Venture capital fund · 193 deals

Blackbird Ventures

Surry Hills, NSW

Disclosed deals

Every published round Blackbird Ventures took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
OpenDebt	Pre-seed	22 Sep 2026	$2m	Lead	Antler Australia	Dynamic Business, This Week in Australian Startups, Startup Daily, Business News Australia, Australian FinTech, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Heidi Health	Series C	22 Sep 2026	$140m	Lead	Phoenix Court Headline Point72 General Catalyst Phoenix Court/LocalGlobe	Startup Daily, Cut Through Venture, Forbes Australia (Mon 12 Oct 2026), This Week in Australian Startups (Sat 10 Oct 2026), Mirage News, This Week in Australian Startups (Sun 4 Oct 2026), Dynamic Business, This Week in Australian Startups (Sat 26 Sep 2026), Dealroom, Forbes Australia (Tue 22 Sep 2026)
Heidi Health	Series A	26 Aug 2026	$16.6m	Participant	Headline Menlo Ventures Anthropic LocalGlobe Possible Ventures Archangel Ventures HESTA General Catalyst	Mirage News, Dynamic Business, Dealroom (Tue 22 Sep 2026), Forbes Australia, Dealroom (Thu 27 Aug 2026), AFR Technology, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Sterling	undisclosed	14 Aug 2026	$3.2m	Lead	-	SmartCompany, ontargetish.com
Alloy Technologies	Seed	12 Aug 2026	$11.5m	Participant	Square Peg Capital AirTree Ventures Skip Capital Tesla OpenAI Anthropic	Cut Through Venture, SmartCompany, ontargetish.com, Startup Daily
Vexev	undisclosed	7 Aug 2026	$8.6m	Participant	Neotribe Ventures Startmate Horizon TreeArc Ten13 Alumni Ventures Neotribe Bioshore	SmartCompany, Startup Daily, This Week in Australian Startups, vexev.com, Ten13 portfolio
Vexev	Seed	6 Aug 2026	$6m	Participant	Neotribe Ventures Startmate Horizon TreeArc Ten13 Alumni Ventures Horizons Bioshore	ontargetish.com, evtoday.com, Ten13, datapile.co, vexev.com, Dealroom
Syenta	Series A	4 Aug 2026	$36m	Participant	Investible NRF Corporation Salus Ventures Playground Global Jelix Ventures Wollemi Capital Brindabella Capital In-Q-Tel SGInnovate OIF Ventures	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 24 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Wed 22 Apr 2026), OIF Ventures portfolio
Adora	Seed	4 Aug 2026	$9.9m	Lead	Skip Capital Designer Fund Co Ventures Garuda Ventures	Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 11 Feb 2026), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Co Ventures portfolio
Azonic	Pre-seed	Aug 2026	$830k	Lead	Antler Australia Jamie Beaton Eliot Crowther Jovan Pavlicevic	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Partly	Unnamed stage	29 Jul 2026	$71.5m	Participant	DST Global Partners	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Superstat	Pre-seed	28 Jul 2026	$3.5m	Lead	Jarrod Webb Alex Naoumidis Chris Naoumidis Startmate	SmartCompany (Fri 28 Aug 2026), SmartCompany (Thu 30 Jul 2026), Blackbird Ventures, Startup Daily, Dealroom, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Baseten	Series D+	22 Jun 2026	$1.5b	Participant	Altimeter Capital Conviction Spark Capital Sands Capital Wellington Management IVP T. Rowe Price Durable 01A	Dealroom, Blackbird Ventures
Marloo	Seed	29 Apr 2026	$14m	Lead	-	Startup Daily (Fri 1 May 2026), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Wed 29 Apr 2026), Blackbird Ventures
Kimia	Seed	13 Apr 2026	$7m	Participant	AirTree Ventures Skip Capital	Startup Daily, SmartCompany
Halter	Series D+	25 Mar 2026	$314.4m	Participant	Bond NewView Founders Fund DCVC Ubiquity Promus Icehouse Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners	BusinessDesk NZ, Startup Daily, SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Baseten	Series D+	18 Feb 2026	$300m	Participant	IVP Capital G Nvidia	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Gilmour Space	Series D+	20 Jan 2026	$217m	Participant	Hostplus Future Fund HEST Main Sequence Ventures Funds SA NGS Brighter Super HESTA NRF Corporation NGS Super QIC Ventures	Business News Australia, Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Tue 28 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 23 Jan 2026), Beaten Zone Venture Partners, australianmanufacturing.com.au, AFR Technology, SmartCompany (Tue 20 Jan 2026), Dealroom, Forbes Australia, Main Sequence Ventures portfolio
Elyos	Series A	19 Jan 2026	-	Lead	PiLabs YC 468 Capital	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Ivo	Series B	Jan 2026	US$55m ($82.2m)	Lead	Costanoa Venture Uncork Capital Fika Ventures GD1 Icehouse Ventures	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Heidi Health	Series B	6 Oct 2025	$65m	Participant	Headline Latitude Point72	Tech Funding News - Australia, Blackbird Ventures
Enhance Labs	Pre-seed	30 Sep 2025	$2.3m	Lead	QIC Ventures	SmartCompany (Fri 3 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 1 Oct 2025), Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Alloy Technologies	Pre-seed	24 Sep 2025	$4.5m	Lead	AirTree Ventures Xtal Ventures Skip Capital Eucalyptus	Startup Daily (Wed 12 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Sat 27 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 25 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 24 Sep 2025), Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures, TechCrunch Venture, AirTree Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Marloo	Pre-seed	10 Sep 2025	$4.2m	Lead	Brand Fund Philip Fierlinger Dr Tom Kelly Craig Piggott Leighton Roberts Matt Leibowitz Tom Hambrett Sam Halse Warren Hogarth Co Ventures	Startup Daily (Fri 1 May 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 1 May 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 29 Apr 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 12 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 12 Sep 2025), Blackbird Ventures, Business News Australia, Fintech News Australia, marloo.com (Mon 8 Sep 2025), marloo.com (Mon 8 Sep 2025)
Morse Micro	Series C	Sep 2025	$88m	Participant	NRF Corporation Uniseed MegaChips Main Sequence Ventures Hostplus NGS UniSuper Ray Stata Startmate Malcolm Turnbull Lucy Turnbull	Startup Daily (Tue 13 Oct 2026), smallbizai.au, Startup Daily (Tue 23 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Dec 2025), Forbes Australia (Wed 12 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 29 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 14 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Sat 27 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Sep 2025), Forbes Australia (Tue 23 Sep 2025), morsemicro.com, Forbes Australia (Tue 23 Sep 2025), semiiphub.com, SmartCompany (Tue 23 Sep 2025), builtinsydney.au, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Main Sequence Ventures portfolio
Syenta	Seed	Aug 2025	$8.8m	Participant	Investible Jelix Ventures Brindabella Capital In-Q-Tel SGInnovate OIF Ventures Wollemi Capital Group Salus Ventures	Startup Daily (Fri 24 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Wed 22 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 15 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 12 Aug 2025), Forbes Australia
Lorikeet	Series A	Aug 2025	$54m	Participant	QED Investors Skip Capital Capital 49 Melanie Perkins Cliff Obrecht Capital 49ers Operator Partners Athletic Ventures Square Peg Capital AirTree Ventures	Startup Daily (Tue 23 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 14 Oct 2025), Cut Through Venture, Startup Daily (Mon 13 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 7 Aug 2025), Athletic Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Square Peg Capital portfolio
Hall	Pre-seed	27 Jul 2025	$2m	Participant	-	SmartCompany (Tue 21 Jul 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 1 Aug 2025), Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Blinq	Accelerator	18 Jul 2025	$25m	Participant	Touring Capital Square Peg Capital HubSpot Ventures	Forbes Australia, TechCrunch Venture (Fri 9 May 2025), TechCrunch Venture (Tue 6 May 2025)
Halter	Series D+	23 Jun 2025	$155m	Participant	Bond NewView Icehouse Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners DCVC Promus	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 27 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 27 Jun 2025), Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Airwallex	Series D+	21 May 2025	$232m	Participant	Lone Pine Capital AirTree Ventures Salesforce Ventures Hostplus NGS Square Peg Capital Visa Ventures DST Global Partners	Square Peg Capital (Tue 21 Jul 2026), Folklore Ventures, Startup Daily (Tue 3 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 27 Jan 2026), Fintech News Australia (Wed 7 Jan 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Dec 2025), Women's Agenda (Fri 19 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 12 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 12 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 9 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 8 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 25 Nov 2025), Fintech News Australia (Mon 3 Nov 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 2 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 1 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 8 Sep 2025), Forbes Australia (Thu 4 Sep 2025), Crunchbase News, SmartCompany (Tue 2 Sep 2025), Forbes Australia (Fri 18 Jul 2025), Cut Through Venture, Australian FinTech (Wed 4 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 26 May 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 23 May 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 22 May 2025), Women's Agenda (Thu 22 May 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 21 May 2025), Australian FinTech (Wed 21 May 2025), Forbes Australia (Wed 21 May 2025), Square Peg Capital (Wed 21 May 2025), AirTree Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Blinq	Series A	6 May 2025	$38.5m	Participant	Square Peg Capital Touring Capital HubSpot Ventures	Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Fri 9 May 2025), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 7 May 2025), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Square Peg Capital portfolio
Iceberg Quantum	Pre-seed	24 Mar 2025	$2m	Lead	LocalGlobe	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Sonder	Unnamed stage	10 Mar 2025	$40m	Lead	MA Growth Ventures SEEK Hostplus	SmartCompany, Startup Daily, Capital Brief, AFR Technology, MA Growth Ventures portfolio
Instant	Series A	3 Mar 2025	$18m	Participant	Ten13 Reinventure Group Larry Diamond Justin Mateen Accel Ventures scout fund Hummingbird	SmartCompany (Fri 7 Mar 2025), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Mon 3 Mar 2025), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Ten13 portfolio
Heidi Health	Series A	Mar 2025	$27m	Participant	LocalGlobe Anthology Headline HESTA	Startup Daily (Tue 24 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 10 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 10 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 28 Aug 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 7 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 6 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Mar 2025)
Springboards	undisclosed	25 Feb 2025	$5m	Lead	L'Oréal	SmartCompany (Tue 1 Apr 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 28 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures
Factor House	Seed	12 Feb 2025	$5m	Lead	OIF Ventures Flying Fox Ventures Alice Anderson Fund	LaunchVic, Blackbird Ventures, Startup Daily
Index	Seed	11 Feb 2025	$3.5m	Lead	Bond Alex Zaccaria Max Marchione Thomas Paul Mann Bain Capital Ventures YC	Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures
Polymath	Pre-seed	Feb 2025	$1.4m	Lead	GD1	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Lorikeet	undisclosed	Feb 2025	$14.4m	Lead	Square Peg Capital Skip Capital	Startup Daily (Mon 13 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 7 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 5 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures
Ivo	Series A	Feb 2025	$25.5m	Participant	Costanoa Ventures Fika Ventures Uncork Capital NFDG GD1 Phase One Ventures	SmartCompany
