Bird Buddy
Smart Home Devices
$36.7Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
$28.1Mlatest round · Venture round · Nov 2024 · 2 yr ago
2backers · Backed VC, General Catalyst
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Bird Buddy is a smart bird feeder that notifies you of feathered visitors, captures their photos and organizes them in a beautiful collection!
Funding and backers
Total raised
$36.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$28.1M
Venture round · Nov 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Backed VC, General Catalyst
The money's age
Due for its next round
24 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 3, 2025
Launched Bird Buddy introduces an AI-powered smart hummingbird feeder and birdbath · YahooFinance
Nov 7, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $28.1M · SEC Form D
Jul 10, 2024
Launched Bird Buddy Launches Nature Intelligence Allowing Users To Name Individual Birds And Get Notified When They Return · PRNewswire
Sep 28, 2022
Released an app Birdbuddy: ID & Collect Birds · App Store
Oct 18, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $8.6M · SEC Form D
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.8 ★
62k ratings
Hacker News stories
2
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Nov 2024 | $28.1M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Oct 2021 | $8.6M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Bird Buddy, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Franci ZidarExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
23/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
58 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
People
Franci Zidar
Executive Officer, Director
Andre de Haes
Director
Nicolas Wittenborn
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Bird Buddy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
50/100
Languages
PHP
Frameworks & libraries
WooCommerce
Cloud & platforms
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News
Get Nearly 50% Off the Viral Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder for Prime Day
Never around when the coolest birds show up to snack at your backyard feeder? The camera-equipped Bird Buddy will send you a notification.
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Bird Buddy Launches 'Wonder' Camera for Watching Insects
The creators of Bird Buddy, a camera-equipped bird feeder, today showed off two products that are designed for watching insects, flowers, birds, and other flora and fauna.
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Bird Buddy introduces an AI-powered smart hummingbird feeder and birdbath
Bird Buddy, the AI-powered smart bird feeder, is bringing the popular pastime of bird-watching into the digital age -- and growing its line of products in support of the hobby. With the startup
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I Tried the Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder: Here's What Happened
Bird Buddy is a quick and easy way to capture photos and videos of backyard birds to share, making it the perfect gift for bird lovers and conservationists.
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Bird Buddy's new AI feature lets people name and identify individual birds
Name That Bird determines individual members of a species by identifying distinguishing characteristics that most humans would be hard-pressed to spot.
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Bird Buddy Launches Nature Intelligence Allowing Users To Name Individual Birds And Get Notified When They Return
Tech for nature start-up, Bird Buddy, has launched its new AI product,
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Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder review: A camera that's not just for the birds
The Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder offers a polished design, quality camera, and a straightforward app for documenting your feathered friends.
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Bird Buddy's Latest Feeder Cam Uses AI to Capture Close-Up Bird Photos
Bird Buddy's smart bird feeders and new bird bath use AI to automatically capture close-up photos of birds and provide identification info.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Kalamazoo
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff