How investors are playing offense right now (their words, our two cents)

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, we're trying something new. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community. After the summit, she sat down with Mandela SH Dixon -- All Raise's new CEO -- to unpack what happened, and discuss how today's changing venture capital market will impact diverse founders. The first half of this episode is a conversation between Natasha and Mandela, and then we'll bring on Alex and turn to some on-the-ground clips from the summit. Sound bytes from Freestyle's Jenny Lefcourt, January Ventures' Jennifer Neundorfer, Rethink Impact's Heidi Patel and Union Square Ventures' Rebecca Kaden will get the classic Equity treatment. Or, put differently, Alex and Natasha will react to top investors talking about their game plans for the next market cycle. It's fun! 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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0:15.4	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha
0:18.9	Masquerainis and this is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single
0:22.2	topic, think about a question and
0:23.8	unpack the rest.
0:25.4	This week we're talking about how does this current market downturn impact diverse founders?
0:30.0	And in general, what's the state of the market for early stage founders?
0:32.7	We know the doom and gloom, we know the overpositive.
0:35.5	Is there any rational take in the middle that we should be considering?
0:38.2	Thankfully, I'm not alone.
0:39.5	I am joined by Mandela S.H. Dixon, the newly announced CEO of Allrays, and she's coming fresh off the annual
0:47.3	All-rays VC summit, so there's a lot to get to. Mandela, thank you for joining us after such a wild
0:52.3	week for you.
0:53.0	Right. Well, thank you for acknowledging the VC summit and all the energy we put into that space to really create that in-person community experience.
1:03.0	Natasha, I am honored to be in conversation
1:05.5	and get an opportunity to be on your podcast.
1:07.7	I am so happy to have you here.
1:08.9	I mean, the summit was off the record.
1:10.4	So we're going to try getting some information during this panel about what you can tell us and what kind of stood out to you
1:15.9	But I want to start a little bit with our personal history because we knew each other when we were both at different jobs and for me it was crunch-based news for you it was founder Jim
1:24.0	which actually really perfectly led you to take this new role with all race so
1:27.5	maybe tell people a little bit about that journey yeah thanks so much so
1:31.0	founder Jim was created I think I educated it in 2017 and our first online cohort
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