On this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin' news: Labor’s bold $1b bet on Aussie quantum start-up. Has it ever been harder to get from Seed to Series A? Birchal defends VC criticism of Crowdfunding. VC red flags. Xero hikes it prices. Demonstrated structural competitive advantage. Don't be Geoff Bozo. The best founders can cold email. Outbound is dying.…

In this weeks episode: Spac listing hobbled Tritium making it hard to raise fresh capital. Reasons for failure coming out in administration process. Scott Farquar stepping down from Atlassian. Canva employees are going to buy houses and pay off debt. First time vs second time founders: is success more likely? Co-founders more likely to build unicor…

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In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes it clear they're going to steamroll you. M&A proposed rule changes. Google releases new tools for Gemini: write your emails and create your spreadsheets. Speed of AI making it hard for firms to invest. How to avoid raising too much money. A great article by Ben Armstrong from Archa…

In this episode of Founder Focus, we are joined by Lucy Wark. Lucy is the co-founder of a number of for-profit and not-for-profit entities including: 🤝 Career-accelerating skills @ fuzzyhq.com 🥰 Sexual wellness for all @ itsnormal.com 🍇 Making startups safer @ askthegrapevine.com This is a great episode for founders with key topics such as: Entrepr…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': GoCatch v Uber First day in court GoCatch faces questions GoCatch had actually lost 90% of users by the time UberX came. Canva money hits bank accounts. SaaS growth continues to slow. The "Tech Winter" is persisting. Quantum of capital is different at different stages What VC's really mean when they talk about comp…

In this episode of Investor Focus, we are joined for a second time by Adrian Bunter. Adrian is a partner at Modus Partners, a leading boutique M&A advisors with a passion for technology. Adrian is on the board of various private companies including Employment Hero and VenueNow, and non-executive director of ASX listed companies Carly Holdings Limit…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': Subsequent reporting on Breakthrough Victoria (Capital Brief, Bronwen Clue) Plutora Pty Ltd going into voluntary administration in march over a dispute with the tax office. (news.com.au, Alex Turner-Cohen) GoCatch vs Uber: Victorian courts will hear explosive claims of how it killed the competition. (Paul Smith, AF…

In this weeks episode: Our upcoming DeepdiveMcDeepDiveFace episode on Go-To-Market Strategy. Tech Council of Australia report. Startup shut downs rise. Investors in Baraja have written down their stakes to zero (Nick Bonyhady). Blackbird write-downs and write-ups in portfolio(Jessica Sier). Are VC backed companies just overconfident underachievers?…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones has vowed to crack down on companies seeking to circumvent laws designed to 'staple' workers to a single superannuation fund during employee onboarding programs. (Capital Brief Anthony Galloway) Emerging venture capital managers have raised concerns about the influence supe…

In today’s episode of Founder Focus, we talk with Dan Jovevski from WeMoney. WeMoney is a Perth headquartered financial platform designed to help users manage their finances more effectively by connecting their entire financial life in one place, tracking budgets, monitoring net worth, understanding credit scores, and fostering a community for shar…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': More reflections from Southstart. Event with Vu Tran of Go1. Employment Hero V Hostplus. Hostplus calls for CEO's head. (AFR: Tess Bennett, Lucy Dean & Nick Bonyhady) New female founder grants in South Australia. Resources for addressing sexism, harassment, and bullying put together by Elaine Stead. US and European…

In todays episode of Tribe Talkin': We're at Southstart! Bitcoin all time highs. And so is Gold. Employment Hero vs Hostplus. (Capital Brief: Bronwen Clune). Elon sues OpenAI Lawyers in Elon's pay case want US$6 Billion. One Ventures breaks down venture debt myths. Raising season is open. Raid fire capital raises. How long it takes to get to certai…

In this episode of Founder Focus: Dr. Judy Halliday is an exceptionally rare and valuable asset in the Australian innovation ecosystem, having operated in every pillar of the innovation landscape as an inventor, founder, investor, academic, director, advisor & industry professional across both private and public sectors as well as universities. A p…

In today's episode of Tribe Talkin' Listener feedback "keep the sh*t bits in". Sophisticated investor changes are likely to happen: Bronwen Clune of Capital Brief summarises the key submissions from the ecosystem. Financial Services Council says hike the threshold to $5 Million. Berkshire Hathaway annual report. The first post Charlie's passing. Au…

Episode Webpage with all the charts : https://go.tribeglobal.vc/podcast/episode-39-tribe-talkin-ep-29-canva-cfo In todays episode of Tribe Talkin': Canva's CFO Damien Singh resigns: Tegan Jones of Smart Company first article. Bronwen Clune of Capital Brief first article. Tess Bennett and Jessica Sier of AFR article. Tegan Jones of Smart Company sec…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': Facebook turns 20. An article by Daivd Swan on Facebook being the poster child for "enshittification". Kiki's founder Toby Thomas-Smith issues an apology. We share what we think of it. "The Founders Dilemma": what to focus on and the customer should be number one. An article in Startup Daily. We have a different vi…

