Blackbird leads $23m Series B for Australia’s Sonder
Australia’s Blackbird Ventures has led a AUD 35m (USD 23.4m) Series B round for Sonder, a staff and student management app focused on wellbeing and safety.
Seek Investments, MA Growth Ventures, and secondaries specialist SecondQuarter Ventures also participated. SecondQuarter has historically taken secondary positions in Blackbird’s funds. Sonder’s...
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