What Blackbird Is Looking For In 2017

This post is for founders looking for investment from Blackbird.

What Blackbird Looks For In Founders

What are the common traits of the best founders?

Flip Ups — not as scary as you think

Flip ups are dark, they’re scary, they cost a bunch of money and…

Blackbird — A Calling

At Blackbird, we look for founders who are doing their life’s work. Founding a startup is closer to a calling than an…

Investing in the Misunderstood

aka Where did all the SaaS companies go?

Happy 2017! To kick off the year, we wanted to share how our investment thesis is evolving at Blackbird.

Blackbird’s 2016 by the numbers

The closing of a year and beginning of the next is always a good time to sit back and take stock of what you’ve achieved.

The numbers draw a picture of a busy year where the volume and quantum of deals we were involved in went up tremendously. The…

Blackbird is hiring a Head of Operations

Note: Applications are now closed. If you have applied, you should hear from us shortly!

We’re small not big

We believe the Australian venture capital industry at the beginning of 2017 is undersized not oversized. The amount of dry powder — capital that has been raised but not yet invested — is smaller than you think. Funds have been partially invested already, some of the capital is aimed at…

The dawn of a new Australian space industry — we just invested in nano-satellite startup Fleet