Focus on a real need.
Understand the people a product serves and the problem they need it to solve. Work in markets where that focus matters.
Dr. Blackburn Digital GmbH
We acquire and grow focused digital businesses.
Dr. Blackburn Digital GmbH (DBD) is a registered German company, founded to acquire, operate and grow focused digital businesses. We bring technology, AI and learning expertise to long-term product improvement.
Focused marketsUseful productsEvidence-led decisionsDisciplined operations
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Our portfolio
Focused businesses.
Considered ownership.
DBD is building a portfolio of focused digital businesses. We look for useful products with a clear audience and scope for sustained improvement.
Portfolio details will be shared as acquisitions are completed.
Our portfolio approachFor founders & owners
A useful product.
A clear audience.
We welcome introductions to focused digital businesses where understanding customers and improving the product can create lasting value.
What makes a business worth discussing02
How we operate
Better products are built
through everyday decisions.
Our work starts with understanding a business and continues through the practical work of improving it.
Improve with evidence.
Use customer insight and product evidence to guide decisions. Apply AI where it creates measurable value.
Operate for the long term.
Bring discipline to the everyday work of running a digital business. Make useful, sustained product improvements.
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Partnerships
Good partnerships
start with shared purpose.
We welcome conversations with organisations whose expertise, audiences or services connect with our portfolio businesses.
Our role is to provide a clear corporate counterpart and an informed route into the right product conversation.
Working with DBDMeet the founder
Dr. Greg Blackburn
Founder & CEO
Dr. Blackburn Digital GmbH
More than 20 years across professional education, digital learning and technology. Now focused on acquiring, operating and improving specialist digital businesses.
Greg’s background & approach
20+years in learning & technology
PhD
Professional Education
City, University of London
MBA
Business administration
University of Queensland
Professional experience across Europe and Australia.
Ideas behind the work
Learning, technology
and useful decisions.
Learning & product decisions
How to review a learning product
Follow one task through practice, feedback and another attempt. Decide what evidence would justify an improvement.
AI & operations
Review the knowledge before adding AI
Define the job, check the sources and test the situations in which an answer needs human review.
Contact DBD
Let’s start a conversation.
Partnerships, acquisition opportunities and professional enquiries.