Harrison AI	Series C	Feb 2025	$179m	Participant	Aware Super ECP Horizons Ventures NRF Corporation Ord Minnett Wollemi Capital Group Alpha JWC Ventures	Forbes Australia (Mon 28 Sep 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 3 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Dec 2025), Forbes Australia (Fri 18 Jul 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Apr 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 31 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 12 Feb 2025), Startup Daily (Sun 8 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Kwetta	Series A	Jan 2025	$16.2m	Lead	Virescent Ventures Icehouse Ventures	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Virescent Ventures portfolio
Heidi Health	Series B	2025	$98m	Participant	Point72 Headline Latitude	Startup Daily (Wed 16 Sep 2026), SmartCompany (Wed 6 May 2026), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Tue 24 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 25 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 10 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 10 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025)
Sitemate	Series A	24 Dec 2024	$27.5m	Lead	Shearwater Capital Marbruck Investments	Startup Daily, Forbes Australia
Sitemate	Series A	18 Dec 2024	$18m	Lead	OIF Ventures Shearwater Capital Marbruck Investments	techtaffy.com, OIF Ventures portfolio, OIF Ventures portfolio, Shearwater Capital portfolio
Fleet Space Technologies	Series D+	12 Dec 2024	$150m	Participant	Hostplus Horizons Ventures Artesian VC Alumni Ventures Teachers' Venture Growth	Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Wed 3 Sep 2025), @AuManufacturing (Wed 18 Jun 2025), @AuManufacturing (Thu 6 Mar 2025), Defence Connect, Startup Daily (Tue 25 Feb 2025), Space Connect (Mon 6 Jan 2025), spaceexplored.com, SmartCompany (Thu 19 Dec 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Dec 2024), TechCrunch Venture (Mon 16 Dec 2024), Startup Daily (Thu 12 Dec 2024), TechCrunch Venture (Thu 12 Dec 2024), @AuManufacturing (Thu 12 Dec 2024), aap.com.au, spaceanddefense.io, Space Connect (Thu 12 Dec 2024), SmartCompany (Thu 12 Dec 2024)
CLUTCH Glue	Pre-seed	Nov 2024	$1.4m	Lead	Dany Milham	Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Thu 12 Dec 2024), SmartCompany (Thu 12 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Build Club	Pre-seed	11 Oct 2024	$1.8m	Lead	AirTree Ventures Treble VC Startmate Co Ventures Archangel Ventures	Startup Daily (Thu 18 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 29 Jul 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 29 Jul 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 29 Jan 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 20 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures, SmartCompany (Tue 15 Oct 2024), Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Fri 11 Oct 2024), Capital Brief, AirTree Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Lorikeet	Seed	3 Oct 2024	$9m	Lead	Square Peg Capital Skip Capital Claire Johnson Cristina Cordova Bob Van Winden	Startup Daily (Mon 13 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 7 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 5 Feb 2025), Square Peg Capital (Fri 4 Oct 2024), Square Peg Capital (Fri 4 Oct 2024)
SafetyCulture	undisclosed	9 Sep 2024	$75m	Participant	Hostplus HESTA AirTree Ventures Morpheus Ventures	Startup Daily (Tue 11 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 26 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 25 Nov 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 19 Dec 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 18 Nov 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 27 Sep 2024), Tech Funding News - Australia, SmartCompany (Mon 9 Sep 2024)
Redactive	Seed	3 Jul 2024	$11.5m	Lead	Felicis Atlassian Ventures Zapier	Startup Daily (Tue 21 Oct 2025), Forbes Australia (Thu 15 May 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 4 Jul 2024), Forbes Australia (Thu 4 Jul 2024), SmartCompany
Aquila	Unnamed stage	24 Jun 2024	$2m	Participant	Alua Group Icehouse Ventures	SmartCompany, Startup Daily
Atticus	undisclosed	11 Jun 2024	$10.8m	Participant	Skip Capital	Blackbird Ventures, SmartCompany, Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Sumday	Seed	17 Apr 2024	$5.3m	Participant	Planeteer Capital Possible Ventures Wedgetail Ventures Cameron Adams	SmartCompany (Fri 26 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 22 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 17 Apr 2024)
Marqo	Series A	19 Feb 2024	$19.4m	Participant	Lightspeed January Capital The Creator Fund Michele Catasta Aidan Gomez Ivan Zhang Rob Skillington	Startup Daily (Thu 9 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 7 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 11 Jun 2025), Early VC, SmartCompany (Fri 16 Feb 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 14 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 14 Feb 2024)
Gilmour Space	Series D+	19 Feb 2024	$55m	Participant	Queensland Investment Corporation Hostplus Main Sequence Ventures HESTA Queensland Investments Corporation (QIC)	SmartCompany (Fri 23 Jan 2026), SmartCompany (Tue 20 Jan 2026), gspace.com, SmartCompany (Wed 30 Jul 2025), Defence Connect, SmartCompany (Fri 16 May 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Feb 2025), @AuManufacturing (Mon 30 Sep 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 6 May 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Apr 2024), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Tue 5 Mar 2024), @AuManufacturing (Tue 5 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 5 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (Thu 29 Feb 2024), @AuManufacturing (Sun 25 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 23 Feb 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 19 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 19 Feb 2024), @AuManufacturing (Mon 19 Feb 2024)
Marqo	Accelerator	16 Feb 2024	$12.5m	Participant	Amazon Web Services (AWS)	SmartCompany, Forbes Australia
Sonder	Series B	Jan 2024	$16m	Participant	Seek Growth Fund Saniel Ventures Scott Bailey	Startup Daily, Capital Brief, SmartCompany
Marloo	Seed	1 Jan 2024	$14m	Lead	-	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Factor House	undisclosed	2024	$5m	Lead	OIF Ventures Flying Fox Ventures LaunchVic Steve Holmes Michelle Holmes Alice Anderson Fund	Our Innovation Fund, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, OIF Ventures portfolio
Clove	Pre-seed	11 Dec 2023	$4.2m	Lead	Shakti	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures, Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Leonardo.Ai	undisclosed	6 Dec 2023	$47m	Lead	Smash Capital TIRTA Ventures Gaorong Capital Samsung Next Side Stage Ventures	SmartCompany (Tue 21 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Tue 7 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 11 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 18 Dec 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 30 Jul 2024), Forbes Australia (Tue 30 Jul 2024), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 10 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 15 Dec 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Dec 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Dec 2023), Forbes Australia (Thu 7 Dec 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 7 Dec 2023), ARN (ARNnet), Forbes Australia (Thu 7 Dec 2023), inaitoday.com, mediaweek.com.au, TechCrunch Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Side Stage Ventures portfolio
Sitemate	Seed	Nov 2023	$7.5m	Participant	Artesian VC Marbruck Investments	Startup Daily (Tue 24 Dec 2024), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Thu 16 Nov 2023), Artesian VC portfolio, Artesian VC portfolio
Heidi Health	Series A	25 Oct 2023	$10m	Lead	Hostplus Vesta Wormhole Capital Archangel Ventures Possible Ventures Daniel Ventures HESTA Saniel Ventures	SmartCompany (Wed 6 May 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 10 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 10 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 28 Aug 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 7 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 19 Dec 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 27 Oct 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 27 Oct 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 26 Oct 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 26 Oct 2023), TechCrunch Australia
Darwinium	Series A	18 Oct 2023	$28m	Participant	AirTree Ventures Accomplice U.S. Venture Partners	SmartCompany, TechCrunch Venture, darwinium.com, AirTree Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Marqo	Seed	16 Aug 2023	$8.1m	Lead	The Creator Fund January Capital Ivan Zhang Aidan Gomez Michele Catasta	SmartCompany (Fri 16 Feb 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 14 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 14 Feb 2024), Blackbird Ventures, SmartCompany (Fri 18 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Aug 2023), TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, January Capital portfolio
Kiki	Seed	Aug 2023	$7m	Lead	-	Startup Daily, SmartCompany, Women's Agenda, Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Kiki	Seed	Aug 2023	$9.5m	Lead	-	Startup Daily (Tue 25 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 20 Nov 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 20 Nov 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 19 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 18 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 13 Feb 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 7 Feb 2024), Startup News (WA)
Cyble	Series B	Aug 2023	$36m	Participant	King River Capital Spider Capital January Capital Summit Peak Ventures	Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, January Capital portfolio, King River Capital portfolio
Nomad Atomics	Series A	3 Jul 2023	$12m	Lead	Right Click Capital	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Right Click Capital portfolio
Magic Brief	Pre-seed	Jul 2023	$2m	Lead	Archangel Ventures Zach Klein Matt Miller Tim Doyle Alex Badran Craig Piggot George Howes Dan Nolan	Startup Daily (Wed 18 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 18 Jun 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 7 Jul 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 6 Jul 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
One Future Football	Pre-seed	20 Jun 2023	$3m	Lead	Chris Smalling Patrice Evra Jesse Lingard Kamaru Usman Nick Kyrgios	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 16 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 15 Jun 2023), TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Aquila	Seed	Jun 2023	$3m	Lead	Possible Ventures Icehouse Ventures Startmate Outset Stage One	RenewEconomy (Thu 28 May 2026), RenewEconomy (Thu 28 May 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 28 Jun 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Jan 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 16 Jun 2023), RenewEconomy (Thu 15 Jun 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Checkmate	Series A	26 May 2023	$23m	Participant	Alex Pall Drew Taggart Paris Hilton Carter Reum Wischoff Ventures Saurabh Gupta Google Ventures	Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Fleet Space Technologies	Series C	24 May 2023	$50m	Lead	TelstraSuper Bondi Partners Pavilion Capital Grok Ventures Alumni Ventures Hostplus The 1941 Fund	Space Connect, Startup Daily (Thu 12 Dec 2024), TechCrunch Venture, SmartCompany (Thu 12 Dec 2024), satcom.digital, Startup Daily (Thu 18 Apr 2024), Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures, @AuManufacturing (Thu 29 Jun 2023), Techboard, @AuManufacturing (Mon 29 May 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 26 May 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 24 May 2023), Bondi Partners portfolio, Bondi Partners portfolio, The 1941 Fund portfolio
Cotiss	Pre-seed	23 May 2023	$2.2m	Lead	Icehouse Ventures Afterwork Ventures Phase One Ventures Co Ventures	Blackbird Ventures, SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Cortical Labs	Unnamed stage	20 Apr 2023	$15m	Participant	Horizons Ventures LifeX Ventures Radar Ventures In-Q-Tel	Crunchbase News (Wed 20 Dec 2023), Forbes Australia (Wed 5 Jul 2023), Crunchbase News (Thu 27 Apr 2023), SmartCompany, Forbes Australia (Thu 20 Apr 2023), Startup Daily, TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Radar Ventures portfolio
