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
Don, Aaron and Jack unpack a big week in venture, AI and building companies.
- Venture Downunder with Innovation Bay: pirate parties, poker, the Kill All The Puppies triage session (bridge, dilute, sell or fold), and why founder pitches at events should be three minutes, not ten.
- Canva blames frontier AI costs for a rare revenue downgrade: growth guidance cut from 30% to 20%, Canva AI 2.0 halted, in-house models to replace OpenA...
In today's episode, I sit down with Kirstin Hunter, CEO of Birchal, the equity crowdfunding platform that, over 8 years since equity crowdfunding became legal in Australia, has facilitated more than $241 million across 338 successful crowd-sourced funding offers, from over 140,000 individual investments. We were also joined by Dom Pym, a significant shareh...
Matt James was employee number 22 at Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW), joining as an early engineer when revenue was just beginning to land and rising to CTO.
He scaled with the business through to roughly 1000 staff worldwide and over a $1Billion in annual revenue by the time he left, with VGW going on to post A$6.1B in revenue in FY24.
Today he is Co-founder and CTO at SupplyWise, a Perth-based B2B e-commerce platform for SME su...
Stuart Clout founded Thedocyard at 3am on the floor of a Sydney law firm boardroom, listed it on the ASX the week before COVID locked down Australia, merged with Ansarada, and rode the combined business through to a $236m acquisition by Datasite. He joins Don and Aaron to unpack twelve years of B2B SaaS lessons, the deal mechanics, and what he wishes he had known sooner.
Key links from this week's episode:
- Agents leave you nowhere to hide.
- Hockey Stick Advisory partnership revenue gap tool.
- Morphless.com . Save 30% on your AWS bill.
- Techvisa.com.au
- VentureCrowd parent in administration.
- Michael Batko building in public.
- Adam Said from Octopus on durability.
- Adam Said from Octopus on GTM.
- Shocks vs regime shifts.
Our guest today is James Leathem , Founder and former CEO of VendorPanel.
Tribe was a proud investor in Vendor Panel until its exit to Accel-KKR in late 2024 and merger with Unimarket.
This episode is a "playbook" for founders and investors alike of starting, scaling and exiting a B2B technology business. We hope you enjoy!
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