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Building the Systems of Work Era
Tidal Ventures argues AI is shifting software from assisting to doing work, and explains how its fourth fund will back early-stage companies that own critical workflows.
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Seed
Investment Notes: SecurePII
Tidal Ventures explains why it has invested in SecurePII, a voice-compliance startup whose platform redacts payment card data from calls, covering market timing, product, channel model, founders and seed-stage plans.
Seed
Investment Notes: Vinyl
Tidal Ventures sets out why it led the seed investment in Vinyl, whose software turns accounting firms' client conversations into structured insights, profiling the market, product plans, and founding team.
Pre-seed
Investment Notes: Tendl
Tidal Ventures' investment note explains why it led Tendl's pre-seed round, covering the AI tender-response platform's market opportunity, product features, pricing model, and founder Laurie Nicol's background.
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Seed
Investment Notes: Minikai
Tidal Ventures' investment note explains why it led disability and aged-care AI startup Minikai's seed round, covering the market opportunity, product features, founding team, early traction and planned use of funds.
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Funding announcement
Riding the waves of entrepreneurship with Guy Kawasaki and Grant McCarthy
Tidal Ventures managing partner Grant McCarthy and Guy Kawasaki compare notes on luck, timing, founder qualities, early-stage mistakes, AI adoption and pitching, drawing on careers spanning Apple, Canva, Yahoo and Tidal.
Key hire
Meet the Tidal Team: Kieran O’Neill
Tidal Ventures profiles team member Kieran O’Neill, who moved from KPMG and London banking through co-founding Hometime into the firm’s seed investing team in 2022.
Key hire
Meet the Tidal Team: Fee Barry
Tidal Ventures introduces team member Fee Barry, tracing her path from corporate law and Atlassian's M&A team to the seed-stage firm, where she supports founders on governance, people and investment evaluation.
Funding announcement
Investment Notes: Orkestra
Tidal Ventures explains why it backed Orkestra for a second time, covering the clean-energy market opportunity, the feasibility software product, the founding team, business model and growth plans.
Funding announcement
Investment Notes: Flagship
Tidal Ventures reflects on leading Flagship's seed round, describing retail market tailwinds, the visual merchandising product, founder Simon Molnar's background, and its earlier investments in Shippit, Search.io, Carted and Drive Yello.
Funding announcement
Fair Supplying unmatched ESG visibility
Tidal Ventures reflects on why it backed Fair Supply, a SaaS platform for ESG supply-chain risk, six months after the deal, praising the founders and naming co-investors Airtree, Minderoo Foundation and QIC.
News
Investing in the next wave of technology
Tidal Ventures explains how it backs seed-stage founders: its third seed fund is active, it leads $1-3 million seed rounds, and its thesis spans AI, fintech, cybersecurity and related sectors.
Seed
Investment Notes: Loopit
Tidal Ventures' investment note explains why it led car-subscription software firm Loopit's seed round, covering market tailwinds, the platform, the Higgins brothers' background and the business model.
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Funding announcement
Honing in on the right market
Tidal Ventures reflects on its investment in Hone, an agtech startup using spectroscopy for crop data, and how Grant McCarthy and Wendell Keuneman helped the founding team focus on its market.
Pre-seed
Investment Notes: Blakthumb
Tidal Ventures explains why it led Blakthumb's pre-seed round, describing the indoor agriculture market opportunity, the startup's operating system for cultivators, and founders Mel and Carey's domain expertise.
Funding announcement
Investment Notes: Checkbox
Tidal Ventures explains why it backed Checkbox, a no-code expert process automation platform, recounting the pre-Series A round raised alongside Sequoia India's Surge and the founders' execution.
Funding announcement
Rounds reported
Deals recorded from Tidal Ventures's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
Companies covered
Companies named in Tidal Ventures's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom | 1 | |
| Yahoo | 1 | |
| Woolworths | Australian grocery retailer using electric truck delivery fleets | 1 |
| VMTech | 1 | |
| Vinyl Group | 1 | |
| Venroy | 1 | |
| University of Queensland | Research university where Cortisonic's underlying phononic computing research originated | 1 |
| UiPath | 1 | |
| Tendl | 1 | |
| Telstra | Telecommunications company | 1 |
| SIR | 1 | |
| Shippit | Shipping and delivery logistics platform | 2 |
| SEEK | Online employment marketplace co-founded in 1997 | 1 |
| SecurePII | Compliance and data privacy startup using patented AI to remove personally identifiable i… | 1 |
| Search.io | 1 | |
| QIC Ventures | 1 | |
| Orkestra | 1 | |
| OpenAI | AI company | 1 |
| Notion | Productivity and note-taking software company | 1 |
| Minikai | AI agents for the disability and aged care sectors | 1 |
| Minderoo Foundation | 1 | |
| Microsoft Teams | 1 | |
| Menulog | 1 | |
| Macquarie Bank | Bank providing specialised and asset finance | 1 |
| LSKD | 1 | |
| Loopit | Sydney software company whose platform underpins subscription and rental services worldwi… | 1 |
| KPMG | Professional services firm | 1 |
| KeyPay | 1 | |
| Karbon | 1 | |
| Ignition | Vertical software company for accounting firms | 1 |
| Hone | 1 | |
| Hometime | Australia’s largest short-term rental property management company | 1 |
| HelloCars | 1 | |
| Goldman Sachs | Investment bank | 1 |
| Genesys | 1 | |
| FYI | 1 | |
| FrankieOne | Customer onboarding solutions via single API | 1 |
| Flagship | Digital visual merchandising platform bridging e-commerce data and bricks-and-mortar reta… | 1 |
| Fair Supply | 1 | |
| Employment Hero | Another Australian company backed by TCV | 1 |
| Drive Yello | 2 | |
| Deloitte | Professional services and advisory firm | 1 |
| Concentrix-Tigerspike | 1 | |
| Coca-Cola | 1 | |
| Cisco | 1 | |
| Checkbox | Legal-AI platform backed by Five V Capital | 1 |
| Carted | 1 | |
| Carsales | Online car sales marketplace | 1 |
| Canva | Online design and visual communication platform | 2 |
| BWS | 1 | |
| BroadSource | Cloud communications company | 1 |
| Blakthumb | 1 | |
| Australian Government | 1 | |
| Atlassian | Australian software company referenced as Accel's earlier investment. | 2 |
| Apple | 2 | |
| Amazon | Global e-commerce and technology company | 1 |
| Aje Athletica | 1 | |
| AirTree Ventures | 1 | |
| Afterpay | Buy now pay later company | 1 |
Investors covered
Investors named in Tidal Ventures's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Tidal Ventures | 17 |