Blackbird Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in inherently global Internet businesses formed by Australians. We back world-class founders who are setting out to make a difference in the world. Blackbird Ventures itself is a collection of Australia’s most successful startup founders and Silicon Valley’s top investors who want to help you succeed on a global stage.Blackbird’s fund investors are the founders of some of Australia’s most successful technology companies like Atlassian, Campaign Monitor, Aconex and more. They’re not only investing their money but also their time to help you succeed.Because we are looking for companies who are striving to be the best in the world we can help with introductions to our Silicon Valley networks, providing access to further expertise and capital.We provide equity capital for all stages from seed, series A and later stage.

Blackbird Ventures

Principal

Associate

Partner

Co-Founder, Partner, MD and Director

Dovetail raised $3671249 on 2021-08-10 in Seed Round

Dovetail is a cloud-based user research and customer feedback software for analysis, organization, collaboration and storage of user and customer data. With Dovetail, researchers, analysts, designers, and product managers can store user research data in one place, analyze qualitative data to discover patterns and insights, and share research findings with the rest of their organization.

Dovetail

Proxy raised $1600000 on 2016-08-22 in Seed Round

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.

Proxy

Contactout raised $36622 on 2015-12-01 in Seed Round

ContactOut provides an email finding tool that enables recruiters to find candidate’s personal email and phone numbers. Its platform displays a popup on top of social profiles that shows email and numbers. The company serves recruiters of Fortune 500 companies. ContactOut was founded in 2015 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

ContactOut

HIVERY raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-01-01 in Seed Round

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.

HIVERY

Dealstruck raised an undisclosed amount on 2012-01-01 in Seed Round

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.

DealStruck, Inc.

Quanlight raised $3000000 on 2007-05-15 in Series B

Quanlight seeks to dominate the high power yellow-amber-red (YAR) light-emitting diode (LED) market with our patent-pending technology. 

Their technology creates significant competitive advantages in their initial target markets of LCD backlighting, projection light engines for televisions, signage, traffic signals, and architectural and theatrical lighting.

Quanlight

Culture Amp raised $100000000 on 2021-07-29 in Series F

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.

Culture Amp

Gilmour Space Technologies raised $45832268 on 2021-06-29 in Series C

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.

Gilmour Space Technologies Pty Ltd

VAPAR raised $488320 on 2020-07-06 in Seed Round

VAPAR is a developer of an engineering software intended for pipe asset management. The company's software speeds up the repair and maintenance of water pipes by automating pipe fault detection and infrastructure mapping using AI and GIS integration, saving clients time and money in repair and maintenance work.

VAPAR

Canva raised $3600000 on 2014-07-22 in Seed Round

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.

Canva, Inc.

Forte raised $5600000 on 2020-11-01 in Seed Round

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.

Forte

Fable Food raised $8500000 on 2023-02-09 in Series A

Fable Food Co

Vow Foods raised $6000000 on 2021-01-06 in Seed Round

Vow Foods is a producer of cultivated exotic meat intended to be grown artificially in labs. Vow uses animal cells, rather than actual animals, to produce alternative meat products.

Vow Foods

Cyble raised $4000000 on 2021-04-06 in Seed Round

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.

Cyble Pty Ltd.

Partly raised $2561640 on 2021-10-12 in Seed Round

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.

Partly

Halter raised $53287226 on 2023-03-30 in Series C

Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.

Halter Limited

Karbon raised $3000000 on 2018-06-22 in Seed Round

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.

Karbon Inc.

Halter raised $23050769 on 2021-04-27 in Series B

Cortical Labs raised $10000000 on 2023-04-19 in Seed Round

Cortical Labs

Eucalyptus raised $50000000 on 2023-04-27 in Venture Round

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.

Eucalyptus

Carepatron raised $981390 on 2022-07-13 in Pre Seed Round

Carepatron

Aō Air raised $1800000 on 2020-07-20 in Venture Round

Aō Air is working to enable those in polluted megacities from Beijing to London to take back the streets.  Our patented technology is independently validated to be up to 50x better than leading masks on the market.

O2O2

Eucalyptus raised $42207657 on 2022-01-27 in Series C

Vexev raised $1500000 on 2021-09-14 in Seed Round

Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools.

Vexev

Journalmate raised $36560 on 2015-12-02 in Seed Round

Journalmate makes medical research accessible.

Journalmate

Process Street raised $12200000 on 2020-02-27 in Series A

Process Street is a SaaS platform that lets non-technical teams create powerful, no code workflows. It provides an easy way to document, track, automate, and optimize human-centric processes.

