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James Palmer

Principal at Blackbird

Auckland, Auckland

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $25,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

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Work Experience

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Blackbird

2022

  • Principal

    2024

    Investing in the most ambitious companies founded by Aussies & Kiwis, including Canva, CultureAmp, Halter and many more. Led our investments into Cotiss, Kwetta and Vertus Energy and Watchful - I also have the pleasure of sitting on the Board for each. Board Observer at OpenStar.

  • Associate

    2022 - 2024

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NZ Growth Capital Partners

2020 - 2021

  • Investment Manager

    2020 - 2021

    NZ Growth Capital Partners is a sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing two investment vehicles. Part of a team of three responsible for building and deploying the $400M Elevate emerging manager fund-of-funds program. Led in excess of $100M in allocations. Also led pre-seed investments in Kry10 and Zenno Astronautics.

Todd Corporation

2017 - 2020

  • Senior Analyst, Strategy and Corporate Development

    2019 - 2020

    Todd Corporation is a vertically integrated energy conglomerate that over time diversified into other commodity industries such as mining and property development. Led financial modelling, analysis and aspects of commercial negotiations on over $800M of transactions during tenure.

  • Analyst, Strategy and Corporate Development

    2017 - 2019

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ASB Bank

2016 - 2017

  • Future Me Graduate - Corporate Banking

    2016 - 2017