Equity Monday: Billion-dollar deals, JetBrain's epic profitability, and our favorite new VC rounds

Equity

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The weekend was busy, as always, so there was a lot of chew over this morning. Here's a partial list: SoftBank is going to put together a number of SPACs. Indian fintech Pine Labs has raised $75 million to $100 million at a valuation of around $2 billion RealPage is selling to private equity for $9.6 billion Zoom is under fresh scrutiny here in the US Bolt has raised $75 million more in a Series C1. We talk about why that's fun, and its current competition. Group14 has raised a $17 million Series B that has us thinking about the future. And WorkWhile wants to help hourly workers and employers get along better. Closing, here's the Owen Thomas piece that I mentioned at the very end of the show.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is Alex. Hey, it's Natasha. And we are here to talk just for a second about Extra Crunch
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0:39.0	So head over to Tech Ranch.com slash subscribe, use that code, make us look good internally, we say thanks across the internet,
0:46.2	and now let's to Equity Monday for December 21st
1:06.3	2020. Equity Monday is your weekly startups, tech, markets and venture capital
1:11.8	Primer.
1:12.6	And as a little bit of a programming note,
1:14.4	this is the second to last Equity Monday of the year,
1:17.4	which makes it a pretty good time to say,
1:18.6	thanks for tuning in to the experiment.
1:20.3	We made up the idea for Equity Monday
1:22.2	back in December of 2019 and after a couple of trial-ups internally we pushed it live around the start of the year
1:27.8	And we had zero idea if anyone was going to like it. I'm happy to report that Equity Monday will persist into 2021. So onward.
1:36.2	And with that, let's get into our little world of startups and money.
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