In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': The State of Australia Startup Funding Report and the areas we found interesting. Cake Equity launched their State of Employee Equity Report . Elon: the king of using equity. Deep fake fraud: company loses $25.6 Million on deep fake zoom call instructing an employee to transfer money. Adam Neumann is back see…

On this weeks Tribe Talkin' episode: The median time it takes between capital raises What are valuations doing. How to pitch Organic growth Some cool AI tools. Heygen and Fathom. Telstra Ventures The sh*t show that is Elon, Tesla and his board. The revolving door of Twiggy Forrest. Why staff turnover matters. People follow people. hello@tribeglobal…

In this weeks Tribe Talkin' episode: What we got wrong with Kiki: a fair bit. Reflections on our initial reactions, and we discuss their original pitch deck. Content is king, and it needs to be done inhouse. The value of MMM (Marketing Mix Modelling) for digital channels, and the rise of platforms such as Mutinex. Continued low rates of investments…

In today's Tribe Talkin' episode: - The Federal Government's proposed changes to Sophisticated Investor rules and the likely consequences. - A fintech founder thinks local VCs are undermining Australian startups. Fair or not? - Kiki turns freaky. Kiki's pivot into a NYC "girls club". - Can AI overcome "gut feel" in VC? - Koala narrows losses with $…

Anne-Marie Birkill is a Co-Founder, Venture Partner, and Director at OneVentures, with over $700m in funds under management. Anne-Marie’s interest in the innovation sector was forged during 15 years in leadership roles in agri-business companies, developing and commercialising new cultivars of ornamental, aquatic, food, and forestry plants. Prior t…

Sarah Nolet is a co-founder of Tenacious Ventures, a venture firm focused on agriculture’s role in addressing climate change. With her co-founder J Matthew Pryor, Tenacious Ventures backs early stage start-ups who are building tomorrow’s agri-food system. We love their open and empathetic approach to sharing their journey of building Tenacious Vent…

Tribe Global Ventures 2023 in review: The lessons Investor sentiment in a higher interest rate environment Deal flow Portfolio review The One-liners Looking ahead to 2024 hello@tribeglobal.vcΑπό τον Tribe Global Ventures

In this weeks episode: X launches Grok (Capital Brief). OneVentures turns $8.8 Million investment into Employment Hero into $116.2 Million return (AFR). Appen seeking to us AI as its turnaround story (Capital Breif). 8 Aussie startups raised $81 Million (Smart Company). Death Tech: the addressable market of everyone (Capital Brief). People getting …

In this weeks episode: The best bits of the Ten13 Runway Conference in Brisbane. Edrolo- all maybe not what it seems. Charlie Munger's passing: a few quotes Seven enduring lessons (and what isn't learnt) from 33 years of top start ups Funding and founding is down. Growth is becoming harder, startups are disappearing quicker. Rode's quest to be the …

In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': It was alleged Sam Altman's dismissal was due to "Q*" achieving true artificial general intelligence (AGI) capabilities. An interesting break down of an alleged letter sent to the board describing the AGI discovery. It's funny because its true: how some VC's are approaching AI. Edrolo and other EdTech being a…

Today's Investor Focus guest is Adrian Di Marco, Founder of Technology One which is listed on the ASX with a market cap of approximately $5billion. Adrian was our guest for our Founder Focus Ep 3 where we discussed his journey founding and turning Technology One into one of Australia’s most successful tech companies, that has produced record revenu…

Today’s Founder Focus Guest is Katherine McConnell of Brighte, Australia’s leader in solar finance and one-stop-shop for sustainable upgrade solutions. Katherine talks about the conditions that lead her to start Brighte, and the ingredients professionally and personally that drove it to happen. Katherine has raised $145Mil in equity from investors …

This weeks episode: The OpenAI board and CEO debacle. 20VC episode with Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom. Australia’s place on the global innovation map. Australia’s tech unicorns are defying the global odds. Technology One’s full-year profits up 16%. hello@tribeglobal.vcΑπό τον Tribe Global Ventures

This this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin' Ep 15: Reflections from the recent Tribe Scale-Up Offsite Scooter company Bird delisted from NYSE after stock collapse The software industry's productivity boom: Analysing revenue per Employee Trends Openview Partners SaaS metrics report Pitchbook US VC valuations Who's building ANZ's unicorns? First-time fo…

In this week's episode of Tribe Talkin': Sam Bankman-Fried being found guilty in his fraud trail as part of the FTX collapse. Investor due-diligence and post investment safeguards. WeWork about to declare bankruptcy. Capital Brief article here. F45 gym chain to leave the NYSE after their shares have fallen 99.7%. Apart from being spectacular failur…

Today's Investor Focus guest is Adrian Bunter. Adrian started life at PwC as an accountant and got exposure to the private client sector in the mid 90’s which meant he had a front row seat to the dot.com rise and then subsequent crash. This gave him the opportunity to see the future of the internet. An early member of Sydney Angels, Adrian loved wo…

