Blackbird Ventures Australia

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Sydney, Australia

Total investments

254

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

152

Rounds per year

21.17

Lead investments

34

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSAppsEnterprise Software

Summary

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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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAerospaceB2B/EnterpriseDeep TechHealthcare Show 3 more
Stage focus
GeneralistPre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B Show 1 more
Geo focus
AustraliaNew Zealand
Check size
30K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
AUD 1000000000
Fund raised date
2022-11-01

Analytics

Total investments
254
Lead investments
34
Exits
9
Rounds per year
21.17
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (94)
  • Information Technology (36)
  • SaaS (36)
  • Artificial Intelligence (26)
  • Internet (22)
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Investments by region
  • Australia (136)
  • United States (76)
  • New Zealand (18)
  • Singapore (5)
  • China (2)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
213M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
1.23
Strategy success index
0.70

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