Podcasts about series d

Today's guest is Chris Milligan, and Entrepreneur and Investor based in London. We are proud to also have Chris as a shareholder, investor, and venture partner at Tribe Global Ventures. Fresh out of university at QUT, Chris founded Adepto, a B2B SaaS HR platform. In 2015, Chris participated in an early version of Tribe's UK mission and relocated to London five months later, raising a Seed round from UK investors and establishing Adepto in Europe. With teams in both Brisbane and London, Chris continued to scale Adepto, raising further capital and working with global customers, including PwC, Cisco, AECOM, and BAE Systems. In 2019, Adepto was acquired by the US learning platform Degreed, where Chris joined the leadership team and supported a $150 million Series D. Since leaving Degreed in 2022 and still based in London, Chris founded Konfir, an instant employment and income verification solution built on banking, payroll, and tax data. Having raised £3.6m in Pre-seed and Seed funding from UK angels and VCs, Konfir is on track to become the go-to solution for UK verifications. Chris is a passionate supporter of Venture Capital and has invested in and advised over 15 early-stage tech companies in both Australia and overseas. He frequently visits Australia, blending his expertise and experience to support emerging entrepreneurs. hello@tribeglobal.vc

In an engaging episode, Alex Gajiego, Redpanda's founder and CEO, recounts his path from a curious builder in Colombia, dismantling motorcycle engines, to spearheading a tech company revolutionizing real-time data streaming. He shares insights on creating Redpanda to address unmet needs in high-performance data systems, highlighting its impact on mission-critical applications for major global companies. Gajiego explores the vital role of data streaming in powering AI applications, emphasizing low latency and scalability. He also delves into Redpanda's culture, rooted in customer obsession, being a good human, and winning as a team, while stressing the importance of bidirectional feedback to foster trust. Looking ahead, Gajiego is excited about Redpanda's partnerships with leading AI firms, positioning the company at the forefront of technological innovation.   Host: Jake Aaron Villarreal, leads the top AI Recruitment Firm in Silicon Valley www.matchrelevant.com, uncovering stories of funded startups and goes behinds to scenes to tell their founders journey.  If you are growing AI Startup or have a great storytelling, email us at: jake.villarreal@matchrelevant.com

When I last spoke with Tony Jamous in November 2020, we were navigating the early days of a remote-first world. The shift was sudden and widespread, but what followed was even more transformative. In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I reconnect with Tony to explore how the world of work has changed and how Oyster has grown from an ambitious startup into a B Corp-certified unicorn focused on enabling global employment at scale. Tony is the CEO and founder of Oyster, a company built on the belief that where you live should never limit where you work. We discussed the journey from pandemic-driven remote work to today's distributed models, the growing need for location-independent hiring, and how AI is now being embedded into every layer of global workforce management. Oyster is helping businesses hire across 180 countries with just a few clicks, solving compliance, payroll, and benefits challenges without the traditional roadblocks. During our conversation, Tony broke down what it means to build a mission-driven company and why measuring impact matters. More than 40 percent of employees hired through Oyster now come from emerging markets. That shift is not just a statistic. It reflects real people gaining access to economic opportunities they were previously excluded from. Stories like Christina in the Philippines, who now works from home and spends more time with her children, highlight the human impact of Oyster's platform. We also talked about Oyster's recent Series D funding round and how the company is shifting from high-growth to sustainable profitability. AI is a big part of that evolution. From internal operations to customer support, automation is being used to reduce friction and let people focus on work that matters. For Tony, leadership now means focusing on vision and values while letting AI handle repetitive tasks. What does the future look like when the world becomes one talent pool? This episode offers a grounded, forward-looking take on what happens when mission, technology, and global opportunity intersect.

In this wide-ranging episode, Casey and Christine dive deep into leadership transitions, complex systems, and the art of managing large-scale projects. Christine discusses her new role as Head of Engineering at a Series D startup, managing 60+ people and Casey discusses the counterintuitive challenges of scaling teams. Christine shares her synthetic biology progress, building an orbital shaker from scratch and exploring the intersection of hardware and biotech. The conversation spans from ancient Roman infrastructure projects to modern space exploration, touching on hiring challenges, the value of going to primary sources, and why some historical civilizations came tantalizingly close to industrial revolution but never quite made the leap.Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerNow It Can Be Told about the Manhattan ProjectWhat Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall GoldsmithAccelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene KimRadical Candor by Kim ScottPlayground - Contemporary science fiction novel about seasteading and AIClimbing Gold - Alex Honnold's podcast (featuring Vitaliy Musiyenko's Sierra traverse story)Conversations with Tyler - Tyler Cowen's interview showLex Fridman Podcast - Episodes with Jeff Wasserstrom (China scholar) and Tim Sweeney (Epic Games)The Complete History & Strategy of Standard Oil (Part I) (Acquired)Founders Podcast - Episodes on Jeff Bezos shareholder letters, Jim Simons, John D. Rockefeller, and Estée LauderHow Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What's Coming Next (Ben and Marc Discussions)The DER Task Force - Distributed energy resources podcast (Jesse Peltan episode)Main Engine Cut Off - Space industry podcast T+303: The Trump 2024 Transition (with Mark Albrecht)The Almost-Industrial Revolutions of Rome and China Cost of Glory - Ancient history podcast (Julius Caesar series)Circuit Playground Express - Adafruit electronics learning boardAda Fruit Orbital Shaker Tutorial - DIY lab equipment projectThinking by My Wits - Website featuring Scholar Alex Jones's literary works

Imagine an accounts‑receivable clerk clicking through four different systems just to finish one routine task. Chad Gold sees that bottleneck instantly. Fullstory's newly launched Workforce product maps every mouse‑stroke of such employee journeys, then surfaces friction points so companies can “make them more productive, so they can do even more value‑added things,” Gold tells us.The scene encapsulates the finance leader's thesis: data depth wins. “The companies that have the capabilities to capture the most comprehensive sets of data in a meaningful way are going to win,” he says. That conviction drew Gold—now in his fourth CFO chapter—to the Atlanta‑based behavioral‑data platform. Fullstory records the complete digital experience of each customer, from e‑commerce clicks to SaaS workflows, and feeds the corpus into AI models that flag churn risk or recommend instant actions, such as sending a coupon to a wavering shopper. The result drives revenue and reduces churn, he tells us.For its part, Fullstory has raised capital rounds through Series D and counts Kleiner Perkins, Stripes, Premier, Salesforce Ventures, GV and Dell Technologies among its backers, he tells us. Independent directors Ryan Barreto of Sprout Social and former Atlassian CFO Alex Estevez deepen the bench. After 22 years in finance, Gold values “lines, not dots”—long‑term relationships that provide partnership, not just cash. By pairing that philosophy with a platform built to illuminate every click, he aims to turn invisible friction—whether customer or employee—into the next chapter of growth. Stakeholders across the business will feel the lift, Gold predicts.