Normally Tribe Talkin' discusses a range of news items sharing our view. But this episode will be focused just on one issue and separated from any other new items. On Saturday 4th of November 2023 by Sam Joel, founder and CEO against Elaine Stead, Hannah Moreno, Trenna Probert and others. Whilst Elaine, Hannah and Trenna are friends of Tribe, this …

In this episode of Tribe Talkin' - Twitter's daily active users drop. - Twitter's internal valuation slashed. - AI in due diligence and data rooms. - Tritium potentially potentially closing down Australian operations. - The Co-Founder of Invidia, Jensen Huang saying he would not start a business again with what he knows now. - Adir Shiffman and the…

Today's Founder Focus guest is Nick Abrahams. Nick is a Partner and Global Co-leader Digital Transformation of the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm with 7000 people. Nick is also a co-founder of LawPath, a legal platform with over 400,000 users. Nick is passionate about the law, however his overall journey is nothing short of amazi…

In todays episode of Tribe Talkin': A great long form article on Canva leading up to a potential IPO by David Swan Rayn Ong: the accidental angel Cheryl Mack and Maxine Minter launch their new podcast "First Cheque" with the first guest being Jessy Wu Employment hero with their monster $263M capital raise Alpha Market growth summit summary The 'sci…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': FTX/ SBF fraud trial Canva's approach to intellectual property with their $200Mil fund The riches are in the niches Sales teams in product lead growth companies Airtree reaching 100 investments The Mr Yum and Me&u merger Deep dive: Messaging: why start ups with good products, people and capital can still fail hello…

Welcome to Transparent VC, by Tribe Global Ventures, the B2B VC. The guest for this episode of Founder Focus is Simone Joyce, CEO and founder of Paypa Plane. Paypa Plane helps banks realize value from the billions of dollars they spend maintaining their payment systems. They do this through smart payment agreement infrastructure that sits over the …

In this episode of Tribe Talkin' we discuss: AI tools in the classroom Interacting with AI like a colleague/ coach Elon Musk's Neuralink announcing human trials Results from the Cut Through Ventures quarterly report A random chart on trucking employment trends, and the correlation of this data to historical recessions A report on Airwallex's cultur…

Todays Founder focus guest is Trenna Probert of Super Fierce. Super Fierce is a digital advice platform that uses layers of financial IP and technology to quickly unravel the complexity of financial products. It allows users to get a fast digital statement of advice, as traditional financial advice is too expensive and out of reach for many people.…

In this episode of Tribe Talkin; we discuss: The Instacart's IPO, and where IPO's fit as an exit option. Trends we are seeing in the pricing of secondary share sales. Issues around minority shareholder oppression following action against Sleeping Duck. The challenges with selling a business with an earn out structure and why they often don't delive…

In this episode we deep dive into choosing the right investors, following reporting by Bronwen Clune and John McDuling from Capital Brief, about Dovetail turning down investment from Andreessen Horowitz when they raised $89million in the heady days of the Covid boom. https://go.tribeglobal.vc/podcast/episode-13-tribe-talkin-ep-7-choosing-the-right-…

Today we chat with the cofounding team of APLYiD, Claudia Smith and Russell Smith. https://go.tribeglobal.vc/podcast/episode-12-Russell_Claudia_APLYiD APLYiD is a portfolio company of Tribe, and provides world class KYC and AML solutions. Claudia and Russell talk about their path to creating APLYiD which wasn’t their first entrepreneurial venture t…

This episode is a deep dive on the challenges Qantas has been facing. While Qantas is unlike any company we invest in, we believe there are many lessons for our founders and investors to take away. In this episode we discuss: The challenges all companies face in trying to balance the short term vs the long term, and some examples of this conflict t…

Today’s deep dive segment looks at the issue around functional vs dysfunctional boards, and discusses an article we’ve released with some ideas and processes to help solve issues such as: Poor communication between the board and management Lack of respect Destructive conflict Self-interested behaviours We know fish rot from the head, so a well-func…

This week’s Founder Focus guest is Susannah George, Founder of Urban List. Urban List is a compass for those who live like it matters, and provides trusted recommendations in areas such as food and drink, entertainment, style, health and even pets. Their trusted tips power billions in annual spend— serving 30,000 recommendations across Australia, N…

Welcome to episode 4 of Tribe Talkin', by Tribe Global Ventures, the B2B VC. We discuss the next episode in the series 'Founder', which showcases Fred Schebesta, the founder of comparison website, Finder, which sees 10million visits globally each month. We discuss the painful journey some founders often go through on their path of self-discovery, a…

Today’s Founder Focus guest is Luke Anear of Safety Culture https://safetyculture.com/. You know you’ve built an outlier business when investors are constantly knocking on your door to invest, including an offer of $500 Million at a $5 Billion valuation. But you’re probably also an outlier founder by knocking back that offer, and 99% of other offer…

Welcome to Tribe Talkin' Episode 3. This week we talk about Safety Culture raising $34 Million at a $2.7 Billion valuation, $600 Million higher than their last raise. This bucks the trend we’ve seen in valuations and we discuss some interesting aspects of the Safety Culture story. And spoiler alert! We have the Founder, Luke Anear on next week’s Fo…