SaaS goes to space as some software startups are in a race to survive

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4.2 • 365 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week on Equity, Simply Homes raised $22 million for an interesting property play, SoftBank bought majority share of connected-vehicles company Cubic Telecom, and OurSky raised $9.2 million for its space-viewing software system. The crew also parsed through troubles in Fintech from ZestMoney and Navan and how tech earnings are sending mixed signals to startups and VCs.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast all about the business of startups where we
0:15.4	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I'm
0:19.1	joined today by Senior Tech reporter on the FinTech beat, it's Marianne Asavito.
0:23.5	Marianne, we were just discussing how important Mexican food is to our lives, and so now I have
0:27.2	to ask, how is the Mexican food in Austin?
0:30.0	It's pretty good, I have to admit.
0:32.0	Lots, yeah, lots of good choices, and now you're making me hungry. Yeah we are
0:35.6	recording right around lunchtime which is very dangerous I think about it. We also
0:39.9	have Kirsten Korsek here, Senior Tech runge manager, editor, person on the transport beat.
0:45.6	How is the Mexican food in your neck of the woods?
0:47.3	Well, I live in Sonora, so Southeast Arizona.
0:50.3	It's excellent, as you might guess. And we have, you you know the Sonoran hot dog as well which is like a special thing here
0:56.9	So I've never heard of that. Yeah, it's amazing
1:00.4	Clearly I'm asking for more here here Kristen, so I was going to.
1:02.8	Oh, you are.
1:03.4	Oh, I thought you were just looking to visit.
1:06.2	So it's hot dog wrapped in bacon and just covered in all sorts of fun things.
1:12.1	Also, male. I'm not a male fan,
1:14.0	so, you know, I kind of avoid that,
1:17.0	but yeah, it's just an over-the-top
1:19.0	Sonoran hot dog.
1:21.0	Sounds absolutely amazing.
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