Propeller	Unnamed stage	18 Apr 2023	$22.8m	Lead	Costanoa Partners Aware Super Cliff Obrecht Saniel Ventures	SmartCompany (Fri 21 Apr 2023), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Tue 18 Apr 2023)
Halter	Series C	6 Apr 2023	$79.5m	Participant	Bessemer Venture Partners	SmartCompany, AgFunderNews (Thu 28 Dec 2023), AgFunderNews (Thu 6 Apr 2023)
Eucalyptus	Series D+	Apr 2023	$50m	Participant	Bond W23	Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 20 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 19 Feb 2026), Forbes Australia (Mon 17 Jun 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 30 Jan 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 22 Dec 2023), Forbes Australia (Wed 5 Jul 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 5 May 2023), SmartCompany (Mon 1 May 2023)
Sumday	Pre-seed	Mar 2023	$2m	Lead	Possible Ventures Cameron Adams Lisa Miller	SmartCompany (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 17 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 17 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures, SmartCompany (Fri 10 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 7 Mar 2023)
MoreGoodDays	Seed	Mar 2023	$3.5m	Lead	Giant Leap Side Stage Ventures Snow Foundation Alice Anderson Fund	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Mon 8 Dec 2025), Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Fri 17 Mar 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Giant Leap portfolio, Side Stage Ventures portfolio
Fable Food Co	Series A	9 Feb 2023	$12.3m	Participant	K3 Ventures Greg Creed AgFunder Peter Singer Frantz Braha Adrien Desbaillets Aera VC Osher Günsberg Audrey Griffen Betterbite Adrien Desbaillet Michael Simkin	Startup Daily, AgFunderNews, SmartCompany
Fable Food	Series A	8 Feb 2023	$8.5m	Participant	K3 Ventures Greg Creed Peter Singer Frantz Braha Adrien Desbaillets AgFunder Aera VC Osher Günsberg Audrey Griffen	AgFunderNews (Wed 3 Apr 2024), AgFunderNews (Fri 24 Mar 2023), TechCrunch Australia
Tracksuit	Seed	2023	$8.6m	Lead	-	SmartCompany (Fri 1 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 17 Feb 2023)
Leonardo.Ai	Accelerator	2023	$35.8m	Participant	Side Stage Ventures Samsung Next Smash Capital TIRTA Ventures AWS	Startup Daily, SmartCompany, Business News Australia
Harrison AI	Series B	2023	$129m	Participant	Horizons Ventures Sonic Healthcare I-MED Radiology Network Skip Capital	Startup Daily (Wed 12 Feb 2025), Techboard, SmartCompany (Fri 3 Dec 2021), Crunchbase News, TechCrunch Australia (Wed 1 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 1 Dec 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 1 Dec 2021), TechCrunch Australia (Tue 30 Nov 2021)
Syenta	Seed	22 Dec 2022	$3.7m	Lead	Jelix Ventures Brindabella Capital	Startup Daily (Tue 12 Aug 2025), Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures, Startup Daily (Thu 15 Dec 2022)
Partly	Series A	Dec 2022	$34m	Participant	Octopus Ventures Square Peg Capital	SmartCompany, Square Peg Capital portfolio
Vow	Series A	15 Nov 2022	$73.5m	Lead	Prosperity 7 Ventures Hostplus NGS Toyota Ventures Grok Ventures Tenacious Ventures Square Peg Capital Cavallo Ventures PeakBridge NGS Super Pavilion Capital	Women's Agenda, Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Fri 5 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 20 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 18 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 14 Jan 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 29 Nov 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 8 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Sat 6 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 18 Oct 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 28 Sep 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 30 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 28 Mar 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 14 Dec 2022), Techboard, SmartCompany (Fri 18 Nov 2022), @AuManufacturing, Startup Daily (Tue 15 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Nov 2022), Square Peg Capital portfolio, Tenacious Ventures portfolio
Vow	Series A	14 Nov 2022	$49.2m	Lead	PeakBridge Toyota Ventures Square Peg Capital Grok Ventures Cavallo Ventures Tenacious Ventures Hostplus NGS Super Pavilion Capital Prosperity 7 Ventures	AgFunderNews (Tue 12 Dec 2023), AgFunderNews (Wed 10 May 2023), TechCrunch Venture (Tue 28 Mar 2023), AgFunderNews (Thu 17 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Australia, TechCrunch Venture (Mon 14 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture (Mon 14 Nov 2022), AgFunderNews (Mon 14 Nov 2022)
Vexev	undisclosed	14 Nov 2022	$8.5m	Participant	Neotribe Ventures Rory San Miguel Benjamin Humphrey	Startup Daily (Sat 8 Aug 2026), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Mon 14 Nov 2022), SmartCompany
Sauce	Seed	11 Nov 2022	$2.3m	Lead	AirTree Ventures SafetyCulture Eucalyptus Respondent Minnow Earlywork Archangel Ventures Ultraviolet Ventures	SmartCompany, Startup Daily, Forbes Australia
Darwinium	Seed	11 Nov 2022	$10m	Lead	Naval Ravikant Jeff Fagnan AirTree Ventures	SmartCompany (Fri 20 Oct 2023), TechCrunch Venture, Forbes Australia (Sun 8 Jan 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 11 Nov 2022), Forbes Australia (Mon 7 Nov 2022)
SunDrive	Series B	13 Oct 2022	$21m	Participant	Malcolm Turnbull Mike Cannon-Brookes Cameron Adams Robyn Denholm Clean Energy Finance Corporation Main Sequence Ventures Grok Ventures Robyn Denholm	Startup Daily (Fri 14 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 12 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 28 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 2 Nov 2023), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Fri 6 Jan 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 28 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 14 Oct 2022), Virescent Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily (Thu 13 Oct 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 13 Oct 2022), RenewEconomy, Main Sequence Ventures portfolio
Checkmate	Seed	27 Sep 2022	$5m	Lead	Fuel Capital Kevin Johnson Liquid2 Deborah Liu Chris Herd Shane Mac f7 Ventures Scribble Ventures HYPER Susa Ventures Wischoff Ventures Exits Capital Night Capital	SmartCompany, Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily
Spice AI	Seed	16 Sep 2022	$13.5m	Participant	Madrona Venture Group Basis Set Ventures Picus Capital Protocol Labs Thomas Dohmke Nat Friedman Mark Russinovich Alumni Ventures IEX fund Thomas Dohmke	TechCrunch Venture, SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Sonder	Series B	16 Sep 2022	$35m	Lead	Seek Investments SecondQuarter Ventures	SmartCompany (Fri 14 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 11 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 25 Jan 2024), Techboard, TechCrunch Venture, Startup Daily (Mon 3 Oct 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Fri 16 Sep 2022), Startup Daily (Fri 16 Sep 2022)
Excellent	Pre-seed	13 Sep 2022	$2m	Lead	Icehouse Ventures K1W1 Brooke Roberts Leighton Roberts Mahesh Muralidhar Mike Carden Adam Clark Justine Smyth	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Morse Micro	Series B	9 Sep 2022	$140m	Participant	MegaChips MegaChips Corporation Main Sequence Ventures Clean Energy Finance Corporation Skip Capital Uniseed Lucy SpringCapital Malcolm Turnbull Lucy Turnbull	Startup Daily (Sat 27 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Sep 2025), Techboard, Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Thu 15 Dec 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 1 Dec 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 28 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 6 Oct 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 3 Oct 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 9 Sep 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 7 Sep 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 7 Sep 2022)
Sitemate	Seed	10 Aug 2022	$5.2m	Lead	Shearwater Capital Tim Doyle Rory San Miguel	Forbes Australia (Mon 23 Dec 2024), Forbes Australia (Tue 20 Aug 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 17 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 16 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Wed 7 Sep 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 6 Sep 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 11 Aug 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 1 Aug 2022)
Carepatron	Pre-seed	26 Jul 2022	$1.6m	Lead	-	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, TechCrunch Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Hivery	Series B	15 Jul 2022	$43.2m	Participant	Tiger Global AS1 Partners OneVentures ASI Growth Partners AS1 Growth Partners	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Fri 5 Aug 2022), Cut Through Venture, Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 22 Jul 2022), TechCrunch Australia
Edrolo	Series B	10 Jun 2022	$40m	Lead	AirTree Ventures Aware Super NGS TelstraSuper	Startup Daily (Fri 21 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 10 Feb 2025), Techboard, Startup Daily (Fri 10 Jun 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily (Tue 7 Jun 2022), AirTree Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
The Mintable	Seed	8 Jun 2022	$6.8m	Lead	Treble Startmate Black Nova Venture Capital Flying Fox Ventures Saniel Ventures Sypkes Family Office Global Founders Capital	Startup Daily (Mon 11 May 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 8 Jun 2022)
Strong Compute	Seed	30 May 2022	$7.8m	Participant	Sequoia Capital India Folklore Ventures Skip Capital Starburst Ventures YC	TechCrunch Australia, Folklore Ventures portfolio
Blinq	Seed	17 May 2022	$5m	Participant	Square Peg Capital	SmartCompany (Fri 9 May 2025), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 20 May 2022), Square Peg Capital, TechCrunch Australia
Kinde	Seed	21 Mar 2022	$10.6m	Lead	Felicis	Startup Daily (Mon 21 Mar 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 15 Mar 2022), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Instant	Pre-seed	7 Feb 2022	$2.2m	Lead	Larry Diamond Ten13 Reinventure Group Justin Mateen Accel Ventures scout fund Accel	SmartCompany (Fri 7 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 3 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 3 Mar 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 22 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Mon 14 Feb 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 9 Feb 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 7 Feb 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Wed 2 Feb 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Australian FinTech
Dovetail	Series A	7 Feb 2022	$87m	Participant	Felicis Grok Ventures Didier Elzinga Stewart Butterfield Vlad Magdalin Daniel Yanisse Accel	Startup Daily (Mon 7 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Mon 24 Jan 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 20 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 20 Jan 2022), TechCrunch Australia, SmartCompany (Fri 17 Dec 2021), SmartCompany (Tue 14 Dec 2021), Our Innovation Fund, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Eucalyptus	Series C	27 Jan 2022	$60m	Participant	Bond NewView W23 AirTree Ventures OneVentures Athletic Ventures Woolies Mary Meeker	SmartCompany (Fri 20 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 19 Feb 2026), Forbes Australia (Mon 17 Jun 2024), eucalyptus.health, Startup Daily (Tue 20 Jun 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 5 May 2023), SmartCompany (Mon 1 May 2023), Forbes Australia (Sun 8 Jan 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 7 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 27 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 27 Jan 2022), AirTree Ventures portfolio, Athletic Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, OneVentures portfolio
Marqo	Pre-seed	2022	$840k	Participant	The Creator Fund	Blackbird Ventures, TechCrunch Venture
Inventia Life Science	Series B	17 Dec 2021	$35m	Lead	Skip Capital	Startup Daily (Mon 28 Nov 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 2 Jun 2022), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Thu 16 Dec 2021)
