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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. Mary Ann and Alex ran as a pair this week, and here's what they got into: Deals of the Week: Allara raised $10 million for women's hormonal health, Agnikul raised $26.7 million for its orbital launch technologies. Beef in the (leased) boardroom: WeWork is irked by Codi, which is hammering the well-known shared-office giant in an advertising campaign. Meanwhile, Anyplace raised more capital to fund its digital-nomad friendly home rental business. Plaid wants to get Paid: News that Plaid hired a CFO kicked off a predictable cycle of speculation that it will go public. Yes, but when is the question, and our view is not for a while. Finally, ChatGPT is online, and VCs are pretty darn bullish about the current AI wave. In case you missed it, we had a great chat with a Crunchbase analyst earlier this week about all things Q3 VC! As always, Equity is back on Monday, but you can keep up with us in the meantime on X and Threads. For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders and more! 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
0:15.1	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. Today is October 20th
0:19.6	20th, 2023 and my name is Alex and I'm joined today by senior tech much reporter on the FinTech beat, it's Mary Ann Azavito.
0:27.0	Mary Ann, hello, hi, how are you?
0:29.0	Hi, Alex, I'm great. How's it going in your world?
0:32.0	The leaves are falling, which means that the snow is coming,
0:35.8	and I am not emotionally ready to deal with it being cold and dark
0:40.0	for a long period of time.
0:41.6	I know. I know, hopefully it won't be too brutal of a winter for you.
0:46.0	I'm gonna just have to eat all the mean things I've said about Austin
0:49.1	once it gets cold here and you're having like 70 degree weather
0:52.0	and I'm just crying into my snow shovel.
0:54.0	No, but I mean I'm doing good. I feel like it's kind of a busier period than it usually is in October.
1:00.0	Yeah, this week has been nuts. Lots going on.
1:03.0	Lots going on, but the good news for everyone with us today.
1:06.0	Hi everybody, is that we have lots to get through.
1:08.0	So lots of good stuff coming up on the show this week.
1:10.0	We have two deals, one from Alaraara one from Agnical it's a really
1:15.1	cool company out of India get to that in a second then we're going to talk about
1:17.9	the world of co-working why we work in a company called Cody are having a
1:22.2	beef and any places latest round.
1:24.4	Then we're going to talk about Plaid's eventual IPO because there's nothing in the world
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