Muck Rack raises $180M, Elly Health Co-Founder Cecilia Anderson + OK Boomer | E1556
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Friday Variety is back! First up, J+M break down Muck Rack's $180M Series A (10:43). Then, Elly Health Co-Founder Cecilia Anderson joins Molly to discuss her startup (21:16). Finally, Producer Rachel interviews Contra Founder Ben Huffman for another edition of OK Boomer. (32:38)
(0:00) Jason tees up today's segments!
(1:19) Jason recaps his crazy evening at the Lady Gaga concert
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(10:43) Muckrack (a database for journalists) raised a $180M Series A(ish)
(19:18) WorkOS - Go to https://workos.com to learn how to make your app enterprise-ready.
(20:48) Elly Health Co-Founder Cecilia Anderson joins the show to break down her startup
(30:52) Neo.Tax - Get $500 off R&D tax credit fees at https://neo.tax/twist
(32:10) Producer Rachel interviews Contra founder Ben Huffman on another edition of OK Boomer!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another Amazing Friday Variety show. |
| 0:03.8 | First up, we've got some news from the startup world. |
| 0:05.8 | Muck Rack has raised $180 million series A, |
| 0:09.7 | then Molly's gonna interview another amazing founder |
| 0:12.7 | from our accelerator. |
| 0:13.9 | And finally, since his Friday, |
| 0:15.5 | it's time for OK Boomer stick with us. |
| 0:18.6 | This week in Startups is brought to you by |
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| 0:32.9 | at Embroker.com slash twist. |
| 0:36.4 | While you're there, get an extra 10% off |
| 0:39.2 | using offer code twist. |
| 0:41.2 | Work OS is a developer platform to make your app |
| 0:44.5 | enterprise-ready. |
| 0:45.9 | With a few simple APIs, you can immediately add |
| 0:49.2 | common enterprise features like single sign-on, |
| 0:52.7 | multi-factor authentication, and more. |
| 0:55.5 | Go to work OS dot com to learn how to make your app |
| 0:59.3 | enterprise-ready. |
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