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Written by Jeff Lampkin

Hiya and welcome again to Equity, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast, the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

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Regardless of it being a brief week, as all the time, it was a busy, busy time. We had Grace on the dials at the moment, and Danny, Natasha and Alex making chit-chat concerning the tech world. As with each week this 12 months, we needed to minimize and minimize and minimize to get the present all the way down to measurement. Right here’s what made it in ultimately:

  • Medium noticed extra workers depart the corporate after CEO Ev Williams printed a “tradition memo.” Whereas the Medium memo doesn’t wholly ban politics, some allege that the undertone of the assertion, timed weeks after a failed unionization try, created an unsafe atmosphere. Per week later, Natasha lined one other controversy, this time at Y Combinator. We riff on the takeaway, and what this story seems to be like three months from now.
  • The difficulty of firm tradition is attracting corporations. Or extra exactly startups, with Blendoor dropping a brand new report this week that TechCrunch lined, and Vault elevating $8.2 million to offer a software program resolution to help workers in reporting misconduct.
  • On the funding spherical beat, we explored ChartHop’s new $35 million spherical that Danny had many ideas about, fake-chicken nuggets startup Nuggs elevating $50 million and School’s newest deal that may assist energy its imaginative and prescient for the way forward for male grooming. We additionally acquired into Lifted’s elder-care centered spherical, a startup within the bigger well being tech beat that Natasha is giving a few of her consideration to.
  • And we wrapped with the ExtraHop exit. We spent a minute making an attempt to determine why the corporate was valued at $900 million in its exit. The quantity, whereas giant, felt gentle primarily based on what we knew concerning the firm.

Thanks for hopping together with us this week and each week. Fast programming notice: Natasha will take Alex’s spot on the Monday present for subsequent week since he’s out, so be good, and send her stuff to say.

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Community safety startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit

About the author

Jeff Lampkin

Jeff Lampkin was the first writer to have joined gamepolar.com. He has since then inculcated very effective writing and reviewing culture at GamePolar which rivals have found impossible to imitate. His approach has been to work on the basics while the whole world was focusing on the superstructures.