CES, Circle-ing back to IPOs and why we're over the moon about Overmoon

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today, Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo dig through the key stories from the week. Then, Kirsten Korosec and Haje Jan Kamps are aboard to bring us the latest from CES! Deals of the Week: Shimmer raised $2.2 million to bring one-on-one ADHD care at a lower price point; Alex chose this one because mental health care startups that try to expand access are cool. Overmoon's recent fundraising and business progress were Mary Ann's choice for the week, showing that proptech is not dead yet! Circle is going public: Yep, the company behind the USDC stablecoin is once again heading for the public markets. The company's confidential IPO filing follows an aborted SPAC attempt in the past. Alex is bullish on the deal, though we'll need to wait for the full details before we can actually make some predictions. And speaking of IPOs, we're really far behind on how many exits are needed to clear the venture capital decks. CES: We went over a ton of cool stuff this year, including this Bane-style mask, ChatGPT in cars, eVTOLs and more! Equity will be back next Tuesday due to a U.S. holiday on Monday. See you then! For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews foundersand more! 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, a podcast about the business of startups where we
0:15.3	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. Today is January 12th
0:19.7	2024. My name is Alex and I'm joined as always by my dear friend and work bestie.
0:25.6	It's Mary Ann Asaveto. Mary Ann, hi.
0:27.8	Hi, Alex, how's it going?
0:29.3	I'm doing good, although I just realized when I was reading our little intro that it's the 12th of January,
0:34.8	which means effectively that we're halfway through the first month.
0:37.2	This year is already going too fast.
0:39.2	I know.
0:40.2	I know it's insane.
0:41.2	Before you know it, it's going to be February and then June and then December oh my gosh
0:46.0	I don't know and then I'm going to be older and then if you're like under 30 listening to this
0:51.4	time does get faster as you get older just absolutely
0:55.6	something to look forward to other things look forward to on the pod today
0:59.1	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.
1:14.7	And then we're going to bring in two of our best friends, Hia and Kirsten, who are live from
1:18.4	CES in Las Vegas, tells us all about the startup trends they are seen there.
1:23.0	But, Marianne, deals with the week to begin with,
1:25.0	and I want to start with Shimmer,
1:27.0	which is a platform for one-on-one personalized ADHD coaching and I love this for a number of reasons one I wasn't
1:37.9	familiar with the idea behind ADHD coaching but I'm a big fan of therapy in general and just getting help with things.
1:44.5	Two I didn't realize how expensive it was to get ADHD coaching.
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