Process Street was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Process Street

Oberon Fuels raised $205155 on 2010-09-16 in Seed Round

Oberon Fuels Inc. produces biogas based dimethyl ether fuel. The company also produces dimethyl ether transportation fuel from methanol and natural gas. Oberon Fuels Inc. serves hydrogen fuel cell vehicle industry. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Diego, California.

Oberon Fuels

Blinq raised $3486546 on 2022-05-16 in Seed Round

Blinq is an innovative mobile App that instantly enriches your messaging experience. Blinq shows you all that matters on the people in your life in a fun, convenient way. No need to juggle platforms and FOMO NOMO! Blinq deepens your relationships with work colleagues, business prospects, friends and family. Upon a single tap Blinq facilitates access to a stream of insights and updates on those who matter to you.

Blinq

AutopilotHQ raised $7000000 on 2015-07-30 in Series B

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.

AutopilotHQ

Canva raised $71000000 on 2021-04-06 in Venture Round

Zova raised $939319 on 2015-05-25 in Seed Round

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.

Zova

Eucalyptus raised $22465616 on 2021-07-13 in Series B

Eucalyptus raised $5253242 on 2020-05-21 in Series A

Karbon raised $1500000 on 2015-12-07 in Seed Round

Accelo raised $9000000 on 2017-09-25 in Series A

Accelo, the pioneer of Service Operations Automation (ServOps), streamlines operations from prospect through to payment through their integrated, cloud-based platform. 

Thousands of businesses use Accelo to run their critical client service delivery, boosting revenue and productivity and doubling profit margins.

Accelo

Harrison.ai raised $91685607 on 2021-12-01 in Series B

Harrison.ai is a clinician-led healthcare AI company using deep learning to improve the odds of IVF success for thousands of patients. The company leverages deep learning to solve the biggest challenges in healthcare and seeks to improve patient outcomes. It empowers physicians and healthcare providers with customized AI-enabled tools that integrate into existing clinical workflows which ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes.

Harrison.ai uses the deskside DGX Station for experimentation, research, and development. The company uniquely combines exceptional deep learning expertise with clinical experience to develop and deploy healthcare AI solutions. Harrison.ai’s IVY deep learning model analyzes the full five-day video feed from an embryo scope, helping it surpass the performance of AI tools that provide insights based on still images.

Harrison.ai's mission is to continuously innovate and commercialize more efficient and more affordable healthcare products and services to healthcare providers and patients.

Harrison.ai was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Barongarook, Victoria, Australia.

Harrison.ai

Shoes of Prey raised $1995204 on 2014-03-07 in Series A

Shoes of Prey creates bespoke, hand-made women's shoes designed by the customer, and delivers them to anywhere in the world.

Shoes of Prey has grown rapidly over 5 years and has won a number of awards including Online Retailer of the Year and Store Design of the Year at the World Retail Awards in Paris 2013.

Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Shoes of Prey

Foundry Lab raised $7512773 on 2021-11-29 in Series A

Foundry Lab

Baraja raised $32000000 on 2019-01-03 in Series A

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.

Baraja

EARTH AI raised $478146 on 2017-09-01 in Seed Round

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.

Earth AI Pty Ltd.

Lumific raised $50000 on 2014-03-25 in Seed Round

Lumific was founded with the vision of simplifying and streamlining the photo editing and photo curation process. By coupling cutting-edge computer vision research with traditional photo editing techniques, we are bridging the gap between computer automated and user driven creativity.

Lumific

Sunfed Meats raised $6824541 on 2018-11-15 in Series A

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

Sunfed Meats

Robby raised $50000 on 2015-01-30 in Seed Round

Think of Robby as a an app that is specifically designed for casual/part-time employees. It answers the most important question: when am I working next? Before Robby, there was Roster Genius - the universally praised tool that fixed rosters for Apple employees in over 350 Apple Retail stores around the world. Robby for iPhone builds upon the knowledge gained from helping 8000+ Roster Genius users to build the best-in-class app for helping everyone with their work roster.

Robby

Composure raised $50000 on 2014-04-03 in Seed Round

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.

Composure

PsiQuantum raised $450000000 on 2021-07-27 in Series D

PsiQuantum is a developing quantum computer that uses photons as qubits. It’s an approach that differs fundamentally from the implementations of the current leading players in the field.

PsiQuantum

Culture Amp raised $20000000 on 2017-06-15 in Series C

Inventia Life raised $25082000 on 2021-12-15 in Series B

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.

