Lyft goes biking, Airbnb is going public (eventually), big money for software robots, and Juul

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

The second shot is kicking in: 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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Cisco buys Duo, Brandless raises $240M, and Apple broaches $1T by TechCrunch Industry News

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Why isn't Robinhood a verb yet?: This week Natasha Mascarenhas, Danny Crichton and your humble servant gathered to chat through a host of rounds and venture capital news for your enjoyment. As a programming note, I am off next week effectively, so look for Natasha to lead on Equity Monday and the both her and Danny to rock the Thursday show. I will miss everyone. But onto the show itself, here's what we got into: by Equity

37 min listen

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

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Yandex takes a big hit to get rid of Russian assets: Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Monday show, in which we look back at the weekend and the week ahead. Today we get into, Crypto price movements after the spot Bitcoin ETF, yet another reason for investors to think twice about working with Russian companies, and we close it out by wondering if every startup is now an AI startups. by Equity

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Ridesharing IPOs and $850M for Luckin, Plaid and Zymergen by TechCrunch Industry News

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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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Taking Tesla private, WeWork and Uber earnings, and what happened to crypto 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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Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020: Today is our holiday look-back at the year, bringing not only our own Danny and Natasha and Chris and Alex into the mix, but also five venture capitalists who we got to leave us their notes as well. The goal for this episode was to reflect on a year that no one could have ever predicted, but with a specific angle, as always, on venture capital and startups. by Equity

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Edtech is the new SaaS: The whole crew was back, with Natasha Mascarenhas and Danny Crichton and myself chattering with Chris Gates behind the scenes making it all work. An extra shoutout to Natasha this week as we spent a lot of time talking about edtech, a category that she spearheads for us and has brought to the show. It's a big deal! We're on YouTube now, don't forget, and with that, let's get into the news: Climax Foods raised $7.5 million to help fuel its work to develop alt-foods that are not animal-based. The Equity crew votes that this is a tasty deal. And, Capchase has raised $4.6 million to help cash-out SaaS contracts ahead of their real revenue accrual. Our read is that more financing options for SaaS companies will lead to lower costs of capital for those startups that want it. And, the Envision Accelerator made it through batch one and is on to batch two. Then we chatted about edtech, with Natasha talking us through Owl Ventures raising huge new funds, Course Hero ext by Equity

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Equity Monday 07/27: 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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Gearing up for demo day: Every Monday, Grace and Alex and Kell scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. by Equity

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11 Job Titles in 8 Years at 1 Company with Sean Kilgore: Sean Kilgore is a senior principal engineer/architect at Twilio. Sean brings more than two decades worth of tech experience to this role. Previously, he worked as a principal engineer II/operations architect at SendGrid (which was acquired by Twilio), an by Screaming in the Cloud

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

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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

24 min listen

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

34 min listen

Can you beat Google with Google's brains?: Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. by Equity

31 min listen

#117 Leon Noel has helped THOUSANDS of people learn to code. Quincy interviews the 100Devs founder: On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp Founder Quincy Larson interviews Leon Noel, founder of 100Devs and head of engineering at Resilient Coders. Growing up, Leon had it drilled into him that he had to become a doctor, lawyer, or... by freeCodeCamp Podcast

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When do layoffs matter? Trick question - always: This was a live week on the podcast, meaning that Mary Ann and Alex and Natasha and Grace teamed up with the fine audio and visual folks from our mothership Yahoo to not only record the show, but to do so in front of, well, all of you! It's fun to record live, and we'll do it again in two weeks! by Equity

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Do you need a SPAC therapist?: 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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The iron rule of founder compensation is dead: Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. by Equity

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How investors are playing offense right now (their words, our two cents): This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, we're trying something new. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community. After the summit, she sat down with Mandela SH Dixon -- All Raise's new CEO -- to unpack what happened, and discuss how today's changing venture capital market will impact diverse founders. 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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