James Palmer

Associate at Blackbird

Associate
2022 - Current
Investing in the most ambitious companies founded by Aussies & Kiwis, including Canva, CultureAmp, Halter and many more. Led our investments into Cotiss and Vertus Energy. Board observer OpenStar and Vertus Energy.

Investment Manager
2020 - 2021
NZ Growth Capital Partners is a sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing two investment vehicles. Part of a team of three responsible for building and deploying the $400M Elevate emerging manager fund-of-funds program. Led in excess of $100M in allocations. Also led pre-seed investments in Kry10 and Zenno Astronautics.

Senior Analyst, Strategy and Corporate Development
2019 - 2020
Todd Corporation is a vertically integrated energy conglomerate that over time diversified into other commodity industries such as mining and property development. Led financial modelling, analysis and aspects of commercial negotiations on over $800M of transactions during tenure.
Analyst, Strategy and Corporate Development
2017 - 2019