{"id":343798,"date":"2025-08-14T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343798\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:07:12","slug":"venture-capital-giant-blackbird-to-raise-700m-for-first-fund-since-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343798\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture capital giant Blackbird to raise $700m for first fund since 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackbird Ventures is preparing to complete the first close of its new multimillion-dollar fund. The move by Australia\u2019s biggest venture capital firm comes as it looks to build on the momentum of the last fund it raised \u2013 $1 billion in 2022 \u2013 and back the next wave of technology start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Blackbird, which has built its reputation on backing some of Australia\u2019s best-known unicorns \u2013 including design darling Canva and safety app SafetyCulture \u2013 is targeting $700 million-plus for its sixth fund.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackbird Ventures is preparing to complete the first close of its new multimillion-dollar fund. The move by Australia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[51,3134,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-343798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027040950579328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}