# Nick Crocker

> Nick Crocker is a seed investor at Blackbird Ventures backing SaaS. See 21 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia)
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholascrocker/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nickcrocker
- Website: http://www.nickcrocker.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicholascrocker?sw_fnr_id=2610378994&fnr_t=0

Nick Crocker is a seed investor at Blackbird Ventures in Melbourne focused on SaaS and Software. Nick is a partner at Blackbird Ventures based in Melbourne. He also runs Startmate, Australia's best startup accelerator.Previously, Nick worked on Product Strategy & Operations at Under Armour and was a Product Manager at MyFitnessPal, the world's most popular health and fitness application. In 2012, Nick co-founded Sessions, ahealth coaching company, which MyFitnessPal acquired in 2013. Sessions was backed by Collaborative Fund, Blackbird Ventures, SV Angel and Joshua Kushner. Nick also co-founded We Are Hunted, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 6 | 29% |
| Software | 5 | 24% |
| Analytics | 2 | 10% |
| Marketing | 2 | 10% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 10% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 33% |
| Series A | 5 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 10 | 48% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adora | Adora automatically maps all of your screens and routes as they appear in production, in real-time, to build a comprehensive product library. | $7M | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 | https://www.adora.so/ |
| Hall | Hall helps companies understand how they appear across AI platforms, and track how these conversations translate to business outcomes. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 28, 2025 | https://usehall.com/ |
| Factor House | Factor House, previously known as Operatr.IO, is a software company that specializes in providing solutions for Apache Kafka. Their flagship product, kPow, is a JVM-based web application designed to simplify, secure, and enhance enterprise Kafka tooling. The company operates as a subsidiary of Factor House and is committed to delivering innovativesoftware engineering solutions in the SaaS industry. | $3.2M | Seed | Feb 13, 2025 | https://factorhouse.io |
| Marqo | A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows. | $12.5M | Series A | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Marqo | A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows. | $5.2M | Seed | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| MagicBrief | MagicBrief is the creator of a performance marketing tool for creating and editing video storyboards. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2023 | https://magicbrief.com/ |
| XY Sense | Founded in 2016 by Alex Birch and Luke Murray, XY Sense is a Melbourne head-quartered technology startup using smart sensors and AI powered analytics to create workplaces people love. We’ve created the world’s most advanced workplace sensor. It’s private by design (protecting your team’s privacy), has the longest range of any sensor on themarket, collects data passively and best of all delivers highly accurate(<30cm) workplace utilisation analytics in real-time. Combined with an analytics platform that’s been designed for frontline property teams, we’re obsessed with simplifying workplace analytics to help transform workplaces for the better. Learn about what makes our sensor stand apart here: www.xysense.io | $8M | Seed | Jul 25, 2022 | https://www.xysense.com |
| Kinde | We build beautifully simple dev-acceleration infrastructure software for SaaS teams. Tools to help you build, launch, and get to market faster and with more confidence. So you can do your greatest work. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 | https://kinde.com |
| Dovetail | Dovetail is the only AI-first insights hub that automatically centralizes and transforms scattered customer feedback into insights that help everyone in the enterprise make more customer-centric decisions.Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first withDovetail and improve the quality of their thing. Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco. | $63M | Series A | Jan 20, 2022 | https://dovetailapp.com |
| Dovetail | Dovetail is the only AI-first insights hub that automatically centralizes and transforms scattered customer feedback into insights that help everyone in the enterprise make more customer-centric decisions.Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first withDovetail and improve the quality of their thing. Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco. | $3.7M | Seed | Aug 10, 2021 | https://dovetailapp.com |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Skip Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skip-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Grok Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grok-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Qualgro VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qualgro) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Blackbird Ventures

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

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.

5 contacts available at Blackbird Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Nick Crocker invest in?

Nick Crocker invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Nick Crocker?

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### When did Nick Crocker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nick Crocker closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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