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Blackbird announces its new early-stage and growth funds have brought in A$1.05 billion, reflecting on early cheques, portfolio outcomes like Eucalyptus's sale, and new international backers.
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Blackbird's post explains why it led Superstat's seed round alongside Startmate and angel backers, praising the founding trio's decade-long shared focus and rapid early growth in amateur basketball analytics.
Blackbird introduces the twelve engineers, mathematicians and researchers chosen for the first Foundry Fellowship, a program connecting technical people with founders and investors across Australia and New Zealand.
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.
Blackbird's post explaining its participation in Baseten's $1.5 billion Series F, its biggest investment yet, and why inference infrastructure will anchor the open-source AI era; notes rapid growth and senior engineering hires.
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Blackbird partner Rick Baker recalls backing Canva's founders in 2013 and argues its 2026 AI launch extends that founding purpose to a new frontier.
Blackbird partner Tom Humphrey argues AI panic overstates the threat to software firms, sketching four stages from bolting on models to training them, and pointing to Canva's acquisitions and Springboards' new model as proof.
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Blackbird's investment note explains why it backed Halter's US$220 million Series E at a US$2 billion valuation, recounting the farm-collar company's growth since the firm led its Series B in 2021.
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Blackbird's operating chief reflects on four years of the fund's independent, quarterly valuation process, citing the Eucalyptus acquisition and its returns as proof the 2022 policy endured.
Blackbird's investment note sets out why the firm joined Baseten's $300 million Series E with IVP, Capital G, Nvidia and Greylock, praising the inference startup's customer culture and its purchase of Parsed.
Blackbird partner Niki Scevak argues SaaS is not dead; winners will be companies that reinvent for AI, citing Canva's AI pivot and Kaleido acquisition, plus Heidi Health's new software category for doctors.
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Blackbird's post explains why it led Ivo's US$55 million Series B with five co-investors, citing the legal-AI company's product expansion, customer growth, and adoption by major corporates.
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Blackbird's annual letter recaps its 2025 deployment, cash returns, community programs and foundation grants, and introduces Jessica Tulp as the newest addition to its investing team.
Blackbird's Rick Baker recounts backing rocket firm Gilmour Space from its 2017 Series A to a newly closed A$217 million Series E at a valuation above US$1 billion.
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Blackbird's post explains why it led Elyos's Series A with PiLabs, YC and 468 Capital, profiling the AI phone-agent startup for trade businesses, its traction and its three founders.
Blackbird's investment note recapping its backing of Coherence Neuro and the neural implant startup's development milestones, institutional collaborations, and path toward first-in-human glioblastoma trials.
Blackbird partners reflect on their early pre-seed backing of AI entertainment studio Wonder Studios, covering its client projects, original shows and StoryEngine tooling since that first investment.
Blackbird's investment notes announce its backing of Heidi's Series B alongside Point72 Private Investments, describing the AI medical scribe's rapid growth, enterprise traction, and international expansion.
Blackbird's investment note announces a pre-seed backing of Enhance Labs, an early-stage AI startup, and outlines its product approach and founding team.
Blackbird's investment note announces it led Alloy Technologies' $4.5 million pre-seed round, profiling founder Joe Harris and describing the startup's software for robotics companies deploying artificial intelligence.
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Blackbird partners recount backing Marloo's founders before they had settled on an idea, having led its 2024 pre-seed and now announcing its seed round.
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Blackbird shares results from its third year tracking how many women-led teams reach its investment committee, reporting FY25 gains in backing female founders, a market comparison with Cut Through Venture, and new sourcing partnerships.
Blackbird's investment note announces it joined Halter's US$100 million Series D, a round Bond led with NewView also coming aboard, praising Halter's growth and market position across three countries.
Blackbird partner Samantha Wong reflects on a decade of the firm's Sunrise conference and Australia's startup ecosystem, recalling Atlassian's Nasdaq listing and Aconex's float and sale to Oracle.
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Three founder mothers, behind Sunroom, Sense of Self and More Good Days, describe balancing startups with parenting; More Good Days' Neala Fulia recalls her first raise overshooting expectations, with Blackbird backing.
Blackbird's note describes its new lead investment in Springboards, a Noosa, Queensland AI platform for advertising creatives, covering its product, early adopters, and founding team.
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Blackbird partners explain why the firm's 2022 fund led Factor House's $5 million seed round, profiling the Melbourne developer-tools startup, its Kafka and Flink management products, revenue growth and customers.
