Blackbird Ventures

Blackbird Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in emerging technology companies, information technology, software, biotechnology, and real estate development. Established in 2012 and headquartered in La Jolla, California, the firm primarily targets Australian and New Zealand start-ups, regardless of their location. Blackbird Ventures aims to support world-class founders striving to make a global impact by providing equity capital across various stages, from seed funding to later-stage investments. The firm is backed by successful founders of prominent Australian technology companies, who contribute not only financially but also through mentorship and access to valuable networks, including connections in Silicon Valley. Investments typically range from $250,000 to $5 million, depending on the company's development stage.

Rick Baker

Partner

Clare Birch

Associate

Barbara Bry

Chief Operating Officer

Nick Crocker

Partner

Phoebe Harrop

Principal

Tom Humphrey

Principal

Silk Kadala

Associate

Nicole Marino

Associate

Max Meyer

Associate

James Palmer

Associate

Niki Scevak

Partner

Neil Senturia

CEO

Michael Tolo

Principal

Mason Yates

Associate

306 past transactions

HIVERY

Seed Round in 2016
HIVERY has consultants and data scientists, to take advantage of an unique AI (artificial intelligence) framework that we call Prescriptive Science™. Prescriptive Science™ provides provision of analysis to support the optimal decision-making. This is often called referred as “Prescriptive Analytics”. However at HIVERY, we have gone one step further and combined Prescriptive Analytics with Human Centered Design (HCD) principles to develop an unique AI framework that solves unique business problems. Prescriptive Science™ aim is to unpack individual business constrains (or rules) that govern a business while at the same time, look at datasets that are the life blood of any business and build solutions that are personalized and “empathic”. This empathy allows HIVERY to understand and design solutions that drives business profitability in ways that humans cannot. Our tools support the automation of decision-making.

Dealstruck

Seed Round in 2012
DealStruck, Inc. provides an online lending marketplace that connects small and medium-sized businesses with accredited and institutional investors. It offers small business financing options; business term loans for equipment purchases, new hires, tenant improvements, market expansion and partner buyouts; revenue secured term loans; and asset based lines of credit. DealStruck, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Canva

Seed Round in 2014
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. The company is on a mission to simplify the process of graphic design for photographers, illustrators, and designers globally. Canva was established in 2012 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Forte

Seed Round in 2020
Forte, through its platform, offers vocational training services to individuals at negligible or no taxation cost. It serves individuals, governments, and investors. Forte was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Culture Amp

Private Placement in 2019
Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running in them. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.

Partly

Seed Round in 2021
Partly Group Limited operates as a SaaS company that reimagines the world interacting with the vehicle parts. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Vexev

Seed Round in 2021
Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools.

Sunfed Meats

Private Placement in 2018
Sunfed Limited develops plant-based meat analogues from vegetable proteins. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

Zova

Seed Round in 2015
Zova is a mobile application developer that provides its users with personalizes fitness solutions. It was launched in 2013. Zova is operated from Sydney, New South Wales.

Partly

Private Placement in 2020
Partly Group Limited operates as a SaaS company that reimagines the world interacting with the vehicle parts. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Baraja

Series A in 2019
Baraja is a 3D machine vision systems manufacturer. It has invented a new type of LiDAR called Spectrum-Scan which delivers the highest performance available to address the challenge of self-driving cars. Baraja is a rapidly growing start-up, with a revolutionary LiDAR for self-driving vehicles. The company is based in Sydney, Australia, with offices in China and the USA. It is quickly expanding worldwide, hiring through Europe and Asia, closely collaborating with car manufacturers to iterate and refine its vision of what LiDAR needs to be.

Sunfed Meats

Series A in 2018
Sunfed Limited develops plant-based meat analogues from vegetable proteins. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

Composure

Seed Round in 2014
Composure lets you write email without losing your flow. Here's how: - As you write email, Composure gives you the phrases and sentences that you need, based on the text you're writing. - We understand the intent of the email you're writing. We find the facts and documents you need to complete your email, right in your email client. Your data isn't just in one place. It's all over the cloud, in Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Trello. Composure is built for the cloud. We pull in your documents from these and more cloud services, so you never have to search across your cloud again.

