Rick Baker

Partner at Blackbird Ventures · Joined 2012

Biography

Rick Baker is a Partner at Blackbird and is identified as Founder and Partner in the firm's 25 August 2026 media release announcing its sixth fund. On his Blackbird profile he writes that before Blackbird he ran the venture portfolio at MLC and before that co-founded two software companies, and that he attended both the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. The same profile names Canva, SafetyCulture, Baraja, Gilmour Space, Shoes of Prey, Lexer and August Robotics as companies he has invested in at Blackbird. He authored Blackbird's January 2026 investment note on Gilmour Space Technologies' Series E. 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.

Education

• University of New South Wales (institution named on his Blackbird bio; no degree stated)
• University of Sydney (institution named on his Blackbird bio; no degree stated)

Previous Experience

• MLC - ran the venture portfolio
• Co-founder of two software companies (names not stated on his Blackbird bio)

Notable Investments

Career Timeline

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