{"id":62724,"date":"2025-10-06T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62724\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:00:06","slug":"blackbird-backed-ai-startup-hits-711-million-after-new-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62724\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird-backed AI startup hits $711 million after new funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six-year-old Melbourne start-up Heidi, which is the fastest growing company ever in the portfolio of the country\u2019s biggest venture capital firm Blackbird Ventures, has closed a $US65 million ($98 million) funding round that has sent its valuation soaring. <\/p>\n<p>It is the second funding round of 2025 for the firm that uses artificial intelligence to transcribe consultations between doctors and their patients. The company is also set to commence an additional $5 million round targeted at its clinician user base. It is calling this a \u201ccommunity round,\u201d with the process being led by Alumni Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-year-old Melbourne start-up Heidi, which is the fastest growing company ever in the portfolio of the country\u2019s biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-62724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}