Baseten: Ledger

Investor	Rounds	Invested
01A	Series D+	-
Altimeter Capital	Series D+	-
Blackbird Ventures	Series D+ · Series D+	$200,000,000
Capital G	Series D+	-
Conviction	Series D+	-
Durable	Series D+	-
IVP	Series D+ · Series D+	-
Nvidia	Series D+	-
Sands Capital	Series D+	-
Spark Capital	Series D+	-
T. Rowe Price	Series D+	-
Wellington Management	Series D+	-

Investor	Listed on
Athletic Ventures	its portfolio page ↗

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Baseten is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Name	Role	Sources
Ian Nowlands	Head of Compute Operations	Blackbird Ventures
Sameer Paranjpye	VP of Engineering	Blackbird Ventures
Tuhin Srivastava	Founder	Blackbird Ventures portfolio

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

Weekly roundup reporting Australian startup funding rounds and government grants, a venture fund close, agreed acquisitions, an IPO pricing, a collapse, plus executive hires and AI policy developments.

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Fund close $1b

A billion reasons to invest right at the very beginning

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.

Blackbird Ventures portfolio Tue 25 Aug 2026 Blackbird Ventures Airwallex Baseten Canva Eucalyptus Halter Heidi Health Hims & Hers Marloo Adams Street Partners Morgan Stanley Investment Management Schroders Cliff Obrecht Craig Piggott Hardy Michel Mel Perkins Samantha Wong

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Baseten: the whole game

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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Series D+ $300m

Investment Notes: Baseten Series-E

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 Ventures portfolio Wed 18 Feb 2026 Baseten Abridge Anthropic Cursor Mercor OpenAI Parsed Shape Analytics Blackbird Ventures Capital G IVP Nvidia Michael Tolo Tristan Edwards Tuhin Srivastava

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🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #180, 4th October 2026

A billion reasons to invest right at the very beginning

Baseten: the whole game

Investment Notes: Baseten Series-E