Niki Scevak is a Partner at Blackbird and, per Wikipedia, co-founded the firm in 2012 with Rick Baker. His Blackbird profile states that he founded Startmate on returning to Sydney in 2010 and that he started two software companies before investing, having previously lived in New York. He is based in Sydney and states an interest in biology use cases outside healthcare, autonomous vehicles and robots. He is the named author or co-author of Blackbird's investment announcements for Aquila, Nomad Atomics, Clutch, Index and Superstat. 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
Startmate - founder (founded on returning to Sydney in 2010)
Founder of two software companies before investing (names not stated on his Blackbird bio)
Notable Investments
SuperstatIndexClutchNomad AtomicsAquila
Career Timeline
2010
Founded Startmate on returning to Sydney, per his Blackbird profile.
2012
Co-founded Blackbird Ventures with Rick Baker.
2023
Authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Aquila's $3M seed round, published 29 June 2023.
2023
Authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Nomad Atomics' $10M pre-Series A, published 19 July 2023.
2025
Co-authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Clutch's $2M pre-seed round, published 21 January 2025.
2025
Co-authored Blackbird's Investment Notes on Index's A$3.5M seed round, published 12 February 2025.
2026
Co-authored Blackbird's announcement of its seed investment in Superstat, published 29 July 2026.