IT総合 Does X’s new valuation make sense?
Snap and X are quite different, but they also share much. Let's compare what we know about their finances to find out if...
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IT総合 IT総合 Welcome back to the SaaS bear market
Investors have sold off cloud stocks to the point that they are in bear-market territory when compared to 2023 peaks.
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IT総合 Governments are getting their AI-regulating boots on
We're looking at a massive earnings week, the Biden administration's order regarding AI, Web Summit's new CEO, and more....
IT総合 There could be a simple reason why seed deals are so expensive today
It seems that as long as rapid revenue growth is possible in the earliest stages of startup life, valuations are going t...
IT総合 AgentSync raises $50M more in a massive Series B extension
Insurtech has had a rocky few years. Several startups in the space raised a lot of money and tried their luck on the pub...
IT総合 AI is finally resulting in real growth for big tech
Generative AI technologies are being suffused into a host of applications, and the financial results of all that investm...
IT総合 The Theory Ventures venture theory with venture theorist Tomasz Tunguz
Welcome to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. This week, we had Theory Ventures founder Tomasz Tunguz o...
IT総合 As Databricks touts demand for AI services, all eyes are on Microsoft and Alphabet’s Q3 results
We can't wait to find out if these companies will report a material improvement from their investments in AI-related com...
IT総合 So how about another 20 IPOs?
One key area of private-market performance that we haven't yet given enough attention to is the matter of exits.
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IT総合 Here’s hoping genAI can make Siri better
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 All eyes on Tesla’s margins
The company has enjoyed gross margins far in excess of its major automotive rivals in recent years.
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IT総合 All hail the (eventual) Plaid IPO
A CFO, recent notes on limited burn, and enough historical information to indicate that the company is IPO-sized already...
IT総合 The venture market is overcorrecting
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of star...
IT総合 Will seed deals ever stop getting more expensive?
Per PitchBook, through Q3 2023, seed-stage startups clocked a median pre-money valuation of $12 million, beating 2022's ...
IT総合 Investors have not given up on web3 gaming
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 6 VCs explain how startups can capture and defend marketshare in the AI era
We asked a number of venture capitalists who are active in the AI investing space to walk us through what they are seein...
IT総合 Medium expects to be profitable in 2024 as it climbs towards 1M subscribers
Media is a tough game, and wringing value out of words on the Internet is a never-ending battle. We spoke with Medium's ...
IT総合 Why Medium is opting out of AI
Medium has gone through a number of versions over the years, but what has been a steady focus in Medium's life in recent...
IT総合 Rivian reminds investors that making EVs is incredibly expensive
Remember how long it took Tesla to start making money and how much it raised along the way? Building an EV company is no...
IT総合 Don’t sweat the valuation headlines, ByteDance is doing great
Does TikTok owner ByteDance's valuation cut mean that it is a struggling business? Not in the slightest.
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IT総合 Web3 funding is down again as the crypto winter drags on
Crypto pretty much seems to have lost its allure as far as venture capitalists are concerned.
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IT総合 So what happened to Blue Apron?
How Blue Apron got to where it is today an interesting story, and one that we should trace from the company's IPO throug...
IT総合 The generative AI boom could make the OS cool again
New AI tech could upend the status quo, and I think that Microsoft adding AI at the OS level could be a big step in that...
IT総合 Was tech’s ‘bull run’ simply a temporary surge?
Several factors converged to help Instacart, Arm and Klaviyo to go public, but those trends have largely reversed — we m...
IT総合 Tech layoffs are all but a thing of the past
Provided that tech stocks don't drop by a surprise 10%, I suspect that we're entering a period in which tech companies o...
IT総合 The recent tech IPOs are flirting with negative territory
Klaviyo and Instacart's shares went on to trade above their initial IPO pricing after Arm's own listing. However, the mo...
IT総合 Klaviyo’s strong IPO pricing should give unicorns an idea of what they are worth
Defending — or nearly defending — a 2021-era valuation in a 2023 IPO is impressive, given how much the value of tech com...
IT総合 Instacart’s IPO storms out the gate, showing that unicorns can, in fact, go public and survive
For startups dying of thirst in this desert devoid of capital, Instacart could not have offered up a more satisfying gla...
IT総合 Can the tech IPO market keep up its positive momentum?
If investor sentiment does turn out to be that good, these IPOs could prove a boon for late-stage startups everywhere.
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IT総合 What’s more venture capital than space lasers?
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of star...