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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas. Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now…
Clearly, VC firms are landing on different conclusions while debating how to jump into AI during its nondebatable watershed moment.
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex are…
Startups
The Mint, started by Better Tomorrow Ventures, wants to be the accelerator fintech needs
1:30 pm PDT • May 10, 2023
Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. The investor previously worked as a partner at 500, previously known as…
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How do you know when it’s time to shut down?
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single person, think about their work and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha spoke to Kristen Anderson, the co-founder and CEO…
7:03 AM PDT • May 10, 2023
Startups
This app, backed by Marissa Mayer and Peter Thiel, is making texts more expressive
12:46 pm PDT • May 8, 2023
“The medium is the message” is the common phrase, but entrepreneur Alexis Traina believes that messages, themselves — text messages to be exact — deserve attention, too. Traina is the…
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Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype
Navin Chaddha, the storied investor running Mayfield Fund, doesn’t want to be running a billion-dollar fund like many of his peers. “Everyone wants to be Sequoia or a16z,” he said, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We want to be who we are: just copying somebody else is strategy for disaster,…
8:01 am PDT • May 8, 2023
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It’s been a…
Chegg’s dramatic post-earnings valuation flop will not be the last time that we see new AI tooling run headlong into existing enterprises.
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex got…
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is…
In the wake of FRB’s collapse, founders and investors continue to wonder: Where is the best place to protect important assets?
Startups
Ann Lai says she was fired from Bullpen Capital after helping deliver a $145M fund
5:46 pm PDT • May 1, 2023
Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, has been fired from the firm, she says. The investor described the termination experience as “discriminatory and retaliatory” in a LinkedIn post…
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Tech’s guiding principles…
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex…
Startups
Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff
2:57 pm PDT • April 27, 2023
Clubhouse, a once skyrocketing social audio app built by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half of its staff. The startup’s co-founders made the decision in…
Startups
Chief, a professional network for women leaders, cuts staff amid restructuring effort
12:02 pm PDT • April 27, 2023
Chief, a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an email seen by TechCrunch that the move is a…
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Founders change their pitch
Now that it has been over a year since tech’s current period correction first began, founders are getting more innovative in how they approach tweaking their pitch.
6:00 am PDT • April 27, 2023
TechCrunch Live with SignalFire and ClassDojo
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7:29 am PDT • April 26, 2023
Register for this TechCrunch Live right here. The show broadcasts live today, Wednesday, April 26 at 12 p.m. PDT. Sam Chaudhary takes his time. The founder of ClassDojo, an edtech…
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A modern take on what an entrepreneur can, and should, spend their time on
Welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
7:11 AM PDT • April 26, 2023
TechCrunch Live with SignalFire and ClassDojo
Hear ClassDojo and SignalFire unpack edtech’s opportunity ahead on TechCrunch Live
11:55 am PDT • April 19, 2023
Sam Chaudhary takes his time. The founder of ClassDojo, an edtech consumer app that focuses on student classrooms, spent eight years building the company before introducing a formal revenue model.…
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Despite regulatory concerns, the US is far from losing its venture crown
7:30 am PDT • April 19, 2023
We can learn quite a lot from venture capital investments themselves.
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas. After a Tahoe-based tech conference, Sheel Mohnot, the fintech investor behind…
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary…
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Founders shouldn’t have to choose between mental health and grit
7:14 AM PDT • April 12, 2023
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is…
Fintech
This fintech startup ideally wants to be ‘a lot more boring’ than Robinhood
7:00 am PDT • April 12, 2023
Soon after launching Ocho, a startup offering personal finance support for business owners, Ankur Nagpal realized that the company’s debut product — a solo 401(k) retirement account — “is not…
Startups
Silicon Valley Bank’s chief risk officer is out, months after taking the job
3:33 pm PDT • April 11, 2023
When Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse was first unfolding, a belated disclosure colored some of the chaos: The bank spent most of last year without a chief risk officer, and the…
Venture
In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date
11:28 am PDT • April 10, 2023
Reach Capital, one of the first venture firms to focus exclusively on edtech, closed its last investment vehicle during an unprecedented boom within tech. The San Francisco-based venture firm saw…
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Y Combinator’s new…
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