Rick Baker, Author at Startup Daily

Rick Baker

Rick is a partner at Blackbird
He's invested in companies such as Canva, Safety Culture, Baraja, Gilmour Space, Shoes of Prey, Lexer, and August Robotics.
Prior to Blackbird he ran the venture portfolio at MLC and co-founded two software companies.
He grew up in Sydney and went to both UNSW and Sydney University, before spending some time in the UK and Silicon Valley.

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Blackbird’s Rick Baker explains how the VC values startups and why it matters even more in testing times

Rick Baker - August 2, 2022 6 MIN READ

Last week we completed our end of financial year valuations for the Blackbird portfolio and communicated them to our investors. They’re down as you would expect in light of the public markets but with this blog post, we wanted to share in greater detail the process that we used to come to the valuations. The… Read more »