not leading, and supports founders with customer introductions, go-to-market and sales help, and fundraising.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsroboticssupply chainmanufacturingenergyinfrastructurehealthcare
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Or find every investor that fitsRock Yard Ventures lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Industrial & Manufacturing (17%) and Healthcare & Biotech (17%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Chalfen Ventures, Multimodal Ventures and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Rock Yard Ventures, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Chalfen Ventures | 2 |
| Multimodal Ventures | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| Breakthrough Energy Ventures | 1 |
| Collaborative Fund | 1 |
| Detroit Venture Partners | 1 |
| Earth Venture Capital | 1 |
| Eight Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- 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 companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 17% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Chalfen Ventures
Compare Rock Yard Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Rock Yard Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Rock Yard Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Rock Yard Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and provides an autocomplete tool for CAD software to help engineers design faster. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Iridius develops artificial intelligence technology for regulated industries to ensure compliance with regulatory standards | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Sygaldry builds quantum-accelerated AI servers to speed up training and inference for artificial intelligence models. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- rockyardventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Apr 2026
- Companies checked
- 3
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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