Growth is not enough
Hello and acquire behind to Equity, TechCrunch’s try capital-focused podcast, where we empty a numbers behind a headlines.
We were a smaller group this week, with Natasha and Alex together with Grace and Chris to arrange by a week that brought together both this quarter’s gain cycle, and a Q3 IPO rush. So, it was only a small busy!
Before we get to topics, however, a note that we are carrying a lot of fun recording these live on Twitter Spaces. We’ve found a hacky approach to constraint internal audio and also share a chats live. So, strike us adult on Twitter so we can hang out with us. It’s fun – and we might even move we adult on theatre to play guest host.
Ok, now, to a Great List of Subjects:
- Robinhood went public! Yep, during prolonged last, it is done. The association labelled during $38 per share, a low finish of a range, and had a medium-weak day of trade once it started to float. In short, Robinhood seems to have skilfully labelled a IPO, withdrawal 0 fat on a table. So, it is now richer than ever, and public. More here.
- Earnings! We took a impulse to discuss about gain reports from Alphabet, and Microsoft, and Shopify. Why? Because we caring lots about a cloud and height companies. So, we took a notation to discuss about open cloud results, and what Shopify got adult to.
- Batteries! Tesla is relocating towards iron-based batteries, and is looking to source other materials direct. At a same time battery recycling is lifting lots of cash, and Nikola is Not Dead. We call it dual truths and a lie.
- Unicorns and soon-to-be’s: Contentful lifted $175M during a $3B gratefulness from Tiger for a calm smoothness service, Squire, a barbershop tech platform, tripled a gratefulness (again) with Tiger Global (again), and Class squashed merger rumors with SoftBank Vision Fund II funding,
- More try rounds! To top off a try roundup, dual neat healthtech investments stood out, namely rounds from both Oova and Peppy. Both startups determine with a thought that hormonal health is a large nonetheless nascent opportunity. (We did an whole uncover about a imbalanced universe of hormone startups if you’re interested).
- We finished on a low-pitched note, that propitious for we all, didn’t embody us singing: accommodate a party of early-stage song startups