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VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it

Startups are hiring fewer workers and paying out less in equity comp

Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

What’s the Deel with Remofirst, and why are VCs playing musical chairs?

Welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Today on the pod, Mary Ann and Alex dug into a whole mess of news.

Carta’s missteps and real estate fintech’s up-and-down week

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! In this edition, I’m going to look at some hits and misses in the real estate fintech space, Carta’s missteps (again), and more! To get a

What happens to Carta now?

If a noticeable chunk of Carta startup and venture customers do leave, it would hurt the company's otherwise impressive revenue figures, but that seems unlikely to happen.

Carta’s growth story is being overshadowed by its stock trading snafu

Is Carta a bad business without a secondary-market trading arm? Can it scale on its other revenue sources to the size it needs to take its large private-market valuation live?

Carta exits secondary trading following credibility hit

Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of Carta’s tens of thousands of other customer

Bitcoin ETFs, Carta’s latest mess and let’s go to the moon

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week!

Carta, the cap table management outfit, is accused of unethical tactics by a prominent startup

Carta, an ambitious 14-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups and employees to use its software to manage their cap tab

Startups are doing fine, but scale-ups and unicorns are in deep water

The trends that we can spy inside the data are an effective argument against the era in which startups were encouraged to stay private as long as possible.

A look at how one fintech CEO’s PR decision backfired

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Carta’s CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press

In an attempt at damage control, the CEO of the equity management startup Carta, Henry Ward, today emailed customers, telling them that if they are concerned about “negative press” tied to the out

All venture funds use the ‘2 and 20’ fee structure, right? Not really

Typically, a VC fund's management fee is 2% of AUM, but new data from Carta shows that the 2% figure isn't as universal as you might think.

The pre-seed market is recovering, but investors increasingly have the upper hand

While funding to pre-seed startups has picked up pace, most of the deals being closed are more in favor of investors than the founders.

Here are the most richly valued startup types in today’s early-stage venture market

Don't worry, the answer here is not just "build an AI startup."

Charting the future of the early-stage venture market with Carta’s CEO

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday (Thursday, this week) show where we niche

The best way to avoid a down round is to found an AI startup

More capital went to AI startups in Q1 2023 than in the sequentially preceding quarter. In contrast, non-AI startups saw their capital inflows constrict over the same timeframe.

Down rounds are prevailing as power shifts to VCs again

As the pendulum of power swings back toward VCs, down rounds have become more common than the venture community has seen in nearly half a decade.

Have startup valuations fallen enough to feel sane again?

Let's find out the current premium venture investors are paying for startup shares, and see if we can find anything new compared to 2022 data.

As YC launches new batch, here’s how the early-stage venture market is faring today

Let’s talk median fundraising round sizes and deal values for seed through Series C in the first quarter of 2023.
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