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Blackbird's investment note explains why it led Index's A$3.5 million seed round with Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator and industry angels, profiling the planning platform built by two former Canva and Atlassian staff.
Blackbird's note explains why it led Lorikeet's nine-million-US-dollar round alongside co-investors, describing the startup's workflow-first approach to harder support tickets and its results with Eucalyptus.
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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.
Blackbird's note explains its decision to lead Clutch's $2 million pre-seed round, citing the fashion-glue brand's organic social growth, strong Priceline sales, and upcoming United States retail launch.
Profile of La Foundary co-founder Anh Van, who grows mycelium from food waste to create sustainable packaging and art, ahead of future fundraising plans.
Blackbird's annual review letter recaps a year of investing: sums deployed across dozens of rounds, distributions to its investors, four new investment-team members introduced, and foundation and community program highlights.
Profile of Annie Liao, 23, founder of Build Club, who has closed a $1.8 million round to build an AI learning platform, tracing her path from Westpac, BCG and Aura Ventures into startups.
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Interview with Sunroom co-founder Michelle Battersby on her path from Citibank and Bumble to Kic and Sunroom; Blackbird partner Nick Crocker recalls backing the company.
Blackbird announces its investment in Atticus's $10.8 million raise and profiles the startup's founding team, product craft, and enterprise customers.
A Blackbird partner argues AI has revived vertical software by turning hard-to-sell customers into product-led buyers, noting the firm recently backed three such startups and recalling Aconex's sale to Oracle.
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Blackbird partner Samantha Wong is handing leadership of the firm's New Zealand arm to Phoebe Harrop and reflects on building Blackbird Aotearoa, its fundraising, portfolio and lessons from Kiwi founders.
Blackbird's investor relations lead reflects on its limited partners, recalls the A$29 million first fund and A$1 billion returned to early backers, and flags her move to part-time as the firm seeks a replacement.
Blackbird has hired On Deck co-founder David Booth for its New Zealand investing team in an EIR role; the post recounts his career and On Deck's roughly $100 million raise.
Blackbird partner Samantha Wong responds to recent press about Kiki, explaining why the firm backed the subletting marketplace, how it supports founders through pivots, and its work on funding gender diversity.
Blackbird's yearly letter recaps 2023: 38 investments worth $189 million across Australian and New Zealand startups, heavy AI and deep tech deployment, community programs, and open investment-team roles.
Blackbird announces it led Clove's US$2.75 million pre-seed round. Founders Anna Guerrero and Sam Killin, formerly of Canva, are building a recipe creation and discovery platform ahead of a beta launch.
Blackbird shares a six-month progress update on its push to back more women and non-binary founders, covering pipeline data, program outcomes, targets and bias-reduction changes to its investment processes.
Blackbird publishes the internal growth framework it uses to develop and assess investment team members, shares lessons from rolling it out, and opens a permanent application process for Principal and Associate investor roles.
Blackbird interviews Tyler Brown about moving from space science into a technical role at automotive data company Partly, covering the firm's data platform work and startup culture, and promoting its Lilypad jobs program.
Blackbird announces it led AI search startup Marqo's seed round, joined by January Capital, The Creator Fund and angel investors, having previously backed the company's pre-seed in May 2022.
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Blackbird interviews Remedy Robotics co-founder Dave Bell about his move from medicine to surgical robotics and his mentoring in its Foundry program, noting Foundry applications are open.
Blackbird partners explain why the fund led a seed round in Kiki, a subletting marketplace born in New Zealand, profitable during its Sydney phase, now launching in New York.
Blackbird interviews Blinq growth operations manager Travis James about his path from Apple and Uber to an early-stage Melbourne startup, including his time at Ento before its acquisition.
Blackbird commits its Giants community to 60% female or non-binary founding teams, opens the next cohort's applications on July 31, and recalls backing Giants alumni More Good Days, Sauce and Cotiss.
Blackbird interviews Fleet Space Technologies chief executive Flavia Tata Nardini on her path from European space bodies to founding the satellite startup, recalling its Series B and C rounds and A$350m valuation.
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Blackbird interviews Kinde co-founder Ross Chaldecott on lessons from Shopify, Atlassian and Campaign Monitor, Kinde's mission, its authentication product, and the large seed round behind its compound platform build.
