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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We had the full crew aboard today, headed by our killer production team Grace and Chris, and hosting crew Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex. Last week we promised Cute Farming Robots, and this week we delivered, along with a lot more. But first, the Equity team along with our sister podcast Found are doing live recordings starting soon. You can find out more here, but Equity will be live-taped on Hopin next Thursday. Come hang out, it should be fun! https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/come-hang-with-us-for-live-recordings-of-techcrunch-podcasts-equity-and-found/ Now, the show rundown: Funding rounds from Pluto (corporate spend in the Middle East), Free Agency (agents for tech talent), and Metafy (video game coaching) got us started. From a host of rounds this week, we chose the most interesting for your delectation. If you want more on gaming, check out our Wednesday show where we niche down into the universe, or in this case, the metaverse. The new Seven Seven Six fund got us into the crypto investing beat, which Alex explored here earlier in the week. In short: Expect more crypto deals. We also touched on the Indian crypto tax rule, which is a revelation of a regulation. From there we dove into the fintech realm through the lens of the Bolt fiasco/drama/truth-telling saga. More tweets, please. And then, we end with a section on autonomous vehicles, that has nothing to do with cars. Yep, we're talkinig Cute Farming Robots, including rounds from Vecna, Electric Sheep, and MongoDB founder doing this, which reminds us that the AWS of robots isn't too far away. So far, 2022 is feeling good. Along with our soon to be standing live show circuit, we're working hard on making the show more focused on tension and nuance, while still sticking to our love for numbers and nerdy networks. Let's annoy some people this year, and teach you something in the meantime. 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 unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines
0:16.1	My name is Alex Wilhelm. I'm a reporter here at the good blog Tech Ranch and I am joined by the Friday crew including my very very dear friend Marianne as a veto hello I hear Texas still has power
0:27.0	For now. Yes, but ice on the roads so pray for Texas everybody because it's about to get cold and that is not what the state is
0:33.1	designed for we also have Natasha Moscarenis here and Natasha hello it is lovely to
0:36.8	hear your voice and see your face you too I think this is the first time we're
0:40.3	actually allowed to talk about weather in an equity intro because Texas is
0:44.6	actually unwell so I'm proud of us for getting a good timing rate. We've banned the
0:49.6	weather talk because we turned out that it was just me complaining about being cold
0:53.2	99% of the time which no one wants to hear but we have a packed show today we have
0:57.6	funding rounds from Pluto free agency and Metify really just awesome companies
1:02.2	that we're really excited to talk about.
1:03.4	We're going to talk about crypto investment, Viz, the new 776 Venture Capital Fund.
1:08.8	We're going to talk about FinTech competition and what it is doing to leadership in the space.
1:12.4	And of course this will bring up our dear Twitter friend Ryan
1:15.2	Breslow and then we're going to wrap up by talking about autonomy and all
1:18.3	things self-driving comma but not about cars so stay tuned for that this This morning though, guys, funding rounds.
1:24.0	This has been a week of rounds that were actually very, very interesting.
1:27.1	Sometimes they're not.
1:28.1	Mary Ann, I want to talk about Pluto, which is a company that one has a great name
1:31.8	and has a great focus and a great part of the world.
1:33.6	So tell us all about it.
1:34.6	Alex, I was super pumped about this company.
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