# Blackbird Ventures

> Blackbird Ventures is a VC fund in La Jolla backing Software and SaaS. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: La Jolla, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Fund size: $200M
- Last fund: Sep 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.blackbirdv.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $135k–$4.3M |
| Series A | $1M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 47% |
| SaaS | 3 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 16% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| FinTech | 2 | 11% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 53% |
| Series A | 3 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 16% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 58% |
| Australia | 6 | 32% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barbara Bry | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barbara-bry |
| Neil Senturia | CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neil-senturia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $39.2M | 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 | 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 |  |
| Accelo | Accelo, the pioneer of Service Operations Automation (ServOps), streamlines operations from prospect through to payment through their integrated, cloud-based platform. Thousands of businesses use Accelo to run their critical client service delivery, boosting revenue and productivity and doubling profit margins. | $9M | Series A | Sep 25, 2017 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Baillie Gifford](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baillie-gifford) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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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 19 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–$4.3M 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.

### How do I contact Blackbird Ventures?

Public channels for Blackbird Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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