Tidal Ventures

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.

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.

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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.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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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.

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