Lyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and what’s Boy Brow?

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Good news for Rubrik, bad news for TikTok, and encouraging news for Early Stage startups: This week, Rubrik’s strong IPO pricing and warm reception by the public markets after its listing add more weight to the perspective that the public markets are not as closed to tech startups as some thought, but that's not all we had to cover this week. Mary Ann let us know about "send-now-pay-later" startup Pomelo's latest raise, and then we dove in to all things TikTok, its timeline and impact. And to close, Early Stage. TechCrunch held its annual early-stage focused even this year, and it was a banger. Not to toot our own horn, but it was the second year in a row that our shindig in Boston was packed, useful, and lots of fun. The coffee was even good. At a tech conference. Alex had notes, so stay through to the end for that! by Equity

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YC, OpenAI and the trough of disillusionment: This week, Equity has the update on the writer's strike's implications on AI, deals of the week from OpenAI and Arc, YC and the role of accelerators in the startup world, and shifts in the tech labor market as layoffs subside. by Equity

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Scooters 2.0, Munchery ghosts, and solving contraceptive deserts by TechCrunch Industry News

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From YC to IPO: Winter 2024 Demo Day, Rubrik and Ibotta: What a week, everyone. Two full days of Y Combinator demo day activity kept us busy, but the latest accelerator cohort’s launch was far from the only big story in startup-land. Today on the Equity’s Friday news roundup, Mary Ann, Becca, and Alex gathered to dig into favorites from the hundreds of new YC companies that pitched, and a new venture capital fund that wants to become “the investment and innovation arm of the autism community.” Becca wanted to talk about Seso and its fascinating fintech play in the agricultural space, while Alex brought Home From College and its recent Seed round to the mix. Then to close out, we chatted through the impending Ibotta and Rubrik IPOs. The latter deal could provide a fascinating heat-check for unprofitable unicorns that need to find some sort of exit, and quickly. by Equity

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Growth is not enough: Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. by Equity

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Equity Monday: Unpacking the Twitter blues: Today Alex Wilhelm is talking about Twitter Blue, Lyft, a few startup rounds, and what could kick off the next crypto supercycle. by Equity

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Slack raises, Dropbox and Snap report earnings, and Magic Leap is real by TechCrunch Industry News

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Acquisitions are heating up, and Mercury eyes the fintech crown: Finally, some good news! This week, we were pleasantly surprised to see that FTX victims would be getting some money back – even if it’s not as much as they might have hoped. That wasn’t all, though: Mary Ann Azevedo, Kirsten Korosec, and Alex Wilhelm had plenty else to talk about this week on Equity. We discussed why investors are drawn to the fact that Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space and also how one North Carolina startup that started out by building drones to clean windows in tall buildings has also become a robotics company. Kirsten helped us understand what was behind Motional’s decision to delay its commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring, and the greater context around that. We then dug into digital banking startup Mercury’s plans to branch out into software, and how it now fits into the increasingly crowded spend management landscape. An by Equity

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SoftBank makes mountains of cash off of human laziness: Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. by Equity

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A new venture capital supergroup is forming: This week on Equity, we dug into the Chowdeck round. It’s a Nigerian company that is putting up impressive growth with its food delivery business. Keep an eye on it, Nigeria is a big market and TechCrunch writes that no single company has its delivery business on lock. Yet, at least. On this morning’s episode we also took a look at the recent Corelight round, which given its valuation and revenue growth, is one to chew on. From the venture side of things, we discussed two stories. First, that Intuition is going after the consumer market. From Paris, the smaller fund is betting that going the opposite direction as most VCs is how to make the most money. And second, a new venture capital supergroup is forming. Axios reports that investors with backgrounds at a16z, Bessemer and Index are building a new firm. by Equity

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Phew! When AI ate the internet: THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare and Andrew discuss a breathtaking week in tech when Apple reached a three trillion dollar valuation and AI ate the internet by Keen On

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That Time We Drove A Car Built By A Toy Scooter Company: In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, Editor-in-Chief Jack Rix quizzes Ollie Kew about the time he took the bubble car to the bemused people of Zurich. by Top Gear Magazine

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Guilty by seven crimes and death by a thousand verticals: Keith Teare on Sam Bankman-Fried and Palo Alto, Elon Musk and Rishi Sunak, and Space X and X by Keen On

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OpenAI , Sam Altman and the new war over capitalism in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on the moral fight over technological progress triggered by the OpenAI brouhaha by Keen On

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Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence: While our dear Mary Ann is away for a much needed break (and birthday celebration!), Alex and Natasha are holding down the fort. Here's what we got into this week: the M&A spree that captured Qualtrics, Cvent, and Mint Mobile, what's followed the SVB collapse, GPT-4, and why Y Combinator is scaling back from late stage. by Equity

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Equity Monday: C3.AI files to go public and Vision Fund 2 leads $100M round: More good vaccine news is scrambling the stock market yet again, dinging tech stocks and bolstering non-tech shares. This also happened last Monday, but was swallowed up by terrible COVID-19 numbers by Friday. ProfitWell data on SaaS and the pandemic proves to be largely good news. C3.AI filed to go public, more on that shortly on the main site. UIPath could go public early next year at a $20 billion valuation. SpaceX pulled off its latest rocket launch, sending four humans into space. Parler is partially living off ultraconservative cash. MindTickle raised $100 million from the second Vision Fund. Its revenue growth is impressive, at 170%. Thoughtexchange wrapped its Series B at a total size of $34 million. Pharmapacks raised $250 million from Carlyle. That's a big check. Catch up on our DoorDash IPO coverage, if you need to. Here's our overview, here's the VC winners' list, and here's what COVID-19 d by Equity

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The ETH merge cometh: We're back this Monday after expecting the weekend to be slow and the week to start quietly – turns out that there is a LOT going on. Let’s get going! by Equity

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Equity Monday 09/21: What a busy morning. We had to cover TikTok. We had to talk VC rounds. So, this is what we got up to: US tech stocks are poised to sell off further this morning. The Oracle-TikTok-Walmart-ByteDance deal is either coming into focus, or a period of even less clarity. It's hard to tell. Nikola founder Trevor Milton is leaving the board of his own company in the wake of fraud allegations. Shares of the company are sharply lower in pre-market trading. Turning to TikTok, this primer represents the best over-the-weekend roundup that we could find. But, of course, things are still breaking as we come to print. Since recording, Oracle has said that "upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global." And, President Trump said this morning that China has to give up control of TikTok or the deal is off. by Equity

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Public tech's espresso shot is quite literally The Cloud: Last week we said that you needed to pay attention to the public markets, and we weren't kidding. It was a huge week for earnings -- with notes from all over including the ad market and cloud spend. But this week's Monday show was more than just another entry in the series, it was an experimental live show! Natasha joined Alex for the fun. by Equity

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