Partner at Blackbird Ventures · Joined 2015
View Live Interactive Profile →Samantha Wong is a Partner at Blackbird. Her Blackbird profile states that she was a lawyer, then a product manager, then a Startmate company founder, and that she joined Blackbird as Head of Operations in 2015 before moving to investments in 2017. It states that she led the drafting of a Model Code of Conduct for the Australian venture community and launched a Women in VC Internship program, and names food technology, synthetic biology, longevity and healthcare as her interests. She is the named author of Blackbird's post announcing the firm's sixth fund and is quoted as Partner in the firm's 25 August 2026 media release. 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.