Fund profile / Australia

Blackbird Fund VI

Geography: Australia
Stage: Seed
Fund size: $700M+
Focus: AI/ML, Consumer & Commerce, EdTech and Enterprise Software
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Blackbird Fund VI

Enterprise software, EdTech, FinTech, consumer tech, AI focused fund

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionAustralia

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

Consumer & Commerce

EdTech

Enterprise Software

FinTech

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Early-career engineers & students betting on hard physical problems

Australian startups

founder community

hardware & hard tech

early-career builders

ecosystem events

cross-disciplinary founders

impact/crisis services

AI infrastructure & compute

talent retention & ecosystem

Bullish Signals

Active community events, AWS partnershipexternal

78,622 LinkedIn followers (up 132 in 16h)linkedin

Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 confirmed Oct 29linkedin

Expanding to New Zealand regional flagshiplinkedin

Cross-disciplinary speakers: tech, food, wellnesslinkedin

Airwallex Latitude37: $100K equity-free backinglinkedin

Portfolio founder Rory (Propeller) speaking 28 Julylinkedin

Hardware thesis strengthening; student-to-founder pipelinelinkedin

Wild Hearts podcast: founder spotlight, storytelling focuslinkedin

ThroughLine portfolio founder using creative gov tacticslinkedin

Pivoting to AI infrastructure & talent retention agendalinkedin

Baseten guests: Australia AI compute/frontier strategylinkedin

Attracting deep-tech AI talent to Australian ecosystemlinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Heavy focus on hard physical problems vs AI/SaaSlinkedin

Impact/crisis services angle (non-typical VC)linkedin

Pushing AI infrastructure over frontier model traininglinkedin

Founder Do's

Attend Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 (29 Oct, Auckland)

Build side projects while validating hard problems

Engage with Blackbird community events

Attend SunriseAUS / Blackbird flagship events

Explore Airwallex Latitude37 ($100K equity-free)

Try unconventional tactics for tough stakeholder access

Build AI research/compute projects if deep technical

Founder Don'ts

Wait until idea is perfect; bet on hard problems early

Overlook unglamorous early years of hardware

Assume email/digital always beats low-tech outreach

Leave Australia for frontier AI without testing locally first

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$700M+

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Niki Scevak, Rick Baker, Sam Wong, Nick Crocker

Lauren CapelinPartner

Michael (Blackbird)Partner (first name only)

Lucy (Airwallex)Portfolio Founder / Ecosystem Partner

Rory San MiguelPortfolio Founder (Propeller)

Elliot TaylorPortfolio Founder (ThroughLine)

Mudith JayasekaraGuest / Expert (Baseten)

Charles O'NeillGuest / Expert (Baseten)

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