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Tribe Talkin' Ep 87: Epic Tropical Innovation Fest. Canva Tax Bill. Continuation Funds. Need AI To Raise. Distribution Is The Durability. No Sharts :(

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.

Tribe Talkin' Ep 85: London Expansion Mission Lessons. YC AI Requests. Cold Calling Dead? Sharts.

Founder Focus Ep 17: Chris Milligan of Adepto & Konfir

Today's guest is Chris Milligan, and Entrepreneur and Investor based in London. We are proud to also have Chris as a shareholder, investor, and venture partner at Tribe Global Ventures. Fresh out of university at QUT, Chris founded Adepto, a B2B SaaS HR platform. In 2015, Chris participated in an early version of Tribe’s UK mission and relocated to London five months later, raising a Seed round from UK investors and establishing Adepto in Europe. With teams in both Brisbane and London, Chris con...

Tribe Talkin' Ep 84: VC- Never Been Harder. SecondQuater Secondary Fund. Chat Knows Exactly Who You Are. Don't delegate?

Tribe Talkin Ep 83: Tribe's AI Built Tools. How Not To Pitch. Amazing Airwallex. Cut Through Venture Q1. Sharts.

Tribe Talkin Ep 82: AI Life Partners? Go1 Simplifies. Tech One Rockets. Advance VC Secondaries Fund. Sharts.

Rerelease-Tribe Talkin' Ep 81: Plans Are Bullsh*t. Growth V Development. Building Outside The US. Heidi Health Fastest On Record. Unfriendly AI. Sharts.

Tribe Talkin' Ep 81: Plans Are Bullsh*t. Growth V Development. Building Outside The US. Heidi Health Fastest On Record. Unfriendly AI. Sharts.

Tribe Talkin' Ep 80: What Will Be The Next AI Unicorns. Goodbye Superfund Investors. Advanced R&D Raises $27mil. Competitor Ads. Sharts

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.

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.

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.

Tribe Talkin' Ep 77: StrongRoom AI Investigation. IVYY Makes Top 50. Solo Vs Co-Founders. Can You Admit You're Crazy? Sharts.

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.

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 capitalists unpack the year ahead. A bridge to nowhere. Its the Data stupid. Cloning websites made easy. hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 struggles with. Why taste, not tech, will be the advantage in the age of AI. Ingredients AI founders will need. Why startups fail. You can have everything you want, just not at the same time. Is your CEO a fraud? Sharts: hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 are all just wrappers of the previous thing. Market places are squarely in the firing line of AI agents. New definitions of product market fit. Cold outreach by Paypal. Top of funnel is a waste of time sub $5mil? Sharts hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 Agents talking in their own language (data over sound). Voice agents getting better. User experience is part of the rapid growth story: B2B feeling B2C. Vu Tran seeking resumes. Don’t assume a static world: model performance and cost. Good Empire in administration. Sharts ​​​​​​​ hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 reports reveal millions burned amid legal risks. The middle class engineer is dying. And it's dying because they're not neede d anymore. ​​​​​​​ Small teams are the future. What comes fast can be lost fast. Splose AI raises $5million. Finding creative loop holes. hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 OpenAI. YC's first AI Startup School. Cursor becomes the fastest company to $100M ARR. 2021 VC cohort looking very grim. VC's don't reject you after deep DD. About 50% of companies will go from Seed to Series A. Lessons in VC. Themes of the week. Sharts. hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 d ead. The worst thing that can happen to your startup isn't failure. Australian start-up Lorikeet cracks $100m valuation in AI agent boom. Robotics has reached a tipping point. First bullet point or last bullet point AI companies. Miss America Nuclear Power debate. Adrian Di Marco awarded OAM for his service to information technology. Theme's of the week. Sharts hello@tribeglobal.vc...

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 Startup Funding Results. You can get access to the full report here. hello@tribeglobal.vc

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 harder. Own your own audience. Can you return a VCs fund? Find a niche. Sharts: ​​​​​​​hello@tribeglobal.vc...

In 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. The Ben AI YouTube channel referenced: https://www.youtube.com/@BenAI92 hello@tribeglobal.vc

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 danger of being swamped by AI-generated slop. Not all channels are equal Meta removes fact checkers & scraps diversity policies Silicon Valley’s lurch to the right catches the eye of local VCs. Strategy is to learn and change as quickly as possible. Theme's of the week. Sharts:...

Founder 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 aerospace and defense company specializing in sovereign solid rocket propulsion systems and advanced manufacturing. Before co-founding Black Sky Industries, Vu Tran was a co-founder of Go1, one of the world's leading online learning platforms. Go1, has raised approximately $400 million in total funding with the last valuation of approximatel...

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 Great UI overall because of AI Agents. AI and hardware working together to change the lives of people paralysed. People with more resilience live longer. Here are six ways to build it. Why first time founders can outperform multi founders. Bench Accounting shuts down abruptly after raising $100million. Product Market Fit broken down into 2 cat...

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 era. After 2 years of talking about how important AI is, the government is going to spend the next 12 months developing a capability plan. Google announces quantum computing breakthrough. Resourcefulness over resources. Blackbird-backed HR start-up Tandem shuts down due to lack of demand. Birchal raises $2 million in 29 hours through crow...

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 the category winner: VC mental torture. Eyes on the price. Startmates $500 voucher. Donald actually has something smart to say. hello@tribeglobal.vc...