Michael Tolo

Partner at Blackbird Ventures · Joined 2020

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Biography

Michael Tolo is a Partner at Blackbird, based in Melbourne. Blackbird's post of 1 December 2020 announced that he had joined the firm's investment team as a Principal alongside Tom Humphrey and Tip Piumsomboon. His Blackbird profile states that he was previously an investor at Playground Global in Palo Alto and at the Future Fund in Melbourne, and names synthetic biology, embedded commerce, compute, healthcare and robotics as his areas of interest. He is the named author or co-author of Blackbird's investment announcements for Sumday, Heidi Health, Remedy Robotics, Coherence Neuro and Baseten. No board seat is recorded. Blackbird's investment announcement posts, twenty-four of which were read on 7 September 2026, name the authoring investor but contain no sentence appointing anyone to a portfolio company board, and no portfolio company board page naming this person was found.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

BasetenCoherence NeuroRemedy RoboticsHeidi HealthSumday

Career Timeline

2020
Joined the Blackbird investment team as a Principal, based in Melbourne, per Blackbird's post of 1 December 2020.
2023
Co-authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Sumday's $2M pre-seed round, published 15 March 2023.
2025
Co-authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Heidi Health's Series B, published 6 October 2025.
2025
Authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Remedy Robotics, published 13 October 2025.
2025
Co-authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Coherence Neuro, published 4 November 2025.
2026
Co-authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Baseten's $300M Series E, published 18 February 2026.

Sources & References

Blackbird - Michael Tolo profile ↗Blackbird - Team ↗Blackbird - The Next Generation of Blackbird's Investment Team (1 December 2020) ↗Blackbird - Investment Notes: Baseten Series-E (18 February 2026) ↗Blackbird - Investment Notes: Coherence Neuro (4 November 2025) ↗Blackbird - Investment Notes: Remedy Robotics (13 October 2025) ↗Blackbird - Investment Notes: Heidi Series B (6 October 2025) ↗Blackbird - Investment Notes: Sumday (15 March 2023) ↗