Foundry Lab	Series A	3 Dec 2021	$11.3m	Lead	GD1 K1W1 Peter Beck Karl Iagnemma Carl Bass Founders Fund Promus WNT Ventures Icehouse Ventures	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Bardee	Seed	18 Nov 2021	$5m	Lead	Simon Griffiths Simon Griftiths Didier Elzinga Greta Bradman	Archangel Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily (Mon 7 Aug 2023), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Mar 2023), Women's Agenda, SmartCompany (Fri 19 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 18 Nov 2021)
Fleet Space Technologies	Series B	17 Nov 2021	$36m	Lead	Artesian VC Grok Ventures Horizons Ventures Alumni Ventures Hostplus South Australian Venture Capital Fund In-Q-Tel Intel Momenta Ventures	Space Connect (Mon 6 Jan 2025), Space Connect (Thu 12 Dec 2024), SmartCompany (Thu 12 Dec 2024), satcom.digital, SmartCompany (Fri 26 May 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 24 May 2023), Bondi Partners portfolio, Startup Daily (Wed 15 Mar 2023), @AuManufacturing (Thu 3 Feb 2022), TechCrunch Australia, SmartCompany (Fri 19 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 17 Nov 2021), @AuManufacturing (Wed 17 Nov 2021), Artesian VC portfolio, Artesian VC portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
First AML	Series B	2 Nov 2021	$28.7m	Lead	Headline Eliot Crowther Bedrock Capital Icehouse Ventures	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
EnergyBank	Seed	21 Oct 2021	$1.9m	Participant	Icehouse Ventures	Cut Through Venture, Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Partly	Seed	18 Oct 2021	$3.3m	Lead	Peter Beck Dylan Field Akshay Kothari Connor Theilmann I2BF K5 Ventures	SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Mon 18 Oct 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 12 Oct 2021)
Cyble	Seed	1 Oct 2021	$5.2m	Lead	Spider Capital Picus Capital Cathexis Xgoogler Ventures	Forbes Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany
Canva	Unnamed stage	15 Sep 2021	$273m	Participant	Franklin Templeton T. Rowe Price Sequoia Capital Global Equities Bessemer Venture Partners Greenoaks Capital Dragoneer Investment Group Felicis AirTree Ventures	Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Sun 7 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 18 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 10 Jan 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), TechCrunch Venture, SmartCompany (Thu 6 Oct 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 23 May 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 3 Feb 2022), TechCrunch Australia (Wed 2 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 1 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Mon 24 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Jan 2022), Square Peg Capital, Startup Daily (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Tech Funding News - Australia (Mon 20 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 4 Oct 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 1 Oct 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 30 Sep 2021), Tech Funding News - Australia (Tue 28 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 20 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Mon 20 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Startup News (WA), TechCrunch Australia (Tue 14 Sep 2021), TechCrunch Australia (Tue 14 Sep 2021), Women's Agenda, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Oscer	Seed	27 Aug 2021	$5m	Lead	January Capital Inventures Archangel Ventures Brendan Hill Jeff Bargman	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily
EntryLevel	Pre-seed	23 Aug 2021	$350k	Participant	-	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Forage	Series B	20 Aug 2021	$35m	Lead	Cap Table Coalition ETF@JFFLabs FundersClub Lightspeed Telstra Ventures Citi Ventures Gaingels	Startup Daily (Tue 9 Apr 2024), Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Tue 21 Sep 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily (Fri 20 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Dovetail	Unnamed stage	13 Aug 2021	$5m	Participant	Felicis Grok Ventures Didier Elzinga	SmartCompany (Thu 20 Jan 2022), Techboard, SmartCompany (Fri 13 Aug 2021), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Tue 10 Aug 2021)
Fable Food Co	Seed	12 Aug 2021	$6.5m	Lead	AgFunder Aera VC Betterbite Ban Choon Marketing Warren Hogarth Warren Hogath	Startup Daily (Thu 9 Feb 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 9 Feb 2023), Techboard, Startup Daily (Mon 6 Sep 2021), AgFunderNews (Wed 18 Aug 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 13 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 12 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 12 Aug 2021), AgFunderNews (Thu 12 Aug 2021)
Fable Food	Seed	11 Aug 2021	$6.5m	Lead	AgFunder Aera VC Betterbite Ban Choon Marketing Warren Hogarth	TechCrunch Australia (Wed 8 Feb 2023), TechCrunch Australia (Wed 11 Aug 2021)
PsiQuantum	Series D+	29 Jul 2021	$611m	Participant	BlackRock Baillie Gifford M12 Temasek	Startup Daily (Tue 25 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Tue 9 Dec 2025), Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Tue 30 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Thu 26 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 29 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
CultureAmp	Series D+	29 Jul 2021	$135m	Participant	Salesforce Ventures Skip Capital Grok Capital Felicis Index Ventures Sapphire Ventures Global Founders Capital Sequoia Capital China TDM Growth Partners Grok Ventures	Startup Daily (Thu 20 Nov 2025), Aura Group portfolio, Startup Daily (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 18 Oct 2021), Techboard, SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 30 Jul 2021), TechCrunch Australia, Startup Daily (Thu 29 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, TDM Growth Partners portfolio
Eucalyptus	Series B	16 Jul 2021	$30m	Participant	NewView W23 AirTree Ventures	SmartCompany (Fri 20 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 19 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 5 May 2023), SmartCompany (Mon 1 May 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 27 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 27 Jan 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Fri 16 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 15 Jul 2021), TechCrunch Australia
FL0	Seed	9 Jul 2021	$5.1m	Lead	Skip Capital Jelix Ventures Doug English Zak Islam Seb Ruiz	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Gilmour Space	Series C	30 Jun 2021	$75m	Participant	NRF Corporation Queensland Government QIC Ventures Fine Structure Ventures Hostplus NGS Super Main Sequence Ventures HESTA	Startup Daily (Wed 30 Jul 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 29 Jul 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 16 May 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 16 May 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Feb 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 23 Feb 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 19 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 19 Feb 2024), @AuManufacturing (Fri 11 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Sep 2022), @AuManufacturing (Tue 20 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 5 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 2 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 1 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 30 Jun 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 30 Jun 2021), TechCrunch Australia, @AuManufacturing (Wed 30 Jun 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Forte Global	Seed	31 May 2021	-	Participant	-	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
SafetyCulture	Unnamed stage	3 May 2021	$99m	Participant	Insight Partners Tiger Global Index Ventures	Startup Daily (Mon 11 Apr 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 5 Apr 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 4 Apr 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 7 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 13 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 10 Aug 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 30 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 21 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 9 May 2021), SmartCompany (Tue 4 May 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), Crunchbase News
Halter	Series B	28 Apr 2021	$20m	Lead	DCVC Prosus Ventures Ubiquity Ventures Peter Beck Peter Beck	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 25 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 27 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 28 Apr 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 27 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 27 Apr 2021)
Cyble	Accelerator	11 Apr 2021	$4m	Lead	YC Spider Capital	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, SmartCompany
Canva	Unnamed stage	7 Apr 2021	$93m	Lead	Skip Capital T. Rowe Price Dragoneer T Rowe Price Global Technology Fund Dragoneer Investment Group	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 22 Dec 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Startup News (WA) (Wed 15 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 30 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 11 Apr 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 7 Apr 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 7 Apr 2021), Startup News (WA) (Wed 7 Apr 2021), Women's Agenda
Carted	Seed	Apr 2021	$13m	Lead	Grok Ventures Tidal Ventures Streamlined Ventures Ryan Hudson Kamran Ansari Gabby Leibovich Hezi Leibovich Lightspeed	Startup Daily (Wed 15 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 17 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 9 May 2021), Women's Agenda, SmartCompany (Wed 5 May 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Baraja	Series B	29 Mar 2021	$40m	Lead	Main Sequence Ventures Hitachi Construction Machinery HESTA InterValley Ventures Regal Funds Management Perennial Value Management	Startup Daily (Mon 13 Feb 2023), @AuManufacturing (Wed 13 Oct 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 1 Apr 2021), Cut Through Venture, @AuManufacturing (Mon 29 Mar 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 25 Mar 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 25 Mar 2021), TechCrunch Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Main Sequence Ventures portfolio
Lexer	Series B	25 Feb 2021	$33.5m	Lead	King River Capital January Capital River King Capital	Cut Through Venture, Startup Daily, SmartCompany, TechCrunch Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, January Capital portfolio, King River Capital portfolio
Vow	Seed	7 Jan 2021	$7.7m	Participant	Tenacious Ventures Square Peg Capital Grok Capital Grok Ventures Grok	Startup Daily (Wed 18 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 14 Jan 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 29 Nov 2024), Startup Daily (Sat 6 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 28 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 15 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture, Square Peg Capital, SmartCompany (Fri 29 Oct 2021), AgFunderNews (Fri 4 Jun 2021), Cut Through Venture, AgFunderNews (Tue 12 Jan 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Jan 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 7 Jan 2021), Square Peg Capital portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Heidi Health	Seed	2021	$5m	Lead	-	Forbes Australia (Tue 22 Sep 2026), Forbes Australia (Tue 24 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 10 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Fri 10 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 26 Oct 2023)
Multitudes	Seed	10 Dec 2020	$2.2m	Lead	Ellen Pao Jon Williams Working Theory Angels Rachael Neumann	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 9 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Partly	Seed	4 Dec 2020	-	Lead	-	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 1 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 13 Oct 2020)
