{"id":66312,"date":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:04:09","slug":"venture-capital-giant-blackbird-to-raise-700m-for-first-fund-since-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66312\/","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":66313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-66312","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}