Samantha Wong

Sam holds a BA/LLB majoring in history from the University of New South Wales. She grew up between Perth and Sydney, Australia, the daughter of 2 migrant technology entrepreneurs. Since then she has lived in the UK, France, Denmark and spent good amounts of time in both San Francisco and Malaysia. She lives with her partner and two children in Sydney, Australia. 

Samantha Wong is a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures, Australia and New Zealand's largest venture capital fund and backer of some of of the regions biggest success stories - Canva, Airwallex, Halter, Eucalyptus, Tracksuit and Heidi Health. to name a few. Sam spearheaded Blackbird's expansion to New Zealand. Prior to joining Blackbird she co-founded the legaltech startup and was a product manager in Australia and Europe. She initially trained as a lawyer and practiced in corporate and litigation teams at Minter Ellison before career-pivoting into startups in 2010. Sam is passionate about diversity in technology and venture capital and spearheaded the release of the Model Code of Conduct for the Startup Community in Australia as well as a venture capital internship program for women. 

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She focussed on early stage B2B investments, including those with a hardware component.