Ao Air	Unnamed stage	4 Dec 2020	-	Participant	-	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 3 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Morse Micro	Series A	25 Nov 2020	$17m	Participant	Main Sequence Ventures Clean Energy Innovation Fund Skip Capital Ray Stata	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily
SunDrive	Series A	27 Oct 2020	$5m	Lead	Grok Ventures	Startup Daily (Fri 14 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 12 Nov 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 28 Mar 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 3 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 2 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 13 Oct 2022), RenewEconomy, SmartCompany (Tue 27 Oct 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 26 Oct 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
SafetyCulture	Unnamed stage	27 Oct 2020	$49m	Lead	Index Ventures	Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 27 Oct 2020)
SafetyCulture	Secondary	27 Oct 2020	-	Buyer	Index Ventures	Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 27 Oct 2020)
See-Mode	Series A	21 Aug 2020	$9m	Participant	MassMutual Ventures Cocoon Capital Entrepreneur First SGInnovate	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 20 Aug 2020)
Hivery	Series A	11 Aug 2020	$8m	Lead	AS1 Growth Partners	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily
VAPAR	Pre-seed	6 Jul 2020	$700k	Lead	Startmate	Startup Daily (Mon 29 Jan 2024), Women's Agenda (Tue 14 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 9 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 18 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 6 Aug 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 6 Jul 2020), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Jul 2020), Women's Agenda (Sun 5 Jul 2020)
Canva	Unnamed stage	22 Jun 2020	$87.3m	Lead	Sequoia China Bond Felicis General Catalyst Sequoia Capital China Bond Capital	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 4 Jan 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Sun 11 Apr 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 7 Apr 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 7 Apr 2021), Women's Agenda (Tue 6 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Fri 21 Aug 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 21 Jul 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 7 Jul 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 24 Jun 2020), Startup News (WA), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Jun 2020), Women's Agenda (Tue 23 Jun 2020), TechCrunch Australia (Mon 22 Jun 2020), TechCrunch Australia (Mon 22 Jun 2020)
Eucalyptus	Series A	27 May 2020	$8m	Participant	Woolworths	SmartCompany (Fri 20 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 19 Feb 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 5 May 2023), SmartCompany (Mon 1 May 2023), Startup Daily (Fri 16 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Thu 15 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Thu 21 May 2020)
Movus	Unnamed stage	19 May 2020	$2.5m	Participant	Telstra Ventures Skip Capital	@AuManufacturing, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
SafetyCulture	Series C	13 Apr 2020	$60m	Participant	TDM Growth Partners Index Ventures Skip Capital Malcolm Turnbull Tiger Global Morpheus Ventures Scott Farquhar	SmartCompany (Tue 5 Apr 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 30 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Tue 4 May 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily (Tue 27 Oct 2020), SmartCompany (Fri 12 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 21 Apr 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 13 Apr 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 9 Apr 2020), SmartCompany (Mon 17 Dec 2018)
SafetyCulture	Unnamed stage	7 Apr 2020	$35.5m	Participant	TDM Growth Partners Skip Capital Malcolm Turnbull	Crunchbase News, TechCrunch Australia
Ovira	Unnamed stage	12 Mar 2020	$1.5m	Lead	-	Women's Agenda, SmartCompany (Fri 18 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 12 Mar 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 12 Mar 2020)
Dovetail	Seed	26 Feb 2020	$4m	Lead	Felicis Didier Elzinga	SmartCompany (Thu 20 Jan 2022), TechCrunch Australia, SmartCompany (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 5 Mar 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 26 Feb 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Feb 2020)
Roborigger	Series A	14 Feb 2020	$5m	Lead	-	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020), Startup News (WA), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 12 Feb 2020), @AuManufacturing
Fable	Seed	12 Dec 2019	$1.5m	Lead	Grok Ventures Mike Cannon-Brookes	SmartCompany (Mon 6 Jul 2020), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Jan 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Harrison AI	Series A	9 Dec 2019	$29m	Lead	Horizons Ventures Skip Capital Ramsay Health Care	Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Wed 29 Jan 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 1 Dec 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 1 Dec 2021), SmartCompany (Mon 6 Jan 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 9 Dec 2019)
Canva	Unnamed stage	17 Oct 2019	$125m	Participant	Blackbird Venture Capital Sequoia Capital China General Catalyst Bessemer Venture Partners Bond Capital Sequoia China Mary Meekers' investment fund Bond	Square Peg Capital, SmartCompany (Tue 23 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Dec 2019), TechCrunch Venture (Sat 19 Oct 2019), Startup News (WA), StrictlyVC, Startup Daily (Thu 17 Oct 2019), SmartCompany (Thu 17 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Oct 2019), TechCrunch Venture (Wed 16 Oct 2019)
Brandcrush	Unnamed stage	17 Sep 2019	$1m	Participant	Rampersand Adam Schwab Nicky Jackson Jane Martino Sean Taylor	Startup Daily (Wed 8 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (Fri 4 Oct 2019), SmartCompany
Fleet Space Technologies	Unnamed stage	5 Sep 2019	$10.8m	Participant	Horizons Ventures Grok Ventures Kennards Hire Momenta Ventures Li Ka-shing The Kennards Hire Kennard family	Startup Daily (Wed 17 Nov 2021), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Fri 4 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019), @AuManufacturing (Mon 9 Sep 2019), @AuManufacturing (Fri 6 Sep 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 5 Sep 2019), TechCrunch Venture
CultureAmp	Series D+	4 Sep 2019	$121m	Participant	Sequoia Mike Cannon-Brookes Scott Farquhar Sequoia Capital China Sapphire Ventures Felicis Index Ventures Hostplus Skip Capital Grok Ventures Global Founders Capital TDM Growth Partners	Startup Daily (Thu 20 Nov 2025), TechCrunch Australia, Startup Daily (Thu 29 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 13 Feb 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 13 Feb 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Dec 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 4 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019), SmartCompany (Wed 4 Sep 2019), Startup Daily (Wed 4 Sep 2019), StrictlyVC, TechCrunch Venture
Morse Micro	Series A	31 May 2019	$23.8m	Participant	Main Sequence Ventures Ray Stata Skip Capital Right Click Capital Uniseed Clean Energy Innovation Fund Ray Stata CSIRO Clean Innovation Energy Fund	@AuManufacturing, SmartCompany, Startup Daily
Canva	Unnamed stage	21 May 2019	$101m	Participant	General Catalyst Bond Felicis Blackbird Capital Paul Bassat Daniel Petre	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Dec 2019), SmartCompany (Thu 17 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Oct 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 21 May 2019), Startup Daily (Tue 21 May 2019), Startup Daily (Mon 20 May 2019), TechCrunch Venture
IncoDocs	Seed	26 Apr 2019	$1.2m	Participant	Maersk Transition Level Investments	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Skedulo	Series B	22 Mar 2019	$39.1m	Participant	M12 Costanoa Ventures	SmartCompany (Mon 12 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Dec 2019), Startup Daily (Wed 1 May 2019), SmartCompany (Fri 22 Mar 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 21 Mar 2019), TechCrunch Venture, Crunchbase News
Baraja	Series A	16 Jan 2019	$45m	Lead	Sequoia China Main Sequence Ventures Sequoia CSIRO	Startup Daily (Mon 13 Feb 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 25 Mar 2021), TechCrunch Australia (Wed 24 Mar 2021), TechCrunch Australia (Fri 17 Jan 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Dec 2019), Startup Daily (Wed 1 May 2019), Crunchbase News, SmartCompany (Wed 16 Jan 2019), @AuManufacturing, Startup Daily (Mon 7 Jan 2019)
Sunfed Meats	Series A	Nov 2018	$9.4m	Lead	-	Startup Daily, SmartCompany
Nura	Series A	Nov 2018	$21m	Lead	-	SmartCompany (Fri 8 Mar 2019), SmartCompany (Thu 21 Feb 2019), Startup Daily
Gilmour Space	Series B	Sep 2018	$19m	Participant	Main Sequence Ventures	Startup Daily (Wed 30 Jul 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 29 Jul 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 16 May 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Feb 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 19 Feb 2024), @AuManufacturing (Fri 11 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 1 Dec 2020), @AuManufacturing (Mon 30 Sep 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Jan 2019)
Zoox	Series B	Jul 2018	$675m	Participant	Mike Cannon-Brookes	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Mon 29 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 28 May 2020), SmartCompany (Wed 16 Jan 2019)
CultureAmp	Series D+	Jul 2018	$54m	Lead	Skip Capital Grok Ventures	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Thu 21 Feb 2019), SmartCompany (Mon 17 Dec 2018)
See-Mode	Seed	Jun 2018	$1m	Participant	-	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Movus	Series A	Apr 2018	$4.8m	Participant	Telstra Ventures Skip Capital Telstra	@AuManufacturing (Tue 19 May 2020), @AuManufacturing (Wed 10 Jul 2019), SmartCompany, @AuManufacturing (Fri 8 Feb 2019)
Canva	Series A	Jan 2018	$51m	Lead	-	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Jun 2020), Techboard, Startup Daily (Thu 17 Oct 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 21 May 2019), Startup Daily (Tue 21 May 2019), Startup Daily (Mon 20 May 2019), SmartCompany (Fri 17 May 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Jan 2019), SmartCompany (Mon 17 Dec 2018)
Gilmour Space	Series A	May 2017	$5m	Participant	-	Blackbird Ventures, @AuManufacturing (Fri 11 Aug 2023), Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing (Mon 30 Sep 2019)
Ortto	Unnamed stage	2017	$16m	Participant	-	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Mentorloop	Seed	2017	$725k	Participant	Rampersand Folklore Ventures	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Folklore Ventures portfolio, Rampersand portfolio
Fleet Space Technologies	Series A	2017	$5m	Lead	Mike Cannon-Brookes Grok Ventures	Space Connect (Mon 6 Jan 2025), Space Connect (Thu 12 Dec 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 17 Nov 2021), SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Fri 4 Oct 2019), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Sep 2019), Startup Daily (Thu 5 Sep 2019), TechCrunch Venture
Canva	Unnamed stage	14 Sep 2016	$20m	Lead	Felicis	SmartCompany (Thu 15 Sep 2016), SmartCompany (Wed 14 Sep 2016)
Canva	Series A	6 Oct 2015	$21m	Participant	Felicis Matrix Partners Vayner Capital Owen Wilson Woody Harrelson	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), SmartCompany (Tue 6 Oct 2015)
Canva	Unnamed stage	21 Jul 2014	$3.6m	Participant	Founders Fund Shasta Ventures Matrix Partners Square Peg Capital	SmartCompany, TechCrunch Venture
Canva	Seed	19 Mar 2013	$3m	Participant	Matrix Partners InterWest Partners 500 Startups Bill Tai Lars Rasmussen Ken Goldman Paul Bassat Commercialisation Australia	TechCrunch Venture, SmartCompany
SafetyCulture	Seed	2013	$1.2m	Participant	Mike Cannon-Brookes Scott Farquhar Bill Tai	Startup Daily
CoinJar	Seed	2013	$500k	Lead	-	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Canva	undisclosed	2013	$250k	Participant	-	Blackbird Ventures, Startup Daily (Fri 3 May 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Juno	undisclosed	undated	$2.8m	Lead	-	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio

Cohort members

Everyone Blackbird Ventures has named to a program in published coverage. A place in a program is not a raise: the cheque is the figure recorded with the place, which is the program's standard terms where we hold them, and a blank is one we don't.

Member	Program	Announced	Cheque	Sources
No cohort members published yet.

Portfolio

Companies Blackbird Ventures has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Adora	Software mapping product journeys and spotting UX friction	4 Aug 2026, Seed	1	1
Airwallex		21 May 2025, Series D+	1	0
Alloy Technologies		24 Sep 2025, Pre-seed	2	1
Ao Air		4 Dec 2020	1	0
Aquila		Jun 2023, Seed	2	1
Atticus		11 Jun 2024, undisclosed	1	0
Azonic		Aug 2026, Pre-seed	1	1
Baraja		16 Jan 2019, Series A	2	2
Bardee		18 Nov 2021, Seed	1	1
Baseten		18 Feb 2026, Series D+	2	0
Blinq		17 May 2022, Seed	3	0
Brandcrush		17 Sep 2019	1	0
Build Club		11 Oct 2024, Pre-seed	1	1
Canva		2013, undisclosed	11	4
Carepatron		26 Jul 2022, Pre-seed	1	1
Carted		Apr 2021, Seed	1	1
Checkmate		27 Sep 2022, Seed	2	1
Clove		11 Dec 2023, Pre-seed	1	1
CLUTCH Glue		Nov 2024, Pre-seed	1	1
CoinJar		2013, Seed	1	1
Cortical Labs		20 Apr 2023	1	0
Cotiss		23 May 2023, Pre-seed	1	1
CultureAmp		Jul 2018, Series D+	3	1
Cyble		11 Apr 2021, Accelerator	3	2
Darwinium		11 Nov 2022, Seed	2	1
Dovetail		26 Feb 2020, Seed	3	1
Edrolo		10 Jun 2022, Series B	1	1
Elyos		19 Jan 2026, Series A	1	1
EnergyBank		21 Oct 2021, Seed	1	0
Enhance Labs		30 Sep 2025, Pre-seed	1	1
EntryLevel		23 Aug 2021, Pre-seed	1	0
Eucalyptus		27 May 2020, Series A	4	0
Excellent		13 Sep 2022, Pre-seed	1	1
Fable		12 Dec 2019, Seed	1	1
Fable Food	Mushroom protein crafted from upcycled shiitake mushroom stems	11 Aug 2021, Seed	2	1
Fable Food Co		12 Aug 2021, Seed	2	1
Factor House		2024, undisclosed	2	2
First AML		2 Nov 2021, Series B	1	1
FL0		9 Jul 2021, Seed	1	1
Fleet Space Technologies		2017, Series A	5	3
Forage		20 Aug 2021, Series B	1	1
Forte Global		31 May 2021, Seed	1	0
Foundry Lab		3 Dec 2021, Series A	1	1
Gilmour Space		May 2017, Series A	5	0
Hall		27 Jul 2025, Pre-seed	1	0
Halter		28 Apr 2021, Series B	4	1
Harrison AI		9 Dec 2019, Series A	3	1
Heidi Health		2021, Seed	7	3
Hivery		11 Aug 2020, Series A	2	1
Iceberg Quantum		24 Mar 2025, Pre-seed	1	1
IncoDocs		26 Apr 2019, Seed	1	0
Index		11 Feb 2025, Seed	1	1
Instant		7 Feb 2022, Pre-seed	2	1
Inventia Life Science		17 Dec 2021, Series B	1	1
Ivo		Feb 2025, Series A	2	1
Juno		undisclosed	1	1
Kiki	Invite-only subletting club for London homes	Aug 2023, Seed	2	2
Kimia		13 Apr 2026, Seed	1	0
Kinde		21 Mar 2022, Seed	1	1
Kwetta		Jan 2025, Series A	1	1
Leonardo.Ai		2023, Accelerator	2	1
Lexer		25 Feb 2021, Series B	1	1
Lorikeet		3 Oct 2024, Seed	3	2
Magic Brief		Jul 2023, Pre-seed	1	1
Marloo		1 Jan 2024, Seed	3	3
Marqo		2022, Pre-seed	4	1
Mentorloop		2017, Seed	1	0
MoreGoodDays		Mar 2023, Seed	1	1
Morse Micro		31 May 2019, Series A	4	0
Movus		Apr 2018, Series A	2	0
Multitudes		10 Dec 2020, Seed	1	1
Nomad Atomics		3 Jul 2023, Series A	1	1
Nura		Nov 2018, Series A	1	1
One Future Football		20 Jun 2023, Pre-seed	1	1
OpenDebt		22 Sep 2026, Pre-seed	1	1
Ortto		2017	1	0
Oscer		27 Aug 2021, Seed	1	1
Ovira		12 Mar 2020	1	1
Partly		4 Dec 2020, Seed	4	2
Polymath		Feb 2025, Pre-seed	1	1
Propeller		18 Apr 2023	1	1
PsiQuantum		29 Jul 2021, Series D+	1	0
Redactive		3 Jul 2024, Seed	1	1
Roborigger		14 Feb 2020, Series A	1	1
SafetyCulture		2013, Seed	6	1
Sauce		11 Nov 2022, Seed	1	1
See-Mode		Jun 2018, Seed	2	0
Sitemate		10 Aug 2022, Seed	4	3
Skedulo	Mobile workforce scheduling and management software	22 Mar 2019, Series B	1	0
Sonder		16 Sep 2022, Series B	3	2
Spice AI	Real-time analytical query engine for operational data	16 Sep 2022, Seed	1	0
Springboards		25 Feb 2025, undisclosed	1	1
Sterling		14 Aug 2026, undisclosed	1	1
Strong Compute		30 May 2022, Seed	1	0
Sumday		Mar 2023, Pre-seed	2	1
SunDrive		27 Oct 2020, Series A	2	1
Sunfed Meats		Nov 2018, Series A	1	1
Superstat		28 Jul 2026, Pre-seed	1	1
Syenta		22 Dec 2022, Seed	3	1
The Mintable		8 Jun 2022, Seed	1	1
Tracksuit		2023, Seed	1	1
VAPAR	AI software for assessing pipe condition from CCTV footage	6 Jul 2020, Pre-seed	1	1
Vexev	AI-powered robotic ultrasound for vascular imaging	14 Nov 2022, undisclosed	3	0
Vow	Cultured meat and novel food products grown from animal cells	7 Jan 2021, Seed	3	2
Zoox		Jul 2018, Series B	1	0

From its portfolio page

Companies Blackbird Ventures's own portfolio page lists that no published round yet places it in. The page is the source; the round is being looked for.