Culture Amp

Series C in 2017
Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running in them. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.

Inventia Life

Series B in 2021
Inventia Life Science Pty Ltd (ILS) is an Australian privately-owned company established in Sydney in 2013. ILS has a core focus on the development, manufacture and sale of equipment and reagents for advanced medical research assays by means of 3D bioprinting. ILS’ approach to low cost and standardised bio-based additive fabrication of 3D human tissue and organ models will transform the medical research sector by providing the hardware, software, consumables and reagents, as well as customised protocols, to enable the flexible production of 3D cell based assays.

Kinde

Seed Round in 2022
We build beautifully simple dev-acceleration infrastructure software for SaaS teams. Tools to help you build, launch, and get to market faster and with more confidence. So you can do your greatest work.

Pylon

Seed Round in 2015
Provider of leading automotive aftermarket supplies intended to keep drivers safe. The company specializes in the design, engineering, manufacture and marketing of wiper blades and appearance chemicals.

Forage

Series B in 2021
Forage (formerly InsideSherpa) partners with leading companies to deliver free open-access training courses for candidates. Any candidate can enroll in the company-backed courses to build career skills, visibility, and experience. The platform is running various virtual training courses including with KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, GE, BCG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citi, Deloitte, Accenture and others. There are +1 million students in the Forage ecosystem.

Cortical Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cortical Labs is a biological computing startup that is revolutionizing computing by integrating living neurons into chips. Cortical Labs is located in Melbourne, Australia, with Blackbird Ventures backing.

Canva

Venture Round in 2021
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. The company is on a mission to simplify the process of graphic design for photographers, illustrators, and designers globally. Canva was established in 2012 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Honee

Seed Round in 2018
Honee is a discovery, booking and engagement platform for wellness, beauty and fitness services in Melbourne. Honee connects the seekers with the best providers, turning new customers into regular customers.

Bugcrowd

Series A in 2015
Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd’s platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities. Based in San Francisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

Sunroom

Seed Round in 2022
Sunroom is an application where women can make money and be free.

Fleet Space Technologies

Series B in 2021
Fleet Space Technologies Pty Ltd designs, builds, and launches satellites for global satellite connectivity to the Internet of things (IoT). It builds a network of tiny satellites to deliver backhaul service for the Internet of Things that gives coverage to devices worldwide. The company serves mining, oil and gas resources, precision agriculture, and transport and logistics sectors. Fleet Space Technologies Pty Ltd was founded in 2015 and is based in Beverley, Australia.

First AML

Series B in 2021
First AML Limited provides customer due diligence (CDD) outsourced services. It provides CDD, identify verification, source of wealth / source of funds, PEP screening, and annual reporting and audit support services. It serves law firms, accounting firms, real estate agents, financial firms and other entities. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Bardee

Seed Round in 2021
Bardee is an agtech that break down food waste, converting it into fertliser and proteins for pet foods and chicken feed.

Hey Influencers

Seed Round in 2016
Hey Influencers is an end-to-end influencer marketing and advertising platform. Hey is a platform where brands can connect and collaborate with influencers to activate campaigns and engage audiences at scale in a form they already trust. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Autopilot

Venture Round in 2017
Autopilot is a visual marketing software for automating customer journeys. With native integrations to Salesforce, Twilio, Segment, Slack, and Zapier and the ability to connect to over 700 purpose-built tools, they empower marketers to nurture relationships and grow high-paying customers using email, web, SMS, and direct mail channels. Headquartered in San Francisco, Autopilot serves over 2,000 customers globally, including Freshdesk and Lyft, among others spanning high-tech, SaaS, e-commerce, and financial services. Autopilot has raised $32M in funding to date, backed by Salesforce Ventures, Stage One Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners, and Blackbird Ventures. It was founded in 2012 by three brothers from Australia.

