Jason D. Whitmire

General Partner at BlueYard

📍 Berlin Metropolitan Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Germany20+ investments
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Jul 2020
Dance was founded on the purpose of having a positive impact across health, sustainability and livable cities. Through our subscription service we want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. We believe this will make people happier, the planet healthier and our cities more livable.
Board Member
Dec 2019
To join us on our journey, subscribe to get first updates at wwww.thinkhumm.com/subscribe. Follow us on any social media @thinkhumm, and feel free to reach out at thinkbetter@thinkhumm.com. Cheers!
early stageBiotechnology
Board Member
Jul 2019
Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by developing a laser-driven fusion power plant.
Board Member
Jun 2019
SEEQC is developing the first digital quantum computing platform for global businesses. SEEQC combines classical and quantum technologies to address the efficiency, stability and cost issues endemic to quantum computing systems. The company applies classical and quantum technology through digital readout and control technology and through a unique chip-scale architecture. SEEQC’s quantum system provides the energy and cost-efficiency, speed and digital control required to make quantum computing useful and scalable. The company is one of the first companies to have built a superconductor multi-layer commercial chip foundry and through this experience has the infrastructure in place for design, testing and manufacturing of quantum-ready superconductors. SEEQC is a spin-out of Hypres, the world’s leading developer of superconductor electronics. SEEQC’s team of executives and scientists have deep expertise and experience in commercial superconductive computing solutions and quantum computing. SEEQC is based in Elmsford, NY.
Investor
Mar 2019
GRID is the future of numbers. A magical all-in-one surface, GRID is transforming the way teams work with spreadsheets
Board Member
Mar 2019
bit.bio is an award-winning human synthetic biology company - our mission: coding cells for novel cures. We have developed an end-to-end platform for the creation of any human cell type. With our cutting-edge and patent-protected opti-ox precision cell programming technology, we can deterministically program human iPSCs into a chosen cell identity with unprecedented biological consistency at an industrial scale, and approximately 10 times faster than conventional methods. Our platform has the potential to unlock a new generation of medicines. Our io Cells research products provide scientists access to highly characterised, consistent, scalable human cells that enable research and drug discovery teams to accelerate their experimental timelines and reduce experimental variability, providing an important alternative to traditional workflows. We are also leveraging our platform to build a pipeline of txCells for cell therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cell biology, cell programming, mathematical modelling and cell therapy. We are empirical, highly ambitious and driven by a shared vision. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. Join us on our journey. For more information on bit.bio’s trademarks, visit www.bit.bio/trademarks
Board Member
Jul 2018
Airtm unleashes the worlds digital entrepreneurs for your business. We enable companies to attract, pay, and engage contributors in developing economies efficiently, consciously, and profitably. Our platform connects you with a vibrant community of digital entrepreneurs through the worlds most versatile digital wallet. We facilitate faster, more cost-effective transactions that drive growth and retention, letting you focus on expansion rather than administration. By prioritizing both your business needs and contributor satisfaction, Airtm ensures digital entrepreneurs preserve more of their earnings value. This approach optimizes your business model while increasing competitiveness in global markets. With Airtm, youre not just streamlining payments – youre fostering a sustainable, global digital economy. Our unique revenue-sharing model and peer-to-peer network, powered by local Cashiers and Ambassadors, boost your bottom line while fueling employment in the regions we serve. Unleash the power of digital entrepreneurs for your business with Airtm –the intersection of efficiency, consciousness, and profitability.
Board Member
Jul 2018
Meatable is leading the charge in revolutionizing how the meat industry sources and produces meat. We are a partner to the industry and provide the science and technology to sustainably produce affordable, great-tasting, real meat at scale. Meatable’s cultivated meat technology is designed to complement and integrate into the existing traditional meat industry’s supply chains, offering opportunities for partnerships that strengthen the entire system. We accomplish this without harming animals or the planet, 25x times faster than traditional protein. Meatable is positioned to be THE solution for feeding a hungry planet in the future.
early stageFood Production
Investor
Apr 2018
Pitch is the AI presentation platform that helps you collaborate on, create, and deliver winning slide decks — all while staying on brand. Whether you’re in tech, media, or the creative space, AI-powered features and collaborative workflows help your team craft consistently high-quality slides in minutes. And with digital sales rooms, engagement analytics, and integrations, you can impress clients and close with confidence. To learn more and get started, visit pitch.com. Imprint: https://pitch.com/imprint Privacy Policy: https://pitch.com/privacy-policy Pitch Software GmbH Joachimstraße 7 10119 Berlin Germany +49 30 9837 0206 hello@pitch.com Managing Director (Geschäftsführer and redaktionell Verantwortlicher) Adam Renklint Commercial Register Local Court of Charlottenburg HRB 193605 B VAT-ID DE316292236 We assume no liability for the content of websites linked to us. The owners of these linked websites take sole responsibility for their contents.
