Chad Fowler is a programmer, author, and venture capitalist who serves as Partner and CTO at BlueYard Capital. Chad Fowler's Twitter Score is 69 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #13,832 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Chad Fowler works at BlueYard Capital, a small equal partnership that describes itself as managing $500M in assets under management and deploying its third fund, with investments ranging from $500K to $5M at the pre-seed to Series A stage. The firm maintains a dedicated crypto thesis centered on open, resilient, and frictionless capital coordination systems, with a portfolio spanning projects such as Filecoin, Cosmos, Ethereum, Flashbots, Helium, Protocol Labs, and Centrifuge, among others.
Chad Fowler co-founded Ruby Central and founded RailsConf, and previously served as co-organizer of RubyConf and as a co-creator and maintainer of RubyGems. He previously worked at Microsoft and formerly at Wunderlist. Chad Fowler is also the author of an upcoming book on crypto and Web3, and is currently building a project called freeq.
Chad Fowler has 305,630 followers as of July 2026 and has published 59,046 posts. Chad Fowler has been mentioned by 87 accounts, with 217 total mentions.
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