Dogetipbot

Seed Round in 2014
Dogetipbot enables microtipping, allowing users of its service to pledge dogecoin tips that can then be redeemed for the currency. Users can tap dogetipbot when pledging money on Reddit, Twitter and Twitch. To date, the service says it has processed more than 650 million transactions.

Cyble

Series A in 2022
Cyble Pty Ltd. provides the platform for cyber threat and risks. The platform is based on automation, integration, and intelligence and clients adopt the platform according to requirements and objectives. Cyble Pty Ltd. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Partly

Seed Round in 2020
Partly Group Limited operates as a SaaS company that reimagines the world interacting with the vehicle parts. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

HIVERY

Series B in 2022
HIVERY has consultants and data scientists, to take advantage of an unique AI (artificial intelligence) framework that we call Prescriptive Science™. Prescriptive Science™ provides provision of analysis to support the optimal decision-making. This is often called referred as “Prescriptive Analytics”. However at HIVERY, we have gone one step further and combined Prescriptive Analytics with Human Centered Design (HCD) principles to develop an unique AI framework that solves unique business problems. Prescriptive Science™ aim is to unpack individual business constrains (or rules) that govern a business while at the same time, look at datasets that are the life blood of any business and build solutions that are personalized and “empathic”. This empathy allows HIVERY to understand and design solutions that drives business profitability in ways that humans cannot. Our tools support the automation of decision-making.

Sonder

Series B in 2022
One app. One go-to. One support system. Sonder is the trusted wellbeing partner for some of the world’s most innovative organisations as they reimagine how to care and support their people. With a clear purpose of breaking down barriers to help, providing the right support to people at the right time. Acknowledging that there are often multiple factors at play, and wellbeing comprises of cultural, social, environmental and vocational factors, all which play a part in getting to the root cause of issues, and on a path to wellness. The heart of Sonder's solution is a technology-driven platform supported in real time by medical and mental health experts - experts that are available every minute of every day. Their mission is to get the right outcome across any wellbeing or safety issue. Trusted by major corporations, education providers and Government to enhance wellbeing across the world, Sonder is on a mission to create a better world, accepting differences and supportive of others. A world where it's OK to ask for help, for anything, at any time of the day or night. It takes humans to help other humans. That’s why Sonder combines a human first, tech supported approach.

SafetyCulture

Series D in 2021
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.
Gilmour Space Technologies is an Australia and Singapore-based rocket company that is developing and launching low-cost hybrid launch vehicles for small satellites up to 400 kg. Gilmour Space Technologies is tracking for commercial LEO launches from 2020.

Propeller Aero

Series A in 2018
Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use, Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.

LonoCloud

Venture Round in 2011
LonoCloud is a cloud operating system to federate multi-vendor clouds with greater control of security, fault tolerance, cloud scale, and performance for migrating mission-critical applications to the inter cloud. It is partnered with HP cloud services and Amazon web services to facilitate its users with technology. LonoCloud is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2011 by Tom Caldwell and it was acquired by ViaSat in 2013.

Karbon

Private Placement in 2018
Karbon provides an enterprise workstream collaboration platform that allows a team to contribute more productively to an organization’s mission, with shared, streamlined workflows, automated tasks, and standardized processes. It provides visibility across an entire firm, unites teams with a single place to work together and standardize processes and consolidate client information in one place. Karbon was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Sausalito, California.

Morse Micro

Seed Round in 2016
Morse Micro PTY. LTD. designs and develops wireless (WiFi) chip. The company offers Wi-Fi HaLow, which reaches up to one kilometer and connects devices anywhere in the house and even outside. It provides its product for homes, industrial process control, logistics and asset management, brick and mortar stores, surveillance systems, and automation companies. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Eveleigh, Australia.

