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Equity

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🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive, Alex and Natasha and Danny decided it was time to chat about funding rounds. Yep, everyone's favorite topic, just in time for the return of our wonderful producer Chris. To help us navigate these particular waters, we had our friend and friendly competitor Alex Konrad on the show. Konrad is a senior editor over at Forbes, and part of the founding duo behind the Midas Touch newsletter. We like him - and his puppy! With four of us around the Zoom table, here's what we got into: An overview of the venture capital market in Q2. You can read TechCrunch's coverage of the global numbers here, and our further exploration of the US market here. TechCrunch has more coming on the matter, so stay tuned. While the show includes the staggering statistics on the current funding frenzy, we soon broadened the conversation to why it all matters. Consider this a peek into the reporter's notebook! We spoke about the supply and demand for covering funding rounds, the imbalance in who receives what money, and how an overall reader ad writer numbness to that $2 million pre-seed impacts the headlines. Which landed us into our final section: how to stand out in the overall deluge of funding rounds. Here we all had a take, because all reporters find different things interesting. Here we answer questions about what metrics to pay attention to, how to be more than a number in your pitch, and the value of talking about topics other than your startup's success. Thanks again to Alex K. for joining the show! Find him on Twitter,https://twitter.com/alexrkonrad and check out his work at Forbes. Chat with everyone on Friday, a show that is already coming together to be a scorcher. A bit like the weather. Except in San Francisco. Natasha is cold! 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 Runches Venture Capital-focused
0:14.0	podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I am
0:17.9	joined today by an entire like cadre of nerds. It's fantastic. In my lower left I had Natasha Moscarinus. Natasha, hello. of Nastasz
0:23.6	Nastasha Moskarenis, Natasha, hello, how is the freezing cold bay?
0:27.2	I have been warmer before, but I'm so happy to be back in San Francisco, like my heart is
0:31.8	warm enough so I don't need to be actually warm no I'm very
0:35.4	very jealous I think I'm coming in September and I can't wait we also have Danny
0:38.6	Cretin joining us for a rare Wednesday episode Danny hello I have been very absentee because I just don't
0:45.1	show up anymore. I know we've noticed everyone's noticed because you don't show up and
0:48.8	it makes us all very very sad. We miss you. We do and we also have a special guest today coming from Forbes, a senior editor and one of the
0:56.2	founders of the Midas touch newsletter, Alex Conrad, say hello. Hey, thank you guys for having me.
1:01.2	Yeah. And we have you on today because we have a theme,
1:04.4	as we always do on a Wednesday.
1:05.5	And the theme this week is the explosion in venture capital rounds and activity.
1:09.9	The imbalance between number of rounds and then folks who write about them, which is why Conrad is here, and also at the end,
1:16.8	Natasha's going to talk a little bit about how to make your rounds stand out.
1:20.0	And that's the goal today, but we're going to start with some data.
1:22.2	We're going to do a dive into the Q2 VC landscape. Danny Cryden.
1:25.9	Tell us some huge numbers. We can all go, ooh and ah.
1:29.2	Yes, sir. Last quarter we had about 12 funding rounds were announced, which was up 20% from the 10 rounds
1:36.1	announced last year. I'm kidding. So CB Insights and Facts that gave out a bunch of new data. So in quarter two of this year there was a
1:43.0	hundred and fifty six billion dollars of venture capital fundraised up from
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