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Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures
The Transparent VC podcast, brought to you by Tribe Global Ventures, the VC helping B2B Tech companies scale into the UK and US. This podcast seeks to give insights into venture investing for both founders and investors, and have a bit of fun along the way.
Episodes
- Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures
Tribe Talkin' Ep 76: From The Lounge- Aaron & Don Reflections From US Expansion Mission
Aaron and Don debrief on the 9 days they had in the US with founders and investors.
- Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures
Tribe Talkin’ Ep 75: Bridge Rounds Are A Bridged To Nowhere? The Very Best? Eisen Joins Reshop After US$17M Raise. VC Year Ahead. Sharts.
In this week's episode: Let's be clear -- the very best B2B companies just explode. www.reshop.com has closed a USD$17m capital raise in 2025. 14 venture…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 74: Language Warning More Than Usual. Public Markets. New Birchal CEO. Failure In Australia. Taste Not Tech. Is Your CEO A Fraud? Sharts.
In this week's episode: NASDAQ & S & P 500 fall- why it matters. Kirstin Hunter joins equity platform Birchal as CEO. The startup lesson Australia still…
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Tribe Takin' Ep 73: Employment Hero AI Drive. We Are All Just Wrappers. Cursor Beware. Top Of Funnel A Waste? Sharts.
In this week's episode: Employment Hero AI adoption drive. Michael Luorebuilt a basic version of Docusign in 2 days. AI development not fool proof just yet. We…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 72: Good Empire Administration. Investor Test Stays. OpenAI Operator. Voice Agents. B2B Growth- B2C Feel. Sharts.
In this week's epsidoe: Findings from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on the Wholesale investor tests are out. AI…
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Tribe Talkin Ep 71: Small Is The Future. Kiki In Trouble Again. KKR Acquires Stake In Employment Hero. Get Fast, Lose Fast. Splose AI Raises $5m. Sharts.
In this week's episode: Five V SaaS Summit, Sydney March 20th 2025. KKR Acquires Stake in HRM Platform Employment Hero from SEEK Investments. Kiki’s investor…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 71: Why VCs Reject You. 2021 VC Investment Cohort Looking Very Grim. Founder Survey Interim Results. Man Baby Leads OpenAI Offer. Sharts.
In this weeks episode: OpenAI AI SDR. Investigating ChatGPT Search: Insights from 80 Million Clickstream Records. Glass jaw man baby make face bid to buy…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 70: Doing Outbound Sales Properly. Failure Isn't The Worst Thing. Lorikeet Cracks $100mil. Robotics Progress. Miss America Nuclear Power Debate. Sharts.
In this week's episode: Outbound isn't dead. The worst thing that can happen to your startup isn't failure. Australian start-up Lorikeet cracks $100m valuation…
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We're Back! Cut Through Venture 2024 State of Australian Startup Funding Results With Chris Gillings and Mitchell Bissinger.
In this episode we are joined by Chris Gillings of Cut Through Venture and Mitchell Bissinger of Folklore Ventures to discuss the 2024 State of Australian…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 69: Are You A Keeper? DeepSeek Explained. SEO Has Changed. Own Your Audience. Can You Return A Fund? Sharts.
In this week's episode: The Keeper Test: Netflix website description. The severance package. What the staff say about it. Deepseek: 20VC episode SEO getting…
Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global VenturesIn The Trenches Ep 1: VenueNow Implementing AI Agents From Relevanceai.com & Broader AI Discussions.
In this episode of In The Trenches, Dave and Jake from VenueNow share their evaluation of www.relevanceai.com with Don and Duncan from Tribe Global Ventures…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 68: Matt Vitale Leaves Birchal. DEI Rebalancing. Zombie VCs. LinkedIn AI Slop. Sharts.