Inventia Life

Sundrive Solar raised $1168480 on 2018-08-10 in Seed Round

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.

Sundrive Solar

Kinde raised $7621457 on 2022-03-15 in Seed Round

Kinde

Halter raised $17661410 on 2020-04-01 in Series B

Fleet Space Technologies raised $3750667 on 2017-04-11 in Series A

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.

Fleet Space Technologies

Pylon raised $35326 on 2015-11-11 in Seed Round

Pylon

Edrolo raised $2051474 on 2015-05-11 in Series A

At Edrolo, our mission is simple: to improve education. 

We're an Australian, venture-backed edtech startup with global ambitions. We are all passionate about our mission and building a culture where we can all do the best work of our lives.

Our belief is that all students should have access to the greatest teachers, people who bring subjects to life and inspire learning and passion. We believe students should have access to this regardless of where they live or what school they attend. Additionally, all schools should have access to powerful data to drive school improvement, which is accessible via our platform.

Edrolo

Forage raised $25000000 on 2021-08-20 in Series B

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.

InsideSherpa

Young Republic raised $25473 on 2012-01-01 in Seed Round

Young Republic is a community where fashion makers and fashion lovers come to discover, shop, and share designs from all over the world

Young Republic

Cortical Labs raised $694203 on 2019-06-01 in Pre Seed Round

The Mintable raised $4910417 on 2022-06-07 in Seed Round

The Mintable

Canva raised $200000000 on 2021-09-14 in Venture Round

Honee raised $1423649 on 2018-02-19 in Seed Round

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.

Honee

Bugcrowd raised $6000000 on 2015-03-11 in Series A

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.

Bugcrowd

Sunroom raised $3600000 on 2022-02-02 in Seed Round

Sunroom is an application where women can make money and be free.

Sunroom

Fleet Space Technologies raised $26282149 on 2021-11-16 in Series B

First AML raised $21535881 on 2021-11-01 in Series B

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.

First AML

Bardee raised $5000000 on 2021-11-18 in Seed Round

Bardee

Dovetail raised $63000000 on 2022-01-20 in Series A

Hey Influencers raised an undisclosed amount on 2016-09-01 in Seed Round

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.

Hey Influencers

AutopilotHQ raised $12000000 on 2017-06-07 in Venture Round

August Robotics raised $9326000 on 2020-09-10 in Series A

August Robotics Pty. Ltd. designs and manufactures application-specific robots to automate workflows for businesses. The company offers robots that assist exhibition companies to optimize the setup of trade shows in exhibition halls. Its robots help in automating processes and workflows in the business to business (B2B) sector. The company distributes its products in Western Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Melbourne, Australia with additional offices in Shenzhen, China; and Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

August Robotics Pty. Ltd.

EntryLevel raised $350000 on 2021-08-23 in Pre Seed Round

EntryLevel was set up to help people find meaningful employment.

EntryLevel

Dogetipbot raised $500000 on 2014-11-05 in Seed Round

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.

Dogetipbot

Cyble raised $10000000 on 2022-02-22 in Series A

Edrolo raised $28884808 on 2022-06-07 in Series B

nura raised $15144620 on 2018-11-05 in Series A

The nuraphone is a new headphone that integrates unique technology to automatically measure your hearing (from the outer ear all the way to the brain) and adapt music perfectly to you. In order for headphones to deliver the right sound, they must be matched to the listener. Nuraphones even recognize you when you put them on.

nura

Partly raised an undisclosed amount on 2020-08-20 in Seed Round

STEMN raised $35703 on 2016-02-29 in Seed Round

STEMN is a network connecting the knowledge and experience of the international space community. Showcase your projects, get recognition for your research, and discover what the rest of the community is creating. Learn from their experiences, and create your own innovations. STEMN makes it easy to connect with experts in space, and follow their latest breakthroughs.

STEMN

HIVERY raised $30000000 on 2022-07-14 in Series B

AskNicely raised $32000000 on 2022-01-10 in Series B

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.

AskNicely

Sporthold raised $150000 on 2014-01-01 in Seed Round

Our algorithm correctly predicts what will happen on the spread 54.65% of the time. That's a crushing edge in a $1T annual market.

We do that by collecting data only we have access to and building a clever algorithm using AI to identify trends we can use to arbitrage what we know will happen versus what the sports books think will happen.

We collect the data by making an addictive sports prediction game that's free to play for our users.

Contact us to learn more.

Sporthold

Sonder raised $23660606 on 2022-09-15 in Series B

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.