Sundrive Solar

Series A in 2020
Sundrive Solar is a solar technology start-up. SunDrive is creating unique solutions to reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells, whilst enhancing their performance and sustainability by utilizing more abundant materials.

Dgraph Labs

Series A in 2019
Dgraph Labs, Inc. develops and operates a graph database. The company provides low latency solution to serve real time user queries over terabytes of structured data. It offers Slash Enterprise, a fully-managed, serverless solution for enterprises managing workloads with terabytes of data in production that runs on dedicated, multi-zone clusters with availability deployed on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Dgraph Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

See-Mode Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
See-Mode empowers doctors to predict strokes and save lives. With no additional test, See-Mode provides the critical information required for stroke prediction that is missing from current clinical tools. This is achieved by combining medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, and computational fluid dynamics. Strokes are the 2nd cause of death and 1st cause of disability on earth, and See-Mode is determined to fundamentally change this.

Inductly

Seed Round in 2014
Inductly is the only simple and intuitive way to onboard your employees on their smart phone. They provide human resources and managers a solution to automate and track the entire onboarding process. Employees are guided through their training and compliance so they can get up to speed, fast. Their mobile interface engages employees by providing access to their onboarding program, before their first day.

Supportie

Seed Round in 2013
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Propeller Aero

Series A in 2016
Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use, Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.

Proxy

Seed Round in 2015
Proxy provides a smartphone-enabled digital identity that enables the user to authenticate and interact with all devices. Proxy is on a mission to empower every person on the planet with a unique identity signal they own and control. The signal, emitted from a smartphone, allows people to securely authenticate to any device or service, similar to a universal single-sign-on for the physical world. Today, large enterprises like WeWork, Dropbox, and Hines enable their employees, contractors, visitors, and tenants to use their Proxy for frictionless access through secured doors, elevators, and turnstiles, and to create personalized experiences throughout the workplace. With Proxy, users own their identity and have complete control over their privacy and personal data. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Canva

Venture Round in 2020
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. The company is on a mission to simplify the process of graphic design for photographers, illustrators, and designers globally. Canva was established in 2012 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Culture Amp

Private Placement in 2018
Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running in them. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.

Workyard

Seed Round in 2015
Workyard is a staffing platform that makes growing and managing the construction workforce easy. Workyard is a game-changing staffing solution that helps construction companies source and manages labor for any project. They're combining industry experience in construction, technology, and financial services to re-invent the hiring and payroll experience for everyone involved — meaning more construction projects completed and more workers with great jobs. It was founded by Nic De Bonis and Alexandra De Bonis in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Eucalyptus

Private Placement in 2020
Eucalyptus operates as a brand engine that allows to build and run digital consumer companies. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

SafetyCulture

Private Placement in 2020
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Skedulo

Private Placement in 2019
Skedulo Pty Ltd provides enterprise workforce management solutions. Its Skedulo enables users to connect with their team and customers; match job requirements with the right team members through mobile resource and asset connectivity; and decrease time spent on scheduling with organization-wide visibility of workload, availability, and demand through features, such as availability management, job scheduling, resource allocation, and mapping and routes. The company’s Skedulo solution authenticates and interacts directly with the data stored in Salesforce.com. Skedulo Pty Ltd was founded in 2012 and is based in West End, Australia.

Hava

Venture Round in 2016
Hava enables you and your colleagues to quickly visualise your network topologies with an automated layout engine. Documentation and knowledge of your systems is a must when collaborating with other teams. Hava it, share it, export your diagrams and make the move to Infrastructure as Code with our Cloud Formation export.

Ninja Blocks

Seed Round in 2012
Ninja Blocks is the creator of the Ninja Sphere, the missing brain for your _smart_ devices. Ninja Sphere learns from your behaviour, identifies your preferences, and manages your devices so you don't have to. The Ninja Sphere incorporates a gesture interface and micro-location technology that accurately locates radios within the home. It is backwards compatible with the Ninja Block, a popular device and platform that supports 100s of third-party devices. Ninja's should be effective and invisible as should the interface to your home.

