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 February

16th, 2024. My name is Alex and I'm joined today by two of my long-running work besties.

In one corner, we have Senior Tech Ranch reporter on the FinTech beat. It's Mary Ann Asabedow.

Mary Ann, hi.

Hi, Alex, how are you?

I had really good donuts today, so it's been a pretty good day overall, yeah.

I'm jealous, yum.

Well, my stomach does not agree because I need to go for I run but we also have

Corinne leaving with us. Corinne hey how are you? I'm doing very well. Thanks for having me

on the show again. Oh my gosh, an absolute pleasure.

This is just like all of our various meetings

we've had over the last couple of years together,

just now in a live recorded format.

So nothing bad will happen whatsoever.

But the good news is we have the right people today for this show because on the pod today deals of the week are

Rasa, Ultiverse, and Hippo Harvest, a little bit of blockchain in there, a little bit of robots, even some Fintec, it's going to be great.

Then for the first theme, we are discussing Venture Capital's transitional moment and why this year

is going to look very different in Venture Land than what we have seen in years before, and

then we're going to close off with what YC wants to see from

startups today.

Maryand, though, we're kicking off with Rasa, which just put together a very nice series

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