Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we

unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. Today is January 12th

2024. My name is Alex and I'm joined as always by my dear friend and work bestie.

It's Mary Ann Asaveto. Mary Ann, hi.

Hi, Alex, how's it going?

I'm doing good, although I just realized when I was reading our little intro that it's the 12th of January,

which means effectively that we're halfway through the first month.

This year is already going too fast.

I know.

I know it's insane.

Before you know it, it's going to be February and then June and then December oh my gosh

I don't know and then I'm going to be older and then if you're like under 30 listening to this

time does get faster as you get older just absolutely

something to look forward to other things look forward to on the pod today

include two very excellent deals of the week one from shimmer Shimmer, one from over Moon, and then we're going to talk about the IPO window and how critical it is that it does reopen this year, have some cool data from Pitchbook there about necessary exits in the realms of SAS, FinTech, and AI.

And then we're going to bring in two of our best friends, Hia and Kirsten, who are live from

CES in Las Vegas, tells us all about the startup trends they are seen there.

But, Marianne, deals with the week to begin with,

and I want to start with Shimmer,

which is a platform for one-on-one personalized ADHD coaching and I love this for a number of reasons one I wasn't

familiar with the idea behind ADHD coaching but I'm a big fan of therapy in general and just getting help with things.

Two I didn't realize how expensive it was to get ADHD coaching.

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