Equity podcast

Telegram founder’s arrest, and who’s using acqui-hires to tip-toe around antitrust

On today’s episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Devin Coldeway kicked off our Deals of the Week rundown with Piramidal, a startup that offers a foundational model for analyzing brain scan data and just raised $6 million. The premise behind the company is fascinating — its technology aims to help complement the work of nurses and doctors

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Are Google’s monopoly cases 5 years too late or 2 years too early?

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesImage Credits: Getty Images Google suffered a major defeat when U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta found that the tech giant had acted illegally to maintain

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Maybe it’s a good thing that we’re not seeing too many AI unicorns

AI was prominent in the news cycle this week — yet again. In this Friday’s episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Mary Ann Azevedo and Becca Szkutak kick off the show dissecting a bill which aims to regulate AI at the model level. Naturally, some VCs and founders as well as students and professors

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Flourish Ventures on repeat founders, emerging markets, and when not to hop on the AI bandwagon

In today’s episode of Equity Podcast, Mary Ann Azevedo talked to Flourish Ventures co-founders Tilman Ehrbeck, Emmalyn Shaw and Arjuna Costa about a variety of topics, including how their investment themes have evolved in the past five years and what trends they’re most excited about. We also got their opinion on M&A deals in fintech,

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

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, by the AI sector. Funding to companies in AI made up 30% of all dollars invested and actually doubled quarter over quarter to $24 billion. On today’s episode of TechCrunch’s

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

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 massive acquisition falling apart and looking at what happens when a fintech company suddenly stops serving certain customers. To kick things off, Mary Ann Azevedo walked everyone through Clio’s huge

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

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 the likes of Zoom, Cruise, Hello Heart, Perplexity and x.AI and has grown to over $200 million in assets under management. Now, with a new $60 million fund — and

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

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, causing disruptions in air travel, banking, hospitals, media outlets, federal agencies and businesses of all kinds. The outage began when CrowdStrike, a cloud security giant, sent out a defective software

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