Witches, bats, squeaky caldrons and the blockchain
Whats up, and welcome to Equity, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And have a superb time.
This week Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex (together with our superb manufacturing workforce Grace, Chris, and Kell) took on a bunch of matters from the private and non-private markets alike. In our wheelhouse this week:
- An IPO rush: Positive, IPOs are nonetheless not maintaining with unicorn births, however the present tempo of public choices has us nattering. Paytm is coming. Sweetgreen as well. NerdWallet and Backblaze to boot. It’s a crowd!
- Alchemy raised $250 million for its blockchain-infra work, reminding us that A16z has all of its eggs in the identical ol’ crypto basket.
- Coronary heart to Coronary heart raised $0.75 million for audio-focused relationship. And regardless that we’re not the focused buyer base, we have been excited in regards to the founder and his huge guess on intention.
- Constructed by a pupil, Tasseled wants to help college students get their lives, and credits, together.
- Extra on the great Sequoia business model shakeup, constructing from our feedback earlier within the week. We dig into exit timings, and different potential impacts of the change.
- And we received to riff on the Midwest startup-boom, which is a area close to and pricey to Alex’s coronary heart. And it seems that Denver isn’t a Midwest metropolis.
Whereas we’re unhappy about Danny’s exit, it’s additionally edifying to have our new crew in place for 2022. Anticipate nothing lower than extra Fairness than ever.
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