Rock Yard Ventures

Hestus provides an autocomplete solution for CAD design, enhancing user experience by predicting design intent and offering one-keystroke suggestions.

Interface is the intelligence layer built on operational data and processes, empowering teams with real-time guidance, automated compliance monitoring, and seamless workflow management.

JoulesAI focuses on developing advanced AI solutions for energy systems, including electric vehicle charging and smart grid technologies.

AI-Powered Observability for Critical Infrastructure

Permitify is AI-assisted site analysis for land development teams, helping to de-risk projects early and make confident go/no-go decisions before investing extensive time and resources.

Rectangle is building technology to help logistics teams move freight with unparalleled levels of efficiency and visibility, addressing the data fragmentation issues in the logistics ecosystem.

Neurocad is AI-enabled infrastructure that transforms datasheets, drawings, and design documents into native, parametric CAD artifacts across Altium, SolidWorks, KiCad, and adjacent tools. Engineers describe what they're building; Neurocad materializes it as DRC-valid output ready to push directly into their existing tools. Zero re-entry.

Revin provides an AI operating system designed for enterprise revenue teams, focusing on automating and scaling revenue operations in the home services, construction, and remodeling sectors.

Semble AI is revolutionizing building system design through AI automation, helping construction companies transform months of work into hours while ensuring complete code compliance and AHJ approval.

Vallor is an AI-powered contract management platform that automates procurement tasks, optimizes contracts, and provides data-driven insights to maximize value from purchasing contracts.

Veria Labs provides continuous AI-powered penetration testing to identify and fix vulnerabilities in software applications, ensuring security without compromising speed in development.

Seed-stage investor backing European/Israeli deep-tech founders; makes 4–8 high-conviction bets yearly, often sole first-round backer, using US offices, immigration counsel and advisory network to crack the US market.

A pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that operates as a true US-Israel bridge, helping Israeli founders expand to the US while bringing US networks back to Israel. The firm positions itself as an extension of your headcount by sitting in portfolio company Slack channels, maintaining weekly calls, and proactively helping with hiring and customer introductions.

Felicis explicitly defines founders as their customer rather than LPs and has publicly committed to always vote with founders in board matters. The firm created a 1% Founder Development Pledge providing non-dilutive capital for founders personal development like coaching and therapy. Felicis systematically optimizes for revenue efficiency and backs geo-agnostic teams outside Silicon Valley, focusing on reinvention of large existing markets with 10x better products and frontier solutions in areas like longevity and engineered foods.

Solo GP Josh Buckley—former teenage founder and Product Hunt CEO—makes concentrated, conviction-driven bets, leveraging a lean team that moves with angel-like speed and can lead sizable rounds.