Venture capital fund · 4 deals
Brisbane, QLD
Every published round Tribe Global Ventures took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Role | Alongside | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperly | Unnamed stage | 29 Nov 2025 | $3m | Lead | Startup News (WA), Startup Daily, SmartCompany, Purpose Ventures portfolio | |
| OneMRI | Seed | 18 Aug 2025 | $2.5m | Participant | Startup Daily (Tue 30 Sep 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 18 Aug 2025), Forbes Australia | |
| 1Breadcrumb | Bridge / extension | 4 May 2025 | $4.5m | Participant | SmartCompany, Startup Daily | |
| SwarmFarm Robotics | Series A | 15 Feb 2023 | $12m | Participant | SmartCompany (Fri 3 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (Thu 2 Oct 2025), Startup Daily (Mon 24 Jun 2024), AgFunderNews (Wed 3 Apr 2024), SmartCompany (Wed 1 Mar 2023), AgFunderNews (Thu 23 Feb 2023), SmartCompany (Fri 17 Feb 2023), AgFunderNews (Thu 16 Feb 2023), AgFunderNews (Thu 16 Feb 2023), Startup Daily (Wed 15 Feb 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Feb 2023), Access Capital Ventures portfolio, Tenacious Ventures portfolio |
Companies Tribe Global Ventures has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperly | 29 Nov 2025 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1Breadcrumb | 4 May 2025, Bridge / extension | 1 | 0 | |
| OneMRI | 18 Aug 2025, Seed | 1 | 0 | |
| SwarmFarm Robotics | Robotic solutions for efficient and sustainable agriculture | 15 Feb 2023, Series A | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for Tribe Global Ventures, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Tribe Global Ventures has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Tribe Global Ventures did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Butler | Investment Associate | Startup News (WA), Tribe Global Ventures team page |
Stories naming Tribe Global Ventures. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Funding roundup covering four raises: Pay.com.au's $25 million round plus a $28 million secondary, Ruminant Biotech's Series A, Australis Scientific's Rohto-backed funding, and Paperly's $3 million round led by Tribe Global Ventures.
Body scan startup OneMRI, co-founded by Go1's Andrew Barnes and Dr Vu Tran, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding from a broad investor group to expand its preventative whole-body MRI scanning service nationally.
1Breadcrumb has acquired Canberra rival SignOnSite and raised a $4.5 million SAFE note from Five V Capital, Tribe Global Ventures and a US family office, creating a merged construction-safety technology provider.
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Paladin Space has received a $100,000 South Australian Government Seed-Start grant to develop AI debris-identification with AIML, and will pitch SpaceX and NASA during a US trade delegation.
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Queensland robotics startup SwarmFarm closed a $12 million Series A led by Conexus Venture Capital, following an earlier grant and a 2020 raise, to scale its autonomous farming platform.
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