Blackbird impact associate Alissa Lucas recounts leaving corporate law for an in-house legal role at the venture firm, her shift into impact work, and an open analyst position on her old team.
Blackbird announces it led Cotiss's pre-seed round. The procurement software startup for small and medium teams, started by three founders, has released the first version of its platform.
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Blackbird interviews Eucalyptus co-founder Tim Doyle about the telehealth firm's evolving mission, patient safety practices, regulatory advocacy, and lessons from his earlier career, including his time at Koala.
Blackbird's interview with MoreGoodDays co-founder Helena Ngo covers her corporate brand career, meeting co-founder Neala Fulia in Startmate's 2021 Founder Fellowship, and how the chronic-pain healthtech startup wins customers.
Blackbird's investment note announcing it led Sumday's $2M pre-seed round, profiling the Tasmanian startup's carbon accounting software for accountants and its three co-founders.
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Deals recorded from Blackbird Ventures portfolio's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseten | Series D+ | 16 Aug 2026 | $1.5b | |
| Superstat | Pre-seed | 28 Jul 2026 | $3.5m | |
| Marloo | Seed | 29 Apr 2026 | $14m | |
| Halter | Series D+ | 25 Mar 2026 | $314.4m | |
| Baseten | Series D+ | 18 Feb 2026 | $300m | |
| Ivo | Series B | Jan 2026 | $55m | |
| Heidi Health | Series B | 6 Oct 2025 | $65m | |
| Enhance Labs | Pre-seed | 30 Sep 2025 | $2.3m | |
| Alloy Technologies | Pre-seed | 24 Sep 2025 | $4.5m | |
| Marloo | Pre-seed | 10 Sep 2025 | $4.2m | |
| Halter | Series D+ | 23 Jun 2025 | $155m | |
| Springboards | undisclosed | 25 Feb 2025 | $5m | |
| Factor House | Seed | 12 Feb 2025 | $5m | |
| Index | Seed | 11 Feb 2025 | $3.5m | |
| Lorikeet | undisclosed | Feb 2025 | $14.4m | |
| Build Club | Pre-seed | 11 Oct 2024 | $1.8m | |
| Atticus | undisclosed | 11 Jun 2024 | $10.8m | |
| Clove | Pre-seed | 11 Dec 2023 | $4.2m | |
| Marqo | Seed | 16 Aug 2023 | $8.1m | |
| Kiki | Seed | Aug 2023 | $7m | |
| Fleet Space Technologies | Series C | 24 May 2023 | $50m | |
| Cotiss | Pre-seed | 23 May 2023 | $2.2m | |
| Sumday | Pre-seed | Mar 2023 | $2m | |
| Marqo | Pre-seed | 2022 | $840k | |
| Halter | Series B | 2021 | US$20m (A$26.2m) | |
| Gilmour Space | Series A | 2017 | $5m | |
| Canva | undisclosed | 2013 | $250k | |
| On Deck | undisclosed | undated | ~$100m |
Companies named in Blackbird Ventures portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Canva | Online design and visual communication platform | 17 |
| Atlassian | Australian software company referenced as Accel's earlier investment. | 8 |
| Heidi Health | Australian HealthTech company | 7 |
| Halter | Makes a cattle collar and app for virtual fencing to run more productive, sustainable far… | 6 |
| Eucalyptus | 5 | |
| OpenAI | AI company | 5 |
| Airwallex | Fintech payments and financial infrastructure company | 4 |
| Amazon | Global e-commerce and technology company | 4 |
| Anthropic | AI company | 4 |
| Blackbird Foundation | Blackbird's foundation running the Protostars program | 4 |
| Technology company operator of Firebase, referenced as comparison | 4 | |
| Baseten | AI inference infrastructure platform | 3 |
| Cursor | AI startup cited for reaching $100M annual revenue rapidly | 3 |
| Dovetail | Customer insights and research platform | 3 |
| Marloo | AI partner for financial advisers aiming to become the operating system for advisory firms | 3 |
| Notion | Productivity and note-taking software company | 3 |
| Shopify | 3 | |
| Springboards | Company generating creative AI output with proprietary model Flint Alpha | 3 |
| Sunroom | Women-founded app aimed at bettering women's lives | 3 |
| Xero | 3 | |
