Rayn Ong

Partner

2020 - Current

Investing in high growth startups, especially in their first and second funding rounds.

Investment Manager

2014

Seed round 💎🤲 to $100m+ val track record: 1. Instaclustr (Database, $500m+ exit) 2. Propeller Aero (Survey) 3. Morse Micro (Wifi) 4. Eucalyptus (D2C Health) 5. StepN (Web3) 6. Vow (Cultured Meat) Exits 📈: 1. Lumific (2014, exited to GoPro 2015) 2. Carbar (2016, exited to IAG 2019) 3. Elevio (2016, exited to Dixa 2021) 4. Rocos (2018, exited to Drone Deploy 2021) 5. Clarity (2015, ASX:CU6 2021) 6. Instaclustr (2014, exited to NetApp 2022) Funds & Trusts: 1. Blackbird Ventures 2012, 2015, 2018, 2020 & 2022 2. Our Innovation Fund 3. PieLAB Council Capital

Advisory Committee Member

2020

Keeping the Blackbird team accountable.

Investor

2014

Startmate is the leading startup accelerator program in Australia. All Startmate mentors invest their own time and money. Voted by the founders as the Most Valuable Mentor🏅for 2018, 2020 and Summer 2021. http://www.startmate.com.au/

Board Member

2014 - 2016

Instaclustr provides Cassandra as a Service, the best way to deploy Cassandra NoSQL databases in the cloud. https://www.instaclustr.com/

Software Engineer

2011 - 2013

Software Engineer

2010 - 2011

NASDAQ:BIGC

Software Engineer

2005 - 2010