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Companies Notion acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Akshay Kothari | Co-founder and COO | Australian FinTech, Startup Daily (Tue 31 Jan 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 18 Oct 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 12 Oct 2021) |
Stories naming Notion. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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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Wellington HR consultancy Humankind has bought The Mintable, a Blackbird-backed platform that trains new managers, adding structured training to its consulting services.
Weekly roundup of ten Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling nearly $194 million, topped by Neara's $90 million round at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Splose, Operata, HAMR Energy and Adora also covered.
Product-mapping startup Adora, co-founded by an ex-Canva product chief, has landed seed funding with Blackbird leading and four other backers, earmarked for product work and Sydney hiring.
Melbourne fintech startup Inaam has banked a $500,000 pre-seed round from Startupbootcamp's fund and Singapore VC Hatcher+ as it launches an impact-investing app for young investors.
Galileo Ventures announces a $240,000 seed backing for Gumnut, a developer-tools startup adding real-time collaboration and AI agents to SaaS forms, and sets out its investment thesis.
Blackbird's investment note explains why it led Index's A$3.5 million seed round with Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator and industry angels, profiling the planning platform built by two former Canva and Atlassian staff.
Home insurer Honey Insurance has raised a $108 million Series A led by US firm Gallatin Point Capital, following a seed round backed by RACQ, AGL, Metricon, Mirvac and PEXA.
Tidal Ventures profiles team member Kieran O’Neill, who moved from KPMG and London banking through co-founding Hometime into the firm’s seed investing team in 2022.
Melbourne healthtech firm Heidi Health has pulled in A$10 million Series A capital, headed by Blackbird Ventures, to grow its AI scribe that lightens clinicians' documentation workload.
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Presentation startup Chronicle, based in Sydney and San Francisco, announced a $7.5 million seed round led by Accel and Square Peg, with angels from several major tech companies participating.
Accounting fintech Hnry raised a Series B led by AirTree, with Left Lane, Akshay Kothari and Athletic Ventures participating, to fund hiring, international expansion and product development.
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Blackbird announces its NZ Fund has backed Carepatron's pre-seed round, profiling founders Jamie Frew and David Pene and their all-in-one practice management software for small healthcare providers.
Square Peg's investment note explains why it co-led predictive growth platform Voyantis' $19 million seed round with Target Global, covering the founders' backgrounds and the market shift toward predicting customer lifetime value.
Weekly roundup reporting numerous Australian and New Zealand startup raises, Icehouse Ventures securing fund capital, GitLab's IPO, two acquisitions, Clover's closure, and Openpay's debt facility.
Also Startup Daily
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.
Blackbird's Founder Success team is recruiting a Product Operations Specialist, based in Sydney or Melbourne, to scale its community programs such as Giants, the Founder Academy and the Talent Network. Applications have closed.