Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

Investor Focus Ep 1: Adrian Bunter- Corporate Advisor, Angel Investor & Non-exec Director

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 working with high growth companies doing clever things to change the world - the David versus Goliath battles as he puts it. Adrian has been on the board of Employment Hero for over 10 years. This company recently raised $263million to fund growth. 
The episode talks about how Adrian works to support founders as an investor in their growth phase, gut feel in investing, resilience in founders, analysing investment opportunities, managing angle syndicates, portfolio approach to early stage investing and much more.
I’ve had the pleasure of serving on an early-stage board with Adrian, and his ability to provide an analytical view alongside an entrepreneurial gut feel provides significant value to the entrepreneurs he invests in and works with. 
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 13: Response to Sam Joel of GiveTree’s apology and resignation

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 type of behaviour is unfortunately not unique, and sadly experienced daily by experienced by women in many geographies in many industries.
As such we use this time to do a short recap of what happened, point you in the direction if you want to find out more, and how we are thinking about the steps we will take to create what we consider to be a basic right: the ability to turn up without being harassed or assaulted.
You will see we don’t have all the answers, and there may be parts we have not expressed as well as we could. We see this as an ongoing process of iteration, and hope others will put forward what they will do to help improve basic standards.
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 12: If you knew how hard it would be, you wouldn’t do it

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 Sleeping Duck court case that seems to be dragging out.- Valuations for early stage businesses.- Do founding teams need a technical co-founder?- BRW Young Rich List: doesn't mean you've got any money. 
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Founder Focus Ep 9: Nick Abrahams- Co-Founder of LawPath (MVP to 400,000 + users) and Global Co-leader Digital Transformation of Norton Rose Fulbright

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 amazing as you’ll hear in this episode. 
Nick studied law in the late 80’s and then began his law career in the early 90’s in Sydney. Nick moved to Tokyo where he not only practiced law, he owned the Tokyo Comedy Store. This ain't no joke! We discuss how comedy fits into communication techniques. 
A love of film saw Nick also pursue acting which led him to become an executive with Warner Brothers Studios. Nick shares his lessons from this time, and how this dream didn't really match the reality of the role. 
An entrepreneur at heart, Nick joined a dot.com boom era business, learning lessons about growth and market crashes that would serve him well in his future entrepreneurial endeavors and advising entrepreneurs as a lawyer. 
In 2013, after seeing a gap in the market for SMEs and entrepreneurs who could not afford traditional legal support, Nick co-founded LawPath. LawPath has grown to over 400,000 happy customers and more than 10,000 5-star online reviews which is an incredible testament to getting product market fit validation early on - something Nick talks about in this episode. 
Nick has a deep interest in artificial intelligence, and shares where he sees this innovation taking companies. 
There is so much to learn from this episode, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it. 
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 11: Entrepreneurial style and the correlation to success

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 'science of selling' article by David Zhou and Dave McClure cupofzhou
Startmate's message to founders
Simon Thompson's article into the the research into The impact of founder personalities on startup success
We hope you enjoy todays episode!
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 10: Messaging- why good products, people and money can still fail

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
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Founder Focus Ep 8: Simone Joyce of Paypa Plane

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 top of all their existing payment types to help customers have one experience.
They raised $10million in Series A funding in early 2023, and have an impressive cap table including Commonwealth Bank, Tyro and Mastercard. 
Simone describes what she calls a 'weird journey' to Paypa Plane that she could never have predicted. Like many founders, Simone overcame adversities prior to Paypa Plane, and you’ll hear her determination to do what’s right and to succeed come through. 
With her brother Jonathan, Simone was able to turn painful situation into an opportunity and Paypa Plane was born. 
Simone talks about working with family in business, boards, expanding into the US by relating herself and her family, and what she has learnt so far. 
We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation with Simone. 
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 9: Organisational Health

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 culture following some scathing Glass Door reviews
A discussion on organisaitonal health 
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