Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

By Tribe Global Ventures

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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.

Episode Date
Tribe Talkin' Ep 99: AI's Big Market Risk. People Leaving VC. Small Funds Still Best For Returns. SwarmFarm $30M Raise. Durability In AI. Rent Seeking SXSW.
Oct 10, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 98: RB2B Goes 100% AI Run. OZ vs US Energy. Can't Build Just For Money. Sharts.
Sep 26, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 97: Some Founders Should Go To Jail. VC Is "Back Baby". Repeat Founders Best? VC Accelerators. Sharts.
Sep 19, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 96: Seek V Employment Hero. Birchal Increases Fees, Cuts Costs. Female Funding "Pipeline Problem". Why Start-ups Fail. Sharts.
Sep 06, 2025
Tribe Talkin Ep 95: Learning From T Swift Engagement. OneMRI Raise. Blackbird Returns Hurt. SEO To SAO.
Aug 30, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 94: One Person Unicorns. Working Harder With AI. Advance VC Secondary Fund. Sharts.
Aug 21, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 92: Airtree's "Not Mega" $650mil Fund. Unhinged Founders. Don't Ignore Red Flags. Lorikeet $200mil Val. Figma. Sharts
Aug 08, 2025
Chris Gillings: Cut Through Venture: AUS VC Funding Report For Q2 2025
Aug 03, 2025
Tribe Talkin' 91: Employment Hero v Seek. Gilmore "Failure". 18 Year Old Founder. UQ's Vaccine Victory. Sharts.
Aug 01, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 90: Coward Founders. AI Tool Fail. Meta Spree. AI Usage Baseline. Sharts.
Jul 31, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 89: CTV Q2. Top 10 B2B AI Takeaways. Australia's Not An AI Leader? Building An Audience. Tractor Reaches $100mil Milestone. Sharts.
Jul 17, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 88: Australia The Unicorn Factory, But Not A Leader In AI. SEO v AEO.
Jul 09, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 87: Epic Tropical Innovation Fest. Canva Tax Bill. Continuation Funds. Need AI To Raise. Distribution Is The Durability. No Sharts :(
Jun 27, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 86: Lyrebird Health. Sally-Ann WIlliams Steps Down. MagicBrief Off To Canva. You're The Problem It's You. Kiki Departs. StrongRoomAI Ends. Sharts.
Jun 21, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 85: London Expansion Mission Lessons. YC AI Requests. Cold Calling Dead? Sharts.
Jun 14, 2025
Founder Focus Ep 17: Chris Milligan of Adepto & Konfir
Jun 08, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 84: VC- Never Been Harder. SecondQuater Secondary Fund. Chat Knows Exactly Who You Are. Don't delegate?
Jun 06, 2025
Tribe Talkin Ep 83: Tribe's AI Built Tools. How Not To Pitch. Amazing Airwallex. Cut Through Venture Q1. Sharts.
May 29, 2025
Tribe Talkin Ep 82: AI Life Partners? Go1 Simplifies. Tech One Rockets. Advance VC Secondaries Fund. Sharts.
May 25, 2025
Rerelease-Tribe Talkin' Ep 81: Plans Are Bullsh*t. Growth V Development. Building Outside The US. Heidi Health Fastest On Record. Unfriendly AI. Sharts.
May 19, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 81: Plans Are Bullsh*t. Growth V Development. Building Outside The US. Heidi Health Fastest On Record. Unfriendly AI. Sharts.
May 15, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 80: What Will Be The Next AI Unicorns. Goodbye Superfund Investors. Advanced R&D Raises $27mil. Competitor Ads. Sharts
May 11, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 79: CTV Q1. Low Growth Worthlessness. Where The Value Accrues. AI Rabbit Holes. Robots Are Here. Sharts. We Are Sorry For This Episode.
May 02, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 78: Not Investing In Founders With Kids. Good Not Good Enough. WeMoney - We Impressed. Zero Co Shutdown. No Lead No Conviction? Sharts.
Apr 24, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 78: AI Making ARR Dead? Do You Have To Be First? Fake It To Make It Gone To Far. Small Fund Performance. Canva Durability. Sharts.
Apr 15, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 77: StrongRoom AI Investigation. IVYY Makes Top 50. Solo Vs Co-Founders. Can You Admit You're Crazy? Sharts.
Apr 09, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 76: From The Lounge- Aaron & Don Reflections From US Expansion Mission
Apr 03, 2025
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.
Mar 21, 2025
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.
Mar 14, 2025
Tribe Takin' Ep 73: Employment Hero AI Drive. We Are All Just Wrappers. Cursor Beware. Top Of Funnel A Waste? Sharts.
Mar 07, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 72: Good Empire Administration. Investor Test Stays. OpenAI Operator. Voice Agents. B2B Growth- B2C Feel. Sharts.
Mar 02, 2025
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.
Feb 22, 2025
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.
Feb 15, 2025
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.