Company	Site
Accelo	-
Alts	-
Applied	-
Ask Nicely	-
August Robotics	-
AuthSignal	-
Bellish	-
Black.ai	-
Bugcrowd	-
Caligra	-
CarbonChain	-
Chuffed	-
Coherence Neuro	-
Dgraph	-
EARTH AI	-
Elevio	-
Elto	-
Factor	-
Forte	-
General Compute Inc.	-
HYPR	-
Inventia Life Sciences	-
Karbon	-
LIFX	-
Mint	-
Mitti	-
Myagi	-
NextWork	-
OpenStar	-
Process Street	-
Propeller Aero	-
Proxy	-
Quarterzip	-
Ravio	-
Sunrise Festival	thesunrise.live ↗

Funds

Fund closes reported for Blackbird Ventures, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
sixth fund	25 Aug 2026	$1b	$1.2b	Final	This Week in Australian Startups, Dealroom (Thu 8 Oct 2026), Forbes Australia (Thu 8 Oct 2026), Forbes Australia (Wed 16 Sep 2026), Forbes Australia (Wed 26 Aug 2026), Startup Daily, Business News Australia, Blackbird Ventures, AFR Technology, Dealroom (Sun 16 Aug 2026), Dealroom (Sun 16 Aug 2026)
Blackbird 2025 Funds	15 Aug 2026	$1b+	$1.2b	Final	-
fifth fund	28 Nov 2022	$1b	-	Final	Startup Daily (Tue 25 Aug 2026), Dealroom, Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Forbes Australia (Sun 8 Jan 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Dec 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 28 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 11 Nov 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Forbes Australia (Wed 2 Nov 2022), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture
2012LP	May 2022	-	-	Interim	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
-	18 Dec 2020	$500m	-	Final	SmartCompany (Thu 7 Apr 2022), Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Fri 18 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany (Tue 27 Oct 2020), SmartCompany (Fri 18 Sep 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Sep 2020)
-	4 Aug 2020	$500m	-	Final	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily
fourth fund	2020	$650m	-	-	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 31 Mar 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 1 Dec 2020)
NZ Fund	2019	$60m	-	-	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 20 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
initial fund	2013	$29m	-	Final	Startup Daily, Business News Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
-	2012	$29m	-	Final	Blackbird Ventures, SmartCompany

Investors in these funds

Investors that coverage says has money in a fund Blackbird Ventures runs. This is a stake in the fund, not in any company the fund has backed.

Investor	Fund	Sources
Adams Street Partners	-	Business News Australia, Blackbird Ventures
Adams Street Partners	Fund 6	-
Adams Street Partners	sixth fund	Dealroom, Forbes Australia (Thu 8 Oct 2026), Forbes Australia (Wed 26 Aug 2026), Startup Daily
AustralianSuper	-	This Week in Australian Startups, Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, SmartCompany (Wed 2 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture, SmartCompany (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Aware Super	-	Business News Australia, Startup Daily, Forbes Australia, SmartCompany
Aware Super	sixth fund	Forbes Australia, Startup Daily
Cendana Capital	-	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
First State Super	-	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Future Fund	-	Business News Australia, Startup Daily, TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 Aug 2020)
Future Fund	Fund 6	-
Future Fund	sixth fund	Startup Daily
Greenspring Associates	-	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
HESTA	-	Business News Australia, Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, Startup Daily (Tue 17 Dec 2019)
Hostplus	-	Business News Australia, Startup Daily (Tue 23 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 29 Feb 2024), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Forbes Australia, SmartCompany, TechCrunch Venture
Hostplus	sixth fund	Forbes Australia, Startup Daily
Morgan Stanley	sixth fund	Dealroom, Forbes Australia (Thu 8 Oct 2026), Forbes Australia (Wed 26 Aug 2026)
Morgan Stanley Investment Management	-	Business News Australia, Blackbird Ventures
Morgan Stanley Investment Management	Fund 6	-
Morgan Stanley Investment Management	sixth fund	Startup Daily
NGS	-	Startup Daily (Tue 23 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022)
NZ Growth Capital Partners	-	Startup Daily, TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Pavilion Capital	-	SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Schroders	-	Business News Australia, Blackbird Ventures, AFR Technology
Schroders	Fund 6	-
Schroders	sixth fund	Dealroom, Forbes Australia (Thu 8 Oct 2026), Forbes Australia (Wed 26 Aug 2026), Startup Daily
TelstraSuper	-	Startup Daily, SmartCompany (Wed 2 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Blackbird Ventures has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Blackbird Ventures did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
Eucalyptus	Hims & Hers	Acquisition	Jan 2026	$1.6b
Zoox	Amazon	Acquisition	29 Jun 2020	$1.3b
Leonardo.Ai	Canva	Acquisition	30 Jul 2024	$300m+
Leonardo.Ai	Canva	Acquisition	Jul 2024	$120m+
Hall	Tracksuit	Acquisition	20 Jul 2026	-
The Mintable	Humankind	Acquisition	17 May 2026	-
Ortto	Canva	Acquisition	19 Apr 2026	-
Magic Brief	Canva	Acquisition	18 Jun 2025	-
Nura	Masimo	Acquisition	20 Apr 2023	-
Brandcrush	Criteo	Acquisition	1Q 2023	-

Portfolio shares sold

Companies Blackbird Ventures has backed where it sold shares it held to another investor. An exit for the holding; the company carries on.

Company	Announced	Amount	Valuation	Bought by	Sources
Canva	2 May 2024	$2.3b	$25b post-money, as reported, not confirmed by the company	Quadrant Private Equity	Forbes Australia, quadrantpe.com.au, Women's Agenda
Canva	10 Aug 2023	$150m	$38.8b post-money, as reported, not confirmed by the company	not named	SmartCompany (Wed 14 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Tue 5 Dec 2023), SmartCompany (Mon 28 Aug 2023), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Aug 2023)

What Blackbird Ventures bought

Companies Blackbird Ventures acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

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

Funding history

No funding rounds recorded. Know of one?

Shares sold by holders

Existing Blackbird Ventures shares sold by the funds and people who held them. None of this money reached Blackbird Ventures, and none of it counts in what Blackbird Ventures raised.

Sold by	Announced	Amount	Valuation	Bought by	Sources
not named	16 Dec 2019	$100m	-	Stepstone	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 16 Dec 2019)

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Blackbird Ventures raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
No investors recorded yet. Know one?

On a portfolio page

Investors whose own portfolio pages list Blackbird Ventures, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.

