Chief Executive · Founder, Partly

Levi Fawcett

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
Chief Executive · Founder	Partly	SmartCompany (Fri 16 Dec 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 21 Apr 2022), Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Thu 1 Jul 2021), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Fri 4 Dec 2020), Blackbird Ventures portfolio (Tue 13 Oct 2020)
Engineer (former)	Rocket Lab	Startup Daily, Blackbird Ventures portfolio

Coverage

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Eight ANZ startups that raised $102 million this fortnight

Roundup of eight Australian and New Zealand startups whose late-July funding totals $102 million across space capsules, medical devices, livestock breath analysis, sports analytics and AI crop forecasting.

SmartCompany Thu 30 Jul 2026 Agscent Early Bird Navi Medical Technologies Octopusbot Outlier Space Partly Superstat Wellumio AFL Amazon Bioshore Blinq Dairy Farmers of America DST Global Partners Elders Eucalyptus Heineken Innovation Victoria Kirin Macquarie Group Mindset Health PepsiCo Snowball Effect Startmate AirTree Ventures Artesian VC Blackbird Ventures Booster Cure Kids Ventures Enterprise Angels Flying Kiwi Folklore Ventures GD1 Hyper Ventures Icehouse Ventures Investible Jumpspace Ventures KP Rx Medtech Actuator No Brand Nova Threshold Nuance Connected Capital Pacific Channel Scale Investors Side Stage Ventures Tundra Capital Victorian government fund Alex Naoumidis Benny Kleist Brian Cartmell Chris Naoumidis Jarrod Webb Tim Doyle Alex Debney Carolina Ferreira Cordelia King Dan Cable Dr Dr Bronwyn Darlington Jamie France Kai Bloomfield Levi Fawcett Rodrigo Cortes Sam Hung

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Christmas comes early for 14 Aussie startups that raised $260 million this week

Weekly roundup covering 14 startup raises totalling over $260 million, headlined by Synchron's $110 million round, plus Roller's shareholder liquidity payout, Partly's record New Zealand Series A, and several government grants.

SmartCompany Fri 16 Dec 2022 Avarni BiomeBank FairSupply GeoMoby Hysata Neighbourlytics Partly Pathzero Roller SiteHive Synchron The Yield Willow Zetifi Zipline.io 7-Eleven Aconex Artesian VC Coles Commonsense Ventures LaunchVic Lendlease Microsoft New South Wales state government TechnologyOne Tidal Ventures Treasury Wine Estates Vulpes Walmart Yamaha Motor Co Zambrero Acadian Software Agreement Hub AirTree Ventures Aliavia Ventures Alice Anderson Fund Antler Australia Arch Venture Partners Bezos Expeditions Birchal Blackbird Ventures Carthona Capital Clyde Bank Holdings Ellerston Capital EVP Gates Frontier Khosla Ventures King River Capital Main Sequence Ventures METS Ignited Minderoo Foundation NSW Physical Sciences Fund Octopus Ventures Partners for Growth Previously existing shareholders QIC Ventures SecondQuarter Ventures South Australian Venture Capital Fund Square Peg Capital Sypkes Family Office The Hospital Research Foundation unnamed investors based in Europe VentureCrowd Adrian Di Marco Leigh Jasper Rob Phillpot Anuj Paudel Dr Arne Geschke Carl Prins Charbel Ayoub Jessica Christiansen-Franks Kimberly Randle Levi Fawcett Lucinda Hartley Luke Finn Mark Finn Misha Cajic Dr Rob Bryant Ros Harvey Samantha Wong Dr Sam Costello Stuart Cook Tony Yammine

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Seed NZ$3.7m

New Zealand car parts data startup Partly raises NZ$3.7 million pre-series A to go global

Vehicle parts data startup Partly, based in New Zealand, has closed a pre-Series A round led by Blackbird Ventures, with angel backers including Peter Beck, Dylan Field and Akshay Kothari, valuing it highly.

Startup Daily Tue 12 Oct 2021 Partly Figma Notion Rocket Lab ServiceTitan Blackbird Ventures I2BF K5 Ventures Akshay Kothari Connor Theilmann Dylan Field Peter Beck Evan Jia Levi Fawcett Mark Song Nathan Taylor Samantha Wong

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Spotlight On: Nathan Taylor, Partly

Blackbird's profile interview with Partly co-founder and COO Nathan Taylor covers the auto parts platform's New Zealand origins, its Christchurch base, and recalls Blackbird's seed investment made the previous year.

Blackbird Ventures portfolio Thu 1 Jul 2021 Partly Blackbird Ventures Evan Jia Levi Fawcett Mark Song Melia Rayner Nathan Taylor Sam Wong

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Year in Reflection: 2020

Blackbird's year-end review covers its fourth fund announcement, investments in companies including See-Mode, Morse Micro and SafetyCulture, Startmate's climate cohort intakes, Mike Cannon-Brookes joining its board, and numerous team hires.

Blackbird Ventures portfolio Fri 4 Dec 2020 5B Ao Air Beyond AG Bygen Canva Cass Materials Digital Agriculture Services (DAS)Dovetail GridCognition Morse Micro Multitudes Ovira Partly Process Street Propeller Roborigger SafetyCulture See-Mode SunDrive SwitcH2 Baraja Blackbird Foundation Cortical Labs Eucalyptus Forage Hivery Startmate Tempus Partners XY Sense Accel Atlassian Blackbird Ventures Salesforce Ventures Alex Birch Alice Williams Alissa Lucas Andy Kitchen Benjamin Humphrey Bradley Ayers Catt Vongpraseuth Clark Carter Dan Danilov Dani Pinkus Derick Markwell Ellisa Bennett Evan Jia Franki Chamaki Hart Lestari Ilya Vensky Jason Hosking Jeremy Mauger Josh Golde Justine Nangle Lauren Capelin Lauren Peate Levi Fawcett Lucia Salim Luke Murray Mark Song Mason Yates Melia Rayner Menkes van den Briel Mike Cannon-Brookes Nathan Taylor Nell Hardie Nick Crocker Niki Scevak Rick Baker Sam Wong Sophia Witherington Sophie Stevenson Sophie Taylor Temara Chapman Tip Piumsomboon

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Investment Notes: Partly

Blackbird's investment note explains why it led the Series Seed round in Partly, a Christchurch company building fitment-data software and a marketplace for the auto parts industry.

Blackbird Ventures portfolio Tue 13 Oct 2020 Partly Amazon eBay Rocket Lab Shopify Blackbird Ventures Levi Fawcett Nathan Taylor Samantha Wong

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