Feb 06, 2025
We're Back! Cut Through Venture 2024 State of Australian Startup Funding Results With Chris Gillings and Mitchell Bissinger.
Feb 03, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 69: Are You A Keeper? DeepSeek Explained. SEO Has Changed. Own Your Audience. Can You Return A Fund? Sharts.
Feb 01, 2025
In The Trenches Ep 1: VenueNow Implementing AI Agents From Relevanceai.com & Broader AI Discussions.
Jan 30, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 68: Matt Vitale Leaves Birchal. DEI Rebalancing. Zombie VCs. LinkedIn AI Slop. Sharts.
Jan 23, 2025
Founder Focus Ep 15: Dr Vu Tran of Black Sky Industries. From Go1 Unicorn To Going Again In Defense Tech.
Jan 23, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 67: We're Back! 2025 Predictions. Text To Action AI. Resilience. PMF. VC Firms Fall. Sharts.
Jan 17, 2025
Tribe Talkin' Ep 66: Open AI Goes Down. Birchal Raises $2Mil. Our Agentic Future. Quantum Breakthrough. Tandem Shuts.
Dec 20, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 65: AI. VC Mental Torture. YC's Requests. Statemate's Woman Leader Award. Sharts.
Dec 11, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 64: Fastest "100". Swoop Aero's Liquidation. Salary Efficiency Ratio. Selling Work Not Access. VC Resurgence.
Nov 28, 2024
Founder Focus Ep 15: Ben Thompson of Employment Hero.
Nov 25, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 63: Crazy AI Stories. Employment Hero. Problematic Geniuses. Startups Are High Turnover. Luke Anear Steps Down. Canva CFO. Sharts.
Nov 22, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 62: Learn From Trump. SaaS- Margins To Fall. Scalare Lists. Company Failures. Themes. Sharts.
Nov 14, 2024
Tribe Talkin Ep 61: Worthless- You, Your SaaS And Your Data.
Nov 07, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 60: What You Should Learn From The US. Reflections From 2024 Tribe US Expansion Mission
Nov 03, 2024
Chris Gillings: Cut Through Venture Q3 2024 Report
Oct 27, 2024
Tribe Talkin Ep 59: Founder Mode Mayhem. VCs Do F All. Swoop Aero Runs Out Of Runway. Disrupted Radio.
Oct 24, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 10: Tom Humphrey of Blackbird. GTM. AI as a Service. Traditional Outbound Is Dead.
Oct 21, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 9: Tom Waterhouse. Racing Identity to Venture Capitalist.
Oct 16, 2024
Tribe Talkin' 58: VC Funding Plumets Again. Go1 Secondary. Circonomy In Liquidation. Bookable Raises $5mil. NotebookLM. Sharts
Oct 10, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 57: The SaaS Era Over? VCs Chasing M&A. VCs Question Scalare. Losing PMF Part 3. Startmate Returns.
Oct 07, 2024
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.
Sep 27, 2024
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.
Sep 19, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 54: Ash Joins Tribe. Founder's Walking With 0. SafetyCulture's $165Mil. Taking Advice. Marketing & Personas. VC Red Flags. Sharts.
Sep 12, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 52: Losing PMF. Startups Shutting Down. Super Funds Squeezed Out Of VC. Early DPI. Sharts
Sep 01, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 51: Canva Hunting A Snitch? Go1 CEO Swap. 'Diabilical' 18 Months For Crowdfunding. Outbound Is Dead. Sharts.
Aug 25, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 50: SaaS Metrics. Exec's Leaving Canva. Breakthrough Victoria Sued. Decelerating SaaS Growth.
Aug 15, 2024
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
Aug 07, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 48: Canva And Leonardo.ai. The ATO's Coming. It's Tough Out There. Pre-mortems. It's Also Great Out There. Offsites: A Waste? Sharts
Jul 31, 2024
Founder Focus Ep 14: Wayne Gerard- QLD Chief Entrepreneur, Co-founder of Redeye, Founder of Prtnr Ventures.
Jul 26, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 47: The Eye Of The Tiger. Canva v Microsoft. Liquidity Options.
Jul 24, 2024
Tribe Talkin Ep 46: Nice Finishes Last. Failure Is Baked In. Harsh Investment Terms. Being Ready For Investment. Fable. MILKRUN.
Jul 22, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 45: AI Removes VCs? PE Taking On VC. PE's Aggressive Terms. Companies Going Into Administration.
Jul 11, 2024
Founder Focus Ep 13: Matt Vitale of Birchal Equity Crowdfunding Platform.
Jul 10, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 8: Chris Gillings of Cut Through Venture and 5 V/ Capital.
Jul 10, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 44: The US: We F'd. Small VCs to Start Failing. AI Pitch Decks. Bank VCs and Accelerators- Any Value? Samsara $100M Series A. 1Breadcrumb $4M Raise.
Jul 04, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 43: GYG. The Most Active VC Investors. Ownership at IPO. Series A Stuck? Pitchbook Data. Tenacious & Brighte Raise. What VCs Actually Mean.
