Equity Monday: No, tech news doesn't stop over the holidays

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out the first of our two holiday eps, the last one talking to VCs about what surprised them in 2020. Anyhoo, from vacation, here's what Chris and I got up to: A report looking at how ecommerce changed during 2020. The epic carnage surrounding the Chinese government's clamping down on its tech sector (more here, and here from TechCrunch). Lalamove raised $515 million in a Series E. Yuanfudao raised another $300 million. Indian startups did not have the strongest year of venture fundraising, which felt a bit surprising. And it doesn't appear that Japan did either. But here in the United States, holy shit things were bonkers.

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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
0:06.8	TechRinch's subscription product. Extra Crunch is where a lot of our best analysis and follow-up
0:12.3	stories lives. We focus a lot on startups,
0:14.8	building, and even poke fun here and there.
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0:39.0	So head over to Tech Hey everybody this is Alex and you are listening to Equity Monday for December 28th, 2020.
1:06.2	Equity Monday is your weekly look at startups, technology, markets, and venture capital, all
1:10.6	in one very neat short primer. This is also the last equity Monday of
1:15.1	2020 of the year and also the first we've ever recorded from vacation. So please
1:20.4	don't tell anyone at TC that Chris and I are working today.
1:23.2	But as always, there is a lot to get into.
1:25.4	So let's blast through what matters this morning.
1:27.7	The very final Monday of a very forgettable year.
1:30.8	All right, looking back over the weekend, you know, now that we're heading into 2021,
1:35.6	there are more studies and notes out about how 2020 shaped up compared to prior years.
1:42.4	There's going to be a theme of this as you kick off the new year,
1:45.0	so get ready for it, but I want to highlight a couple of examples of things that really stood out to me and kind of made me think.
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