Identity management attracts significant investment as startups secure over $300 million, and a major eyeball-scanning service launches in the U.S. Persona leads a Series D funding round with $200 million to enhance identity verification tools amid rising AI trends. Veza follows with $108 million in Series D funding, focusing on identity security tailored for an AI-dominant environment. The U.S. launches World, co-founded by Sam Altman, offering iris scan-based identity verification across five locations, raising $244 million to develop tech that distinguishes humans from AI. Numerous identity security startups garner substantial investments, with Aura raising over $660 million and Semperis close to $500 million. Public interest grows, evident in Okta's $20 billion market cap and CyberArk's $17 billion valuation. The identity management market projects to exceed $24 billion this year, driven by remote work and cloud reliance. Anticipated growth in biometric authentication takes shape as AI bot traffic is expected to represent around 90% of online activity by the decade's end, creating challenges for businesses to identify genuine users versus malicious bots.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the week of April 26 to May 2, 2025, significant funding rounds occurred in the space, defense, cybersecurity, healthcare, and data orchestration sectors. Chaos Industries secured $275 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $2 billion. True Anomaly raised $260 million in a Series C round to enhance satellite asset protection. Apex closed a $200 million Series C funding round. Persona, an identity verification platform, raised $200 million in Series D funding, also valuing it at $2 billion. Cast AI secured $108 million, while Veza raised $108 million. Persivia completed a $107 million recapitalization for its healthcare AI platform. Astronomer raised $93 million for its data orchestration platform. AssetWatch closed a $75 million Series C round, and Utilidata secured $60.3 million. Additionally, Thunes from Singapore raised $150 million in a Series D round.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Astronomer, a developer of the data orchestration platform Astro, secured $93 million in a Series D funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The funding involved contributions from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors like Insight Partners, Meritech, and Venrock. The New York-based startup's Astro platform faces increased demand as automation and processing of data workflows become essential for AI applications. Astronomer reported a year-on-year revenue growth of 150% and aims for profitability within two years. Since its founding in 2018, Astronomer has raised nearly $376 million in total funding. This funding round reflects a trend of significant investments in the AI sector, with AI leading venture funding in Q1 2025, receiving $59.6 billion, representing 53% of global funding.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sponsored by Veza. Visit veza.com/idac for more info.In this sponsored episode of the Identity at the Center Podcast, hosts Jeff and Jim welcome Tarun Thakur, the co-founder and CEO of Veza, and Phil Venables, a strategic security advisor with Google and board director for Veza. The discussion spans the critical role of identity security in modern organizations, the innovative solutions offered by Veza's Access Graph, and the challenges posed by both human and non-human identities. They delve into the evolving landscape of privilege access management (PAM), the transformative potential of AI in identity security, and actionable steps organizations can take to achieve least privilege and reduce risk. The episode also highlights Veza's recent $108 million Series D investment, underscoring its mission to build the next-generation identity platform.Chapters00:00 Understanding Privilege in Organizations02:10 Introduction to the Podcast03:13 Meet the Experts: Tarun and Phil03:46 Tarun's Journey into Identity05:24 Phil's Background in Identity08:35 The Vision and Differentiation of Veza11:38 Announcing Major Investments13:48 Challenges in Identity Security27:48 Challenges of Privilege Access Management28:09 The Evolution of Privilege Access30:25 Session Recording and Management in Modern Infrastructure33:17 The Role of Access Graph in Identity Management44:47 Leveraging AI in Identity Security52:50 Final Thoughts and Future DirectionsConnect with Tarun: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarunthakur/Learn more about Veza: https://veza.com/idacConnect with Phil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philvenables/Phil's Blog: https://www.philvenables.com/Connect with us on LinkedIn:Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/Visit the show on the web at idacpodcast.com

“I think for any entrepreneur that's navigated the last five years, I don't know if there was a worse time to be building a company.” Clutch found a new gear for its business after a post-pandemic lull … just in time for tariffs to hit. Dan Park (CEO) and Stephen Seibel (COO) join to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated online car retail, how the end of cheap capital pumped their brakes, and how Clutch regained traction after a savvy market expansion. What has this journey taught them about how to prepare for whatever tariffs will do to the auto industry? Let's dig in. The BetaKit Podcast is presented by Float. Float helps Canadian companies manage spend, automate expenses, and now, convert FX at rates 90% lower than the banks. Sign up in minutes and learn why Canada counts on Float. Related links: Clutch gears up for expansion with $100-million CAD Series B round Clutch cuts staff to extend runway, citing market conditions Clutch cut approximately 65 percent of its staff as online auto marketplaces gear down Clutch recovers valuation and eyes growth with $50-million Series D round

Dan Lorenc is the Co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, the safe source for open source.The internet runs on free, open source software. But as its risen in popularity, its become the latest attack point targeted by hackers and nation states.This conversation with Dan gets into the history of open source software, cloud computing, Linux, the software supply chain, how AI will impact it, and what the next big cyber attack will look like.Dan is an engineer, but he also loves sales and go-to-market. We unpack how Chainguard went from zero to 150 customers and a $40m ARR in two years.Chainguard just announced a $350 million Series D led by Kleiner and IVP, and Dan unpacks the round, plus shares his secret methodology for valuing the company.A big thank you to Dan's Co-founder Kim Lewandowski, to Clay Fischer @ Spark, Bogomil Balkansky & Andrew Reed @ Sequoia, and Tom Loverro @ IVP for their help brainstorming topics for Dan.Thanks to Numeral for supporting this episode, the end-to-end platform for sales tax and compliance. Try it here: https://bit.ly/NumeralThePeelTimestamps:(3:26) A safe source for open source(4:57) The software supply chain(7:19) Can you trust open source code with contributors in Russia?(9:43) Malware attack that almost took down the entire internet(12:40) What the next big cyber attack will look like(15:12) How will AI impact the software supply chain(17:53) The history of cloud computing(21:42) Why all cloud computing runs on Linux(23:16) How Linux + Linux distros work(29:28) Automating open source security(32:43) Chainguard roadmap: Libraries and VMs(36:40) Focusing on FedRAMP(42:44) Impact of DOGE(44:06) Zero to $40m ARR in two years(45:40) Learning to love sales as a technical founder(47:24) Lessons from Frank Slootman(51:15) How to create urgency in sales(53:16) How to build a sales team(58:23) Hiring Ryan Carlson from Wiz & Okta(1:01:45) Inside Chainguard's $350m Series D(1:07:41) Vibe coding + Dan's software stack(1:09:51) Cutting his hair in front of the entire company(1:10:27) Wearing a different suit to each board meeting(1:12:32) Bogomil, world's best SDRReferencedCheck out Chainguard: https://www.chainguard.dev/Jobs at Chainguard: https://www.chainguard.dev/careersPrior episode with Dan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC4cOJ9n_Z8Linux Origin Email: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mmmlh3/linux_has_a_interested_history_this_is_one_of/The Qualified Sales Leader: https://www.amazon.com/Qualified-Sales-Leader-Proven-Lessons/dp/0578895064Julius, AI data analysis: https://julius.ai/Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-codeWorld's best SDR: https://x.com/BogieBalkansky/status/19132697148828143502025 Chainguard Assemble Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adfU9LJg3I0Follow DanTwitter: https://x.com/lorenc_danLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlorenc/Follow TurnerTwitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovakLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovakSubscribe to my newsletter to get every episode + the transcript in your inbox every week: https://www.thespl.it/

Chainguard, a software supply chain security startup, secured $356 million in a Series D funding round, achieving a valuation of $3.5 billion. The funding was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP, with new investors including Salesforce Ventures and Datadog Ventures. The valuation reflects a threefold increase from the previous valuation of $1.12 billion after a $140 million Series C round. Chainguard focuses on secure software development tools, particularly for open-source software, and reported an annual recurring revenue of $40 million, aiming to exceed $100 million by fiscal year 2026. The company has raised a total of $612 million since its founding in 2021. Cybersecurity investment remains strong, with Exaforce recently raising $75 million in a Series A round and total funding for VC-backed cybersecurity startups surpassing $2.7 billion in Q1 2024, a 29% increase from the previous quarter.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raúl Artiaga y Xavier Vidal reseñan sin spoilers las últimas series y miniseries de estreno. Hablamos de "Día cero", "English Teacher", "Wolf Hall", "Su majestad", "So Long, Marianne" y "La vida breve". ¡Gracias por darle al play! Redes sociales: @CinoscaRarities Blog: https://cachecine.blogspot.com.es/ Correo: cinoscararities@gmail.com Escúchanos en Spotify, Ivoox y Apple Podcast ¡Buscamos colaboradores! ¡Escríbenos!

