Tribe Talkin’ Ep 30: Hope You Suffer! Emerging VC’s Fear Big Super? Unicorn Deputy. Capital Raise Roundup. Stone & Chalk Deficit. Elaine Stead To Main Sequence. WiseTech Making Staff Rich.

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': 

• Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones has vowed to crack down on companies seeking to circumvent laws designed to 'staple' workers to a single superannuation fund during employee onboarding programs. (Capital Brief Anthony Galloway)
• Emerging venture capital managers have raised concerns about the influence super funds have gained over the local startup ecosystem. (Capital Brief Bronwen Clune) 
• Australian workforce management software maker Deputy has cracked the billion-dollar valuation milestone, the first private technology “unicorn” company to emerge since the tech funding market soured in early 2022. (AFR: Tess Bennett).
• Seven Aussie startups that raised $11.8 million this week. (SmartCompany: Eloise Keating). 
• Invoice payments startup Marmalade raises $16m. (Capital Brief: Prashant Mehra) 
• Alumni of climate tech startup accelerator EnergyLab raised a record $289 million in 2023, with Australian-based startups accounting for $124 million of that total. (Business News Australia) 
• Predictive intelligence marketing tech Prophet raises $5m in seed round backed by Catalano. (Business News Australia: Matt Ogg)
• Hola Health greets a new chapter in telehealth with $4.5m pre-Series A raise. (Business News Australia: Matt Ogg) 
• Do the best deals have no "fanfare"? Sam Jacobs
• Jensen Huang hopes you suffer!
• Stone and Chalk touts resilience despite $7m loss. (Capital Brief: John Buckley and Bronwen Clune)
• Spacecubed and CORE Innvoation Hub
• Elaine Stead joins Main Sequence. (Capital Brief: Bronwen Clune)
• Of its 3300 employees, 85 per cent own WiseTech shares thanks to an employee share scheme. (AFR: Yolanda Redrup)
• For the first time in at least 5 years, there were more total job departures from companies on Carta than there were total new hires.

•  Public Market & Macro Charts

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