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Equity

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. And have fun! This week our very own Mary Ann was off -- we send her our best, as she is a living saint -- so Natasha and Alex and Grace and Chris got together to compile our news roundup. And oh boy was there a lot to corral. Up top this week, news from Indiegogo that the crowdfunding service is tightening up who gets to post projects on its platform. We view this as a general good, and one that could prove helpful to the long-term viability of crowdfunding. From the funding round rodeo, we riffed on the musical and potentially exciting Mictic (which raised $2.5 million), female-health focused illumigyn and what it might do for care access (it raised $33 million), and Martie, which wants to prevent food waste and perhaps provide low-cost foodstuffs to folks in need ($3 million in fresh capital). FEMALE FOUNDERS VSC And then we chatted for a minute on alternative investing. Namely what Aqua is building, and why Alex is writing columns on NFTs. Hugs and love from the team, we will chat with you bright and early Monday morning! 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
0:14.9	unpack the numbers and new ones behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I'm
0:18.3	joined today by my colleague in arms, Natasha Moscarinus.
0:20.8	Natasha, hello, how are you and why is it too cold in this world?
0:24.3	It is too cold in this world, but it's the volley.
0:26.4	So there is lights all over my apartment,
0:29.7	and I am so happy to finally be celebrating a holiday.
0:33.2	Look, any excuse to light candles is a jam with me because I'm an enormous fan of scented
0:37.8	candles.
0:38.8	I like raspberry scented candles.
0:39.8	I like rose into candles.
0:41.2	Evergreen scent, just basically bring it it on I'm big on it but briefly
0:45.1	before we jump into the tech stuff for folks who don't know tell us what dwelling is yeah a
0:49.5	lot of people know it as the Festival of Lights I think the part of it that's really inspiring is it's a
0:54.7	celebration of triumphing darkness with light. So it's a lot of joy. India goes hard for it,
1:01.7	but in the US marketing efforts have become super mainstream.
1:05.0	Like Costco is selling Luddu boxes, which is just like sweets, and it's kind of crazy to see how far we've come
1:11.2	since I grew up and you know it was a very small
1:13.7	celebration in the corner of our neighborhood. No I'm super high but this is one of the
1:17.5	best parts of living in America frankly is just like because there's so many
1:20.6	folks here from so many places in some different cultures.
1:22.5	Like we get to kind of have a sampling of everything and I'm into it.
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