Episode SummaryWhen Jamie Beaton co-founded Crimson Education, his goal was simple: help ambitious students get into the world's best universities. Fast forward ten years, Crimson has 800+ staff, global offices, and a suite of education platforms spanning admissions coaching, an international online high school, and AI-powered study tools.Jamie's personal journey is just as remarkable—Harvard undergrad, four master's degrees, a JD from Yale, a PhD from Oxford, a Rhodes Scholar. His expertise? Elite admissions, scaling global businesses, and the changing economics of education.In today's episode, we cover:• Why the traditional university model is broken and which institutions will survive• How AI is making elite education accessible (and why most schools aren't ready)• Why New Zealand's smartest students need to get out—and when to return• The right way to build a world-class company, from hiring to leadership• How top universities actually admit students (hint: it's not just grades)We also hear about Jamie's biggest mentors, his leadership lessons, and the future of Crimson Education after its recent Series D.Time Stamps01:11 The wildest education history: Harvard, Yale, Oxford & beyond03:40 Crimson's 10-year journey from a bold pitch to a global business06:48 How the real college admissions process works (and what most Kiwis get wrong)09:52 Buying vs. building: How Jamie makes big bets on acquisitions14:55 The myth of online education and why self-motivation changes everything18:08 How Crimson finds the next generation of ambitious Kiwis25:17 The AI revolution: Private tutoring for everyone—at 1% of the cost35:53 Is there a reckoning coming for the long tail of higher education?44:02 Why Kiwis need to get out—and when to do it56:06 The biggest leadership lessons Jamie had to unlearnResourcesJamie Beaton's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiebeaton/Crimson Education – Global admissions and education platform: https://www.crimsoneducation.org/Crimson Global Academy – Online international high school: https://www.crimsonglobalacademy.school/Revision Village – IB study resource platform: https://www.revisionvillage.com/Need-Blind Financial Aid at Harvard – How top universities fund students: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid

Originally uploaded December 17th, re-edited February 14th. Chris Holman welcomes back Ara Topouzian, Executive Director, MVCA, the Michigan Venture Capital Association, operating virtually, across all of Michigan. There were several things Chris wanted to find out during their conversation: Welcome back Ara, remind the Michigan business community about the MVCA? What have the highlights been for 2024? What are the current trends for venture capital in Michigan? What are the goals and events MVCA is looking forward to in 2025? For your convenience, Here are more details coming out of October's awards event: Michigan Venture Capital Association Celebrates 17th Entrepreneurial & Investment Successes at 2024 Annual Awards Event Eight Organizations & Individuals Honored for Contributions to Michigan's Entrepreneurial Community Bloomfield Hills, Mich. – October 10, 2024 – The Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) celebrated the state's thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem at its 2024 Annual Awards Celebration, held at Elevate at One Campus Martius. The sold-out event welcomed 240+ attendees, recognizing achievements that fuel Michigan's business growth, investment milestones, and community impact. 2024 MVCA Award Winners: Entrepreneur of the Year: Mike Klein (Genomenon) Up-and-Coming Company of the Year: Optilogic Community Impact Award: Michigan Founders Fund Capital Event of the Year – Venture Capital Fund: Grand Ventures Capital Event of the Year – Portfolio Company: May Mobility “Michigan's investment and startup community continues to demonstrate remarkable resilience and innovation despite economic turbulence,” said MVCA Executive Director Ara Topouzian. New MVCA Hall of Fame Inductees MVCA introduced the Hall of Fame to honor individuals who have significantly shaped Michigan's entrepreneurial ecosystem: Tim Petersen: Co-founder of Arboretum Ventures, instrumental in Michigan's VC growth. Chris Rizik: Managing Partner at Renaissance Venture Capital, driving investment in Detroit's startup scene. Past Lifetime Achievement winners were also inducted, including Skip Simms, Sam Valenti, Jody Vanderwel, Ian Bund, Tom Porter, Michael Finney, Tom Kinnear, Don Walker, David Brophy, and Dick Eidswick. Tribute to Kevin McCurren MVCA paid tribute to Kevin McCurren, whose dedication to Michigan's investment and entrepreneurial landscape left a lasting impact. His family accepted the award on his behalf. 2024 MVCA Award Finalists Entrepreneur of the Year: Brian Moore (Voxel51), Deepak Ravindra Menon (Micro-LAM), Edwin Olson (May Mobility), Mike Klein (Genomenon) Up-and-Coming Company of the Year: Livegistics, Optilogic, Rivet Work, Zeck Community Impact Award: Black Tech Saturdays, Michigan Founders Fund, Michigan Innovation Fund Coalition, Venture 313 Capital Event of the Year – Venture Capital Fund: Grand Ventures ($50M Second Fund), Mercury ($160M Fifth Fund) Capital Event of the Year – Portfolio Company: CoverTree ($13M, Series A), May Mobility ($105M, Series D), Voxel 51 ($30M, Series B) MVCA continues to be a driving force in Michigan's investment, innovation, and startup growth. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

Eric and Madeline unpack the biggest “deal that wasn't” story of Elon Musk's unsolicited offer to purchase OpenAI for $97.4 billion. WIth Sam Altman flat-out rejecting the offer on X, this feels less like an offer and more of a statement about Musk's frustration with OpenAI's continued conversion to a for-profit company that competes with him. Pressures have been mounting on engineers to look for greener pastures, though, if Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner's urging speech for talent to stay put is any indication. Then, they turn to Eric's reporting on Lightspeed Venture Partners' new fundraising documents, where the megafirm showed stronger returns on earlier funds ahead of its next big capital raise. They also unpack the AI Action Summit's 180-degree swing from an AI safety forum to a conference dominated by CEOs and accelerationist world leaders. They close with a breakdown with a who's who on the cap table of legal-tech Harvey's latest Series D, and Mercury's rumored new Sequoia-backed fundraise.Produced by Christopher GatesMusic by Suno

This week's Espresso covers news from Split Risk, BYX, Sommos, and more!Outline of this episode:[00:30] – Cycles Nutrition raises $2.5M in its first funding round[00:41] – Split Risk raises $8.6M from HSR Soluções e Participações and Labarca Empreendimentos[00:48] – Turbi raises $12.5M Series D and $43M in debt to expand fleet[01:03] – Outscape raises $600K from SDK[01:15] – BYX acquires Nvio to expand beyond payroll loans[01:24] – Sommos: Transforming Financial Inclusion Across Latin AmericaResources & people mentioned:Startups: Cycles Nutrition, Split Risk, Turbi, Outscape, Sommos, BYX Capital VCs: Headline Ventures, SDK.People: Yara Lewensztain Zelaya

