Startup Grind hosts Nick Crocker (Blackbird Ventures)

Jun 26, 2019, 8:00 – 11:00 AM (UTC)

Melbourne

Amazon Web Services, Level 18, 8 Exhibition Street Melbourne VIC 3000, Melbourne, 3000

Nick Crocker is a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures. Nick sits on the boards of Culture Amp, nura, XY Sense, Applied, Eucalyptus, and Making Things. He is the Exec Chair at Startmate, Australia’s best accelerator. Previously, Nick worked on Product Strategy & Operations at Under Armour Connected Fitness and was a Product Manager at MyFitnessPal, acquired by Under Armour in 2015.

In-person event

About this event

Nick Crocker is a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures, and runs the firm’s Melbourne office.

Nick sits on the boards of Culture Amp, nura, XY Sense, Applied, Eucalyptus, and Making Things.

He is the Exec Chair at Startmate, Australia’s best accelerator.

Previously, Nick worked on Product Strategy & Operations at Under Armour Connected Fitness and was a Product Manager at MyFitnessPal, the world's most popular health and fitness application, acquired by Under Armour in 2015.

Nick co-founded and was CEO of Sessions, using technology to help people live better, healthier lives. Sessions was founded at Rock Health in January, 2012 and acquired by MyFitnessPal in December, 2013. Sessions was funded by Blackbird Ventures, Collaborative Fund, SV Angel and Joshua Kushner.

Nick also co-founded We Are Hunted which was acquired by Twitter.

He was a Product Manager at Boxee, funded by USV and Spark, and acquired by Samsung, in New York from 2010-11.

He holds Political Science and Law degrees from the University of Queensland.

While at university, Nick worked as a journalist with News Ltd. His writing has been published in Wired, Fast Company and Harvard Business Review.

You can follow him on Twitter, read his writing, and add him on LinkedIn. 

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Nick Crocker

    Blackbird Ventures

    General Partner

When

When

Wednesday, June 26, 2019
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM (UTC)

Agenda

8:00 AMNetworking and Food
9:00 AMFireside Chat
10:00 AMNetworking

Host

  • Matt Allen

    AWS

    Venture Capital BD – ANZ

Organizers

  • Chris Joannou

    Draper University

    Chapter Director

  • Mohammad Akmal Rakib

    APAC Startup Grind Australia

    Co-Director

  • Daniel Malkinson

    Co-Director

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