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.
Podcast Description
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

Jul 5, 2024
Jul 5, 2024
1hr 7 min
In this weeks episode:
US Presidential election. We're so screwed.
AI helping with pitch decks.
How accelerators can prove their worth.
Bank VCs
Expecting young VCs to start failing. Good vibes from Square Peg.
1Breadcrumbs in $4M raise.
Samsara completes $100M Series A raise.
SaaS metrics required to complete Series A.
Sharts
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Jun 29, 2024
Jun 29, 2024
1hr 6 min
In this weeks episode:
Telstra Ventures rebrands to Titanium.
Skalata the most active investor in Australia.
GYG goes public.
Founder ownership at IPO.
Cettire CFO likely tax bill after stock drops 50%.
Canva claw back of share rights if you publicly criticise the company. But is this uncommon?
Time from seed to Series A lengthening.
Employment Hero's Series F raise my be its last.
Employment Hero's CEO suggests Superfunds should invest 1% of capital in startups.
Pitchbook report into the Australian and New Zealand ecosystem.
Tenacious Ventures lives up to its name with $18M raise.
Brighte locks in $195m via green debt facility.
Camms acquired by Riskonnect.
Roger Federer's commencement speak has lessons for founders.
What VCs actually mean.
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Jun 21, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
56 min
On this weeks episode:
Adir Shiffman losing a lengthy court battle with one of his own portfolio companies, online mattress business Sleeping Duck.
To be in the top 1% of podcasters, you just need to do 21 episodes.
Elon gets his options approved again.
Pitching for PR. Tips from Jessy Wu.
Bessemer shares their anti-portfolio.
How VCs become assholes.
Joan Westenberg article in Startup Daily "The reason why most VCs don’t invest in women-led startups is much simpler than many think".
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Jun 16, 2024
Jun 16, 2024
50 min
In this weeks episode:
Debrief of the Tiribe UK expansion mission
Nvidia crosses the $3 Trillion market cap.
Are YC valuations inflated? Post by Yotam Rosenbaum.
Imposter syndrome in founders.
Psylo raises $8million.
Deputy expanding into the US and the UK.
Advise on pitch decks by Alan Jones.
13% of VC''s don't plan to raise another fund.
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Jun 6, 2024
Jun 6, 2024
55 min
In this weeks episode of Tribe Talkin':
Startmate's Top 20 most valuable alumni.
Frugal founders.
Nvidia leadership team of 60 people.
Fewer employees at SaaS Series A.
Connecting the money you raise to peeling layers of risk.
Salesforce decelerating growth, as we've seen with the rest of the market.
Modus Partners shares data on SaaS valuations.
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Jun 5, 2024
Jun 5, 2024
53 min
Today's Investor Focus guest is Edward Keelan of Octopus Ventures.
This is an awesome episode as we love the way Ed simplifies topics that are often made overly complex.
The episode discusses;
Ed's Startup Experience, Lessons, & Entry Into VC.
B2B Software Investing.
Resilient Founders and Teams.
Importance of Funnel Metrics as Accountability and Evaluation Tools.
Concept of "Tilt".
Top-of-the-Funnel Focus.
Sales Process & Scalability.
Avoiding Weighted Pipelines.
Market Expansion Challenges and Strategies.
And so much more!
We highly recommend following Ed on LinkedIn, and appreciate what we learn from the content he generously shares.
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May 30, 2024
May 30, 2024
1hr 4 min
In this weeks episode:
Go-Catch v Uber windup.
Government continues to have sexy fingers with taxing unrealised capital gains.
Reasons why Sam Altman was fired.
Extortion attempt: WiseTech CEO says criminals tried to impersonate him using AI.
Not all AI is very clever.
YouTube's original seed investment.
Canva continues to go enterprise.
Airwallex staff turnover continues.
Capital on the sidelines.
Innovation Bay raises capital.
WeMoney capital raise.
Find good investors that will support you.
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May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024
1hr 24 min
In this weeks episode:
Recap on concerns from the VC community on CrowdFunding.
Don't loose your sense of humor from Jerry Seinfeld.
Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards nominations now open.
What was in the Budget for the startup ecosystem.
Build Club: a new AI founder focused accelerator seeking to fix "broken' accelerator models.
Create your own advice GPT.
Nothing happens without action: old video from Steve Jobs.
Development costs may not come down with AI.
Rayn Wong wants to speak to the manager of people saying Australian VC's are too conservative.
Claire Bristow of Skalata shares her views on "Australian VC's are too conservative".
Xylo Systems tackling AI and "Tech Bro VC's".
VC's are lazy looking at silly signals.
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