Max Meyer

Announcing Index's $3.5M seed round, led by @BlackbirdVC and @BainCapVC. It’s only been two months since we publicly launched Index (@IndexPlan) Since, we've crossed thousands of product leaders on the waitlist from companies like Scale AI, Ramp, and Canva. Today, we’re scaling up fast to meet the growing demand. 🔮 Why? Product leaders have long been stuck planning in spreadsheets, or legacy systems not built for B2B Product Management. Planning has been disconnected from customer feedback, as well as delivery in issue trackers. Index solves this – bringing your product planning into one platform, built specifically for B2B and integrated deeply with @Linear. ➡️ What’s next? Index is now in open early access, available to all. We’re also excited to build the new home for Australia’s brightest talent – we’re hiring exceptional engineers in Sydney, Australia that are ready to build the future of product planning. 🙏 Thank you @iaculch, the Index team, and I are incredibly grateful to all of you for your support.

After 18 months in stealth, I am beyond excited to announce Adora: a completely new way to visualize your entire product experience. Adora helps world-class product teams like @canva, @NotionHQ and @Linktree_ to deeply understand their user-journeys, uncover friction and center their team around a product source-of-truth. As products scale, it becomes near impossible to know what your own product looks like. Different teams building for different users – free vs paid, running experiments, markets and languages. My co-founder Nathan and I both shared this frustration. I was previously the Head of Product Growth at Canva, and with 220m+ monthly active-users, this was a frequent pain-point. Whereas Nathan ran into this whilst leading engineering teams at Amazon shipping the Buy-with-Prime integration to millions of shoppers. But it's not just a big-company problem – startups scaling fast echo these same frustrations. Adora auto-captures every screen and user-journey in your live product experience, overlaid with realtime screenshots, visual analytics and session replays, so you can instantly understand how users experience your product. We’re super proud of the product we’ve built and invite you to be one of the first to experience Adora by joining our waitlist – link in replies.

2023 was an incredible year for investing at Blackbird 💜 $189M invested. 14 new, 24 follow-on. $67M => AI $67M => Deep-tech Pacing: consistent. 71% pre-revenue (you're never too early for us). ++ Sunrise, Giants, Foundry, Wild Hearts, & BB Abroad. blackbird.vc/blog/2023-year…

Curious about what makes a top-notch VC? After 3 years of growth, we've nailed down the essentials: curiosity, dealflow, judgment, conviction, reliability & more! Dive deeper with Investments CoS @gifford_a 🗞️: bit.ly/46OacBD. We're now hiring year-round! 🌟

Our love letter to South East Queensland startups who punch above their weight 💜   Get at us here: blackbirdventures.typeform.com/to/IOxkt1B7

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NBA superstar Joel Embiid taught himself to shoot by watching YouTube vids. His explanation is amazing.

Pumped to be back in the hometown for @_southstart Adelaide wild hearts - get at us 💜💙❤️💛💚🧡🖤

“Prestige is the greatest anti-signal of where you should be joining. You just get caught up in the rat race. It’s like a heroine addiction to status - high ATAR ➡️ top uni ➡️ prestigious business.” @nikiscevak , @blackbirdvc @startmate Quote #1

@law_and_rorder @blackbirdvc @TomHums 💜

Touchdown at @blackbirdvc Sydney w/ @TomHums

We wholeheartedly believe that the coming era for Australian and New Zealand startups will be our greatest yet. In pursuit of this mission, we are pleased to announce Blackbird has raised A$1B to invest in generational companies born in ANZ. Read more: blackbird.vc/blog/one-billi…

Created an index of my favourite startups in Australia and New Zealand. anzsd.xyz this index is in no way a source of truth but i have used a bunch of public metrics to rank them.

Welcome to the (new) world of Blackbird!! We’ve got a whole new look - it’s raw, creative and full of energy, and it symbolises our ambition to progress Australian and New Zealand culture. 🧵 1/4

@cam_ensor @nickcrocker 👀

@nickcrocker Make the shot @MaxxMeyerr1?

The photography got worse but the basketball got better. 🏀 7am Fridays, Carlton.

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I'm new to Twitter, I'm new to Blackbird, and these roles may be the new you 💜

@nikiscevak and the team at @blackbirdvc have had such an outsized impact on Australian startups that it’s hard to believe they’ve been around for only a decade. On behalf of all Aussie startups - thank you!

@liubinskas @TaraDiversi @laurenjcapelin @AaronBirkby @chrisboden Thanks @liubinskas !!

@TaraDiversi @laurenjcapelin @MaxxMeyerr1 @AaronBirkby @chrisboden Tara is the first point of call. I was really impressed by the #climatetech strength. Strong connection to reef, forests and food.

How’s the #northqld #startup vibe? @MaxxMeyerr1 will be paying a visit next week - where should he hang out/who should he meet? Cc @AaronBirkby @liubinskas @chrisboden suggestions welcome!

@TaraDiversi @laurenjcapelin @AaronBirkby @liubinskas @chrisboden @TaraDiversi I'll DM you

@laurenjcapelin @MaxxMeyerr1 @AaronBirkby @liubinskas @chrisboden Yes… we’d welcome a visit and can tee up some startups to chat to. Here for 24th? We’re launching innovation festival… Or the week before?

@laurenjcapelin @AaronBirkby @superzac @liubinskas @chrisboden @JCUConnect @TNQDroughtHub @TaraDiversi Thank you @laurenjcapelin !! Already falling in love with the FNQ startup vibe

@AaronBirkby @superzac @MaxxMeyerr1 @liubinskas @chrisboden @JCUConnect @TNQDroughtHub @TaraDiversi Thanks @AaronBirkby ! I knew you’d have the goods :) have fun @MaxxMeyerr1 !