Cybersecurity venture funding has increased recently. Semgrep, an application security startup, secured $100 million in Series D funding, led by Menlo Ventures and including investments from multiple firms. Since 2017, Semgrep has raised a total of $204 million. The company focuses on providing an autonomous code security platform that helps developers and security engineers create safeguards for application development. In 2024, investments in cybersecurity ventures rose by 43% year-over-year, totaling nearly $11.6 billion. Despite a flat funding quarter in the last quarter of 2024, investment momentum continued into 2025, with Semgrep's funding round being the only one exceeding nine figures.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shiyan Koh, Managing Partner of  Hustle Fund, and ​​Jeremy Au discussed: 1. eFishery Fraud Allegations: Once an Indonesian agritech darling, eFishery's end-to-end aquaculture solutions were lauded for their potential to improve farmers' productivity and incomes. eFishery had achieved a $1 billion valuation in 2023, backed by investors like Temasek, Sequoia, Northstar, and GGV Capital. Whistleblower allegations against the founders surfaced despite significant financial oversight, including audited accounts and reputable due diligence processes. Shiyan emphasized the trust deficit such incidents cause, and drew parallels to Zilingo's earlier downfall which caused a chilling effect on Southeast Asia's growth-stage investments. 2. Early Exits Signals: Jeremy highlighted the divergent strategies of eFishery's investors during its Series D round. Notable exits included Ideasource, which achieved a 40x return over a decade, and Sui Ling Cheah from Wavemaker, who bought in via secondaries in 2019 and accomplished a similar return in five years. These moves showcased varying approaches—early-stage investors seeking liquidity versus late-stage investors balancing signaling effects. They also discussed the challenges of timing exits in Southeast Asia's market context, balancing growth ambitions with prudent capital recovery. 3. Ecosystem Red Flags: Jeremy and Shiyan debated how weak financial governance impacts Southeast Asia's startup ecosystem. Citing eFishery's CFO resignation and earlier signals as red flags, they stressed the need for stricter board oversight and robust due diligence practices. Jeremy noted how fraud incidents strain ecosystem trust, making diligence processes longer and more expensive. Drawing parallels to the U.S., Shiyan emphasized how trust and long-term reputation are critical for founders aiming to sustain multiple ventures. They discussed how practices like misreporting revenue—common in sectors like e-commerce—distort valuations and create cascading governance failures. Additional topics included Southeast Asia's funding culture, revenue-quality metrics, exit dynamics for early employees, and honest advice to founders. Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/efishery-unicorn-fraud Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VakR55X6BIElUEvkN02e TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea English: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Bahasa Indonesia: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Chinese: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Vietnamese: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, focusing on Slator's latest M&A and Funding Report, which highlights over 50 mergers, acquisitions, and financial investments, and nearly 20 funding rounds in 2024.Florian discusses OpenAI's ChatGPT o1 model, praising its translation accuracy for complex texts like German legal documents, though he notes slower processing speeds and challenges with low-resource languages.In Esther's first M&A and funding corner for 2025, MotionPoint has acquired KeyContent, Synthesia has raised a USD 180m Series D, bringing its valuation to over USD 2bn, and Pocketalk raised USD 15.8m in funding, despite talks of a potential IPO last year.Florian talks about Acrolinx's leadership change, with Matt Blumberg becoming CEO and aiming to expand the AI-powered content governance platform's presence in the US market. DeepL launched its AI-powered speech-to-speech translation product, DeepL Voice, with NEC as its first enterprise client.Esther notes LinkedIn's ranking of “Interpreter” as the 22nd fastest-growing job in the UK, driven by demand across industries like localization, museums, and even zoos. Florian wraps up with AWS's latest guide on integrating translation memories with large language models to improve AI-driven translation workflows.

Send us a text00:00 - Intro00:07 - Perplexity AI Reaches $9B Valuation with Rapid Growth01:20 - Databricks Hits $62B Valuation After $10B Funding Round02:33 - Chime Prepares for 2025 IPO with $8.6B Valuation03:50 - Oura Valued at $5.2B After $200M Series D04:56 - Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation in First Round06:07 - OpenAI Transitions to Public Benefit Corporation07:19 - xAI Reaches $69B Valuation After $12B Total Funding08:22 - Anduril Forms Consortium to Disrupt $850B Defense Market09:36 - Pre-IPO Stock Market Weekly Performance10:16 - Pre-IPO Stock Vintage Index Weekly Performance

Punit Soni is the CEO of Suki, a voice-based digital assistant revolutionizing clinician-patient communication. Under his leadership, Suki has raised $165 million, including a recent $70 million in Series D funding. Punit is also a prolific angel investor and previously served as Chief Product Officer at Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce company. His career includes significant roles in tech leadership at Google and Motorola Mobility. Punit holds an MBA from Wharton and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming.In this conversation, we discuss:The impact of AI on healthcare and its potential to reshape the industry.Punit's vision for a decentralized and more efficient healthcare system powered by AI.The shift from traditional interfaces to voice-based, ambient AI interactions in healthcare.How Suki is making clinical documentation and administrative tasks more efficient for clinicians.The future of healthcare tech as an invisible assistant, allowing clinicians to focus on patient care.The importance of transparency in AI-driven healthcare technologies.ResourcesSubscribe to the AI & The Future of Work NewsletterConnect with PunitAI fun fact articleOn how AI helps accelerate medical research  

In episode #258, I address fundraise sizes. Let's break down common Series C and D round raises. - Series C round sizes - Series D round sizes - Sourced from TheSaaSNews.com Join my SaaS community for the latest data, trends, and templates: https://www.thesaasacademy.com/offers/ivNjwYDx/checkout

Series D of Blake's 7 has the Legendary Liberator Crew in situations where they are facing threats that are not quite what they appear on the surface, the loss of a key member and a whole new road aheard.  Join our conversation on this episode of Straight Outta Federation where we discuss the season opener, Rescuse, written by Chris Boucher.  Write to us at sofederation@gmail.com Bluesky: @sofederation.bsky.social www.patreon.com/wrightonetwork   

Fleet Space of Australia has closed a $150 million Australian dollar Series D funding round to advance its ExoSphere exploration platform. Lumen Orbit has raised $11 million in their latest seed round. Panama and Austria have become the 49th and 50th nations to commit to the Artemis Accords, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Araz Feyzi, Co-founder and CTO at Kayhan Space.  You can connect with Araz on LinkedIn, and learn more about Kayhan Space on their website. Selected Reading Fleet Space Closes A$150M Series D with A$800M+ Valuation 200 VCs wanted to get into Lumen Orbit's $11M seed round- TechCrunch Artemis Accords Reach 50 Signatories as NASA Welcomes Panama, Austria Astroscale's ADRAS-J Achieves Historic 15-Meter Approach to Space Debris Agenzia Spaziale Italiana NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World Blue Origin Licenses Nimbus Power Systems' Fuel Cell Technology for Development of Space Power Systems- Business Wire MDA Space And Indspire Launch New Indigenous Student Scholarship Program Human Activities Might Create Temporary Atmospheres on the Moon - Eos Jared Isaacman on U.S. space competitiveness: ‘We can't be second' - SpaceNews Innovative AstroRad Vest Poised to Safeguard Astronauts from Space Radiation Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals From Voyager 1- Hackaday T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a brief hiatus, the Newcomer podcast is back! Madeline Renbarger has rejoined me as my co-host to help break down all of the news across venture capital and startups. This week, we're kicking off with a massive $693 million chip deal and Google's huge quantum computing breakthroughs, in news that feels like flashes of Silicon Valley returning to its “silicon” roots. Still, some of this tech feels a bit too early to be exciting for a venture-backable model. We also dig into the personnel shake-ups across the major multi-stage funds, including Brian Singerman's step back from Founders Fund last week. Lightspeed also saw partners exit as part of a consumer investing reshuffle. And just this morning after recording, Lux Capital's Bilal Zuberi announced on X that he was leaving to “embark on a new chapter.” We're excited for you to listen. Episode produced by Christopher GatesBrought to you by BrexBrex knows runway is everything for venture-backed startups, so they built a banking solution that helps them take every dollar further. Unlike traditional banking solutions, Brex has no minimums and gives startups access to 20x the standard FDIC protection via program banks.Plus, startups can earn industry-leading yield from their first dollar — while being able to access their funds anytime. If you want to make sure your portfolio companies have a place to save, spend, and grow their capital, check out Brex here.Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:06 - Tenstorrent's $693 million Series D 04:44 - Google's Quantum Computing Breakthrough06:42 - Lightspeed's Consumer Investing Re-org09:24 - Brian Singerman Steps Back and Founders Fund's Roster14:08 - Mega-funds in Transition and Tech's Trump Positioning 20:19 - Conclusion and Future Discussions Get full access to Newcomer at www.newcomer.co/subscribe