Bugcrowd

Private Placement in 2018
Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd’s platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities. Based in San Francisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

Culture Amp

Series D in 2018
Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running in them. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.
Gilmour Space Technologies is an Australia and Singapore-based rocket company that is developing and launching low-cost hybrid launch vehicles for small satellites up to 400 kg. Gilmour Space Technologies is tracking for commercial LEO launches from 2020.

Red Analytics Pty Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Red Analytics Pty Ltd. designs and develops cloud-based analytics applications for vending machine operators. It offers Vending Analytics, a cloud-based software application that uses the vending management system data to provide recommendations on how to optimize vending machines to maximize sales and minimize stock-outs. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in North Sydney, Australia.

EARTH AI

Seed Round in 2018
Earth AI Pty Ltd. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based software that locates areas of mineralization in greenfield and remote areas with no pre-existing geological data. The company gives geologists location suggestions for mineral exposure and auto generates precise geological maps from satellite, geophysical, and geochemical datasets. Earth AI Pty Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Parramatta, Australia.

Hubify

Seed Round in 2011
The mission of Hubify is to provide a safe, simple, social commerce platform that lets people sell or rent anything, monetize their talents with online and offline services, and post part-time jobs for the sharing economy.

LIFX

Series A in 2014
LIFX (pronounced LIFE-X) pioneered the smart light in 2012 with the first Wi Fi-enabled, multi-colored LED that’s controllable via a smart device. Designed to last over 22 years, LIFX offers the brightest, most flexible smart light for your home or office. LIFX works with Nest and other smart home devices to give consumers an easy way to experience the connected home, without needing additional hardware. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Scriptick

Seed Round in 2012
Scriptick is an online platform intended to allow users to track events in an online journal. Scriptick exists to add structure and meaning to personal narrative. It’s a life capsule that empowers to create rich media stories of past and present life events and control how they are seen and shared in order to structure a coherent digital legacy. It helps in capturing and sharing meaningful moments close to people, enabling users to capture the most important moments in the form of an online journal.

Grabble

Seed Round in 2011
Grabble produces a point-of-sale technology that integrates with mobile phones. With the rise in NFC-enabled devices, which allow consumers to make purchases using only their phone or tablet, it makes sense for Walmart to turn its attention to this new method of payment. It’s also worth noting that a number of big companies, such as Google and PayPal, are developing technology to support transactions using a device rather than a credit card.

Canva

Series A in 2015
Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. The company is on a mission to simplify the process of graphic design for photographers, illustrators, and designers globally. Canva was established in 2012 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Harrison-AI Pty Ltd

Private Placement in 2019
Harrison-AI Pty Ltd develops artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications for healthcare providers and patients. The company enables physicians and healthcare providers with customized AI-enabled tools that integrate into existing clinical workflows, which lead to research and development of patient outcomes. Harrison-AI Pty Ltd was founded in 2018 and is based in Barangaroo, Australia.

XY Sense

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2016 by Alex Birch and Luke Murray, XY Sense is a Melbourne head-quartered technology startup using smart sensors and AI powered analytics to create workplaces people love. We’ve created the world’s most advanced workplace sensor. It’s private by design (protecting your team’s privacy), has the longest range of any sensor on the market, collects data passively and best of all delivers highly accurate(<30cm) workplace utilisation analytics in real-time. Combined with an analytics platform that’s been designed for frontline property teams, we’re obsessed with simplifying workplace analytics to help transform workplaces for the better. Learn about what makes our sensor stand apart here: www.xysense.io

Mercato

Private Placement in 2019
Mercato, Inc. operates an online grocery marketplace that connects merchants, artisans, and purveyors with customers to buy food. The company’s marketplace allows customers to order food from merchant’s inventory and have their groceries delivered. It offers its services in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Mercato, Inc. was formerly known as Grocery Marketplace Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Diego, California.

