The slowdown in venture capital funding that the world has experienced since the 2021 bubble burst has affected both startups, venture capital firms and accelerators. A company in the latter category, Techstars, has been disrupting its operations for some time, leading to some departures from its ranks. TechCrunch’s in-depth analysis of how it all happened is well worth your time.
So we had the author Dominic Madori Davis on Equity to chat with us about his reporting. But that wasn’t all. Mary Ann Azevedo, Kirsten KorosecAnd Alex Wilhelm I had a lot to analyze this week.
We had notes on startup Ansa’s latest fundraising round, a wallet-as-a-service, and how Alex initially misunderstood its business model. Next, Kirsten told us about a simply massive deal in the autonomous driving space, while Alex wanted to riff on Beehiiv and its own funding round. 33 million dollars is not a small series B in 2024!
And we had a few minutes to discuss Anna Heim’s recent reporting on disability technology and how AI is gaining momentum and the industry is accelerating it. Better yet, there seems to be a mix of business models tackled by the startups we discussed. This means there could be many ways to turn technology that works better for more people into real, big businesses.
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