In 2005 was created Blackbird Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the La Jolla. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The current fund was established by Neil Senturia. The overall number of key employees were 1.
The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Blackbird Ventures works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Blackbird Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Blackbird Ventures, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Southern Cross Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, Sean Parker, Sapphire Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), SOSV, Qualgro VC.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bugcrowd, Dealstruck, Applied. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Real Time, Marketing Automation. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
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Notable deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Build Club | 14 Oct 2024 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||
Redactive | $8M | 03 Jul 2024 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||
Vertus Energy | $10M | 27 Jun 2024 | Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | ||
Aquila | $2M | 24 Jun 2024 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||
NextWork | $2M | 19 Apr 2024 | Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand | ||
Sumday | $3M | 16 Apr 2024 | Australia, Australia | ||
Clasp Therapeutics | $150M | 20 Mar 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Tracksuit | $15M | 27 Feb 2024 | Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | ||
Marqo | $12M | 13 Feb 2024 | - |
– Canva – a global visual communications platform based in Sidney, Australia – raised USD $200m in a funding round which valued the company at USD $40b.
– The round was led by T. Rowe Price with participation from new and existing strategic investors Franklin Templeton, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investments, Blackbird, Felicis, and AirTree Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth, including expanding its team of more than 2,000 employees, which it is expected to double in the year ahead.
– Sydney-based Fable Food, a plant-based food startup, raised $6.5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Blackbird Ventures and joined by AgFunder, Aera VC, Better Bite Ventures, Ban Choon Marketing and former Sequoia Capital partner Warren Hogarth.
– The company plans to launch in the United States by the end of this year.
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Build Club | 14 Oct 2024 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||
Redactive | $8M | 03 Jul 2024 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||
Vertus Energy | $10M | 27 Jun 2024 | Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | ||
Aquila | $2M | 24 Jun 2024 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||
NextWork | $2M | 19 Apr 2024 | Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand | ||
Sumday | $3M | 16 Apr 2024 | Australia, Australia | ||
Clasp Therapeutics | $150M | 20 Mar 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Tracksuit | $15M | 27 Feb 2024 | Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | ||
Marqo | $12M | 13 Feb 2024 | - |