Tractor Ventures

🎉 BIG NEWS ALERT 🎉 (Drumroll please… 🥁🥁) We have now FUNDED 200+ COMPANIES!! 🚜 🚀✨ This is more than a number to us - it’s: 200+ tractors fueled for the future, getting the funding they need to fuel their engines and drive their missions forward… 🚜 200+ businesses sowing the seeds to help spark innovation, create impact, and generate opportunities for growth and change in their industries… 🌱 200+ teams ploughing through milestones, empowered to turn their bold visions into reality, expanding their reach and making waves… 🌊 (𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴...) It’s been an incredible journey so far - and we’re just getting started.  And despite turbulent times recently (like we’re all facing), our team is more focused than ever to help more founders and Tractors fuel their engines! The best is yet to come! 💥 But most importantly, we would not have reached this milestone without our amazing team (past and present), partners, shareholders, and our amazing Tractors who’ve made this milestone possible. We couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you 🫶 Let’s keep pushing boundaries and achieving milestones together. Here’s to the next 200+! 🙌🚜

Someone wanting to buy shares in your company? 💥 Exciting! Should you sell them right now?

🎙️ And here it is! Our last Vox Pop straight from SXSW Sydney 2024🎙️ I caught up with @Joshua Nu’u-Steele the co-founder and CRO of Ideally, and here’s what he had to say: 💡 Why SXSW? Josh is here to showcase Ideally and soak up insights from different industries. And loving the buzzing atmosphere at SXSW! 🌏 Where's home? Auckland-based, but he's eyeing a move to New York as they expand their team there next year. Epic move. 🚀 What’s Ideally? Ideally is an on-demand insights and innovation platform that enables clients to rapidly test concepts, ideas and messages with their target audience and receive robust answers overnight, at a price point 10x more affordable than conventional methods. 💰 Funding the Dream? Backed by Icehouse Ventures and OIF Ventures, they’re set for massive growth. How bout debt? Maybe! If it suits their needs at the time. Smart, Josh. Smart. (Tractor Ventures is keeping an eye on Ideally) SXSW brings together founders like Josh, blending innovation with inspiration. Can’t wait to see where Ideally goes next! Dan Siepen Jodie Imam Matt Allen

In the halls at South-by (FYI - cool way of saying SXSW), team Tractor Ventures stopped to have a chat with Dr Sheridan Gho, Research Innovation Specialist at iAccelerate - the University of Wollongong's very own accelerator and incubator. Sheridan talks about iAccelrate and how they help founders (through their incubator, accelerator, capital and high quality office spaces). She also talks about the vibrant startup community within Wollongong - being a big reason you'd live there! Thanks Matt Allen and Sheridan Gho for the chat.

In my last post from our SXSW Sydney vox pop series Ben Lyons turns the mic 🎤 on to me, to get some answers to common questions about Tractor Ventures 🚜: What is Tractor Ventures funding? What is different about Tractor from other debt finance companies? What should founders think about using Tractor funds for? How do we think about security for our lending? Answered very succinctly! 😅

Oh hai Lucy Cooke! All the way from WA!

For those of you following along with our SXSW Sydney vox pop series this was our first warm up one. Its a bit of fun and great to hear Matta's views on funding tech companies distilled into a few sentences 😂 Its not for everyone, but Tractor Ventures funding works for many growing tech companies. And did you know Matt left Sydney because its humid there 😂 😅

After appearing on many panels together and recently teaming up to win a debate on alternative capital Vs VC funding or bootstrapping, this time I get to ask the questions of Patrick Stewart from Radium Capital : - Firstly why did you go to SXSW Sydney? - Secondly why to you live in Sydney?, and then most importantly - How can Radium help growing tech companies? Both Radium and Tractor Ventures offer easy to access capital for important parts of the growth capital journey. Many of our founders have used both types of funding as part of their capital mix. Thanks for your time Pat, its always a pleasure.

Talking to Ben Ross about the things he saw a SXSW. Has AI moved past LLMs? He reckons so. What's next? // Propel Ventures

Last week at SXSW Sydney we talked to lots of founders and had some fun with our video crew at the same time. In this quick video I met Sophie Pank from rikta.ai. I loved hearing about the real problem Rikta is solving for our front line workers and how it 'really is' when you choose to live in Sydney 😂 💜 Thanks for your time Soph and to the crew Stefan Whitecunas, Dan Siepen, 🚜 🏳️🌈 Olivia Doherty, Matt Allen Tractor Ventures #SXSW2024