Ciarán O'Leary

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Ciarán O'Leary

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GP @blueyard - investing in technologies that move us toward utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion.

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Ciarán O'Leary
Ciarán O'Leary@ciaranoleary·
Last September, we brought 100 AI founders, builders & researchers working on the hard edges and challenges surrounding scaling AI to the mountains. From the chip level to applied AI in hard industries, and questions surrounding the coexistence of humanity and AI. Instead of a convention centre, we climbed a mountain together, stopping at discussion camps. The night before: deep regrets for organizing something that surely would go wrong. What followed though, was pure magic. So, climbing Hard AI Peaks is back: September 16–18, 2026. This year, we're opening to more early-stage builders. All expenses on us — just bring your mind & hiking boots. Apply here: blueyard.typeform.com/to/mOmtHDy3 2025 recap: youtube.com/watch?v=UMdYT9…
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BlueYard Capital
BlueYard Capital@blueyard·
In September last year, we gathered 100 AI founders, builders, researchers and backers focused on the hard edges and challenges around scaling AI compute and applied intelligence. No stages, no panels - just real talk, open minds, and debates while climbing winding trails between discussion camps on a mountain. From the chip level up to applied AI in hard industries, to questions around the co-existence of humanity and AI. That was Climbing Hard AI peaks. We were lucky to be joined by builders, founders and researchers from organizations including: Anthropic, CDTM, DeepMind, ETHZurich, Google, OpenAI, Stanford, and TUM. And today, we are announcing: Climbing Hard AI Peaks is returning. September 16th - 18th, 2026. The opportunities have gotten larger, the challenges too - it's time to go climbing together again. Last year 90% of the audience was invite only, mainly driven by our network. This year, we are opening the event to a larger number of early-stage builders to join and enhance their knowledge and network through Climbing Hard AI Peaks. All expenses on us. You just bring your mind & hiking boots. Apply here to join us: blueyard.typeform.com/to/mOmtHDy3
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Castelion
Castelion@Castelion·
"The mission that we’re pursuing, of low-cost, capable missiles, could not be more important for the country right now." — @hargsb, @Castelion Co-Founder & CEO Our founders sat down with @TheFP to discuss American defense and the role of hypersonics: 🔗 thefp.com/p/the-us-needs…
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Castelion@Castelion·
Peace Through Deterrence doesn't happen on its own. It has to be built. At @Castelion, we're building long-range hypersonic strike systems designed for the speed and scale modern deterrence requires. That capability takes real work. It's what our team shows up to do every day. Join us: castelion.com/careers/
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Cryptio
Cryptio@cryptio_co·
Yesterday we announced Cryptio's $45M Series B. Here’s what we’re going to do with the money.
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Ciarán O'Leary@ciaranoleary·
We all know civilization started with accounting. So as crypto enters its civilized phase, @AntoineScalia and team @cryptio_co will lead the path to regulated financial markets by building the ERP infrastructure layer for digital assets. Excited to be tripling down!
Cryptio@cryptio_co

With this raise we’re going well beyond accounting. Reconciliation, loan management, tokenization compliance and treasury management – building a complete data transformation and ERP platform for digital assets. fortune.com/2026/03/12/cry…

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Michael Wax
Michael Wax@themikewax·
Wanted: Chief of Staff for a portfolio company building Solid Rocket Motors. Incredible team and mission. DM me for more information
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Michael Wax
Michael Wax@themikewax·
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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Axios
Axios@axios·
Castelion's air-launched variant of the Blackbeard hypersonic missile will fly aboard an F/A-18 in the near future, Axios has learned axios.com/2026/03/04/cas…
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Castelion
Castelion@Castelion·
Great to see @Castelion recognized as a Defense News 2026 Tech Disruptor - our team is pushing hard to challenge what's possible in defense technology. Thanks to @defense_news for including us on this year's list.
Defense News@defense_news

We’re proud to announce the publication of the 2026 Defense News Tech Disruptors list, recognizing the innovators reshaping national security. Explore the full list and see who’s driving decision dominance in 2026 ➡️ defensenews.com/index?utm_sour…  . . Read the full press release: defensenews.com/press-release/…

