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Equity

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This is our Wednesday show, when we take a moment to dig into a raft of startup and venture capital news. No big tech here! Keep in mind that Y Combinator's demo day kicks off today, so we're going to be snowed-under in startup news the rest of the week. Consider today's show the calm before the storm. AUDIO On the podcast this morning we have BlaBlaCar's new credit facility and how it managed to land it, how PipeDreams could be onto a new model of startup construction, GoStudent's rebound and profitability, Hailo's chip business and massive new funding round, and the two new brands that GGV calls home as it divides up its operations on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast and posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and you can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full interview transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, read on, or check out our full archive of episodes over at Simplecast. 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 the Tech Ranch podcast where we unpack the numbers and the
0:16.6	nuance behind the headlines.
0:18.6	This is Alex and today is April 3rd, 2004.
0:22.8	Welcome back to our Wednesday show
0:24.2	where we dig into the critical and important
0:26.3	startup and venture capital stories
0:28.0	from the week thus far.
0:29.7	Now, if you're asking yourself,
0:31.1	what about last week?
0:32.0	We didn't do this last week.
0:33.4	What happened to the Wednesday show?
0:35.6	Well, I got an eye infection, and so last Wednesday morning I was at the doctor
0:39.7	and not at the microphone.
0:41.3	But we're back, and there is much to talk about. On the pod today I have
0:45.1	blah-block car and why it is ready to buy smaller startups. A startup that has a new model that I really dig,
0:52.2	go students turn around an AI chip company that is taking
0:55.6	on NVIDIA, and some venture capital news that was long in the making.
1:00.8	To work. in the car making
1:04.1	starting off blah car is an iconic name over in the French startup ecosystem
1:10.4	that's according to our own ron over on Tech Runch.
1:13.0	The carpooling and bus ticketing company, however, has been around for so long
1:18.0	that it's hard to really think of it as a startup anymore.
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