Blackbird Ventures
blackbird.vc Direct investor
Australian venture capital firm backing 130+ ambitious companies. Founder-centric investment approach spanning seed through growth stages and exits. Offers Foundry Fellowship for technical founders and Sunrise Festival for community.
Blackbird Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in enterprise, deep Tech, healthcare and hardware. 130 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in companies, not rounds. That means we’ll back you all the way from when your business is just an idea, to many decades after it has become a large publicly listed corporation.”
— Blackbird Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- Enterprise, Deep Tech, Healthcare, Hardware, Education, Consumer
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 130 companies
Team, as Blackbird Ventures publishes it
- Rick Baker Partner
- Niki Scevak Partner
- Samantha Wong Partner
- Nick Crocker Partner
- Michael Tolo Partner
- Tom Humphrey Partner
- Phoebe Harrop Partner
- Robyn Denholm Board Member
- Alex Apoifis Partner, Chief Operating Officer
- James Palmer Principal
- Max Meyer Principal
- Silk Kadala Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on blackbird.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 137 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- AirTree Ventures 8 shared companies: buildclub.ai, airwallex.com, usealloy.ai, darwinium.com…
- Square Peg Capital 5 shared companies: airwallex.com, notion.site, blinq.me, bugcrowd.com…
- Aera VC 3 shared companies: aquila.earth, carbonchain.com, fablefood.co
- Outset Ventures 3 shared companies: aquila.earth, energybank.nz, kwetta.com
- Archangel Ventures 2 shared companies: heidihealth.com.au, buildclub.ai
- Axevil Capital, LLC 2 shared companies: airwallex.com, notion.site
- G Squared Equity Management LP 2 shared companies: airwallex.com, notion.site
- Salesforce Ventures 2 shared companies: airwallex.com, bugcrowd.com
- Ground Up Ventures 2 shared companies: breezy.hr, notion.site
- King River Capital 2 shared companies: breezy.hr, lexer.io
and 127 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Blackbird Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://blackbird.vc/is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, portfolio_count
- https://blackbird.vc/portfoliosectors, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123757058founded, hq_city, hq_country
- https://www.blackbird.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, status
- https://www.blackbird.vc/about-blackbirdhq_country, invests_in_geographies, description, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.blackbird.vc/get-investmentstage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.blackbird.vc/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.blackbird.vc/teampeople
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Record 49 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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