Tom Humphrey
Partner at Blackbird
Tom Humphrey
Partner at Blackbird
Sydney, New South Wales
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
We exist to supercharge New Zealand and Australia's most ambitious founders 🚀
Partner
2019 - 2020
Access is an active early stage tech venture capital firm based in Colorado focused on seed and Series A investments.
COO
2011 - 2018
Video streaming platform for academic and public libraries. Went through 2 financing rounds and exited to KKR.
COO
2010 - 2011
Ecommerce platform. Over 12 months, we built a team of 85 FTE and exited to a News Corp / Channel Ten JV.
Strategy Analyst (Secondment)
2009 - 2010
CIMIC (fka Leighton Holdings) is the largest construction / contract services / contract mining company in Asia Pac. I worked in the strategy team on secondment as the sole analyst, reporting to the Head of Strategy. I was responsible for assessment of M&A opportunities and key strategic initiatives and formulated Board and shareholder reports.
Associate
2007 - 2010
Management consultant in the strategy practice. 2007-2008 - Consultant, 2008-2009 - Senior Consultant, 2010 - Associate (project manager). I was formally "seconded" during my time there to two ASX 100 companies - Fortescue Metals and Leighton Holdings.
Paralegal / Summer Clerk
2005 - 2006
Paralegal
2004 - 2005
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Firing Up the Sales Engine
Talks about turbulent economic conditions, S&P 500 downturn and conservatism in business strategies
Indistinguishable from Magic: A River of Inquiry into AI
Talks about AI advancements, Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI
Indistinguishable from Magic: Mapping the Emerging AI Market
Talks about AI market map, AI infrastructure stack and AI application layer
Indistinguishable from Magic: The 7 Sources of Moat in AI
Talks about AI market, AI companies and competitive moat