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RNS Number : 6188H  Blackbird PLC  10 October 2024

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10 October 2024

Blackbird plc

Blackbird selected for Innovate UK's GBIP

Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), the developer and seller of the market leading
cloud video platform, Blackbird, and developer and distributor of the online
collaborative video editing and content creation platform, elevate.io, is
pleased to announce that it has been selected to join Innovate UK's Global
Business Innovation Programme ("GBIP") which includes a fully-funded trip
attending the South by Southwest ("SXSW") Conference in Austin, Texas in March
2025.

Innovate UK is the United Kingdom's national innovation agency, part of UK
Research and Innovation, aimed at driving economic growth by supporting
businesses and organisations in developing and commercialising innovative
ideas, products and services. Its primary goal is to help UK companies bring
their cutting-edge technologies and innovations to market whilst fostering
competitiveness on a global scale.

 

Innovate UK's GBIP is a 9 to 12 month programme that aims to support
innovative UK businesses to grow and scale on the global stage through
building R&D, innovation collaborations and partnerships.

 

SXSW is an annual event running from 7 to 14 March 2025. It combines
conferences, festivals, and exhibitions across the fields of music, film,
interactive media, technology and innovation. The festival has become a major
cultural phenomenon and attracts a wide audience, from startups and creatives
to investors, brand marketers and media professionals.  As part of the
selected cohort, Blackbird will benefit from Innovate UK's support including
pitching opportunities, panel discussions and extensive networking to
companies and potential partners.

 

Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough said: "We are thrilled to have been selected to
join Innovate UK's Global Business Innovation Programme, which will provide us
with multiple opportunities to showcase elevate.io globally to interested
companies and potential partners and help us with our growth ambitions. We
look forward to leveraging SXSW and the wider GBIP."

 

Contacts:

 

Blackbird
plc
            Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245

Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer

Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer

 

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)          Tel:
+44 (0)20 3328 5656

Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)

Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

About Blackbird plc

Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and
content creation markets.  Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for
frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and it
has two products.

Blackbird(Ⓡ), a market leading suite of cloud-native computing applications,
is used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists,
live events and content owners, post production houses, other mass market
digital video channels and corporations.

elevate.io is the company's new browser-based collaborative content creation
platform currently in general release. elevate.io (http://elevate.io/) is
built using Blackbird's core technology and is aimed at professional teams and
the fast-growing Creator Economy.

Blackbird plc also licences its core video technology, under its 'Powered by
Blackbird' licensing model, enabling video companies to accelerate their path
to true cloud business models.

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