What’s the opposite of a lean startup?

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Hey and welcome again to Equity, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

That is our Friday present, and we’re speaking concerning the week’s greatest startup and tech information. This week, Mary Ann and Alex ran as a duo, protecting a large swath of startup and know-how information. Don’t overlook that the Fairness crew are opening this 12 months’s TechCrunch Disrupt occasion, so snag a bagel and are available hold in just a few weeks!

Right here’s the present rundown:

• Teamshares: Here’s an interesting one. Teamshares has raised some huge cash and is shopping for numerous SMBs. However that’s simply the beginning. It additionally plans to permit staff of these corporations to purchase most of their inventory over time, whereas serving up centralized fintech companies to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to speak a few new mannequin?
• MoonPay’s new enterprise arm: Crypto fee infra firm MoonPay is getting into the venture game, with a deal with crypto, gaming and fintech. The union of these three is crypto video games, in fact, however we’ve got two eyes fastened on what MoonPay decides to put money into. New crypto-thematic, or crypto-adjacent funds are rarer lately, making the MoonPay information thrilling.
• Rent Butter and Kiki: Now that the zero rate of interest interval is over, and the experiment in constructing new iBuying and mortgage service startups has partially concluded, renting is scorching once more. And thus, so too are rental-focused startups.
• The IPO drought has lasted longer than you anticipated: Working off a Crunchbase dataset, Alex has notes on simply how lengthy we’ve got been ready for actual tech IPOs. The excellent news? They’re (partially) again!
• What occurs while you bring lean startup ideology into the AI world? Loads of experiments, it seems.

And that’s us till subsequent week. As a result of an American vacation, Fairness will kick off on Tuesday subsequent week as a substitute of Monday!