Venture firm in listed AI tools
Blackbird Ventures
Blackbird Ventures has backed 5 companies behind 7 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Airwallex Series F, May 2025, through Blackbird
Baseten Series E, January 2026, Growth round, June 2026
Source baseten.co/blog/series-e
Canva through Blackbird
Source blackbird.vc/portfolio
Celeris (Marqo Inc)
Source celeris.ai/about
Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary) through Blackbird
Source techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/…
Where they invest
Decision models 3 Spend management & procurement 1 GPU & serverless compute 1 Programmatic asset production 1 Image generation 1
Founders they backed
- Jack Zhang Airwallex
- Lucy Yueting Liu Airwallex
- Jacob Dai Airwallex
- Max L. Airwallex
- Ki Lok Wong Airwallex
- Tuhin Srivastava Baseten
- Amir Haghighat Baseten
- Phil Howes Baseten
- Pankaj Gupta Baseten
- Tom Hamer Celeris (Marqo Inc)
- Jesse Clark Celeris (Marqo Inc)
- JJ Fiasson Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Peter Runham Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Jachin Bhasme Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Sami Ede Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Chris Gillis Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
- Ethan Smith Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)
Questions
Which AI tools has Blackbird Ventures invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Airwallex, Baseten, Canva, Celeris (Marqo Inc) and Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary) backed by Blackbird Ventures.
How are Blackbird Ventures's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Airwallex Spend and Issuing (B, 68.3), Baseten (B, 66.7), elephant-1 (D, 47.6), mammoth-1 (D, 47.7), Canva REST APIs + MCP (B, 65.3), Celeris-1 Decision (D, 49.5) and Leonardo.Ai API (F, 37.7).
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