In this week's episode: Matt Vitale sets down and leaves Birchal. Rise of the zombie VCs: Australian venture capital faces a year of reckoning. LinkedIn is in…
Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global VenturesFounder Focus Ep 15: Dr Vu Tran of Black Sky Industries. From Go1 Unicorn To Going Again In Defense Tech.
In this episode of Founder Focus, we are joined by Dr Vu Tran. Vu is a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Black Sky Industries, a leading Australian…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 67: We're Back! 2025 Predictions. Text To Action AI. Resilience. PMF. VC Firms Fall. Sharts.
In this week's episode: 2025 predictions. Employment Hero uses mostly scrip to acquire company. Text to action AI will fundamentally change the world. The…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 66: Open AI Goes Down. Birchal Raises $2Mil. Our Agentic Future. Quantum Breakthrough. Tandem Shuts.
In this weeks episode: Share price decline for accelerator Scalare Partners. Open AI goes down for 4 hours Satya Nadella on future of business apps in agentic…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 65: AI. VC Mental Torture. YC's Requests. Statemate's Woman Leader Award. Sharts.
In this weeks episode: Jerry Seinfeld's take on AI. Jeff’ Bezos all in on AI. AI tool ability to synthesis data: Andrew Tate YC's request for startups. Picking…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 64: Fastest "100". Swoop Aero's Liquidation. Salary Efficiency Ratio. Selling Work Not Access. VC Resurgence.
In this week's episode: Med-Gemini Instagram dubbing. Follow the ball? Australia’s fastest growing companies. Introducing the Salary Efficiency Ratio from…
Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global VenturesFounder Focus Ep 15: Ben Thompson of Employment Hero.
Ben Thompson is the CEO and co-founder of Employment Hero, a platform revolutionizing how small and medium-sized businesses manage their HR, payroll, and…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 63: Crazy AI Stories. Employment Hero. Problematic Geniuses. Startups Are High Turnover. Luke Anear Steps Down. Canva CFO. Sharts.
In this weeks episode: AI gets rich. Chegg: a cautionary tale the large AI companies eating the smaller ones. Employment Hero abruptly changed course on…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 62: Learn From Trump. SaaS- Margins To Fall. Scalare Lists. Company Failures. Themes. Sharts.
In this weeks episode: Directionally right: where the SaaS market is going- lower prices even if you survive. AI voice agents map by Bessemer. Decidr.ai AI…
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Tribe Talkin Ep 61: Worthless- You, Your SaaS And Your Data.
In this weeks episode: AI voice bots becoming functional for sales and support. AI using video to remove the SaaS and the human. AI being used to hire staff…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 60: What You Should Learn From The US. Reflections From 2024 Tribe US Expansion Mission
In this episode, Aaron and Don dial in from Denver and share their thoughts from the Tribe 2024 US Expansion Mission with Ash and Jack.
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Chris Gillings: Cut Through Venture Q3 2024 Report
Today we are joined by Chris Gillings, founder of Cut Through Venture and part of the Venture Capital investment team an Five V Capital. Chris talk to us about…
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Tribe Talkin Ep 59: Founder Mode Mayhem. VCs Do F All. Swoop Aero Runs Out Of Runway. Disrupted Radio.
In this weeks episode: SXSW: Australian founders have some advice for government. Founder Mode by Paul Graham. Harry Stebbing raises Europe's largest venture…
Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global VenturesInvestor Focus Ep 10: Tom Humphrey of Blackbird. GTM. AI as a Service. Traditional Outbound Is Dead.
Tom Humphrey is a venture capital investor with Blackbird, one of Australia's leading venture capital firms. At Blackbird, he focuses on partnering with…
Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global VenturesInvestor Focus Ep 9: Tom Waterhouse. Racing Identity to Venture Capitalist.