LambdaTest, a cloud-based software testing platform, has raised $38 million in a funding round as it looks to expand its presence in existing markets and advance its AI capabilities. The San Francisco and Noida-headquartered startup's Series D round has been led by Avataar Ventures with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, bringing its total funding to $108 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. On a quiet farm on a distant spaceship, the Doctor makes his last stand. Because that's what he always does. It's The Doctor Falls. Notes and links Nathan compares the Missy/Master dynamic to a similar situation found in the late Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Second Chances, in which we meet a transporter clone of Commander Riker who is still in love with Deanna Troi, while his original version has long since moved on from that relationship. (We are yet to cover this one on Untitled Star Trek Project.) He also compares the Missy/Master hug to a similar one from the Blakes 7 episode Traitor, in which Servalan snogs a character called Leitz, who is blackmailing her, and then stabs him in the back of the neck with a plastic crystal thing. We will talk more about this during our coverage of Blakes 7 Series D on Maximum Power, which starts just three weeks from today. In The World Shapers (1987), a Doctor Who Magazine comic strip written by Grant Morrison, it is established that the Mondasian Cybermen were descended from the Voord from The Keys of Marinus. Bill's final speech to the unconscious Doctor at the end of this episode seems to allude to a similar speech from Moffat's first Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fatal Death (1999), in which the Doctor's companion Emma (Julia Sawalha) says “Doctor, listen to me. You can't die, you're too nice, too brave, too kind and far, far too silly. You're like Father Christmas, the Wizard of Oz, Scooby Doo. And I love you very much. And we all need you, and you simply cannot die.” You can — and should — watch The Curse of Fatal Death on YouTube. Picks of the Week Todd Todd recommends the Special Edition of The Happiness Patrol, which restores many deleted scenes and adds some clever and sympathetically designed new special effects. It's available on the Season 25 box set of Doctor Who: The Collection. (Amazon UK) (Amazon US) (Amazon AU) Peter Peter recommends the Surgeons of Horror podcast series on Doctor Who, The Horror of Who, which has featured Brendan, Peter and Nathan. In the episode Hartnell's Horror Part 4: The Cybermen, Peter explains what makes the Cybermen from The Tenth Planet so brilliant and effective. Brendan Brendan recommends George Sheard's reimagining of these two episodes as a 1960s Doctor Who story as Genesis of the Cybermen: World Enough and Time Noir. Check out the trailer here. Nathan Nathan recommends our other Doctor Who podcast, 500 Year Diary, which will be taking over from Flight Through Entirety for a few years while FTE takes a well-earned break. In our first season, New Beginnings, we discussed six episodes in Doctor Who and its spinoffs, where a show is making a new or fresh start. We'll be back with a second season early in 2025. Like and subscribe. Follow us Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.com, Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social and Todd is at @toddbeilby.bsky.social. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Bluesky, as well as on Mastodon, X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll break your heart, but in a funny way. And more You can find links to all of the podcasts we're involved in on our podcasts page. But here's a summary of where we're up to right now. 500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025. The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2. And finally there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we enjoyed a widely-reviled episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called Ferengi Love Songs.

Cyera, a data security startup, raised $300 million in a Series D funding round, increasing its valuation to $3 billion within seven months. The funding round, led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures, follows a previous $300 million Series C round that valued the company at $1.4 billion in April 2024 and a $100 million Series B round in June 2023 that valued it at $500 million. Founded in 2021, Cyera has raised a total of $760 million, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Coatue in the latest round. Cyera integrates AI into its cybersecurity services to help businesses assess data security, privacy, and compliance risks. The recent funding will enhance platform development, recruit talent, and support strategic acquisitions. This fundraising event marks the largest in the cybersecurity sector this year. Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In between Series C and Series D, Straight Outta the Federation wanted to take a quick little pit stop over at Star Trek: The Next Generation as an excuse to talk about Time's Arrow part 1 and 2.  Let us know your thoughts about this story and our coverage at prydonian.post@gmail.com Bluesky: @sofederation.bsky.social www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork  

This week, John Dorney joins us in northern Scotland to investigate the disappearance of the Ninth Legion — only to discover that there are things here even more terrible than the Roman army, things that can only be fought with trust and empathy and music. It's The Eaters of Light. Notes and links Crash (2004) starts with a voiceover by Don Cheadle, laying out the terms of the metaphorical link between car crashes and human interactions generally. It's not a very popular movie, not only because of its superficial approach to issues of race, but also because it won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture instead of Brokeback Mountain. Richard mentions American YA fiction writer Scott Westerfield, particularly the Uglies series with its teenage protagonist. He also mentions William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, where a group of schoolchildren stranded without adults on a deserted island, quickly revert to savagery. Brian Vernel was born in 1990, so he was 26 or 27 when he played Lucius in this episode, and 32 when he played far-right extremist Curly in the first season of Slow Horses in 2022. Kar's speech about the depredations of the Roman Army is taken from the Agricola by Tacitus, a short biography of his father-in-law, chronicling, among other things his campaigns in northern Britain. Tacitus depicts the Caledonian leader Calgacus making the speech just before the Battle of Mount Graupius, in which his forces were defeated by the Romans. You can read the speech in translation here. This week's monster is based on very common depictions found in Pictish carvings of an animal called the Pictish Beast. Some depictions are found among the carvings seen in this episode. Tania Bell is a companion to the Eighth Doctor, first appearing in Big Finish's Stranded in 2020 — the first transgender companion to appear in Doctor Who. She is played by Rebecca Root. John has written five stories for Tania: her second story Wild Animals, as well as The Long Way Round, What Just Happened?, Best Year Ever and Flatpack (in which she meets Christopher Ecclston's Ninth Doctor). John writes for Michelle Gomez as Missy in Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated and in Too Many Masters. Follow us Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.com and Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social; Richard is on X as @RichardLStone. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll unleash the scary puppy the next time you come over for a coffee. And more You can find links to all of the podcasts we're involved in on our podcasts page. But here's a summary of where we're up to right now. 500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025. The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2. In the most recent episode of Maximum Power, Pete and Si interviewed two of the people involved in the creation of the new Blakes 7 Series 1 blu-ray box set — filmmakers Chris Chapman and Chris Thompson. We'll be back to cover Series D next month. And finally there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we marvelled at a clever and enjoyable episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in which a new Emissary turns up and Miles welcomes Keiko back to the station — Accession.

Firefly Aerospace has closed an oversubscribed $175 million Series D round at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Indian Space startup GalaxEye has closed a Series A funding round, securing $10 million.  CAS Space conducted the fifth flight of its Kinetica 1 rocket on Monday, transporting 15 satellites into space, including one built by China for Oman, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Heather Bulk, CEO and Co-founder of Special Aerospace Services (SAS). You can connect with Heather on LinkedIn, and learn more about SAS on their website. Selected Reading Firefly Aerospace Closes Oversubscribed $175 Million Series D Capital Raise with New Lead Investor GalaxEye closes Series A at $10 million, looks to commercialise its satellite offerings - The Hindu BusinessLine China launches Lijian-1 Y5 carrier rocket with 15 satellites onboard - CGTN 2 SpaceX launches take off from Florida on Monday Cargo Resupply Service-2 Contract 2030 Extension Millennium Spacecraft for NASA TRACERS Mission Moves to Testing Phase Sierra Space Successfully Completes Key Development Milestone for SDA Missile Warning and Tracking Satellites | Business Wire Ariane 6 first commercial flight scheduled for early 2025 Altair Signs Collaboration Agreement with the European Space Agency New satellite data showing - Urban Green Spaces continue to decline across the world Texas A&M approves new $200 million space institute in Houston Exail Selects ST Engineering iDirect's Manufacturing Competence Center as Strategic Partner for Belgian-Dutch Navy Program Hurricane Helene's Gravity Waves Revealed by NASA's AWE T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're huddling with Toby Hadoke in a tent in a cave set somewhere on Mars, wondering what that massive gun is for and trying to decide which terrifying Imperial Majesty to give our fealty to. It's Empress of Mars. Notes and links Lucifer Box is the protagonist of three spy novels by Mark Gatiss set in the early twentieth century, The Vesuvius Club (2004), The Devil in Amber (2006) and Black Butterfly (2008). Empress of Mars first aired on 10 June 2017. Two days earlier, there was a general election, in which Theresa May's Conservative government was returned to power with a slightly reduced majority. May had become prime minister of the UK in July 2016 and had begun the process of leaving the EU by triggering Article 50 in March 2017. The UK formally left the EU on 31 January 2020, just two days before Praxeus aired. One of the clear inspirations for the premise here is H G Wells's novel The First Men in the Moon (1901), in which a penniless writer and his eccentric inventor neighbour travel to the moon and meet its indigenous inhabitants, who are unimpressed with what they hear about our social and political systems on earth. A film adaptation First Men in the Moon (1969) was co-written by Quatermass's Nigel Kneale and featured music by Laurie Johnson, who will be familiar to fans of The Three Handed Game. There was also a television adaptation in 2010, written by Mark Gatiss and starring both him and Rory Kinnear. Other inspirations include Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter novels, starting with A Princess of Mars in 1912, in which a Civil War veteran from Virginia is transported to Mars and becomes involved in various wars and areopolitical struggles. There are eleven books in the series, culminating in John Carter of Mars in 1964. And just one more possible inspiration: She (1887), by H Rider Haggard, about the search for a white sorceress who rules a tribe in a remote part of Africa. Katy Manning played an Ice Warrior queen for Big Finish, in a box set called The Second Doctor Adventures: Beyond the War Games, released in 2020. According to Toby, Anthony Calf, who plays Godsacre here, was also in The Visitation. He played Charles, the son of John Savident's Squire in the opening scenes of Part 1, and it was indeed his first television role. Follow us Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and Todd is at @toddbeilby.bsky.social; Richard is on X as @RichardLStone, and Toby is @TobyHadoke. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can find out everything about Toby Hadoke at his website tobyhadoke.com, and you can catch up with his podcasts at Toby Hadoke's Time Travels. A publication date for the first volume of Toby's book series on Quatermass will be announced very soon. You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll invade your backyard, set up some tents, and start insistently ordering you to make us cups of tea. And more You can find links to all of the podcasts we're involved in on our podcasts page. But here's a summary of where we're up to right now. 500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. Its first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025. The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2. Last weekend, a new episode of Maximum Power was released, in which Pete and Si interviewed two of the people involved in the creation of the new Blakes 7 Series 1 blu-ray box set — filmmakers Chris Chapman and Chris Thompson. We'll be back to cover Series D next month. And finally there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. This week, we raised the occasional eyebrow as a shapeshifting red octopus ran amok on the Enterprise in an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series called The Survivor.

Coro launched in 2015 with a bottom up approach to solving sercurity issues for the SMB and midmarket. Today, they've raised $282m in funding to go big, but how much have the founders been diluted? Can they grow into their $750m valuation?

In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined live from the SaaStock Studio at SaaStock Europe 2024 by Amos Haggiag, Co-Founder & CEO at Optibus, who shares his biggest learnings from building Optibus to a global unicorn. "We sell a mission critical product. When a customer chooses Optibus, if Optibus doesn't work, the public transportation stops working - busses don't arrive on time or don't arrive at all, passengers get the wrong information, like, it's a disaster. So the risk is so high that in order to anyone to choose Optibus, it's not enough to just bring like a really good product, you need to also convince [them] that you're not introducing risk, that you know how to work in complexity, you know how to work in different regions, it's very local. And because of that, at some point, we decided to change the organisation into more focus on the local region kind of management." Amos shares: • Optibus' funding journey to a $100M Series D funding round and a $1.3B valuation • The moment they realised they had surpassed $1M ARR (and why he didn't think they had product market fit at the time!) • Scaling their sales team to accommodate for their global customer base • From localised to centralised- the painful process of restructuring • Challenges with delegating tough decisions as CEO • The importance of having a long term focus and more!Check out the other ways SaaStock is serving SaaS founders

Procurement startup Zip raised $190 million in a Series D funding round, increasing its valuation to $2.2 billion. This round saw participation from new investors such as DST Global, Adams Street Partners, and Alkeon Capital, alongside existing investors Y Combinator and CRV. This funding marks a significant increase from May 2023, when Zip raised $100 million in a Series C round, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Zip focuses on streamlining the procurement process for companies, including sourcing, approval, and payment for business tools. The company plans to enhance engineering and research and development efforts with the new funds, including launching an internal AI lab, and aims to expand into new geographic markets. Investment in ERP-related startups has been modest, with a total of $240 million raised in 2023 and a slight increase to $314 million early in the year. Zip's funding represents the largest in the sector both last year and this year.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to today's episode of Clio Con Clips 2024!To give us more key insight into Clio itself and how it operates on a global scale, we are joined by very special guest Reagan Attle, the company's Chief Marketing Officer.The company owes a lot of its success to her, since she's led the announcements and go-to-market strategies for Clio's Series D and E funding rounds, launching Clio Payments and branding, as well as many of its company acquisitions.Her stories, secrets and experiences with Clio's human-first ecosystem are covered in this comprehensive discussion. Listen now to find out how this company grew and transformed the legal experience for all, with the help of driven officers such as Reagan.Stay tuned to make the most of the key points from Clio Con's amazing guest speakers and harness your momentum.Clio would also like to announce a new offer for Clio Con 2025, which will be in Boston, Massachusetts. Find out more with the above link!Support the show

We sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue to understand the current state of the open source AI ecosystem. Hugging Face is the leading platform to host and collaborate on AI models, datasets, and applications. They also have a compute offering for AI builders to train their models directly on the platform. Clem has a contrarian take on the future: there will not be just a few major foundation model companies with everyone using their APIs. But rather, that thousands of companies will have their own specialized AI models built in-house for their particular use case. It's obviously a very dynamic landscape and we'll have to see how it shakes out, but Clem has a pretty great viewpoint to see it all, working with their 5 million registered Hugging Face users!Links:Hugging FaceHugging Face's Series D valuing the company at $4.5 billionSponsors:Vanta

In a distant future where all life has been destroyed by technology, Brendan, James and Nathan sit down with their friend Bjay from The Bjay BJ Game Show to record a podcast about a Doctor Who episode called Smile. Notes and links Anticipating with relish the final demise of X, we have decided to preserve here for posterity the Twitter exchange between Nathan and Mina Anwar that he mentions early this episode. Nathan suggests taking a look at this — an aerial view of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia in Spain. Brendan admits that he is a regular reader of Lance Parkin's AHistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe, which is an impressively quixotic attempt to harmonise all the televised stories, spinoffs and deuterocanonical material into one vast, sprawling ridiculous chronology. We thank him for his service. James mentions how the phenomenon of social contagion was observed in a large-scale study conducted on Facebook in 2012. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an article describing the results of the experiment in 2014, which makes it a plausible influence on this episode. Here's a contemporary news article discussing the ethical problems with this experiment. Grey goo is a kind of technical term for the possibility that everything on Earth might be consumed by rogue nanotechnology. The term was first coined in 1986 by Kim Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. It's also the basis of Michael Crichton's 2002 novel Prey. Erewhon: or, Over the Range (1872) by Samuel Butler is a satirical description of a utopian society, which bans machines for fear that they might become conscious and self-replicating. Follow us Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social, James is at @ohjamessellwood.bsky.social, and Brendan is at @retrobrendo.bsky.social. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll sneak over to your house next time you're on holiday and replace all the walls with angry clockwork lego bricks. And more You can find links to all of the podcasts we're involved in on our podcasts page. But here's a summary of where we're up to right now. 500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It's first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025. The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2. This week's guest on Flight Through Entirety is Bjay Hobbs, who can be heard regularly discussing indie games with our very own Brendan Jones on The Bjay BJ Game Show. In their most recent episode, they discuss The Talos Principle (2014), a puzzle-based game that raises questions about identity, consciousness and religion. The episode Brendan mentions on Lost in Play will actually be out in a couple of weeks. Brendan, Richard and Steven have just released another episode of their Avengers podcast The Three Handed Game. It's the third episode of their triptych The Cool War, covering an early Season 2 episode called The Decapod, featuring Julie Stevens as Venus Smith, with a guest appearance by Philip Madoc, (probably) not in fishnets. The Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power started recording its Series D coverage yesterday; new episodes will be released in December. And finally there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they paid a visit to an idyllic bird person planet with deranged exocomp Peanut Hamper in an episode of Lower Decks called A Mathematically Perfect Redemption.

We're back for the first episode of Peter Capaldi's final year — a simple, well-told tale of Girl Meets Girl, Girl Becomes Puddle, Girl Loses Girl and, finally, Girl Goes off with Her Tutor on a Series of Adventures in Time and Space. Welcome aboard, Bill Potts. It's The Pilot. Notes and links Friend from the Future was a promotional short designed to introduce Bill Potts first broadcast during Match of the Day on 23 April 2016, nearly a year before this episode aired. You can see the entire short here. Peter mentions the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Skin of Evil as another TV episode containing a high-concept puddle. It's famously not very good, as Joe and Nathan discovered in this episode of Untitled Star Trek Project. You'll be relieved and probably unsurprised to learn that Nathan is wrong: John Peel doesn't claim that Genesis of the Daleks took place in 1831. However, TARDIS Wikia dates it as set in the 15th or 16th centuries, probably because in The Daleks, one of the Daleks claims that there were two races on Skaro 500 years ago. But the whole idea is absolutely enervating, don't you think? The squishy thing Todd mentions as a possible companion for the Doctor is, of course, Mr Huffle from The Return of Doctor Mysterio. The Doctor does apparently take it with him at the end of the story. And Pearl Mackie married her wife Kam Chhokar on 4 May this year. Here's a wedding photo from Tumblr. Douglas is Cancelled is Steven Moffat's most recent TV show — a four-part miniseries starring Hugh Bonneville, Karen Gillan and Alex Kingston, about a middle-aged male TV personality who is overheard making a sexist joke at a friend's wedding. Worth a look. Follow us Nathan is on Bluesky at @nathanbottomley.bsky.social and James is at @ohjamessellwood.bsky.social; Todd is on X as @toddbeilby. The Flight Through Entirety theme was arranged by Cameron Lam. You can follow Flight Through Entirety on Mastodon and Bluesky, as well as on X and Facebook. Our website is at flightthroughentirety.com. Please consider rating or reviewing us on Apple Podcasts, or we'll invent a massively high-concept backstory for you which prevents you from ever truly realising yourself as a person. And more You can find links to all of the podcasts we're involved in on our podcasts page. But here's a summary of where we're up to right now. 500 Year Diary is our latest new Doctor Who podcast, going back through the history of the show and examining new themes and ideas. It's first season came out early this year, under the title New Beginnings. Check it out. It will be back for a second season early in 2025. The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire has broadcast our hot takes on every new episode of Doctor Who since November last year, and it will be back again in 2025 for Season 2. There's also Startling Barbara Bain, our Space: 1999 commentary podcast. We've covered the first six episodes of Series 1; Episode 7 should be out some times in the next couple of weeks. The Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power has been on hiatus for a while, but arrangements for the recording of Series D are well underway, and we will definitely have some new episodes for your before the end of the year. And finally there's our Star Trek commentary podcast, Untitled Star Trek Project, featuring Nathan and friend-of-the-podcast Joe Ford. Last week, they took a trip with Kirk, Spock and McCoy to the Planet of Space Ancient Rome in Bread and Circuses.

Startup TalentWell has announced the launch of its next-generation talent sourcing platform, featuring the latest in generative AI technology. TalentWell enables hiring managers and recruiters to discover top talent and then connect in a way that truly resonates. Unlike other solutions that rely on generic, forgettable messaging, TalentWell generates personalized emails and videos that get candidates' attention and boost response rates, helping companies build their dream teams faster than ever. https://hrtechfeed.com/talentwell-launches-ai-generated-recruiter-outreach-videos/ Job board solution provider Smart Job Board, one of my top recommendations, has launched new AI matching features into its platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-board-software-provider-adds-ai-functionality-for-publishers/ Following a successful beta program, ZipRecruiter®, a leading online employment marketplace, today fully launched ZipIntro, a new solution that accelerates face-to-face connections for a faster and more personal hiring experience. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-launches-video-interviewing-functionality/ Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), the  payroll software solutions platform , announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity's suite and will deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO. https://hrtechfeed.com/paylocity-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-airbase-inc-a-leading-spend-management-software-solution-provider/ Oyster®, the global employment solution to employ, pay, and care for distributed teams, raised $59M in Series D funding, led by Silver Lake Waterman, with participation from existing investors,.... The investment will enable Oyster to accelerate its platform roadmap, scale its impact, improve its customers' compliance posture, and enhance its customers' ability to attract and retain top talent. Over 40% of Team Members employed on the Oyster platform are in emerging markets and Oyster remitted hundreds of millions to emerging markets in 2023. This fundraise values the company at $1.2B and brings its total funding to $286M. https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-raises-59m-series-d/  

