Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home, I'm Brian McCullough,

but this is a new type of bonus episode as I said here is the premise the way that I like to think of this podcast is

It's a shorthand. It's a tool for people who either are in tech to better understand their industry

or for those who aspire to be in tech or just kind of like tech or aspire to do more in tech for those people to get a quick

insidery summation of where tech is and where I think it's going. That's why I

don't just do headlines. I try to give you context around what's happening, not just to let you know that it happened.

I like to think that if you listen to this show for six months,

you'd have enough background in the industry to maybe get a job at a VC firm

because you'd know all the trends and whatnot. But at the same time there's only so

many hours in a day. The utility of our format, which is a quick 15 to 20 minute

daily rundown, means that I don't always get to spend time on all of the trends and such.

I don't get to dive into where things are going as much as I would like.

I mean, from day one, the weekend long reads have been designed to do some of that, but we could be doing more.

So you know how sometimes I share interesting raises

with you as a segment? You might not know this but every single day there are like a dozen round raise announcements and I only have the time to

squeeze in one or two here and there. Over the course of a month there are maybe

50 or so startup raises that might be interesting so a lot of them fall through the cracks

because I have to tell you about something else that's more timely or newsworthy.

So I thought what if on a regular basis we did interesting raise bonus episodes.

Might be a really good way for folks to get a sense of the trends in investing,

which in turn is the canary and the coal mine for how the industry overall is moving and evolving.

If you were an aspiring founder, then you'd get a good idea of which way the winds are blowing

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