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Hiya and welcome again to Equity, a podcast in regards to the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
That is our Friday present, and we’re speaking in regards to the week’s greatest startup and tech information. This week, Mary Ann and Alex ran as a duo, masking a large swath of startup and know-how information. Don’t overlook that the Fairness crew are opening this 12 months’s TechCrunch Disrupt occasion, so snag a bagel and are available cling in just a few weeks!
Right here’s the present rundown:
- Teamshares: Here’s an interesting one. Teamshares has raised some huge cash and is shopping for a number of SMBs. However that’s simply the beginning. It additionally plans to permit staff of these corporations earn inventory by means of ongoing service over time, whereas serving up centralized fintech providers to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to speak a few new mannequin?
- MoonPay’s new enterprise arm: Crypto cost infra firm MoonPay is getting into the venture game, with a give attention to crypto, gaming and fintech. The union of these three is crypto video games, after all, however now we have two eyes mounted on what MoonPay decides to put money into. New crypto-thematic, or crypto-adjacent funds are rarer as of late, making the MoonPay information thrilling.
- Rent Butter and Kiki: Now that the zero rate of interest interval is over, and the experiment in constructing new iBuying and mortgage service startups has partially concluded, renting is sizzling once more. And thus, so too are rental-focused startups.
- The IPO drought has lasted longer than you anticipated: Working off a Crunchbase dataset, Alex has notes on simply how lengthy now we have been ready for actual tech IPOs. The excellent news? They’re (partially) again!
- What occurs while you bring lean startup ideology into the AI world? Numerous experiments, it seems.
And that’s us till subsequent week. Resulting from an American vacation, Fairness will kick off on Tuesday subsequent week as a substitute of Monday!
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