Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Runches Venture Capital Focus Podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We are live here Wednesday morning with some IPO news. It is a disrupt day, so we are kind of coming together as a group to chat about some important news before we dive into conference mode. This is Alex, of course. I also have Natasha here. Natasha say hello. Hello. Hello.

Excited to be here. Good. And we also have Mr. Danny Cretin Danny how are you?

I'm doing great we're halfway through Disruptin and Natasha I believe had three panels

yesterday although fortunately for her she actually had breaks between her panels. I have two panels today back to back

You will see me live like wolf blitzer on the situation room you just never get him off the screen ever at disrep

In contrast I have one panel because the way Tech Ranch works is the cooler you are internally,

the more panels you get.

And Natasha is very cool, and so she got many panels.

I'm essentially the custodian, so I got the one panel

that no one else wanted.

But it's the panel that I deserve.

I'm talking about IPOs later,

which is the theme of today's conversation. We have two IPOs that have just happened. They priced last night. We are catching up on the news. It is Freshworks and it is toast. Freshworks is an American-Dash Indian company that works in the customer support and success software space.

Toast is a Boston-based FinTech and software platform aimed at restaurants.

And the talk show, let's start with Fresh Works.

I'm not putting you on the spot, an actual question,

had you heard of the company before a couple weeks ago?

No, I don't think it's a company I really paid much attention to

until you wrote about it, which can often be the case

due to the IPO world and me being a stage reporter.

No, no, and the reason why I asked is I just spoke to the CFO

of Fresh Works and he mentioned that one of the reasons

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