Equity

Equity

885 Episodes Last Episode: Aug 2, 2024
Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups, unpacked by the writers who know best. Produced by Theresa Loconsolo. Edited by Kell.

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AI hardware has taken on a new shape with Friend’s $99 necklace — a pendant that gives you an AI friend to talk to and…

AI Friends, deepfake foes, and which Tiger Global partner is leaving now

Global startup funding was up 16% in the second quarter, according to Crunchbase data, led by an uptick in mega-rounds. That increase was led, unsurprisingly,…

Global startup funding is picking up with AI still in the spotlight

Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. Today’s episode is packed with M&A talk, how one YouTuber…

Stripe’s easy-peasy acquisition and why is Twitch still losing money?

Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with some significant fundraises, a potentially…

Alphabet is clearly looking to buy, so who’s selling, and why did Wiz say no?

Maven Ventures general partner Sara Deshpande has been investing in the consumer tech space for a decade. Over time, the seed-stage venture firm has backed…

Cracking the AI and consumer code with early Zoom-backer Maven Ventures

On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan did a deep dive into the CrowdStrike outage that affected around 8.5 million Windows devices around the world,…

CrowdStrike’s fallout, Harris’s stance on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes

Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with deals, antitrust musings, AI and…

Silicon Valley’s impact on the election and an acquisition making our HeadSpin

Renegade Partners co-founders Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek have seen it all in their careers — notably over the past four years when they launched…

If the music stops, which startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners’ co-founders are finding out

On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan explored Google’s reported talks to acquire Wiz, a cloud security company, for around $23 billion. Wiz provides an…

Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue

Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with deals, antitrust musings, AI and…

There’s always something happening to OpenAI’s board