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Peloton peddles toward an IPO, self-driving is big business and SaaS’s new highs by TechCrunch Industry News

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Spotify by TechCrunch Industry News

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Elon’s sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors, and VC hiring trends by TechCrunch Industry News

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Eventbrite goes public, and everyone else is raising hella money by TechCrunch Industry News

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Taking Tesla private, WeWork and Uber earnings, and what happened to crypto by TechCrunch Industry News

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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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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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Uber’s financials, Qualtric’s $8B exit and what’s going on at WeWork by TechCrunch Industry News

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Most of the unicorns aren’t: Natasha, Mary Ann, and Alex are back on the mic, and things are busier than ever at TechCrunch, where we're coming out of our post-conference stupor and charing straight back into a packed news cycle. Sure, Musk is still making waves, but there are startup rounds to cover, layoffs to chew on, earnings coverage, unicorn reports, new data, and more. by Equity

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SoftBank pays big, SurveyMonkey goes public and JUUL’s next step by TechCrunch Industry News

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Beeper acquired by Automattic, fintech's decline and YC's lack of LatAm founders: Today, the Equity crew dug into Automattic buying Beeper for $125 million. Recall that the WordPress parent company bought Texts.com last year for $50 million. Elsewhere in deal-land, Proton bought Standard Notes, and we recently discussed the Wonderschool-Early Day purchase. More, please! In the Deals of the Week column, Mary Ann chose Payjoy’s massive new run rate, while Alex wanted to riff on the Proxima Fusion round that could help bring the next energy revolution a little bit closer to reality. And to close out, we looked at Anna Heim’s latest on Y Combinator’s evaporating number of participating startups from Latin America, which we posit could have something to do with fintech falling out of favor with investors — and fintech being the startup category that we most associated with Latin America founder activity. by Equity

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More scooter dollars, Slack’s revenue projections, and the IPO traffic jam by TechCrunch Industry News

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Do the celebrities help the startups or do the startups help the celebrities?: What a week, yeah? Instead of the news cycle slowing as the year races to a close, things are still as hot as ever. We have funding rounds big and small, IPOs, first-day extravaganza and more. by Equity

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Duolingo's bellwether IPO: We were smaller team this week, with Natasha and Alex together with Chris to sort through yet another summer frenzy of a week. This time around we actually recorded live on Twitter Spaces, which was a first for the podcast. If you missed it, it's probably because we didn't promote the taping since it was just an experiment. Good news, though, is that it went well, and we're going to some more live tapings of the show with the entire crew on the mics. Make sure to follow the show on the Big Tweet to ensure that you can come hang with us next week. We'll also do some Q&A at the end, if we're in good moods. by Equity

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Coinbase goes fishing for Opensea’s catch: This week was one of our strongest shows yet, with a wide diversity of news items that were genuinely fun (and complicated) to chew through. And even though we started off kind of grumpy, we laughed through tech difficulties, crypto puns, and fintech CAC. It's called coping. Here's what we got into: by Equity

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An $11B bonanza for space startups, and where is all that a16z money going?: Today’s Equity episode is focused on all things startups, which means we got to chat through NASA's $11 billion opportunity for space startups, Two Chairs’ recent and massive Series C, Quilt’s heat pump work and fundraise, and several IPO updates. Here’s hoping that after Ibotta and Rubrik get out the door, more IPOs follow. Also on the show today was a grip of venture capital news. Bay Bridge Ventures is raising a $200 million climate fund — it has lots of good company there, given rising LP interest in climatetech more generally — and a SpaceX alum is building a new VC firm that we covered. To close, the massive, gobsmackingly big $7.2 billion worth of new funds from a16z. We dug into their breakdown on the podcast, but the short version is that it appears that the venture slowdown has not managed to impede the venture firm’s golden touch when it comes to fundraising. Hit play, let’s have some fun! 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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California has no water and lots of liquidity: 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 $700M SAFE, more IPOs, and how one venture fund is transcending borders: The Equity crew is closing out the week with a look at Onyx's pivot to B2B, a climate incubator set up by the former co-founder of Casper, Wonder's $700 million raise and how Ethos Fund is fostering cross-border investing. We were also curious about Saudi Arabia's AI investment push and how some VCs are holding back an IPO rush. 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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Warren Buffett invests in an unprofitable business: The whole crew was back, with Natasha Mascarenhas and Danny Crichton and myself chattering, and Chris Gates behind the scenes tweaking the dials as always. This week was a real team effort as we are heading into the maw of Disrupt -- more here, see you there -- but there was a lot of news all the same. by Equity

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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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Musk and Kardashian remind us to stop crying for the wealthy: Alex, Natasha, and Mary Ann are back on the mic to talk through the headlines, and this. week. was. BUSY. From the re-re-re-birth of edtech, to Naver's acquisition of Poshmark, Elon Musk, and Kim Kardashian. by Equity

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Startup Shutdowns and AI Showdowns: the 2023 chronicles: It was a very, very busy year in the worlds of technology, startups, and venture capital, and the Equity crew is talking through key themes from 2023. Alex and Mary Ann are looking at the year's venture capital numbers, fintech's hot start then cool down on the M&A front, the creator economy in 2023, and why OpenAI's upheaval got us thinking about the return of key-person syndrome. by Equity

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The end of Plaid-Visa, and Palantir's growing startup mafia: This week we had a lot to get through, as the news volume in early 2021 has been rapid, and serious. Sadly this means that some early-stage rounds missed the cut, though we did make sure to have some Series A material in the show. by Equity

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OK, don't fear: the long shots are still getting venture funding: This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha and Alex asked: How do founders hold two ideas in their heads: both that there is an economic downturn, but also that things are looking up for many industries? by Equity

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The rules of VC are being broken: Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As ever I was joined by TechCrunch managing editor Danny Crichton and our early-stage venture capital reporter Natasha Mascarenhas. We had Chris on the dials and a pile of news to get through, so we were pretty hype heading into the show. by Equity

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Market turmoil, billion dollar funds, and the Qualtrics IPO by TechCrunch Industry News

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Pinterest and Lyft move closer to IPO, and LPs question the Vision Fund’s investment strategy by TechCrunch Industry News

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Another month, another billion dollars in value appreciation: This week Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex (along with our amazing production team Grace, Chris, and Kell) took on a bevy of topics from around the world of startups and technology more broadly. by Equity

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