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As we take short break from Season 5 of #WildHearts, we are going to dive into the archives of previous episodes to see how far some of our #founders have come 🌏 To kick things off, we are winding back the dial to May 2020, when we sat down with Tim Doyle from Eucalyptus at a time when they had 20 employees 🤯 In this conversation, Tim talks about how he allocates capital, how Eucalyptus captures attention, where to extract value where others can’t see and how to acquire customers. Later on in this episode, you’ll hear from 🐘 Nicholas Crocker, General Partner at Blackbird Ventures. He was one of the very first believers in Eucalyptus and he’ll provide an investors lens on what others can learn from Eucalyptus. To follow Tim's journey, subscribe to #WildHearts via the links below! 📣 Listen on Apple: https://lnkd.in/gn2HNu7U 📣 Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g7zur8wy

Founder Superpower or Curse? 
In this weeks episode of #WildHearts, Flavia Tata Nardini from Fleet Space Technologies dives into that instinctual founder superpower of spotting holes no-one else sees 👀 Some see it as a curse, others as an asset - where do you sit? For Flavia, “founder mode” isn’t something you can delegate, it’s what turns blind spots into breakthroughs and is reserved for founders who have been on the journey. Catch the full episode with Flavia and Mason Yates wherever you get your podcasts ⚡️ #StartupLife #FounderJourney #GrowthMindset Niki Scevak Max Meyer Matthew Pearson

Mark your calendars and get ready. Sunrise Australia returns in 2025! 🌅 30 April & 1 May 2025 Carriageworks - Sydney Sign up here to get first access to discounted Earlybird tickets, and let us know what you want to see, learn and do 👉 https://lnkd.in/guNbYHJC Sunrise is Blackbird’s love letter to founders and the beautiful things they create. It’s a festival of creativity, technology and ambition. A celebration of exceptionalism in Australia and New Zealand, where people come together to dream up the future.

Every year, we set out with the same goal: find the most ambitious Australian and Kiwi founders building generational companies, and back them from the very beginning. 2024 has been a great year for this! 💗 As we come to the end of this busy, often challenging but overall rewarding year, we wanted to reflect on the year that was by the numbers, and share some of our highlights. 👀 Read more by Alexandra Gifford and Nick Erzetic on the blog today:

Let’s be real—founders wake up some days thinking, do I have the energy for this? If we have learnt anything across season 5 of #WildHearts, running a startup isn’t glamorous. It’s hard, repetitive, and full of obstacles. Yet for Flavia Tata Nardini, CEO and co-founder at Fleet Space Technologies, if you have the team around you that says ‘You’ve got this’, you are a long way to connecting the dots. For those who’ve scaled these peaks, what gets you out of bed each day? 👇 Catch the full episode with Flavia Tata Nardini and Mason Yates wherever you get your podcasts, or head to the links in the comments section. #FounderLife #StartupLeadership

"La Foundary started because I wanted to create a new material to do art with. And it just somehow worked in a commercial scale.” In the latest story from our High Agency Women content partnership with Missing Perspectives, we'd like to introduce you to Anh Van, the co-founder of La Foundary, a sustainable packaging company that uses the powers of bioengineering to challenge how packaging is made. She's also a former Blackbird Foundation protostar 💫 🩷 Read more, as written by Natasha Gillezeau 👇

A common thread throughout series 5 of Wild Hearts are those unexpected experiences for founders that were in fact pivotal to their products success. For Dr. Thomas Kelly it was the places Heidi Health was unintentionally being used, giving Tom clarity on where their focus needs to be. #WildHearts

Excited to announce that Fleet Space Technologies has closed a A$150M Series D funding round with a valuation of A$800M+! Led by Canada’s Teachers' Venture Growth, the venture and growth investment arm of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, this round brought together visionary investors who see advances in spacetech, AI, and 3D multiphysics as foundational technologies to accelerate mineral discovery for our clean energy future. Thank you for walking this long journey with us - we couldn’t have done it without all the movers and shakers rising to meet the dual challenges of climate change and space exploration. Here's to a bold new chapter - this is for you! Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q02_kT-20 #AdAstra #Innovation #SpaceTech #Discovery #lifeatfleet #fleetspace #weareexplorers

"You just need one person to back you and then that can change your trajectory. Be as resilient as possible. Surrounding yourself with people who back you." Build Club founder Annie Liao 🇦🇺 shares her unconventional path to start-ups with Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks, including her experience going from VC to founder raising capital, the importance of mentors and building a community-based business. As Phoebe writes, to say that Annie is a force to be reckoned with is an understatement. Read more 👇 This story is part of a content partnership between Blackbird x Missing Perspectives, High Agency Women: profiles and stories that shine a light on what women are building, and how they're building it. Find the full series at Missing Perspectives 👀

What happens when a founder bets everything on simplicity—and wins? That’s the story of Dr. Thomas Kelly and his telehealth platform, Heidi Health — a venture that faced near failure before transforming into a global success. In our lastest episode of Wild Hearts with the CEO and Founder, we unpack: 🩺 How Tom realised Heidi wasn’t delivering joy to clinicians and made the bold decision to pivot. 🛠️ Why focusing on a single feature—transcribing consultations—became Heidi’s breakthrough. 📈 The viral growth of Heidi 2.0 and how it turned into a $10M ARR business with focus at its core. 💡 How Tom’s honest letter to investors unlocked clarity, trust, and a fresh start. 🌟 The power of “useful”: Why prioritising simplicity and user needs outperforms grand visions every time. 🌏 The team building principle that Tom builds his company on. 💬 What’s your biggest takeaway from the power of simplicity? 📣 Listen on Apple: https://lnkd.in/gn2HNu7U 📣 Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g7zur8wy #WildHearts