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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This is our Wednesday show, where we sit down with a guest, talk about their work and dive deep into the rest. Mary Ann and Alex invited Marisa Warren onto the show. You may remember that we discussed her new fund — ALIAVIA Ventures’ first — on the show the other week. We wanted to talk with her to go over a few key topics that we care a lot about: The current state of venture investment in women; why the numbers aren’t changing, and what she thinks could make a difference. When startups should target their second market, and how. The two themes are not as far apart as they may initially seem. ALIAVIA invests in startups based in the US and Australia that have at least one female founder, and also helps their portfolio companies tackle new markets. It was a really interesting, and fun conversation. Enjoy! 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
0:16.2	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and
0:20.0	this is our Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest, think about their work, and
0:24.3	unpack the rest. But before I introduce our guests for today, I have tagged in my friend
0:28.7	Marianne to help me out. Marianne, how are you?
0:31.3	It's going well, Alex. I'm excited to be joining you in this conversation today.
0:35.3	Well, that sounded corporate.
0:36.8	I know. You know, I don't mean for it to be.
0:39.9	I have to just share very quickly one of my kids listened to our podcast made fun of me in terms of how I answered when you ask me how are you?
0:47.0	So now I have that in my head every time. Well on that note my spouse told me last night she'd listen to the show and she hasn't listened to equity in like, you know, four years because I'm around all the time.
0:57.0	She gets plenty of my voice in her life. And I was like, no way! And she was like trying to come up, she's like, yeah, I learned all about the apple.
1:04.4	I was like, yes.
1:05.8	Nice.
1:06.8	That's how I feel about her about her job too.
1:08.8	But today we do have a guest we're very excited about.
1:11.6	We have on the show today Marissa Warren
1:13.8	the co-founder and managing partner at AliaVia Ventures which is a Cali-based venture
1:18.7	capital firm focused on early-stage startups and it invests in both US
1:22.3	on Australian-based female founders.
1:24.4	Marissa, hey, welcome to the show.
1:26.0	Yeah, thank you for having me.
1:27.4	Did I get the name right of the firm?
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