Jun 28, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 42: VCs Becoming A-Holes. "VCs Decide Not To Invest In Women". Bessemer Anti-Portfolio. Pitching For PR. Sharts.
Jun 20, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 41: London Mission. YC Val's Inflated? Imposter Syndrome. Psylo closes $8mil. Pitch Decks. Sharts.
Jun 16, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 40: Startmate Excels. Frugal Founders. 60 Person Leadership Teams? Fewer People at Series A. SaaS Growth Decelerating. Modus Partners SaaS valuations. Sharts.
Jun 06, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 7: Edward Keelan, Partner at Octopus Ventures.
Jun 05, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 39: Sharts. Government's Sexy Fingers. AI Extortion. Canva Rap. Captial Raises.
May 30, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 38: VC's Are Lazy, Stupid, Biased & Overly Conservative. Accelerators. Startup Daily Awards. Useless Charts.
May 22, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 37: VC Red Flags. VC's Criticise Crowdfunding. Outbound is Dying. More Time to Series A. Billion $ Bet on PsiQuantum. Geoff Bozo.
May 09, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 36: Co-Founders More Likely To Build Unicorns. First Time Or Second Time Founders Best? Farquar Steps Down. Canva Staff To Buy Houses.
May 01, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 35: VC a Giant Ponzi? Tritium In Administration. Kiki. The Atlassian Machine. Pivot To Enterprise
Apr 24, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 34: What Makes a "Good" Founder. OpenAI Will Steamroll You! Too Many Startups. When You Don't Get Follow On.
Apr 18, 2024
Founder Focus Ep 12: Lucy Wark of Sexual Wellness Co. Normal, Career Skills Co. FuzzyHQ & Safety & Respect Advocacy Co. Grapevine
Apr 15, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 33: Why Companies Die. What VC's Really Mean. SaaS Growth Slows. Canva $ Hit. GoCatch Wasn't Exactly Doing Well. Charts.
Apr 11, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 6: Adrian Bunter of Employment Hero, Modus Partners & Sydney Angels
Apr 09, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 32: AI Honeymoon Is Over. Creating Authentic Content. Companies In Liquidation. GoCatch v Uber Trial. VC Investment Criteria.
Apr 05, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 31: Breakthrough Vic. Shutdowns. Write-Downs. VC Co's Confident Underachievers? Square Peg Returns. M&A Canva. IPO Market. AI. Charts.
Mar 27, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 30: Hope You Suffer! Emerging VC's Fear Big Super? Unicorn Deputy. Capital Raise Roundup. Stone & Chalk Deficit. Elaine Stead To Main Sequence. WiseTech Making Staff Rich.
Mar 20, 2024
Founder Focus Ep 11: Dan Jovevski of WeMoney
Mar 17, 2024
Tribe Talkin Ep 29: Employment Hero V Hostplus. Female Founder Grants & Ecosystem Support Resources. Dovetail Turnover & Churn. PWC Shrinking. Canva Juggernaut. Macro Charts.
Mar 14, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 28: Southstart! Employment Hero vs Hostplus. Man Baby Sues OpenAI. Venture Debt Myths. ESOPs. Crossing The Chasm.
Mar 08, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 5: Dr Judy Halliday. Director, R&I Programs and Office of the SA Chief Entrepreneur
Mar 03, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 27: Soph. Investor Changes Will Happen. VC Facing a Cleansing. Blackbird Heads Offshore. Berkshire Annual Report. Octopus Deploy. Afterpay & Block. GTM vs Funnel Metrics.
Feb 28, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 26: Canva's CFO Resigns. Capital Raising and M&A Activity In The Oz Ecosystem. Zuck's Got Fight. US Listed Markets. Listener Feedback.
Feb 22, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 25: Social media: Facebook Turns 20, Gaming The LinkedIn Algo. Kiki, Again. Is Customer Focus #1? Sales Velocity. Forecast Funding Frenzy. AI.
Feb 14, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 24: State of Australian Startup Funding Report. Cake's Startup Equity Report. WeBack- Adam Neumann. Atlassian. Out-Of-Touch Ventures
Feb 07, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 23: What's Happening to Vals. Median Time to Raise. Cool AI Tools. Poor Elon & Tesla Prediction. People Leave People.
Jan 31, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 22: What we got wrong on Kiki. Content is King. Mutinex. Branding $ and time in early B2B is a waste.
Jan 24, 2024
Tribe Talkin' Ep 21: Don't get bitter, get better. Riches are in niches, or are they? Kiki turns freaky. Gov and VC's are undermining startups.
Jan 18, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 4: Anne-Marie Birkill of OneVentures
Jan 01, 2024
Investor Focus Ep 3: Sarah Nolet of Tenacious Ventures
Dec 26, 2023
Tribe Talkin’ Ep 20: 2023 End of Year Review- Lessons, Screw Ups, Bad Singing, Portfolio Summary, Looking Ahead to 2024
Dec 22, 2023