Company

XY Sense

Melbourne, VIC

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What XY Sense bought

Companies XY Sense 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
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People

Name	Role	Sources
Alex Birch	CEO · Founder	LaunchVic, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany
Jane Watson	Head of Operations	LaunchVic
Luke Murray	CTO · Founder	LaunchVic, Blackbird Ventures portfolio, SmartCompany

Coverage

Stories naming XY Sense. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Funding announcement

XY Sense is using AI to plan the offices of the future

LaunchVic case study profiling XY Sense, a Melbourne workplace-occupancy analytics startup, covering its founding, global growth, selection for the 30X30 leadership program, and a Global Victoria grant supporting expansion into new markets.

LaunchVic Wed 25 Oct 2023 Global Victoria LaunchVic XY Sense Alex Birch Gopi Shankar Jane Watson Luke Murray

4 deals

The Ignition Lane Wrap: Life in the fast lane. And calling road service

Ignition Lane's weekly wrap: Tiger Global's losses and past Australian bets, MilkRun and TradeSquare closures, Cyara's Spearline acquisition, a Co Ventures pre-seed fund, Square Peg's partner promotion and LaunchVic's 30×30 picks.

13 deals

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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Seed $5m

This Melbourne startup helps businesses see how their offices are used in real time, and it's raised $5 million to turbocharge its growth

Melbourne smart-sensor startup XY Sense raised $5 million in seed funding from Blackbird Ventures and angel investors to expand its workplace analytics platform across Australia, Asia Pacific, the US and UK.

SmartCompany Fri 31 Jul 2020 XY Sense Canva LIFX Outware Mobile Palantir Blackbird Ventures Danny Gorog Marc Alexander Sandy Kory Alex Birch Luke Murray

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