Hey there and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unload the numbers behind the headings. We’re closing our study soon, so this is your last opportunity(most likely)to get your voice heard!.?. !! In spite of it being a brief week, as constantly, it was a busy, hectic time. We had Grace on the dials today, and Danny, Natasha, and Alex
making chit-chat about the tech world. As with each week this year, we had to cut and cut and cut toget the show to size. Here’s what made it in the end: Medium saw more staff members depart the company after CEO Ev Williams published a ‘ culture memo.’ While the Medium memo doesn’t completely ban politics, some declare that the undertone of the statement, timed weeks after a failed unionization attempt, created a hazardous environment. A week later on, Natasha covered another controversy, this time at Y Combinator. We riff on the takeaway, and what this story appears like three months from now. The concern of company culture is attracting companies. Or more exactly startups, with Blendoor dropping a brand-new report today that TechCrunch covered, and Vault raising$ 8.2 million to supply a software service to help employees in reporting misconduct. On the financing round beat, we explored ChartHop’s new$35 million round that Danny had many thoughts about, fake-chicken nuggets startup Nuggs raising $50 million, and Professors’s most current deal that will help power its vision for the future of male grooming. We also got into Lifted’s elder-care focused round, a startup in the bigger healthtech beat that Natasha is providing a few of her attention to. And we wrapped with the ExtraHop exit. We spent a minute attempting to find out why the business was valued at $900 million in its exit. The number, while large, felt light based upon what we understood about the business. Thanks for hopping along with us every week and this week. Quick configuring note: Natasha will take Alex’s area on the Monday show for next week given that he’s out, so be great, and send her things to point out. Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m. PST, Wednesday, and Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. PST, so sign up for us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. Article curated by RJ Shara from Source. RJ Shara is a Bay Area Radio Host (Radio Jockey) who talks about the startup ecosystem – entrepreneurs, investments, policies and more on her show The Silicon Dreams. The show streams on Radio Zindagi 1170AM on Mondays from 3.30 PM to 4 PM.
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