Series B is the attention-seeking middle child of financing rounds

Equity

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week our comrade Mary Ann was off, so Natasha and Alex teamed up with Grace on the dials to chat through the week's biggest news. Here's what our dynamic got into: Webflow's new round: Nine-figures of capital at a revenue multiple north of 40x? What is this, 2021? Nope, just the latest capital infusion for the no-code website company. All Raise's new CEO: The work of diversifying the venture capital market is far from over, and one group working to move the needle not only has plans to change the industry -- but also her own team. Funds: Natasha's coverage of fund-of-funds fit into news that SoftBank is turning one if its funds into an evergreen-vehicle, and Alex chatted through the numbers about Series A, B, and C rounds in the United States. Funds are maturing, experimenting and evolving into interesting vehicles. Maybe it's time we start covering them more on the show again (and check out our latest Wednesday episode for a Tiger Global-themed chat) What to know about China: From crashing stock prices to rocketing stock prices, it's been a week for Chinese equities. And startups appear increasingly caught in the crossfire. And then, crypto: From news about a hot new crypto deal to NFTs coming to Instagram, it feels impossible to avoid the blockchain world these days. We are back next week with our full team, and a live show. So, chat you Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday live! 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, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpacked the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines
0:16.3	My name is Alex. I am here in New Orleans this week and I have Natasha Moscovanus here.
0:20.1	Natasha you are also not at home. Where are you?
0:23.0	I am in Cincinnati and I am two steps from a graders, so people who are listening who know what
0:28.0	graders is.
0:29.0	I hope you're jealous of me.
0:30.1	I barely know what a Cincinnati is.
0:31.3	What's a graders?
0:32.3	It's like the best ice cream.
0:34.0	Their shick is that they, well they have this black raspberry ice cream and they have chocolate
0:38.0	chunks that can just be the size of a scoop and like that's their stick, big chocolate chip chunks.
0:42.0	Okay, look, but just buy chocolate if you want that.
0:45.1	Get it out of my ice cream.
0:46.1	Oh no, you are going to emerge the Ohio people against you, not me.
0:50.3	Look, I'm going to skip my usual commentary on putting chili on top of pasta because I know I've hit that a couple times, but we are going to enjoy the cultural notes of our current locations.
0:59.0	Well, we talk through a packed show. We're going to talk about Webflows, a new CEO over at all Rays. We're going to talk about WebFlow's fundraise, a new CEO over at all rays. We're going
1:04.8	about fund of funds, what's going on with the late stage money trying to go early and also
1:09.3	soft banks evergreen fund, which is very interesting. Then we're going to riff on some global startups
1:13.4	to the lens of China, its venture capital market,
1:15.6	and also its stock market.
1:16.7	And then we're going to wrap up
1:17.5	with a couple of silly notes on Facebook, crypto.
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