Blackbird

Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine.

Health and bioCommerce and retailConsumer and social

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Blackbird | 1500 days on the record

Raised $74M in 2 sourced rounds

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

Date	Round	Amount	Lead	Source
Apr 8, 2025	Series B+	$50M	SSpark Capital	techcrunch.com
Oct 4, 2023	Series A	$24M	AAndreessen Horowitz	fundraisingfox.com
Oct 7, 2022	Seed	undisclosed	MMulticoin Capital	nftgators.com

Timeline

1. March 16, 2020
   Website created

Founders and team

• BL
  Ben Leventhal Founder

  @benleventhal

Investors

• Aa16z crypto
• AAmex Ventures
• AAndreessen Horowitzlead investor
• BBolt
• BBrooks Reitz
• CCircle
• CCircle Ventures
• CCoinbase Ventures
• FFlamingo Capital
• IIAC
• MMischief
• MMulticoin Capitallead investor
• QQED Investors
• QQuality Branded
• RRustic Canyon Family of Restaurants
• SShine Capitallead investor
• SSouvla
• SSpark Capitallead investor
• TThe LAO
• UUnion Square Ventureslead investor
• VVariant
• VVaynerFund

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