Startup · $89m raised · Software
Customer insights and research platform
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Dovetail raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Accel | Series A | - |
| Blackbird Ventures | Series A | - |
| Daniel Yanisse | Series A | - |
| Didier Elzinga | Series A | - |
| Felicis | Series A | - |
| Grok Ventures | Series A | - |
| Stewart Butterfield | Series A | - |
| Vlad Magdalin | Series A | - |
Companies Dovetail acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin | Blackbird Ventures (23 Jan 2025), Blackbird Ventures (18 Jun 2024) | |
| Benjamin Humphrey | CEO · Founder | Women's Agenda, Missing Perspectives, Startup Daily (14 Nov 2022), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (20 Jan 2022), TechCrunch Australia |
| Bethany Lo Russo | Legal Counsel | Women's Agenda |
| Bradley Ayers | Founder | Women's Agenda, SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
| Kai Forsyth | Designer (former) | SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
| Michelle "Mish" MacRae | Startup Daily, bowerlabs.ai, Ten13 |
Stories naming Dovetail. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Bower, an Australian startup, has closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by TEN13 with Admiralty Capital Group, Edale Capital and angel backers, funding ambient AI that captures laboratory work as structured research records.
Ten13 led Bower's A$2m pre-seed round for a voice-first AI assistant that helps scientists capture lab observations hands-free, founded by a four-person team with backgrounds at Microsoft, Google and Atlassian.
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Blackbird's blog post announces portfolio company Tracksuit has bought Hall, an AI brand-visibility startup the firm backed at pre-seed in 2023; Hall founder Kai Forsyth and his team have joined Tracksuit.
Weekly roundup: Breakthrough Victoria and Monash University co-invest $2.25 million across three university healthtech spinouts, while Blackbird backs Hall, which helps businesses win visibility on AI platforms, with $2 million pre-seed.
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Hall, created by a former Dovetail and Atlassian designer, has secured a pre-seed round backed by Blackbird to help businesses track and improve how AI chatbots represent them.
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Twine has raised $2.3 million in an Airtree-led round with three angel backers. The startup analyses business conversations to give sales and product teams actionable insight and plans to grow its AI features.
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Commentary on Dovetail's CEO being sued by the company's in-house lawyer, with notes on the startup's near-billion-dollar valuation and its Blackbird and Grok Ventures backing.
Blackbird's blog interviews Juno founder Michelle Gilmore about her AI conversation product, its early adopters, and the $2.8 million raised to scale it.
Interview with Juno founder Michelle Gilmore on her AI listening engine, fifth venture and first external funding — $2.8 million with Blackbird's Nick Crocker leading — plus early customers.
Square Peg led Lorikeet's US$5 million seed round for its AI customer-support automation platform, joined by Skip Capital and US angel investors, supporting the team's US expansion.
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Blackbird announces its investment in Atticus's $10.8 million raise and profiles the startup's founding team, product craft, and enterprise customers.
Partner content profiling Heatseeker, whose AI platform tests startup growth ideas live in-market; it reports the pre-seed round reaching $1.3 million, above the original $500,000 target, with Euphemia and US angels among backers.
AWS has selected ten Australian and New Zealand startups for its first generative AI accelerator, a six-week program offering technical training, mentorship, AWS credits and a demo day pitch to investors.
A profile of Sydney sustainable office furniture startup Recess, covering its soundproof Nook booths, rebrand from Nook, customer growth, and the $1 million raise it secured in late 2021 from angel and private investors.
Manager-training platform The Mintable, founded by Lauren Humphrey and Melissa Miller, has raised a $6.8 million seed round led by Blackbird, after previously securing $1.3 million in pre-seed backing.
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Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup: AirTree raises $700m across three new funds, dozens of Australian startups announce rounds, a wave of acquisitions including Block completing its Afterpay buy, plus Web3 commentary and US market moves.
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SmartCompany reviews 2021's record ANZ startup funding, topping $10 billion per Cut Through Venture, highlighting mega-rounds by SimPRO, Rokt, Canva and Airwallex, plus early-2022 raises by Dovetail, Milkrun and TradeSquare.
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Customer research platform Dovetail has raised US$63 million led by Accel at a near-unicorn valuation, with Blackbird and Felicis also taking part, as co-founders Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers plan global growth.
Techboard's year-end roundup catalogues November funding activity: big raises for Rokt, Harrison.ai and Pet Circle, five acquisitions, Investible's second fund closing at $51.6m, plus a watchlist of companies still seeking capital.
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HR software maker Enboarder lands $45 million from US growth backer NewSpring, with a NewSpring partner joining the board; the piece also recaps its earlier Series A top-up and other recent local rounds.
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