Whats up and welcome again to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
That is Fairness Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the newest personal market information, talks concerning the coming week, digs into some latest funding rounds and mulls over a bigger theme or narrative from the personal markets. You may observe the present on Twitter here and myself here.
First, glad belated birthday to Chris Gates, one of many founding members of the present. His birthday was yesterday, and whereas he’s on trip for 2 weeks, we nonetheless needed to provide him a shoutout. Chris is an excellent particular person, a very good good friend, a very good father, a very good accomplice. He’s variety, supportive, and hilarious. And he has an excellent beard.
However Fairness waits for no single particular person, no matter their advantage, so on we went! Right here’s as we speak’s present:
- Shares are a bit blah this morning, although set to rise in the US. Cryptos are up just a little.
- From the weekend, Venmo is getting into e-commerce and Apple loves Surface.
- From this morning: Binance is beefing with the United Kingdom and seems to be successful, which is considerably humorous.
- On the funding spherical beat, Slice raised $20 million, Botrista raised $10 million and Thursday raised $3.5 million.
- We wrapped with this.
The Fairness crew is again on Wednesday for our deep dive, this week specializing in the creator economic system which ought to be good enjoyable. Chat then!
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