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Equity

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4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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. We naturally kicked off with news that Facebook intends to rebrand itself. Which we don't think will do much to detract from its various crises. But the news does underscore that Facebook is, in fact, serious about writing its next chapter. From there it was time to talk funding rounds. This week we picked Vertical Oceans and its fishy plans, Superplastic and its stable of rude digital critters, and Modern Age and its plan to help us all age a bit more gracefully. Vibe Capital, founded by Teachable's Ankur Nagpal, is a $60 million fund for international, scrappy founders. We spoke about the founder to investor pipeline, and why everyone wants eachother's jobs. And then Alex ran us through some data from the Chinese venture capital market, information that was far more positive than we anticipated. Given, you know, the country's regulatory crackdown on technology companies. We closed with a number of major fintech rounds, including new capital for Deel and a funding scoop on Brex. While we're in a bubble, it's easy to get lost in the same narrative: everything is booming! This week's episode was a good reminder of how diverse, and nuanced, this ever-lasting startup summer truly is. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Tech Runches, Venture Capital,
0:13.0	Focus Podcast, where we unpack all those numbers
0:15.4	behind each and every headline.
0:17.0	My name is Alex, and I'm here with the team.
0:18.9	I have Marianne Asoveto.
0:20.4	Marianne, hello.
0:21.7	Hi, how's everybody?
0:24.6	Natasha, you were talking earlier this week
0:26.4	about how easy this week was and how it was flying by.
0:29.5	So let's start with you.
0:30.8	How are you doing?
0:31.8	I'm not okay.
0:32.4	I'm recuperating. I think jinxed myself and I forgot to drink
0:35.3	water for 24 hours and so today is a weird day. Yep I've been there but listen we are going to get
0:42.0	through this because there is so much to talk about and actually this is one of the fun of shows we ever put together because of the diversity of topics
0:47.6	We're going to talk about Facebook because we have to and its name changed we have have many many opinions about this. We also have
0:53.5	funding rounds from vertical oceans, superplastic and modern age, of which I understand
0:58.8	two, not three, so we have a little work to do. We're also going to talk about founders becoming
1:03.6	investors what's going on in the Chinese venture capital world and then dig a
1:06.9	little bit into some mega-fentec raises including a scoop from our own Marianne.
1:10.9	So it's going to be a real treat. But first, ladies and
1:13.1	gentlemen, King Zuck has decided that he shall rename the kingdom and it shall
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