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Laszlo Szabo
Laszlo Szabo@laszlo__szabo·
Finance is being rebuilt. Tokenization is turning every asset class into a programmable, onchain instrument. Yield is no longer confined to a handful of institutions. It is becoming transparent, accessible, and global. We have been building for this moment. Kiln powers programmatic yield infrastructure for institutions such as VanEck and CoinShares, now ready to deploy onchain at scale. At the same time, we power yield for leading retail platforms including @Ledger, @TrustWallet, @cryptocom, and @safe, surpassing $18.5Bn in TVL last year. Now we take the next step. @Kiln_finance OmniVault brings asset managers and their strategies onchain across DeFi and real world assets, across venues and asset classes, without lock in. 🌟 High yield stablecoin strategies. 🌟 Leveraged ETH staking strategies. 🌟 Exclusive 4 to 6 percent BTC yield strategies. Institutions can allocate. Platforms can distribute. Users can access. All within a governed, compliant, and transparent framework. This is not just about yield. It is about building the capital markets infrastructure of the onchain economy. More to come soon 👀
Kiln 🧱🔥@Kiln_finance

For the first time, platforms and institutions can access exclusive strategies from the world's trusted asset managers, without being locked in or navigating risk and compliance complexity onchain. Yield access should be governed, not fragmented. That's what Kiln OmniVault, the evolution of Kiln DeFi, is for: the bespoke vault infrastructure that brings leading TradFi asset managers onchain for the first time to the platforms and institutions ready to distribute them at scale. Strategy marketplace: Stablecoin (3–12% APY), ETH (4–5% APY), BTC (4–6% APY) – available today. Already live on stablecoins with @Ledger, @TrustWallet and @safe, reaching $600M+ TVL in under a year. Learn more: kiln.fi/post/the-futur…

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BlueYard Capital
BlueYard Capital@blueyard·
We’ve reserved the last few spots for seed-stage founders/builders outside of our immediate network – those working on some of the most consequential technologies to see humanity through this great filter moment. We will cover flight and lodging costs for a select few to attend. Apply here: blueyard.typeform.com/to/VjyWz9ut
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BlueYard Capital
BlueYard Capital@blueyard·
On March 24-25, in Los Angeles, we are bringing together founders, builders, experts, investors and LPs for 2 days of workshops, debates and open conversations – all pointed towards the question of how we can move humanity toward utopia, while holding the line against oblivion. Expect to mingle with peers and founders of more advanced multi-$bn companies, and previous attendants of BlueYard summits have included some of the world's leading politicians, historians and scientists - so expect an immersive experience that will expand your horizon.
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BlueYard Capital
BlueYard Capital@blueyard·
On March 3rd we’re bringing The Risk Club to Lisbon with @ric0seq and our friends from @PointNineCap to debate one central question in a Jeffersonian format: What must be built in a multipolar world?
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Ciarán O'Leary@ciaranoleary·
Building a technology that can impact the trajectory of civilizational progress? Looking to join a like-minded community? Look no further than @shipfr8. Delighted to be teaming up with @ErnestiSario and the team to (i) host a Risk Club session (see below) and (ii) fund travel for a handful of young mavericks to fly to Helsinki and get to know FR8 and the community better. Apply here: blueyard.typeform.com/to/AV8ID1Cf?ty…
BlueYard Capital@blueyard

The band of possible outcomes for our civilizational trajectory has widened, and the margin for error is deadly sharp. In these times, we have to support the builders working on the most consequential technologies of our time. That is what @shipfr8 in Helsinki is all about: a new institution for young technical mavericks going all-in on building the future. They’re a small group of dropouts who took over a former university building and turned it into a monastery for exceptional technical minds from all over the world, from MIT, Stanford, ETH and beyond. We are excited to be collaborating with FR8 to co-host the Helsinki Risk Club on the evening of March 17th at FR8. The Risk Club gathers founders, builders, investors, researchers and policy makers in an intimate setting (Jeffersonian debate dinner) of a maximum of 20 participants, to discuss and debate the key risks and opportunities of our time, with the goal of building and going risk-on in these ultra-volatile times. Strategies will be developed and shared.

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BlueYard Capital
BlueYard Capital@blueyard·
If we want better AI, we need human feedback that moves as fast as AI does. We've doubled down on the @RapidataAI team (pre-seed + seed) because they built an ingenious solution to make that possible. ~5,500 humans providing feedback per minute, through apps like Duolingo and Candy Crush.
Rapidata@RapidataAI

Today we’re announcing an $8.5M seed round led by @canaanpartners and @iaventures , with participation from @AcequiaCapital and @blueyard. Modern AI systems depend on large volumes of human feedback to train and evaluate — but collecting that data at scale has been slow and fragmented. Rapidata enables teams to gather targeted feedback from real people worldwide on demand, compressing cycles that once took months into hours or days and allowing continuous model improvement. We’ll use this funding to expand our global human data network as demand for fast, high-quality human insight continues to grow. Turning human insight into scalable infrastructure for AI.

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