Blackbird Ventures, Australia’s largest VC fund, has promoted Tom Humphrey, Phoebe Harrop and Michael Tolo to general partners.
with investors including AustralianSuper, Hostplus, HESTA, Aware Super, Telstra Super, NGS Super and the Future Fund tipping in capital.
Mr Humphrey said his first exposure to start-ups was in 2010 when he joined e-commerce platform OurDeal as chief operating officer. That business was acquired by News Corp and Network Ten, and he moved to the US and joined his sister’s video streaming start-up, Kanopy, which was eventually acquired by PE fund L Squared Capital Partners.that the emergence of new go-to-market strategies had been his focus in recent months.“One really interesting shift has been on pricing strategy,” he said.
He said his experience at Playground had prepared him for the increasing focus on early-stage deals from Blackbird, which,Advertisement Ms Harrop had worked for Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management as a director of growth equity. She is based out of Blackbird’s New Zealand office and had to adjust from doing predominantly later-stage Series D and E investment rounds at Generation Investment Management to seed and pre-seed investments at Blackbird.
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