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Equity

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4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The whole crew was here this week, with Danny and Natasha and Alex  together with Grace and Chris to sort through a very, very busy week. Yep, somehow it is Friday again which means it's time for our weekly news roundup. Here's what we got to in our short window of time: The Jianzhi Education IPO: We have questions. The Chinese edtech company is looking to list in the United States after Chinese regulators clamped down on Didi and other China-based, American public offerings. Bravery? Stupidity? Brilliance? It's hard to say, but we'll be watching. Zomato's IPO and the Indian tech scene: As Zomato puts the final touches on its impending public offering, we chatted about the listing and what it may mean for the larger, red-hot Indian startup market. The AI conversation: ZoomInfo bought Chorus.ai this week, which we had lots of say about especially in light of Gong's epic valuation. And Discord bought Sentropy, which also uses AI, albeit for a very different purpose. The great AI startup marketing push of years' past has finally led to a few neat exits. Apple vs. Startups: That's the gist of our chat about the BNPL space and Apple's possible invasion of the hot startup market. In short, who's at risk? We have a few ideas. The TechCrunch List is dead — long live commodity capital: We get into how a list that separates VCs by sector and stage makes no sense into today's lawless investing world. Which brings us to a series of new funds. As Natasha pointed out, the scene for emerging fund managers has never looked more diverse. Nooks raised a seed round, which turned us back into the world of virtual HQs. And we closed with a quick digest of the latest morsels from the fake-meat startup smorgasbord, including what Gourmey is cooking, what Next Gen Foods is whipping up, and how Beyond Meat plans to keep its market cap sizzling. Like we said, a busy week! Chat you all on Monday morning, early. 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 Tech Ranches Venture

0:12.1

Venture Capital,

0:13.0

focused podcast where we unpack the numbers

0:15.1

behind the headlines.

0:16.4

My name is Alex and I'm joined today by the usual crew.

0:19.2

I am Natasha here.

0:20.2

Natasha, how are you?

0:21.2

I'm doing lovely, Alex, how are you? I'm tremendous lovely Alex, how are you? I'm tremendous actually. I got up really early. I wrote many things and after this I'm going to bed so it's ideal. We also have Danny Criedin here. Danny was my intro full of enthusiasm that it meet your standards because we've had some complaints

0:34.3

about this in the past and I want to make sure that I'm living up to your expectations.

0:38.0

I thought it was Goldilocks principle, right.

0:40.7

Good.

0:41.7

It was almost a compliment, Alex. It was almost a compliment Alex. It was almost a compliment.

0:44.0

Look, we talk about gold on this show a lot, so Goldilocks is useful.

0:47.0

Look, from Danny, not dissing you, that's a compliment.

0:51.0

So I'll take, like Neutrality is very positive.

0:53.7

Lesson for life honestly. As long as someone's not

0:56.3

talking you you're fine. All right anyways we have a packed show. We're

1:00.3

going to kick off with a fifth time the charm Chinese ed tech IPO, not because we care about the company, but we want to talk about the regulatory environment a little bit.

1:08.0

Then we have the Zomatow, Zomato, Zomato, Zomato, Zomato, the Zomato I P, there we go.

1:13.8

And then we got Discord, Apple,

1:16.1

the Tech Runch list, a couple of great new funds,

1:18.8

a thing called Nooks, and then we're gonna wrap up

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