Baraja

Seed Round in 2016
Baraja is a 3D machine vision systems manufacturer. It has invented a new type of LiDAR called Spectrum-Scan which delivers the highest performance available to address the challenge of self-driving cars. Baraja is a rapidly growing start-up, with a revolutionary LiDAR for self-driving vehicles. The company is based in Sydney, Australia, with offices in China and the USA. It is quickly expanding worldwide, hiring through Europe and Asia, closely collaborating with car manufacturers to iterate and refine its vision of what LiDAR needs to be.

SafetyCulture

Private Placement in 2018
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Foogi Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Foogi instantly finds the ideal time for everybody when scheduling meetings. Foogi's technology suggests the best time based on everyone’s: • availabilities • interests • likes • meeting preferences (when and where you like to meet) • travel times • meeting locations • time zones The power dynamics of the meeting (i.e. who is being chased or who is chasing) is accounted for and adjusts options accordingly. Foogi connects to all calendar technologies (Outlook, Google calendar, iCloud) and works across companies.

Elevio

Seed Round in 2015
Elevio helps solve websites biggest problems: education and communication They do this by providing site owners with tools to encourage and nurture a self service approach to customer support. Focussing on providing contextual support to end users, elevio is able to provide the right help, at the right time, letting users become more engaged with products without adding to support load. Sites that use elevio enjoy measured improvements such as:: * increase in pages/session * increase in time on site * decrease in bounce rates * increase in return users Customers are less patient, have higher expectations, and are better educated than ever before. Given this increased demand on digital platforms, the risk of failure has never been greater. Superior support is therefore more critical than ever.

HoneyLedger

Seed Round in 2014
HoneyLedger is a payment platform built for Content Creators and Fans. Voluntary payments -- tips, donations, fan support, contributions -- can present a great opportunity for folks who create digital content. It can mean quitting their "real" job to pursue their dream of being an artist online -- a full-time YouTube Creator or Twitch Streamer.

SafetyCulture

Series C in 2018
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Swoop Aero

Venture Round in 2018
Swoop Aero provides autonomous air transport as a service. They are one of a handful of teams globally that hold the knowledge of how to build and operate an autonomous air transport network. They set theirselves apart by going to the most challenging environments in the world, to learn as quickly as they can. They're not consultants or academics; they've built their knowledge with lessons learnt in the field, not the classroom.

SafetyCulture

Series C in 2020
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Ovira

Private Placement in 2020
Ovira Pty Ltd, a direct-to-consumer company, provides a drug-free solution that addresses the discomfort and isolation of period pain. It offers TENS machine that connects small electric pulses to the abdomen. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Zoox

Private Placement in 2018
Zoox is a California based robotics company founded by Tim Kentley-Klay and Dr. Jesse Levinson to create autonomous mobility. Operating at the intersection of design, computer science, and electro-mechanical engineering, Zoox is a multidisciplinary team working to imagine and build an advanced mobility experience that will support the future needs of urban mobility for both people and the environment.

Moojive

Seed Round in 2012
Moojive is a mobile app that extends your Facebook event experience. It makes it easy to share your location for group events. Moojive saves you the hassle of calling or texting to find your friends when heading out. The company is part of the second batch of tech start-ups funded by the Startmate.

Room Ranger

Seed Round in 2015
RoomRanger is a complete hotel management platform that helps hotels boost their revenue by empowering them to deliver unforgettable guest experiences.

Hey Influencers

Seed Round in 2016
Hey Influencers is an end-to-end influencer marketing and advertising platform. Hey is a platform where brands can connect and collaborate with influencers to activate campaigns and engage audiences at scale in a form they already trust. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

AskNicely

Seed Round in 2017
AskNicely tracks Net Promoter Score on a daily basis and drives word of mouth referrals for your brand. Conventional survey products are the wrong tool for customer feedback - they take too much effort and provide too few responses which come too late to do something about it. AskNicely solves this with an automated, one click customer experience that gets a 4-6x more responses and has clever tools to put things right for detractors and spread the word of mouth of your promoters.