| Abridge | AI healthcare documentation company | 2 |
| Aconex | Construction and infrastructure collaboration software company | 2 |
| Airbnb | US home-sharing platform | 2 |
| ANU | Australian National University | 2 |
| AWS | Cloud computing platform | 2 |
| Bumble | Dating app | 2 |
| Clove | a two-sided marketplace bringing personalised recipes to home cooking | 2 |
| Cotiss | 2 | |
| HubSpot | Public software company mentioned as example of falling valuations | 2 |
| Ivo | 2 | |
| Kiki | Invite-only subletting club for London homes | 2 |
| Leonardo AI | 2 | |
| Linktree | 2 | |
| Lorikeet | AI/Big Data company | 2 |
| Marqo | AI company powering ecommerce search | 2 |
| More Good Days | 2 | |
| Oracle | Enterprise software company that acquired Aconex | 2 |
| Parsed | Team of Australian mathematicians integrated into Baseten | 2 |
| Partly | 2 | |
| Replit | Online coding and development platform | 2 |
| Rocket Lab | Commercial aerospace company and global launch provider. | 2 |
| Salesforce | Software company | 2 |
| Stanford | University from which RIOS technology was spun out. | 2 |
| Tracksuit | 2 | |
| Uber | Ride-hailing and delivery platform | 2 |
| Unsloth | Company that emerged from Blackbird's Foundry program | 2 |
| Vow | Cultivated meat company | 2 |
| a16z | 1 | |
| Accenture | 1 | |
| Adobe | Public software company mentioned as example of falling valuations | 1 |
| Adora | Software mapping product journeys and spotting UX friction | 1 |
| AFL | 1 | |
| AGL energy | 1 | |
| Alloy Technologies | Building the deployment layer for the physical AI revolution | 1 |
| ALP | 1 | |
| Andromeda | Personalised robot companions for aged care and assisted living | 1 |
| AngelList | 1 | |
| Apple | 1 | |
| Applied | an anonymised de-biased recruitment platform | 1 |
| Aquila | using light-beams to transport energy across the globe wirelessly | 1 |
| Asana | 1 | |
| Atticus | Verification platform for regulated documents facing compliance risk | 1 |
| Aura Ventures | 1 | |
| Auth0 | Identity and access management company | 1 |
| Azure | 1 | |
| BBC | 1 | |
| Beyond the Billion | 1 | |
| Binance | 1 | |
| Blinq | Digital business card product aiming to help people connect and share details quickly | 1 |
| Block | 1 | |
| Blue Chilli | 1 | |
| BMF | 1 | |
| Boston Consulting Group | Corporate partner of Everlab. | 1 |
| Boundless | Climate advocacy and investment for Australia's energy transition | 1 |
| Brighter Super | 1 | |
| Build Club | AI-builder community building an e-learning platform for AI education | 1 |
| BuildKite | 1 | |
| Campaign Monitor | Australian technology company | 1 |
| Carepatron | 1 | |
| Carla Zampatti | Fashion business of designer Carla Zampatti | 1 |
| Carta | 1 | |
| CBA | Major Australian bank where Aigentsphere founders previously held senior roles. | 1 |
| Cell Bauhaus | Company that emerged from Blackbird's Foundry program | 1 |
| Chess.com | Online chess platform | 1 |
| Citibank | Bank where Battersby ran a graduate program | 1 |
| Clay | 1 | |
| Cleveland Clinic | 1 | |
| Clutch | Water-soluble fashion glue for securing clothing | 1 |
| Cohere | 1 | |
| Coherence Neuro | Developing implantable neural interfaces to monitor and treat tumours via neural stimulat… | 1 |
| CoinList | first regulated platform for cryptocurrency investing | 1 |
| Coles | Australian retailer using Zitcha's platform | 1 |
| Commonwealth Bank | Australian bank | 1 |
| Cortical Labs | synthetic biology startup | 1 |
| CultureAmp | 1 | |
| Cummins & Partners | 1 | |
| Cutwater | 1 | |
| CVS | 1 | |
| Databricks | Data and AI platform | 1 |
| Datadog | Monitoring and security platform | 1 |
| Decagon | AI customer support platform | 1 |
| Defy-Hi Robotics | 1 | |
| Disney | 1 | |
| Edrolo | 1 | |
| Elyos | AI-powered voice agents for trades and field services call centres | 1 |
