Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
Blackbird Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Blackbird is an Australasian venture capital firm whose mission is to invest in wild hearts, with the wildest ideas, right at the beginning. The firm specializes in innovative ideas and solutions, focusing on ambitious projects from software to space technology. Blackbird Ventures manages multiple early-stage venture capital limited partnerships aimed at supporting Australian startups in their growth journey.
- Total investments:
- 397
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
- Fund size:
- $812M
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $34k–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $51k–$2.7M
- Series A
- $3.8M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 71 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 37 (9%)
- SaaS 27 (7%)
- Information Technology 26 (7%)
- Health Care 18 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 158 (40%)
- Series A 50 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 42 (11%)
- Series B 28 (7%)
- Series C 13 (3%)
Country
- Australia 106 (27%)
- United States 64 (16%)
- New Zealand 27 (7%)
- United Kingdom 6 (2%)
- Singapore 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anubhav Ghosh
Intern
|
Intern | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bill Bartee
Co-Founder, Managing Director
|
Co-Founder, Managing Director | Total investments: 29 | Find email | |
James Palmer
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Joel Connolly
Creative Director
|
Creative Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Michael Tolo
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heidi Health develops an ambient AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks. It listens to patient-clinician conversations, transcribes key highlights, and then produces structured notes, referral letters, patient summaries, billing codes, and other downstream documents. The system supports customizable templates, allows editing during sessions, and integrates with various EHR systems while offering compliance with privacy and security standards. Clinicians in multiple specialties and care settings use Heidi to reduce administrative burden, improve focus on patient care, and streamline workflows. | $100M / Series C / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| OpenDebt is a specialized collections technology company that provides AI-driven and human-support tools for lenders and debt collection agencies. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Intelligence for Law Enforcement, Platforms & Financial Institutions | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water. | $19M / Series A / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Sterling operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate back-office operations for financial and accounting teams. The software deploys deterministic AI agents that execute repetitive tasks like accounts payable, accounts receivable, compliance checks, and bank reconciliations directly inside existing enterprise applications. Byfunctioning as a background virtual assistant, its value proposition centers on eliminating administrative bottlenecks while maintaining strict human-in-the-loop oversight and enterprise-grade audit standards. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| Alloy enables robotics teams to organise, explore, and evaluate various sorts of multimodal robot data in one platform using natural language, without the need for labels. | $8.1M / Seed / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| Superstat uses AI to automate sports stats, highlights, and insights for every player, parent, and coach. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Partly develops digital infrastructure for the automotive parts industry, providing software, APIs, and AI models that support parts identification, procurement, and supply chain operations. Its platform standardizes communication and data exchange among participants in the parts ecosystem, helping businesses integrate parts information into theirexisting systems and workflows. The company offers both developer tools and pre-built applications that can be embedded into enterprise platforms or deployed as standalone solutions. Its products are used by automotive groups, repair businesses, dismantlers, and other organizations to manage inventory, pricing, ordering, and cataloging processes. Partly also develops industry-specific AI models designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of parts-related operations. | $50M / Series B / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $1.5B / Series F / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| See all 397 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Blackbird Ventures invest in?
Blackbird Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 397 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Blackbird Ventures invest in?
Blackbird Ventures typically joins rounds of $34k–$7M at Seed, $51k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $3.8M–$32M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Blackbird Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Blackbird Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Blackbird Ventures?
The team at Blackbird Ventures includes Anubhav Ghosh (Intern), Bill Bartee (Co-Founder, Managing Director) and James Palmer (Associate), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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