Investor	Listed on
Future Fund	its portfolio page ↗

People

Name	Role	Sources
Alex Apoifis	Partner, Chief Operating Officer	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures team page
Alex Apoifis	Chief Operating Officer	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021)
Alex Gifford	Head of Investment Programs	Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023)
Alexandra Gifford	Head of Investment Programs	Blackbird Ventures (Mon 4 Dec 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 11 Oct 2023)
Alissa Lucas	Impact Associate	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures team page
Catt Vongpraseuth	Business Operations Analyst	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Christie Jenkins	Investor (former)	Startup Daily (Mon 18 May 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 4 Dec 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 21 May 2025), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Clare		Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 4 Dec 2023)
Clark Carter	Head of Productivity	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Dan Danilov	Business Operations Manager	Startup Daily (Wed 5 May 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Startup Daily (Wed 16 Sep 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 30 Jun 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Dani Pinkus	Head of Community	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 24 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Daniel Danilov	Operations Manager	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
David Booth	EIR	Startup Daily (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Fri 19 Apr 2024)
David Booth	Entrepreneur in Residence (former)	Blackbird Ventures (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 25 Mar 2024)
Dr James Palmer	Principal (former)	Blackbird Ventures (Wed 21 Jan 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 19 Jan 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Thu 31 Aug 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 24 May 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Ellisa Bennett	Portfolio Intelligence Analyst	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Georgia Robertson	Associate	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures (Fri 12 Sep 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024), Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures (Fri 19 Apr 2024)
Hardy Michel	Angel Scout (former)	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures
Hart Lestari	Portfolio Intelligence Analyst	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Jasmin Jenkins	Head of Investor Relations	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures team page
Jessica Tulp	Associate	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures team page
Joel Connolly	Creative Director	Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 4 Dec 2023), Afterwork Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily
Josh Golde	Accounts Payable	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Justin Angsuwat	Chief People Officer	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Justina Yap	Financial Controller	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Justine Nangle	General Counsel	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 10 Oct 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Kate Glazebrook	Head of Impact & Operating Principal	Blackbird Ventures team page
Kate Glazebrook	Head of Impact & Operating Principal	Startup Daily, SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures (Mon 1 Sep 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 21 Jun 2023)
Lucia Salim	Financial Accountant	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Maddy Guest	Investment Associate	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures (Mon 23 Jun 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024)
Marc Alexander	Portfolio Adviser	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Mason		Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023)
Mason Yates	Principal	Blackbird Ventures (Wed 24 Sep 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 28 Jun 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 1 Aug 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 29 Nov 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 3 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 13 Oct 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 3 Sep 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sat 1 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 31 Jul 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 27 May 2020)
Mason Yates	Portfolio Intelligence Analyst	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Max Meyer	Principal	Blackbird Ventures (Wed 11 Feb 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 12 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 5 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 18 Jun 2024), Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Meg		Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 4 Dec 2023)
Melia Rayner	Head of Communications	Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 26 Jul 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 17 Apr 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 30 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 26 Oct 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 31 Aug 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 28 Jul 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 1 Jun 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 31 Mar 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 25 Jan 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 26 Oct 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 29 Sep 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 26 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 1 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 15 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 6 Oct 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 7 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sat 4 Jan 2020)
Michael Tolo	Partner	Forbes Australia (Tue 22 Sep 2026), Australian FinTech, Dealroom, Startup Daily (Mon 11 May 2026), Forbes Australia (Tue 24 Mar 2026), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 18 Feb 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 4 Nov 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 6 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 1 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Tue 30 Sep 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 22 May 2025), Forbes Australia (Wed 21 May 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Mar 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 4 Jul 2024), Forbes Australia (Thu 4 Jul 2024), Forbes Australia (Tue 30 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Thu 26 Oct 2023), TechCrunch Australia, Blackbird Ventures (Wed 15 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 7 Mar 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 29 Nov 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 27 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 24 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 23 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 29 Jul 2021), Women's Agenda, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 May 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 1 Dec 2020)
Mike Cannon-Brookes	Chair (former)	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), SmartCompany, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Startup Daily
Nell Hardie	People Lead	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 24 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020)
Nick Crocker	Partner (former)	Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Mon 2 Mar 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 11 Feb 2026), SmartCompany (Wed 11 Feb 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 11 Feb 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Thu 20 Feb 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 13 Feb 2025), Our Innovation Fund, Blackbird Ventures (Thu 23 Jan 2025), Missing Perspectives (Thu 16 Jan 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Nov 2024), Missing Perspectives (Wed 13 Nov 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 18 Jun 2024), Forbes Australia (Fri 26 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 6 Sep 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 17 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 7 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 30 May 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Forbes Australia (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 15 Aug 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 1 Aug 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 7 Apr 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 20 Jan 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 19 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 8 Oct 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 13 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 12 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 26 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 22 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 15 Mar 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Fri 16 Oct 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 7 Sep 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 3 Sep 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 27 May 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Feb 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Nick Erzetic	Data & Product Manager	Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023)
Niki Scevak	Partner	Startup Daily (Tue 2 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Tue 2 Dec 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 25 Jan 2024), Startup Daily (Fri 16 Sep 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 25 Jul 2022), Startup Daily (Sun 11 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures team page
Niki Scevak	Partner (former) · Founder	Blackbird Ventures (Fri 13 Feb 2026), Forbes Australia (Mon 1 Dec 2025), Forbes Australia (Tue 12 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 25 Jun 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 9 Apr 2025), Capital Brief, Forbes Australia (Wed 12 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 12 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Jan 2025), aap.com.au, spaceanddefense.io, Forbes Australia (Thu 30 May 2024), satcom.digital, Forbes Australia (Mon 6 May 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Thu 11 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 12 Dec 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 11 Dec 2023), Forbes Australia (Mon 11 Dec 2023), Forbes Australia (Thu 7 Dec 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 7 Dec 2023), Business News Australia, Forbes Australia (Thu 7 Dec 2023), inaitoday.com, mediaweek.com.au, Startup Daily (Mon 3 Jul 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Jun 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 15 Jun 2023), TechCrunch Venture (Wed 14 Jun 2023), Bondi Partners portfolio, Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 20 Dec 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 15 Dec 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 11 Nov 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Forbes Australia (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture (Tue 1 Nov 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 13 Oct 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 3 Oct 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 19 Sep 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 8 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 7 Apr 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Feb 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Feb 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 22 Dec 2021), Startup Daily (Thu 16 Dec 2021), @AuManufacturing, Startup Daily (Wed 27 Oct 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 23 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 4 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 24 May 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 28 Apr 2021), RenewEconomy, SmartCompany (Tue 27 Oct 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 26 Oct 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sat 17 Oct 2020), SmartCompany (Fri 18 Sep 2020), SmartCompany (Fri 21 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 20 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 10 Aug 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 2 Apr 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 11 Nov 2019), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 2 Jul 2019)
Phoebe Harrop		Blackbird Ventures
Phoebe Harrop	Partner	Startup Daily (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 25 Mar 2024), Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 30 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 13 Sep 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 8 Sep 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 26 Jul 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 26 Jul 2022), TechCrunch Australia, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 21 Oct 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 20 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 20 Apr 2021)
Rick Baker	Partner · Founder	Blackbird Ventures (Fri 13 Mar 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 20 Dec 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Forbes Australia (Sun 8 Jan 2023), Forbes Australia (Wed 2 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), @AuManufacturing (Wed 30 Jun 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 26 Feb 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Startup Daily (Tue 23 Jun 2020), SmartCompany (Tue 23 Jun 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020), @AuManufacturing (Wed 10 Jul 2019), Blackbird Ventures team page
Rick Baker	Partner (former) · Founder	Forbes Australia, Startup Daily (Tue 25 Aug 2026), Business News Australia, Startup Daily (Mon 17 Aug 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Fri 17 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Tue 20 Jan 2026), gspace.com, Five V Capital portfolio, Startup Daily (Wed 25 Jun 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 12 May 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 7 May 2025), SmartCompany (Wed 7 May 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 9 Apr 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 18 Nov 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Thu 11 Apr 2024), Startup Daily (Mon 19 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Mon 19 Feb 2024), @AuManufacturing, Women's Agenda (Tue 28 Mar 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Australia (Mon 16 May 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 30 Jun 2021), Women's Agenda (Tue 6 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 31 Mar 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 26 Feb 2021), TechCrunch Australia (Thu 25 Feb 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 25 Feb 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 15 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 12 Mar 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 12 Mar 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020), Startup News (WA), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 12 Dec 2019), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 19 Nov 2019), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 5 May 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 19 Mar 2013)
Robyn Denholm	Operating Partner (former)	Women's Agenda, Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 3 May 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 28 Apr 2021)
Sam Wong	Partner	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 2 Nov 2022), TechCrunch Venture, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 23 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 1 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 28 Apr 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Jan 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), SmartCompany (Fri 16 Oct 2020), SmartCompany (Thu 10 Sep 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020)
Samantha Wong	Partner	Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), marloo.com, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Startup Daily (Mon 9 Dec 2019), Blackbird Ventures team page
Samantha Wong	General Partner (former) · Founder	Startup Daily (Tue 22 Sep 2026), Business News Australia (Tue 22 Sep 2026), Australian FinTech, Forbes Australia, Business News Australia (Tue 25 Aug 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 25 Aug 2026), Dealroom, Startup Daily (Wed 5 Aug 2026), Startup Daily (Fri 1 May 2026), SmartCompany (Fri 1 May 2026), Startup Daily (Wed 29 Apr 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 29 Apr 2026), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 25 Mar 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 20 Jan 2026), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 3 Nov 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Fri 12 Sep 2025), Business News Australia (Wed 10 Sep 2025), Fintech News Australia, marloo.com, Blackbird Ventures (Mon 23 Jun 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 12 May 2025), Startup Daily (Thu 1 May 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 13 Feb 2025), Startup Daily (Fri 19 Apr 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Fri 19 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 27 Mar 2024), Women's Agenda (Thu 8 Feb 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 7 Feb 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 7 Feb 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Thu 31 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 16 Dec 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 15 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 15 Nov 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Nov 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 14 Dec 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 30 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 30 Nov 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 3 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 2 Nov 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 12 Oct 2021), Women's Agenda (Wed 22 Sep 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 21 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 27 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 27 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 20 Apr 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 6 Jan 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 9 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 13 Oct 2020), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 4 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 3 Aug 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 16 Oct 2019), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 15 Apr 2019)
Silk Kadala	Principal	Blackbird Ventures (Mon 6 Oct 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Thu 20 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Jan 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 12 Dec 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 15 Mar 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 15 Mar 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 29 Nov 2021)
Sophie Stevenson	EA	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Sophie Taylor	Chief of Staff	Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 10 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020)
Temara Chapman	EA	Blackbird Ventures portfolio
Tip Piumsomboon	Principal	Blackbird Ventures, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 20 Apr 2021), Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 1 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 1 Mar 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Sun 9 Feb 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Wed 16 Oct 2019)
Tom Humphrey	Partner (former)	Blackbird Ventures (Thu 16 Apr 2026), SmartCompany (Thu 25 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 24 Sep 2025), Forbes Australia (Wed 24 Sep 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 24 Sep 2025), Forbes Australia (Tue 4 Mar 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 25 Feb 2025), Startup Daily (Wed 5 Feb 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 5 Feb 2025), Forbes Australia (Mon 23 Dec 2024), Forbes Australia (Tue 20 Aug 2024), Blackbird Ventures (Mon 3 Jun 2024), Startup Daily (Thu 16 Nov 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Wed 6 Sep 2023), Forbes Australia (Wed 9 Aug 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 21 Feb 2023), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 29 Sep 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 16 Sep 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 15 Aug 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 11 Aug 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 1 Aug 2022), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 1 Oct 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 23 Aug 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Mon 23 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 20 Aug 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 9 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 6 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 5 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 1 Dec 2020)
Tom Humphrey		Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures
Tristan Edwards	Investment Associate	Blackbird Ventures portfolio, Blackbird Ventures (Mon 19 Jan 2026), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 4 Nov 2025), Blackbird Ventures (Tue 17 Dec 2024)

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