But first, a word from our founders:

“Brickyard is the Bermuda Triangle of hard work... 100 hour weeks are easy here.”

“A pressure cooker for finding PMF. When you go there as a team, anyone still on the fence will end up leaving, while the core team is revealed and leans in harder. The team will get closer.”

“None of us moved to Brickyard for the Chattanooga nightlife or because we couldn’t raise elsewhere. We came here to leave it all on the field.”

“Brickyard founders are a different type. Everyone here has put their life on hold to give everything to their company. If you think you’d like it, then you’ll love it. If you think it sounds like too much work, it probably is. That's all we do here!”

“Brickyard is a simple idea taken very seriously: success is more likely with sustained focus & intensity. It's a founder-dojo built around getting needle-moving reps in. It's where Rocky would be if he wanted to be a founder.”

“This is not ‘not another accelerator’. It’s not an accelerator at all.”

“We were at a point where the team felt we needed to divorce ourselves from the distracting elements of startup life that don’t move the needle. Nowhere could we do this more effectively than Brickyard.”

“There is a huge power in building with other people who ‘get it’. Being around founders you know deeply who celebrate your wins with you, because they know how significant breaking $500k ARR is.”

“Brickyard is like being dropped into the big leagues after playing pickup. I thought it would be more about learning new things, but a lot of what I've learned was unlearning old habits that slowed down our team.”

“Proximity is one of the biggest game changers at Brickyard. Instead of a-sync advice from out-of-touch VCs, you just walk 10 feet to ask real operators that you know deeply, the real questions, and they have your back when things go sideways.”

Pilot

1 Waypoint — email notification eng 5.21

2 Repowr— #1 freight asset marketplace 6.21

3 Joon — behavioral game for adhd 7.21

4 Brev— easy to use gpus 8.21 🧱 (Acq: NVIDIA)

5 Barometer— podcast ad unlock for big cos 8.21

6 Savvy — agentic e-comm merchandising 10.21

7 Ender— skills development for kids 10.21 ☠️

8 Krepling— shopify for the mid market 12.21

9 Fluent— learn a language passively 12.21 ☠️

10 Rollfi— embed payroll 1.22 🧱 (Acq: PRTH)

11 Iron — productizing the gym 2.22

12 Provision — ai for pre-construction 4.22

13 Coast — sales demos for api-first cos 5.22

14 Shappi— x-border e-commerce for latam 6.22

15 Lux Bio — industrial bioluminescence 9.22

Fund One

16 DebtWise — whitelabel debt mgmt tools 10.22

17 Camlist — fraud-free pet buying 1.23 ☠️

18 &who — magical warm intros 2.23

19 Gumption— CRE financing marketplace 2.23

20 Thread — ai for personal finance 4.23

21 Sendspark— video for sales that scales 4.23

22 Pledge — patient billing on autopilot 5.23

23 Textla— twilio for low-tech companies 6.23

24 Allera— the OS for food manufacturers 6.23

25 Roundtable — proof-of-human api 9.23

26 Prosal— RFPs on autopilot 10.23

27 Zest — duolingo for cooking 10.23

28 Haven — automate property mgmt 11.23

29 Instafi— brex for construction/lenders 1.24

30 Tesbros — DIY auto vinyl 4.24

31 Atelier Society — embedded tailoring 4.24 ☠️

32 CrowdVolt — live events infrastructure 6.24

33 Carbon Origins — heavy metal tele-op 6.24

34 Station — monetization for big podcasts 7.24

35 Talisman — ai for accounting firms 7.24

36 Sociable — agentic social engagement 8.24

37 Askari — the warfighter’s defensive drones 8.24

38 Goliath Data — off market RE at scale 9.24

39 MenuData — ai for F&B insights 11.24

40 Clockout — EWA for banks 12.24

41 Warrant — SoR for marketing compliance 1.25

42 Electrokare — real time electrolyte insight 2.25

43 Plaza — future of RE asset management 4.25

44 Harmony — ai workflows for legacy co’s 4.25

45 Scaylor — ai platform for PE excellence 6.25

46 Cultra — ai data analytics for farms 7.25

47 Kunin — mining waste streams 8.25

48 Dimension Labs — unstructured data intel 9.25

49 Candytrail — ai agents for in person sales teams 10.25

50 Memvid — memory infra for edge ai 10.25

Hailing from: SFO, NYC, BOS, ATL, BHM, EWR, AUS, MLA, YVR, LHR, YUL, CHI, SAN, YVR, DXB, ATH, DFW, CHA, IND, MIA, LAX, RIC, YYZ, IAD, RDU, SLC, GUA, SNA & MSP.

🧱 - Acquired

☠️ - KIA