Rebecca Szkutak

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Ibotta’s expansion into enterprise should set it up for a successful IPO

Ibotta's recent partnerships with brands Exxon, Shell and Walmart helped the company reach profitability. © 2024 TechCru...
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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency

As the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of fores...
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Former Nextdoor exec raises $25 million for PipeDreams, a startup rolling up HVAC companies

Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer...
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Deal Dive: Building the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing

Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries. © 2024 Tec...
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Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing

Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries. © 2024 Tec...
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Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverage startups ready to disrupt Coke and Pepsi

Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories. © 20...
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A $700M SAFE, IPOs are back, and how one venture fund is transcending borders

Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind th...
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Reddit’s IPO has begun with shares soaring 60% within minutes

Shares of social forum giant Reddit opened Thursday at $47 per share, then quickly soared to around $55, up about 60% in...
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Astera Labs’ IPO pops 54%, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI twist is high

Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company pri...
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Ramp CEO says the fintech startup is just scratching the surface

Fintech exploded over the last five years. Startups in the category raised more than $350 million in VC funding from 201...
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LACERA decreases venture capital allocation range, but experts say it doesn’t signal a trend

The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capit...
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Late-stage VCs may be preventing their startups from going public in 2024

While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are ac...
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VCs will get liquidity in 2024 from the secondary market, not IPOs

If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would ha...
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NFT fantasy sports startup Sorare lays off 13% of staff, as web3 gaming continues to sputter

Web3-enabled fantasy sports platform Sorare laid off 22 employees based in its New York office in February. The move com...
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AI could be the solution for bureaucracy, with Emilie Poteat from Advocate

Founders have spent a lot of time over the past few years trying to build practical consumer use cases for AI and machin...
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Reddit should go public at $5 billion, according to secondary data

If secondary buyers aren't buying shares at more than a $5 billion valuation, it wouldn't be wise for Reddit to price it...
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Black Tech Nation Ventures’ diversity thesis undeterred by growing DEI backlash

Black Tech Nation Ventures launched in 2021 to address the funding gap for Black founders amid a wave of venture diversi...
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Europe remains hard to crack for North American GPs

While North American VCs can see the potential value in backing European startups, it hasn't been easy for firms to laun...
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Zola wants to bring the wedding industry into the 21st century

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Shan-Lyn Ma, ...
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Deal Dive: Groover bridges the promotion gap for independent artists

Groover offers a platform for independent musicians to connect with music curators and be able to better promote themsel...
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Video game startups could be a bright spot for VC in 2024

Video game startups weren't immune to recent market pressures, but the industry heads into 2024 on better footing than s...
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Deal Dive: VCs are no longer gunshy about firearm startups

Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Color...
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Why a B2B startup is placing a bet on a $7M Super Bowl ad

Papaya Global bought a Super Bowl ad slot with the hope of the commercial driving brand recognition for the software com...
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Deal Dive: It’s time for VCs to break up with fast fashion

VCs have long supported fast-fashion companies but the controversies and lawsuits they draw makes them riskier investmen...
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Pitch competitions help level the playing field for underrepresented founders, but it isn’t enough

Pitch competitions are a bright spot for underrepresented founders but not without burdens that regular funding doesn't ...
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Navigating media’s ups and downs with theSkimm co-founders

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca flew solo with Carly Zakin and Dani...
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Deal Dive: Can AI fix lost and found?

Boomerang thinks so. It uses machine learning to match photos and descriptions of lost items to streamline the lost and ...
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Where gut health meets hypergrowth with Ben Goodwin from Olipop

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Ben Goodwin, ...
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Will startup valuations start to recover in 2024? Investors aren’t so sure

Most VCs think valuations are close to the bottom, if not already there, but few think there will be any relief in 2024....
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Countdown Capital winding down is not a bad omen for micro funds

As long as micro funds can be nimble enough to gain meaningful ownership, they shouldn't be too concerned about Countdow...
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