# Blackbird Ventures

> Blackbird Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 339 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 339
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: Aug 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/blackbirdvc
- Website: http://www.blackbird.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackbirdventures

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $34k–$7.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $50k–$2.7M |
| Series A | $3.4M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 53 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 24 | 7% |
| SaaS | 22 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 20 | 6% |
| Health Care | 16 | 5% |

236 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 127 | 37% |
| Series A | 47 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 30 | 9% |
| Series B | 25 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 92 | 27% |
| United States | 55 | 16% |
| New Zealand | 20 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Singapore | 2 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anubhav Ghosh | Intern | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anubhav-ghosh |
| Bill Bartee | Co-Founder, Managing Director | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-bartee |
| James Palmer | Associate | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-palmer-161f |
| Joel Connolly | Creative Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joel-connolly |
| Michael Tolo | Principal | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-tolo-3c65 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vexev | Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Superstat | Superstat uses AI to automate sports stats, highlights, and insights for every player, parent, and coach. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| Partly | 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 | 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 | 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 | Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork. | $10M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Kimia | Kimia provides an artificial intelligence platform that transforms fragmented chemical product data, technical documentation, and institutional expertise into structured, actionable intelligence for commercial teams. The company enables organizations in the chemicals industry to centralize knowledge and apply domain-specific reasoning to answercomplex technical questions, support sales workflows, and improve decision-making speed. Its platform gathers and arranges information from various places, like product details, regulatory information, and internal documents, forming a single "product intelligence" system that acts as a reliable source of information. This structured knowledge is then used to power applications such as technical sales assistants, customer support tools, and document automation systems. | $7M | Seed | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Halter | Halter provides GPS-enabled collars and software that help farmers monitor and control cattle movement. Its system uses virtual fencing to guide animals without physical barriers, allowing users to manage grazing patterns and land use through a mobile interface. The platform collects data on animal location, behavior, and health indicators,supporting day-to-day farm operations and decision-making. Halter also enables remote shifting of herds, reducing the need for manual labor in moving livestock. Its services are used in agricultural settings to improve pasture utilization and streamline herd management processes. | $220M | Series E | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| NextWork | NextWork is developing the world's greatest online learning experience for switching careers. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Iceberg Quantum | Iceberg Quantum is an advanced quantum architecture company focused on designing fault-tolerant quantum computing solutions. By leveraging LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) codes, the company significantly reduces the hardware overhead required for quantum error correction, accelerating the timeline for practical quantum computing. The team includesexperts in quantum computing and partners with leading institutions to develop the next generation of quantum architectures. | $6M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |

10 of 339 investments shown.

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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 339 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–$7.6M at Seed, $50k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $3.4M–$35M 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.

### How do I contact Blackbird Ventures?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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