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 partnershipsaimed at supporting Australian startups in their growth journey.
- Total investments:
- 387
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $34k–$7.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $54k–$2.7M
- Series A
- $3.8M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 53 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 24 (6%)
- SaaS 22 (6%)
- Information Technology 20 (5%)
- Health Care 16 (4%)
Stage
- Seed 127 (33%)
- Series A 47 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 30 (8%)
- Series B 25 (6%)
- Funding Round 15 (4%)
Country
- Australia 92 (24%)
- United States 55 (14%)
- New Zealand 20 (5%)
- United Kingdom 4 (1%)
- 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: 27 | Find email | |
James Palmer
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Joel Connolly
Creative Director
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Creative Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Michael Tolo
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Azonic
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Intelligence for Law Enforcement, Platforms & Financial Institutions | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | |
Vessev
|
Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water. | $19M / Series A / Aug 20, 2026 | |
Sterling
|
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
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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
|
Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 06, 2026 | |
Superstat
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Superstat uses AI to automate sports stats, highlights, and insights for every player, parent, and coach. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 28, 2026 | |
Partly
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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
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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 | |
August Robotics
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August Robotics creates robots to automate "dirty, dangerous and dull" workflows across the B2B economy. The company's first robot, Lionel, automates the dull and labour intensive task of floor-marking for the global exhibition industry. Lionel has been used as a critical part of the trade show setup process by the world'slargest exhibition companies in Europe and USA. August Robotics' second robot, Diego, automates the dirty and dangerous task of disinfecting high-traffic public areas, such as hotels, offices and aged care centers, optimizing hygiene and reducing the risks of infection. The company is also working on a number of other robots, each leveraging August Robotics' industry leading proprietary mobile robotics platform, which enables August Robotics to generate new robots for new cases far more quickly and cheaply than other robotics companies. The physical world is ripe for disruption by robots, and August Robotics is leading the charge to do this in the B2B segment | $30M / Series B / May 21, 2026 | |
Marloo
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Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork. | $10M / Seed / Apr 28, 2026 | |
| See all 387 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 387 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. 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 $34k–$7.2M at Seed, $54k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $3.8M–$32M 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 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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