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Funding and backers

Total raised
$25M
1 round on record
Latest round
$25M
Series A · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Touring Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
40/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 6, 2025 Raised a round Series A $25M · TechCrunch Dec 14, 2017 Released an app Blinq: Digital Business Card · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.9 ★
132k ratings
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A May 2025 $25M — TechCrunch
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd its site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

At Blinq, our vision is to power the start of every great relationship. Our digital business card platform helps individuals, teams, and organizations instantly share who they are, stay remembered, and build stronger connections. Blinq removes the friction from exchanging details and following up, so relationships can grow faster.

News

News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Blinq: $25 Million Series A Secured For Digital Business Card Platform
Blinq, a digital business card platform helping professionals connect instantly, announced a$25 millionSeries A funding round led by Touring Capital, with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and Square Peg Capital, and new investor Hu
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Press release The Manila Times 1 year ago
Blinq Raises $25M Series A to Reimagine the Start of Every Professional Relationship
With over 2.5 million users across 500,000 companies in 189 countries, Blinq is scaling the platform that powers first impressions - and everything after. The new funding will support global expansion, particularly across North America and Europe, and acc
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Blinq Raises $25M Series A to Reimagine the Start of Every Professional Relationship
Blinq, the digital business card platform helping professionals connect instantly and stay top of mind, today announced a $25 million Series A funding round led by Touring Capital, with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and Square P
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
Blinq lands $25M to further its mission to make business cards passé
It's 2025, but business cards are still in vogue - just visit any conference or industry expo and you'll end up with a pile that's likely to be discarded
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News YahooFinance 4 years ago
Melbourne-based Blinq wants to make paper business cards obsolete
Business cards feel almost as outdated as Victorian calling cards, but they are still a networking staple. Melbourne-based Blinq wants to do away with them altogether. The app generates a QR code that shows your professional info, including social media l
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VIDEO: CBRS, Private LTE and Education Connectivity Benefits - BLiNQ Networks
Watch this short video to learn about CBRS technology for the education sector and how it can bring connectivity to your school, university and remote buildings with the help of BLiNQ Networks.
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News TechCrunch 11 years ago
Blinq Enhances Your Favorite Messaging Applications With Extra Information
A new mobile application called Blinq is launching today into public beta to add a layer of contextual information to your favorite mobile messaging applications. Founder Yossi Ghinsberg, who's better known for his adventures in the Amazon (not Amazon.com
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News TechCrunch 12 years ago
Blinq Tells You If Your Dating Matches Are In The Bar
Shove over Tinder. Swiss startup Blinq has come up with a new twist on the dating app. The startup is incorporating beacon proximity technology into the mix so singles can do more meeting IRL and less swiping -- thanks to select venues being kitted out wi
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News AdExchanger 13 years ago
Facebook PMD Blinq Media Pivots, Aligns With Gannett Sibling ShopLocal
Facebook ad platform Blinq Media has made some big changes since Gannett bought it last year for an estimated $92 million. Among those changes is a potentially powerful tie-in with ShopLocal, the dominant player in digital ad circulars and Blinq's corpora
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Blinq over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript
Cloud & platforms
Datadog
GCP
Developer tools
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
AI & ML
Claude
Practices & domains
CI/CD
Rollup
AI Agents
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
33/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
20% ▲
Product
20% ▲
Design
20% ▲
HR
20% ▼
Management
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added TypeScript to stack Sep 2026
Added GCP to stack Sep 2026
Added Datadog to stack Sep 2026
Added Cursor to stack Sep 2026
Added Copilot to stack Sep 2026
Added Claude Code to stack Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Sydney
Sydney Australia
HQ
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Product, Design
seen since Aug 2026

Jobs

≈ $123k – $229k per year (Estimated) • In office • Sydney
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≈ $67k – $185k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Sydney
TypeScript
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
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≈ $63k – $168k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Sydney
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Financials

Total raised
$25M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2025 $25M Details