{"id":934717,"date":"2026-10-20T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934717\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:26:10","slug":"blackbird-payday-at-nz-start-up-first-aml-as-five-v-comes-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934717\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird payday at NZ start-up First AML as Five V comes calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian MacKenzie\u2019s Five V Capital is set to acquire a majority stake in Auckland-headquartered First AML, spelling a payday for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/investors-pile-in-as-ex-strategy-consultant-banks-29m-for-start-up-20211029-p594er\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">compliance start-up\u2019s early backers including Blackbird.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mid-market private equity player this week agreed terms to invest in First AML, whose founders Bion Behdin, Milan Cooper and Chris Caigou are expected to roll over their shareholding, sources said on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian MacKenzie\u2019s Five V Capital is set to acquire a majority stake in Auckland-headquartered First AML, spelling a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-934717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}