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Creator economy’s slow burn: 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: Clubhouse, UiPath, and the crypto flash crash: 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. by Equity

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Taking Tesla private, WeWork and Uber earnings, and what happened to crypto 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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When the economic tide goes out: This week we were back to full strength, with Danny Natasha and Alex joined by Chris to chat through the latest venture capital brouhaha. Namely whether or not venture capital is about to get shaken to its core, or if we're really parsing some long-term economic trends that will eventually revert. Here's a rundown: Sam Lessin kicked off the Twitter conversation by positing that venture capital as we know it is kaput, with software and later-stage investing possibly seeing the most disruption. Both Alex and Crunchbase News posted responses to the concept, which could best be summarized as yeah, but. However, the point that there is a lot of non-venture money flooding into startups is both real and material, and worth chewing on. So, masticate we did, parsing which areas of startup investing might be the most winsome for the VCs we spend so very much time talking to, 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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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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A16z doesn't invest, it manifests: 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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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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Equity Monday: More money for fintech, Deliveroo's IPO, and AI startups: 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. by Equity

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Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLM's?: We're digging into AI's iPhone moment with a very special guest: Matthew Lynley, one of the founding hosts of Equity and a former TechCruncher. Since his Equity days, Lynley went off and started his very own AI-focused publication called Supervised. We brought him back on the show to ask him questions about recent acquisitions from Databricks and Snowflake, what it means for the LLM stack, and where startups sit in the current AI race. by Equity

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Equity Monday: China boosts pressure on its tech sector as Duolingo's IPO looks to raise a few more bucks: 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. 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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Lyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and what’s Boy Brow? by TechCrunch Startup News

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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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The Venn diagram between crypto and OnlyFans: For the first time in donkey's years, we didn't have our full crew this week. Instead, we had just Natasha and Chris and myself -- we had to survive without Danny while he took the week "off" to "relax." But our depleted ranks did not mean that news was waiting for us to reassemble. Indeed, there was a mass of stuff to get through: by Equity

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What does Uber and birth control have in common?: This is Equity Monday, our morning coffee chat with you that is all about the weekend, what to expect this week, and some funding rounds you may have missed. by Equity

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How to avoid all the IPO work without annoying investors: It's Equity Friday! Today our beloved Mary Ann was off on well-deserved break, so our friend and fellow-podcaster Rebecca Szkutak was kind enough to bring her insight and humor to the podcast. We got into the progress being made on the possible TikTok ban, audio-focused AI-startups, why so many late-stage startups are seemingly avoiding the IPO. by Equity

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Equity Monday 07/20: 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 big news, chats 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 last Friday’s episode. by Equity

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Equity Monday: TechCrunch goes Yahoo while welding robots raise $56M: 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. by Equity

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Equity Monday: Airbnb pricing, Sequoia makes money, and early-stage rounds: This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats 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 last Thursday’s epic run of early-stage rounds. by Equity

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The huge TAM of fake breaded chicken bits: 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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Why build a tech mafia when you can just build each other?: 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: Why is tech full of copycats, and what’s the next full circle moment we can expect? 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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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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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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CES, Circle-ing back to IPOs and why we're over the moon about Overmoon: This week on Equity, Shimmer raises fresh capital to offer 1:1 personalized ADHD coaching, vacation rental startup Overmoon shows impressive growth, and we're also taking a deeper look at how the IPO window is reopening in 2024. We grabbed our friends Kirsten Korosec and Haje Jan Kamps to close out the show and bring us the latest from CES. 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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