Foundry

Startup accelerator · run by Blackbird Ventures · Sydney · Australia · New Zealand

Blackbird's programme for the earliest Australian and New Zealand teams — often pre-product — run as a short, intense cohort.

Apply on the programme's own site

Foundry terms

Read from the programme's own page on September 13, 2026, and re-read every morning. A figure nobody states is left empty rather than estimated.

Funding: $1k
“Funding: $1k non-dilutive per team.” check it
Cost to apply: take no equity
“We take no equity.” check it
Batch: Cohort 7

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