Venture
Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes
3:32 pm PST • February 15, 2022
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Let’s chat through Airbnb’s quarterly results’ highlights and our occasional quibble as we digest a world for technology companies that appears increasingly like the pre-pandemic days.
Fundraising
Did venture capitalists undervalue startups for decades?
8:43 am PST • February 15, 2022
It appears the market decided that startups are worth more than they once were, by a material multiple. So were startups dramatically undervalued in prior years and decades?
Startups
Airbase teams up with Amex on corporate spend, raises a little capital from the giant
5:00 am PST • February 15, 2022
This morning Airbase, a startup in the corporate spend space, announced that it is working with Amex on a pilot that will see its service offered to certain customers of…
Startups
Daily Crunch: Hackers leak names, personal details of donors to ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest
3:38 pm PST • February 14, 2022
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Featured Article
Food-delivery profits remain elusive
The value of delivery giants around the world is in decline. Given all that, you might expect that investors would curtail wagers. And yet.
8:44 am PST • February 14, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour…
Soon all blockchain companies will be crypto speculators
10:10 am PST • February 12, 2022
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Startups
Daily Crunch: At SpaceX’s Starship update event, Musk offers updates on plans, progress
3:15 pm PST • February 11, 2022
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 11, 2022! Today we’re talking big rockets, self-driving cars, tech stocks getting rekt, and more. It’s a fun, and good mix…
Featured Article
Zendesk spurns $17B private equity takeover offer
This deal was just too aggressive a bargain hunt to swallow. Whether the company’s activist investors agree, time will tell.
12:18 pm PST • February 11, 2022
Fundraising
Why Affirm’s stock is getting hit, and what the selloff means for the BNPL startup market
9:33 am PST • February 11, 2022
Should the myriad well-funded BNPL startups see Affirm’s descent as a warning concerning their own efforts or something more company-specific to the U.S. fintech?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had the…
Venture
Daily Crunch: Tesla facing lawsuit after ‘hundreds’ of racial discrimination allegations
3:27 pm PST • February 10, 2022
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Media & Entertainment
If crypto companies are going to spend this much money, can we at least get an 11th F1 team?
7:16 am PST • February 10, 2022
It’s time for a bold blockchain company to succeed where so many others have failed: building a new F1 team. Admit it, it’s brilliant.
Venture
Looks like we’ll get to test the impact of rising interest rates on tech stocks
6:53 am PST • February 10, 2022
It’s clear that we’re entering a new monetary world here in the United States. Let’s see what the impact is on tech.
Startups
Daily Crunch: Samsung erases the Note, starts new page with Galaxy S22 Ultra phablet
3:17 pm PST • February 9, 2022
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Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm and Anita Ramaswamy, our newest crypto and fintech reporter, discuss the future of the metaverse and whether its prevailing use will be for work or for…
Transportation
Uber wrapped 2021 with strong revenue growth and greater adjusted profitability
1:30 pm PST • February 9, 2022
Today after the bell, Uber reported its fourth-quarter financial performance. The company saw $25.9 billion in gross platform spend, up 51% compared to its year-ago result, and revenues of $5.78…
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Media & Entertainment
How to ruin the metaverse? Build it around profit and centralization
6:57 am PST • February 9, 2022
We need a third-party, benevolent central entity for the metaverse.
Venture
Daily Crunch: After slashing 2,800 jobs, Peloton taps former Spotify CFO to replace outgoing CEO
3:22 pm PST • February 8, 2022
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U.S. ride-hailing company Lyft dropped its fourth-quarter financial results Tuesday, a report that showed a mixed bag of growth — that in the area of active riders failed to meet…
Featured Article
Which insurtech startups are set to thrive?
Which insurtech startups are set to thrive? And could we see the market find space for neoinsurance companies still private to not fall into the same trap as their public predecessors?
8:48 am PST • February 8, 2022
Daily Crunch: Investors pour $450M into Ethereum scaling platform Polygon
3:12 pm PST • February 7, 2022
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Media & Entertainment
From movies to shipping, AWS is driving Amazon’s revenue diversification
2:35 pm PST • February 7, 2022
Put simply: Most of Amazon’s operating income came not from selling stuff, but instead from selling compute and storage.
Media & Entertainment
Peter Thiel to leave Facebook board, which you probably forgot he was still on
1:57 pm PST • February 7, 2022
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced today that board member Peter Thiel will not seek reelection to his post, effectively ending his tenure in the top echelon of the…
Remember Wag? The dog-walking app made huge waves back in 2018 when it raised $300 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Wag’s back in the news thanks to a SPAC deal…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace…
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Startups
Equity Shot: Making sense of the Paypal and Alphabet earnings
7:00 AM PST • February 5, 2022
Hello and happy weekend from the Equity crew! We had a busy week, including a Twitter Space with Natasha and Alex taking to the mics…
