We fund and build software companies.
Black Shard runs a venture practice beside its client work: capital and engineering under one roof, taking products from first commit to operating company.
Fund. Build. Operate. Scale.
- Fund
Capital committed from the firm's own balance sheet.
We back the venture with our own money and carry it to revenue. No external raise is required to start, and the build never waits on one.
- Build
A full product organisation from day one.
Brand, product design, native mobile and web engineering, cloud infrastructure and security practice, the bench that also delivers our client work, applied at venture pace.
- Operate
Run in production, under operating obligations.
We operate what we launch: live users, uptime, support, billing, and the compliance surface of regulated industries.
- Scale
Grown, partnered, or sold.
Each venture is built to stand on its own: clean cap table, documented systems, audit-ready books. That keeps every path open, from scaling it ourselves to investment or acquisition.
What we back
- Software in regulated industries.
- Clinical, legal, financial services and property: markets where the compliance surface is the moat and our security practice compounds.
- Products we can operate.
- Recurring-revenue software the firm can run in production for years, on the Azure stack and security practice we already operate at scale.
- Ventures with operators attached.
- We partner with domain operators who bring the market and the obligations; we bring capital, engineering, and the operating company around them.
The operating ventures themselves are not listed here. Some of the work appears in the work register; the rest runs privately.
Investment, acquisition or partnership conversations start with a brief.
Brisbane head office. Work delivered across Australia.