Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
La Jolla, United States
Blackbird Ventures is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in diverse businesses including emerging technology companies and real estate development. Blackbird Ventures is based in La Jolla, California.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
- Fund size:
- $200M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Blackbird Ventures invests in
Stages Blackbird Ventures invests in
Countries Blackbird Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $135k–$4.9M
- Series A
- $1M–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (45%)
- SaaS 3 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (15%)
- Apps 2 (10%)
- FinTech 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (50%)
- Series A 3 (15%)
- Funding Round 2 (10%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 11 (55%)
- Australia 6 (30%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Barbara Bry
Chief Operating Officer
|
Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Neil Senturia
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Birdwell
|
Birdwell's integrated garment tracking system helps laundry and dry cleaning businesses streamline their operations with powerful digital tools for inventory management, pickup/delivery tracking, and comprehensive garment care documentation. | $200K / Seed / Sep 14, 2025 | |
Pink Pig Inc.
|
Pioneering the future of AI-powered image enhancement. Our mission is to make professional-grade image up-scaling accessible to everyone. | $970K / Seed / Apr 06, 2025 | |
ELNO
|
ELNO transforms your historical data into actionable insights. Leverage advanced machine learning to forecast sales, predict churn, optimize inventory, and make confident decisions about your business future. | $225K / Seed / May 17, 2024 | |
Lilitu
|
Process hundreds of resumes in minutes, eliminate unconscious bias, and identify top talent that traditional screening methods miss. Lilitu's intelligent platform dramatically reduces time-to-hire while improving candidate quality through advanced natural language processing and machine learning. | $135K / Seed / Apr 29, 2024 | |
PsiQuantum
|
PsiQuantum develops quantum computing technologies using photonic qubits and silicon photonics to build fault-tolerant quantum computing systems. The company designs quantum hardware, software, and system architectures that support the development and operation of scalable quantum computers. It manufactures quantum photonic chips throughsemiconductor fabrication processes and develops cryogenic infrastructure and quantum algorithms for large-scale computing applications. PsiQuantum also collaborates with research institutions, government organizations, and industry partners on quantum computing research and technology development. Its work focuses on advancing quantum computing capabilities for scientific, industrial, and computational applications. | $450M / Series D / Jul 27, 2021 | |
Dgraph Labs
|
Dgraph Labs specializes in efficient retrieval for serving real-time user queries of structured data and also addresses use cases involving semantic search, pattern matching, and fraud detection, enabling clients to manage, represent, and visualize large datasets by running queries on machine learning software. | $11.5M / Series A / Jul 31, 2019 | |
SafetyCulture
|
SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements. | $45.5M / Series C / May 21, 2018 | |
|
SafetyCulture
|
SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements. | $45.5M / Series C / May 21, 2018 | |
|
Dgraph Labs
|
Dgraph Labs specializes in efficient retrieval for serving real-time user queries of structured data and also addresses use cases involving semantic search, pattern matching, and fraud detection, enabling clients to manage, represent, and visualize large datasets by running queries on machine learning software. | $1.9M / Seed / Dec 19, 2017 | |
Mentorloop
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Mentorloop connects mentors with mentees via a simple, interactive and affordable online platform.Whether they formally acknowledge it or not, most of us have had a mentor in their lives. As technology develops the need for a mentor in a modern day format is increasingly important. Mentoring helps people work smarter, develops key talent, and aidssuccession planning. That’s why over 70% of Fortune 500 companies now offer mentoring to their people.The global vision of Mentorloop is to “make mentoring mainstream” so that anyone who wants a mentor, can connect with one, anytime, anywhere. | $725K / Seed / Nov 27, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does Blackbird Ventures invest in?
Blackbird Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Blackbird Ventures's check size?
Blackbird Ventures typically joins rounds of $135k–$4.9M at Seed and $1M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Blackbird Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Blackbird Ventures?
The team at Blackbird Ventures includes Barbara Bry (Chief Operating Officer) and Neil Senturia (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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