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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex were all aboard this week under the guidance of Chris and Grace, meaning that we were running full-strength for our roundup of this super busy week. Before we hop into the topics, you can follow the show on Twitter -- all the cool kids do! -- and keep in mind that on Mondays Equity provides a short kickoff to the week, we chat a single topic on Wednesdays, and Fridays are when we go through the full week. Make sense? Hell yeah: Fiveable Cobalt raised $2.8 million to help creators build and sell more stuff. As part of our continuing focus on creators more broadly, we had a few questions! Found came out of stealth with $32 million in total funding from GV, Atomic and Define Ventures. The startup is focused on "weight care management" and it's notable that the co-founder of Atomic, which incubated this company, also co-founded hims and hers -- which also has a telehealth component. Found's new CEO is the former COO of Bumble, who drafted its S-1 while getting chemo treatment for stage 3 breast cancer. From there we dug into trends! First up was the trend of startups going full-stack, which we kicked off with a look at AngelList's new Stack -- har har -- product. It's a bit like what Carta and Stripe offer, which gave us some good angles to chat about the news from. Next up was consolidation, which echoed our first conversation. Discussing a recent deal in the RPA space, the Equity team made predictions about which sectors in the startup world are the most likely to see consolidation in the coming quarters. And we closed with climate tech, a startup niche that could bring a small sliver of hope to our heating planet. WITTY CONCLUSION Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Crunchches Venture Capital Focus Podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines

0:16.1

My name is Alex Wellham and I'm joined today by the Friday crew I had Natasha Moscarenis here.

0:20.5

Natasha. Hello, how is your week? My week is good. This is the least stressful part of it though so now I am peeking.

0:28.0

I just got I just got Twitter shamed by Frank Shaw of Microsoft into catching up on

0:31.5

D. M. If you want to know how I'm doing.

0:33.7

We also have Mary Ann Azveto, Mary Ann hello and same question to you.

0:38.0

I am actually doing great Alex, thank you.

0:40.3

It's been a good week.

0:41.3

I don't think you'll have to say that on the podcast.

0:43.0

We've never...

0:44.0

It's to be very negative the entire time.

0:45.0

No one's ever...

0:46.0

That's a first actually.

0:47.0

I don't think anyone's ever said that before.

0:49.0

Okay, well, we're breaking new ground today guys,

0:50.0

but there's a lot to get into.

0:52.0

We have three funding rounds that we're all very excited about and then we have three themes so in the funding round world five of all

0:57.5

COBOL and found not the podcast found the company found turns out and then we're going to riff on some angel-less news,

1:04.6

what it means to kind of go full-stack

1:06.0

or horizontal in the modern startup world.

1:08.3

We're going to talk about consolidation

1:09.5

in the RPA space and what that may signal

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