Board Member
Mar 2018
Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets onchain.
Investor
Dec 2017
Founded in 2015, OpenZeppelin is the world leader in securing blockchain applications and smart contract systems. Its bedrock open source Contract Libraries are a public good and industry standard for smart contract development. OpenZeppelin’s professional expertise, unified with the Defender developer security platform, integrates through clients’ development lifecycles, so teams can plan, code, audit, deploy and operate projects faster and more safely. OpenZeppelin secures success for over a thousand trusted crypto protocols and organizations, including Coinbase, Ethereum Foundation, Compound, Aave, Uniswap, Matter Labs and ANZ Bank. With the success of our product, our security audits work, and our educational efforts, we have set industry standards for building secure systems in a fast-growing industry, which presents new programming paradigms. We are now excited to offer a development platform that will help the growing number of developers working on top of decentralized protocols build the applications that will reach mass adoption.
Investor
Jun 2017
Standard Library: Infinitely scalable, self-healing web services in an instant. StdLib is the easiest way to create, distribute and discover web services. Ship products and build your API business faster than ever before using cutting edge "server-less" technology.
Board Member
Jan 2017
Transforming Space Data into Actionable Intelligence SpaceKnow empowers decision-makers with ultra large-scale planetary analysis. Our secret? A proprietary, AI-powered analytics engine, combined with the world’s most comprehensive collection of earth observation imagery.
Investor
Apr 2016
Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. We connect more than 600 tech startups, funds, accelerators, foundations, open source projects, service providers, and other organizations. Our work spans the entire R&D pipeline, across fields like web3, AI, AR, VR, neurotech, hardware, and more. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest updates from around the network: https://bit.ly/PLUpdatesSubscribe
Board Member
May 2015
Seerene is the first integrated Digital Engineering Platform for the end-to-end management of software systems. Seerene's software analytics platform provides actionable insights into software development processes, source code, system evolution, and software developers. Seerene, using AI, extracts the meta data and analyses it holistically and with respect to various issues in software development, such as for risk prevention, effort estimation, team composition, etc. The analytics platform incorporates all phases of the software development process and software delivery (end-to-end). By leveraging AI to integrate all available data from tools, methods, and metrics, Seerene creates a new foundation of shared knowledge and insights in the form of their ‘Digital Boardroom’, empowering the decision-markers in software engineering. The Seerene Digital Boardroom becomes the central reporting, control, and management system, with which the various factors in software development are optimally aligned with company goals and objectives. Seerene's SaaS-based analytics platform works independent of the programming languages, software methodology, software technologies, and software frameworks. The platform uses AI and machine learning to analyze complex relationships that occur during software development. Sereene has offices in Potsdam and Berlin. The startup started as the offspring of fifteen years of research at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Seerene is funded by Lakestar and Earlybird, two of the most prominent VCs in Europe. In 2016, it won the Digital Top 50 ‘Best Startup’ award from Google and McKinsey & Company. In 2018, Seerene was placed in the Microsoft Scaleup program for the most innovative postseries A startups in Europe.
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2020
Investor
Jul 2020
Dance was founded on the purpose of having a positive impact across health, sustainability and livable cities. Through our subscription service we want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. We believe this will make people happier, the planet healthier and our cities more livable.
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
To join us on our journey, subscribe to get first updates at wwww.thinkhumm.com/subscribe. Follow us on any social media @thinkhumm, and feel free to reach out at thinkbetter@thinkhumm.com. Cheers!
early stageBiotechnology
Board Member
Jul 2019
Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by developing a laser-driven fusion power plant.
Board Member
Jun 2019
SEEQC is developing the first digital quantum computing platform for global businesses. SEEQC combines classical and quantum technologies to address the efficiency, stability and cost issues endemic to quantum computing systems. The company applies classical and quantum technology through digital readout and control technology and through a unique chip-scale architecture. SEEQC’s quantum system provides the energy and cost-efficiency, speed and digital control required to make quantum computing useful and scalable. The company is one of the first companies to have built a superconductor multi-layer commercial chip foundry and through this experience has the infrastructure in place for design, testing and manufacturing of quantum-ready superconductors. SEEQC is a spin-out of Hypres, the world’s leading developer of superconductor electronics. SEEQC’s team of executives and scientists have deep expertise and experience in commercial superconductive computing solutions and quantum computing. SEEQC is based in Elmsford, NY.
Investor
Mar 2019
GRID is the future of numbers. A magical all-in-one surface, GRID is transforming the way teams work with spreadsheets
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