Tom Waterhouse, renowned racing identity turned venture capitalist, joins us on the podcast to share his journey from the world of racing to founding his…
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Tribe Talkin' 58: VC Funding Plumets Again. Go1 Secondary. Circonomy In Liquidation. Bookable Raises $5mil. NotebookLM. Sharts
In this weeks episode: Q3 2024 Cut Through Venture Report: VC funding plummets again as mega deals remain elusive. $3b Queensland unicorn Go1’s investors prep…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 57: The SaaS Era Over? VCs Chasing M&A. VCs Question Scalare. Losing PMF Part 3. Startmate Returns.
In this week's episode: 'Venture capital is broken': Scalare pitches backdoor IPO as VCs question model. Ed Keelan of Octopus Ventures releases Losing Product…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 56: Investors That Charge Portfolio For Everything. Burn To Earn. Blurred Funding Lines. Death as a Service. Listener Questions On VC. Sharts.
In this week's episode: Eucalyptus pauses Compound, its $1000-a-month men's longevity program. The curious case of scale-up advisory's backdoor ASX listing via…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 55: AI Snake Oil. Bluejay.AI Goes Into Liquidation. Persistence. Shiffman To Pay Legal Costs. Startup Daily Awards. Australia's Liquidity. Sharts.
In this weeks episode: Investor Adir Shiffman must pay Sleeping Duck co-founders' legal costs, court orders. Startup Daily Awards. Persistence. Persistence…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 54: Ash Joins Tribe. Founder's Walking With 0. SafetyCulture's $165Mil. Taking Advice. Marketing & Personas. VC Red Flags. Sharts.
In this weeks episode: Why Uber abandoned Carshare for Turo. Losing product market fit. Ed Keelan's Part 2 Blog. SafetyCulture raises $165Mil in primary and…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 52: Losing PMF. Startups Shutting Down. Super Funds Squeezed Out Of VC. Early DPI. Sharts
In this week's episode: Nvidia slumps on earnings day. AustralianSuper takes billion-dollar hit on venture capital failure. Super funds squeezed out of VC…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 51: Canva Hunting A Snitch? Go1 CEO Swap. 'Diabilical' 18 Months For Crowdfunding. Outbound Is Dead. Sharts.
In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': Blackbird and Canva not to happy about leakers of Leonardo.ai deal details. Jesse Wu departs Afterwork Ventures…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 50: SaaS Metrics. Exec's Leaving Canva. Breakthrough Victoria Sued. Decelerating SaaS Growth.
On this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin': Man baby owner of X/Twitter is suing a group of advertisers and major companies, accusing them of unlawfully agreeing…
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Tribe Talkin Ep 49: AUS VC's Face Battle for Future. TEN13 Passes $100M. OneVentures Fund VII $200M. Leonardo.ai Was Finding It Hard. Hivery To Zero. Sharts
In this weeks episode: TEN13 passes $100M invested. OneVentures launches new $200m fund to address the lack of growth stage funding in Australia. Australian…
Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global VenturesFounder Focus Ep 14: Wayne Gerard- QLD Chief Entrepreneur, Co-founder of Redeye, Founder of Prtnr Ventures.
In this great episode of Founder Focus, we are joined by Wayne Gerard. Wayne is the Co-Founder and former CEO of Redeye, a cloud-based Engineering Drawing…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 47: The Eye Of The Tiger. Canva v Microsoft. Liquidity Options.
In this weeks episode: ESOP fine print. "Losing money is an under-appreciated asset with our strategy" Ubers early backers. Microsoft has become Canva’s most…
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Tribe Talkin Ep 46: Nice Finishes Last. Failure Is Baked In. Harsh Investment Terms. Being Ready For Investment. Fable. MILKRUN.
In this weeks episode: Federation's Sendle deal draws intense VC scrutiny as fresh terms offered. US on track to cut interest rates. “Investment ready vs ready…
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Tribe Talkin' Ep 45: AI Removes VCs? PE Taking On VC. PE's Aggressive Terms. Companies Going Into Administration.
In this weeks episode: Cut Through Quarterly 2Q 2024. Mega VC deals are back - but new founders face a big problem. Rise of the robot investors: is AI about to…