| Enhance Labs | Voice-first collaboration platform that amplifies human thinking rather than replacing it | 1 |
| Ento | Workplace HR platform | 1 |
| European Space Agency | 1 | |
| EY | Independent consultancy whose EY Parthenon report estimated the economic impact of Breakt… | 1 |
| Factor House | Builds developer tools for managing real-time data streaming, including Kpow and Flex pla… | 1 |
| Firmable | AI-driven B2B sales intelligence and automation platform | 1 |
| FirstAML | 1 | |
| Fishburners | Australia's largest and longest-standing tech startup community | 1 |
| Fleet Space Technologies | nano satellite startup | 1 |
| Funds SA | 1 | |
| Future Fund | 1 | |
| Gemini | 1 | |
| Generation | 1 | |
| Gilmour Space | Queensland rocket builder and launchpad scaleup | 1 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | 1 | |
| Goldman Sachs | Investment bank | 1 |
| Google Brain | 1 | |
| Google DeepMind | 1 | |
| Granola | AI note-taking company | 1 |
| Hall | 1 | |
| Hall & Wilcox | Law firm | 1 |
| Harken | Company where Julia Wells serves as COO | 1 |
| Harrison AI | healthcare AI company | 1 |
| Harvey | AI legal assistant | 1 |
| HEST | 1 | |
| Hewlett Packard | 1 | |
| Hims & Hers | 1 | |
| Hinge | Dating app where Lucy Mort was lead designer | 1 |
| Hostplus | 1 | |
| HotDoc | Healthcare booking platform | 1 |
| Iceberg Quantum | Company that emerged from Blackbird's Foundry program | 1 |
| IMEC | Co-developing a patient-ready processing chip with Coherence Neuro | 1 |
| Immutable | 1 | |
| Index | A dynamic and collaborative platform for product managers to plan projects and goals | 1 |
| Innocean Australia | Creative/media agency and early Juno customer | 1 |
| Innovation Bay | 1 | |
| 1 | ||
| Inventia Life Sciences | 1 | |
| Jellyfish | 1 | |
| Jira | 1 | |
| JLL | 1 | |
| Juno | AI-powered platform that conducts conversational research to gather human feedback at sca… | 1 |
| Kaleido | visual AI company | 1 |
| Kic | Wellness app | 1 |
| Kinde | Technology company co-founded by Evgeny Komarevstev | 1 |
| Klarna | Payments and buy-now-pay-later company | 1 |
| Koala | 1 | |
| KomplyAI | 1 | |
| Leo Burnett | ad agency | 1 |
| Leukaemia Foundation | Charity organisation and early Juno customer | 1 |
| Lightning Lab | 1 | |
| Linear | Software project management tool | 1 |
| Lovable | No-code AI app building platform | 1 |
| Lyft | Ride-hailing company | 1 |
| Magic Brief | AI marketing firm | 1 |
| Main Sequence Ventures | 1 | |
| MAP | 1 | |
| MeatMail | a direct-to-consumer subscription supplying Dunedin's student flats with affordable prote… | 1 |
| Medicxi | 1 | |
| Mercor | 1 | |
| Microsoft | 1 | |
| Milkrun | 1 | |
| Missing Perspectives | Media outlet running the High Agency Women profile series | 1 |
| Monash Ventures | Monash University's new venture investing identity | 1 |
| Monday.com | Work management software platform | 1 |
| Mondelēz International | 1 | |
| MoreGoodDays | Chronic pain digital therapy platform | 1 |
| Movac | 1 | |
| My Family Hands | Make visible the invisible labour of raising kids | 1 |
| NAB | 1 | |
| NASA | Space agency and customer of Advanced Navigation | 1 |
| NextGen | University VC firm | 1 |
| NGS | 1 | |
| Nike | 1 | |
| Nomad Atomics | 1 | |
| NRF Corporation | 1 | |
| Ogilvy | Legendary ad agency | 1 |
| On Deck | a community and platform that, six years’ later, has gone on to create and empower a thou… | 1 |
| On Zero | Company that emerged from Blackbird's Foundry program | 1 |
| Oneflare | Local services marketplace for posting tasks and hiring workers | 1 |
| OnlyFans | 1 | |
| Open AI | 1 | |
| OpenEvidence | AI medical evidence platform | 1 |
| OVO | 1 | |
| Oxford | 1 | |
| Palantir | Data analytics software company | 1 |
| Patreon | 1 | |
| Perplexity | 1 | |
| Point72 | 1 | |
| Priceline | Online travel agency and Cover Genius client | 1 |
