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Equity Monday: Billion-dollar deals, JetBrain's epic profitability, and our favorite new VC rounds
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Equity Monday: Billion-dollar deals, JetBrain's epic profitability, and our favorite new VC rounds
FromEquity
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10 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2020
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds, and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out our latest main episode, which spent a good bit of time talking about OnlyFans.The weekend was busy, as always, so there was a lot of chew over this morning. Here's a partial list:SoftBank is going to put together a number of SPACs.Indian fintech Pine Labs has raised $75 million to $100 million at a valuation of around $2 billionRealPage is selling to private equity for $9.6 billionZoom is under fresh scrutiny here in the USBolt has raised $75 million more in a Series C1. We talk about why that's fun, and its current competition.Group14 has raised a $17 million Series B that has us thinking about the future.And WorkWhile wants to help hourly workers and employers get along better.Closing, here's the Owen Thomas piece that I mentioned at the very end of the show.
Released:
Dec 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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Equity Shot: Our favorite startups from YC Demo Day: Yep, it's another Equity Shot. We're back. And then we're going to be back on Friday. Because we can't stop talking about the biggest news week in the world of startups and venture capital in some time. Before we start, shoutout to the NBA for the growing, wildcat strike to protest racist police violence in America. Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming. This time 'round Natasha and your humble servant were joined by Lucas Matney, a member of the TechCrunch reporting team and a first-timer on Equity. Where's he been all this time? Covering all sorts of things, including VR startups for the publication. He was also a big part of our coverage of both days of Demo Day, making him a perfect fit for this episode. Danny was given a break to sit at home, play board games, and iron his favorite sweatshirt. He's back Friday morning. In case you've missed the words, here's what we wrote this week on the subject: All the Day One by Equity