SafetyCulture

Series A in 2015
SafetyCulture develops software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. SafetyCulture is on a mission to empower workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards. The flagship app iAuditor was launched in 2012 and is used for more than 300 million audit responses each year to ensure high safety and quality standards. Spotlight, SafetyCulture’s latest offering, makes incident, hazard, and near-miss reporting a collaborative, real-time experience for teams. SafetyCulture supports the worker-driven movement for change at the most iconic companies in the world, including Coles, BHP, Coca-Cola, and Ausgrid. In order to bring the technology to all mobile devices, SafetyCulture collaborates with Apple, Microsoft, and HP.

Leo Aerospace

Seed Round in 2018
Leo Aerospace is building a dedicated delivery service for microsatellites. Their mission is to make it as easy to put a satellite into space as it is to ship a package across the country. To achieve this, they’re developing a suite of services to launch on-demand to any low earth orbit. Their systems require zero fixed ground infrastructure and provide high launch frequency. After a successful launch-test campaign at the end of 2018, they are poised to service defense and civil customers with their platform in 2020.

Propeller Aero

Seed Round in 2015
Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use, Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.

Karbon

Venture Round in 2018
Karbon provides an enterprise workstream collaboration platform that allows a team to contribute more productively to an organization’s mission, with shared, streamlined workflows, automated tasks, and standardized processes. It provides visibility across an entire firm, unites teams with a single place to work together and standardize processes and consolidate client information in one place. Karbon was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Sausalito, California.

Chuffed.org

Seed Round in 2016
Chuffed.org is a largest crowdfunding platform for social causes has raced to $2m donated through the platform. After just 11 months, Chuffed.org had crowdfunded over $1,000,000 for hundreds of social cause projects.

Pageload

Seed Round in 2015
Pageload is a transparent proxy that filters and optimises your JPEG, GIF, PNG, SVG, JS, CSS, SVG and lots of other static assets. Pageload provides you with a unique proxy host which sits between your server and your users and optimises assets to speed up delivery and save bandwidth.

AO AIR

Private Placement in 2020
AO AIR develops air filter respirators, pollution masks, and allergy masks. It offers mask technology solution which uses clean and filtered air to protect its customer. The company also allows people to see the wearers face and can be reused every day, unlike paper air pollution masks that need to be constantly replaced. It provides a mask that allows recording of air quality data and collect it for analysis and also help researchers develop ways to protect people from air pollution. The company was formerly known as O2-O2. AO AIR was founded in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Morse Micro

Seed Round in 2017
Morse Micro PTY. LTD. designs and develops wireless (WiFi) chip. The company offers Wi-Fi HaLow, which reaches up to one kilometer and connects devices anywhere in the house and even outside. It provides its product for homes, industrial process control, logistics and asset management, brick and mortar stores, surveillance systems, and automation companies. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Eveleigh, Australia.

Skedulo

Seed Round in 2014
Skedulo Pty Ltd provides enterprise workforce management solutions. Its Skedulo enables users to connect with their team and customers; match job requirements with the right team members through mobile resource and asset connectivity; and decrease time spent on scheduling with organization-wide visibility of workload, availability, and demand through features, such as availability management, job scheduling, resource allocation, and mapping and routes. The company’s Skedulo solution authenticates and interacts directly with the data stored in Salesforce.com. Skedulo Pty Ltd was founded in 2012 and is based in West End, Australia.

Shifts

Seed Round in 2015
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See-Mode Technologies

Private Placement in 2020
See-Mode empowers doctors to predict strokes and save lives. With no additional test, See-Mode provides the critical information required for stroke prediction that is missing from current clinical tools. This is achieved by combining medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, and computational fluid dynamics. Strokes are the 2nd cause of death and 1st cause of disability on earth, and See-Mode is determined to fundamentally change this.