The company behind DaVinci Resolve
Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. is an Australian maker of digital film cameras, broadcast hardware and post-production software. DaVinci Resolve is given away free, and the company earns its money from the paid Studio licence and from the hardware it sells alongside it.
blackmagicdesign.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
DaVinci Resolve at a glance
- Chief executive
- Grant Petty
- Founded
- 2001
- Based in
- Melbourne, Australia
- Ownership
- Privately held
DaVinci Resolve's CEO and founders
The people Blackmagic Design names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held. Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. names no parent on its own site, and Forbes says Grant Petty cofounded it in a Melbourne garage in 2001 with software engineer Doug Clarke and still runs it. forbes.com
- Founded
- 2001 forbes.com
- Based in
- Melbourne, Australia forbes.com
- Partner program
- Developer Partnerships: Blackmagic says it works with technology companies such as Apple, Adobe and HP, and asks anyone wanting to partner to write to developer support through a form. No commercial terms are given. blackmagicdesign.com
DaVinci Resolve on social media and the web
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/Blackmagic_News
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/blackmagic-design
- YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCufB8sMVyP9JEScMjLz74YA
- Instagraminstagram.com/blackmagicnewsofficial
- Facebookfacebook.com/BlackmagicDesignOfficial
- Community · forum.blackmagicdesign.com
Only accounts Blackmagic Design links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact Blackmagic Design
The ways Blackmagic Design publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
DaVinci Resolve news and launches
- Sep 8, 2026Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 21.1
- Sep 8, 2026Blackmagic Design Announces Special Pricing for Ultra HD Products
- Sep 4, 2026Blackmagic Design Announces New Lower Price for Blackmagic PYXIS 6K and Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K
- Jul 28, 2026Blackmagic Design Announces New UltraStudio Mini 12G
Media kit
The Blackmagic Design media kit
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Questions about DaVinci Resolve the company
Who is the CEO of DaVinci Resolve?
Grant Petty is Blackmagic Design's CEO, according to blackmagicdesign.com, as read on Oct 18, 2026.
Who founded DaVinci Resolve?
Doug Clarke is named as a founder of Blackmagic Design, which was founded in 2001.
Who owns DaVinci Resolve?
Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. names no parent on its own site, and Forbes says Grant Petty cofounded it in a Melbourne garage in 2001 with software engineer Doug Clarke and still runs it.
Where is DaVinci Resolve based?
Blackmagic Design gives its base as Melbourne, Australia.
Is DaVinci Resolve on social media?
Blackmagic Design links to its own accounts on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. The links are on this page, taken from Blackmagic Design's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from Blackmagic Design’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.