Equity Monday: IPO delays and mega-deals kickstart the week

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This morning we had a lot to get through, so here are the headlines: Stocks are set to rise as the COVID-19 vaccine is initially rolled out. Vista Equity Partners will purchase Pluralsight for $3.5 billion. Good news for edtech? Kinda. Reddit is buying Dubsmash, causing us to ask just what the message board unicorn is building. EA is buying Codemasters. Appboxo has raised $1.1 million, IntellectoKids has raised $3 million, and Cledara has raised $3.4 million. We were also in love with this startup's funding news. And, finally, in light of the Roblox IPO delay, we wonder who else might be on track to cut loose their 2020 plans for an early 2021 re-jigger. Not that such a delay is really that bad, but with 2021 expected to be a hot year for debuts, kicking off with delays and pricing worries would be a real bummer. We didn't get to the Google story or the huge hack news. So, there's more to read if you are so inclined. And that is the show! Hugs and good vibes from the Equity crew!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Alex and you are listening to Equity Monday for December 14th
0:14.9	2020. Equity Monday is your weekly startups, tech, markets, and venture capital
0:20.8	primer and this is the third to last episode of Equity Monday for 2020,
0:25.8	which actually feels all kinds of wrong.
0:27.7	We started this edition of the podcast earlier this year and, you know, surely,
0:31.9	surely, a whole year has not slipped through our fingers since.
0:35.0	Anywho, domestic stocks are set to rise after the COVID-19 vaccine began to roll out here
0:40.1	in the US.
0:41.5	On one hand, this kind of makes sense.
0:43.3	The vaccine is now in the market and will,
0:45.2	we presume, start protecting the most vulnerable in short order.
0:48.3	Good, haza.
0:49.5	But we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to COVID.
0:52.1	There are months of paying ahead of when it comes to COVID. There are months of
0:53.0	paying ahead of us. So to see stocks go up and we're still facing months of
0:56.2	high death rates is a bummer. On the other hand, you know, sure I get it. The
1:00.4	end game is inside and investors are looking into the second half of 2021.
1:04.0	It's just kind of ghastly.
1:06.0	That's all.
1:08.0	Thankfully there is a lot more to talk about than just the usual sad mix of bad COVID
1:12.0	news and worry about our unemployed friends during a market
1:14.8	rally, so let's get into our world of startups and money.
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