| Procore | Construction management software company | 1 |
| PsiQuantum | Quantum computing company establishing APAC HQ in Brisbane | 1 |
| PwC | Professional services and accounting firm | 1 |
| QIC Ventures | 1 | |
| Rampersand | 1 | |
| Raycast | 1 | |
| Red Bull | 1 | |
| Canva enterprise client | 1 | |
| Remedy Robotics | Builds software and hardware including surgical robots to expand access to care for time-… | 1 |
| Rolls-Royce | 1 | |
| SafetyCulture | Workplace safety and operations software company. | 1 |
| SAMY | 1 | |
| Sauce | 1 | |
| Scale Investors | 1 | |
| Scale Ventures | 1 | |
| Sense of Self | Startup founded by Freya Berwick with a 38-person team | 1 |
| Sharesies | Kiwi billion-dollar brokerage startup where Hardy Michel and Shak Lala previously worked. | 1 |
| Simpro | Vertical CRM | 1 |
| Sky | 1 | |
| Slack | 1 | |
| SpaceX | Aerospace company operating the Starlink satellite constellation and orbital launch servi… | 1 |
| Spotify | 1 | |
| Stanford University | 1 | |
| Startup Vic | 1 | |
| Steppen | Gen Z fitness app built and sold by Cara Davies | 1 |
| Stitch Fix | 1 | |
| Stripe | 1 | |
| Sumday | 1 | |
| SunCable | Ambitious renewable energy transmission project | 1 |
| SunDrive | 1 | |
| Superstat | Melbourne-founded startup turning iPhone footage of amateur basketball games into full bo… | 1 |
| Syenta | Chip packaging startup developing Localized Electrochemical Manufacturing for advanced se… | 1 |
| Telstra | Telecommunications company | 1 |
| The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards | 1 | |
| TikTok | Social media platform | 1 |
| Tinder | 1 | |
| Toast | 1 | |
| Trainstop | Australia's largest sports recruiting platform | 1 |
| TransferWise | 1 | |
| Trello | 1 | |
| TRG | 1 | |
| Typeform | Conversational survey software company | 1 |
| Universal Music Group | 1 | |
| University College London | 1 | |
| University of Melbourne | University operating the Melbourne Connect innovation precinct | 1 |
| University of Queensland | Research university where Cortisonic's underlying phononic computing research originated | 1 |
| UNSW | 1 | |
| VeVe | 1 | |
| Vexev | AI-powered robotic ultrasound for vascular imaging | 1 |
| Westpac | Australian bank | 1 |
| What the Health | 1 | |
| Messaging app acquired by Facebook | 1 | |
| WinVC | 1 | |
| Wise | 1 | |
| Woolworths | Australian grocery retailer using electric truck delivery fleets | 1 |
| Workyard | 1 | |
| YouTube | Video sharing platform | 1 |
| Zipr | Upgrading the online retail experience | 1 |
| Zoom | 1 | |
| Zoox | Robo-taxi company | 1 |
Investors named in Blackbird Ventures portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| YC | 1 | |
| Y Combinator | 1 | |
| Wellington Management | 1 | |
| Uncork Capital | 1 | |
| Tiger Global | 1 | |
| The Creator Fund | 1 | |
| T. Rowe Price | 1 | |
| Startmate | Early-stage investment and mentorship for founders | 6 |
| Square Peg Capital | 2 | |
| Sparkbox/GD1 | 1 | |
| Spark Capital | 1 | |
| Skip Capital | Private fund investing in technology and infrastructure | 2 |
| Schroders | 1 | |
| Sands Capital | 1 | |
| Nvidia | Technology company developing platforms for AI computing including orbital compute. | 2 |
| NewView | 1 | |
| Morgan Stanley Investment Management | 1 | |
| January Capital | Venture capital and growth credit for technology companies | 1 |
| IVP | 2 | |
| Icehouse Ventures | 1 | |
| GD1 | 2 | |
| Garuda Ventures | 1 | |
| Founders Fund | 1 | |
| Fika Ventures | 1 | |
| Durable | 1 | |
| Designer Fund | 1 | |
| Costanoa Venture | 1 | |
| Conviction | 1 | |
| Co Ventures | Pre-seed venture fund for Australian software founders | 2 |
| Capital G | 1 | |
| Bond | 1 | |
| Blackbird Ventures | 59 | |
| Bain Capital Ventures | 1 | |
| Altimeter Capital | 1 | |
| Adams Street Partners | 1 | |
| 01A | 1 |