Today, we explore what it takes to build the next big video game franchise powered by user-generated games. It's a daunting task as Epic Games paid roughly $320 million to creators in the past year in order to incentivize creators to build new experiences on its platform. That's enough money to develop and market a new AAA franchise every year. However, that hasn't discouraged start-up studios like Build a Rocket Boy and OCP from diving headfirst into the space. Build a Rocket Boy recently closed a $110 million Series D round and OCP a $16.25 million Series A. Our host, David Taylor, sat down with Sergiy Galyonkin, Senior Vice President of Publishing at Build a Rocket Boy, and Mike Atamas, Co-founder and CEO of Omni Creator Products, to discuss their companies' approaches and what each of them learned from their previous experiences working on Fortnite.We'd also like to thank Heroic Labs for making this episode possible! Thousands of studios have trusted Heroic Labs to help them focus on their games and not worry about gametech or scaling for success. To learn more and reach out, make sure to visit https://heroiclabs.com/?utm_source=Naavik&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Podcast .If you like the episode, please help others find us by leaving a 5-star rating or review! And if you have any comments, requests, or feedback shoot us a note at podcast@naavik.co. Watch the episode: YouTube ChannelFor more episodes and details: Podcast WebsiteFree newsletter: Naavik DigestFollow us: Twitter | LinkedIn | WebsiteSound design by Gavin Mc Cabe.

How do you go in just a decade from an MIT lab to a billion-dollar valuation in Water Tech? Everybody thought it was impossible until... Gradiant did it! Wanna find out how and what's next? Listen to this episode! More #water insights? Connect with me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/ #️⃣ All the Links Mentioned in this Video #️⃣ Will Gradiant succeed with H+E where SUEZ, Stulz, and Rena failed? https://youtu.be/GMk99gRjRSc?si=zAWY2rfg3GXFSWt2E Gradiant's website: https://www.gradiant.com/ The Global Water Awards 2024: https://globalwaterawards.com/ Prakash Govindan's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash-govindan-87168310/ The 3 VCs that made money in Water Tech (the greatest success being... Gradiant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqLn4j3w0P0 Full blog article: https://dww.show/how-gradiant-became-the-first-and-only-water-tech-unicorn/ Prakash Govindan on My Climate Journey: https://www.mcjcollective.com/my-climate-journey-podcast/gradiant

Send us a Text Message.Receive the podcast to your inbox = www.agdillon.com/subscribe00:22 | Groq's $640M series D drives valuation by 143%- Semiconductor company focused on AI inference chips- Raised $640M in Series D, valuation up to $2.8B (primary)- 143% increase from Feb 2024 round- Backed by Cisco, Samsung, BlackRock- Funds to scale tokens-as-a-service and deploy 108,000 LPUs by 2025- Aims to challenge Nvidia in AI chip market09:12 | Anduril's $1.5B round pushes valuation to $14B- Defense tech company- Raised $1.5B, new valuation $14B- Significant increase from $10B in Dec 2023- Revenue doubled to $500M; 28x valuation multiple- Funding led by Founders Fund, Sands Capital; new backers: Fidelity, Baillie Gifford- Investment to expand "Arsenal" manufacturing platform; 5M+ sq ft for mass production of military systems19:41 | AI use cases playing out- JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs all announced live AI projects in the last two months- Klarna replacing 70 employees per month with AI; headcount down from 4500 to 3700, $40m+ annual savings, more efficient and higher quality outcomes- Businesses are adopting?!- Agreed that usage will only increase from here?

Send us a Text Message.WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: AG Dillon will be hosting a webinar on August 14 at 1:30pm ET titled “How RIAs Can Invest into Venture Capital and Still Custody at Schwab”. Step by step details of investing into alternatives at Schwab and we'll explore how AG Dillon venture capital funds are specifically designed to eliminate incremental RIA operational and administrative work when investing into alternatives. Register at www.agdillon.com/webinar.Weekly pre-IPO reports…- Valuations, revenue multiples, performance = www.agdillon.com/reports- Market update pdf = www.agdillon.com/update- Index fact sheet = www.agdillon.com/index00:06 | Revolut's $45B Valuation with Employee Share Sale- Online bank initiated $500M share sale at $45B valuation (secondary)- Europe's most valuable start-up- Eligible employees (7,000 staff) can sell 20% of vested shares at $865.42/share- Secured UK banking license; 9M UK customers, 45M globally- 2023: £438M pre-tax profit, revenue almost doubled to £1.8B- Valuation surged from $15B, Jan secondary market valuation, to $45B in 8 months (+200%)01:19 | Anduril's $1.5B Round Pushes Valuation to $14B- Defense tech company- Raised $1.5B, new valuation $14B- Significant increase from $10B in Dec 2023- Revenue doubled to $500M; 28x valuation multiple- Funding led by Founders Fund, Sands Capital; new backers: Fidelity, Baillie Gifford- Investment to expand "Arsenal" manufacturing platform; 5M+ sq ft for mass production of military systems02:40 | Groq's $640M Series D Boosts Valuation by 143%- Semiconductor company focused on AI inference chips- Raised $640M in Series D, valuation up to $2.8B (primary)- 143% increase from Feb 2024 round- Backed by Cisco, Samsung, BlackRock- Funds to scale tokens-as-a-service and deploy 108,000 LPUs by 2025- Aims to challenge Nvidia in AI chip market03:18 | Google Acqui-hires Character.AI Team- Custom AI chatbot company- Google licensed Character.AI's technology in an acqui-hire deal- Co-founders and some team members to join Google- Character.AI's valuation rose to $2.5B (secondary), up from $1B- Company will operate independently with interim CEO Dominic Perella- Users sent 371M messages to chatbots; introduced voice features04:06 | Reddit Acquires Memorable AI- Reddit's first acquisition since IPO- Acquired Memorable AI to enhance ad content with generative AI- Memorable AI founded in 2021; optimizes ad effectiveness- Reddit generates 98% of its revenue from ads ($804M in 2023)- Terms of the deal not disclosed04:42 | JPMorgan Rolls Out LLM Suite to 60,000 Employees- JPMorgan Chase launched generative AI tool LLM Suite- Tool assists with tasks like email writing, document summarization- Rolled out to 60,000 employees; part of broader AI integration strategy- Aims to boost productivity, avoid dependency on a single AI model provider- Key for operations, including global payments business moving $8T daily05:22 | Ola Electric Pops 20% on IPO- Indian electric scooter company surged 20% on IPO- Raised $731.6M, valuation $4.8B- India's largest IPO since May 2022- Fiscal year revenue grew 90% to $603M; net loss of $191M- Delivered 330,000 electric scooters, more than doubling sales- Proceeds to fund capital expenditures and R&D05:58 | Pre-IPO Stock Market Weekly Performance- www.agdillon.com/reports for full pdf06:29 | Pre-IPO Stock Vintage Index Weekly Performance- www.agdillon.com/index for pdf with constituent level performance by year

In this episode of HR Heretics, Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich weigh in on a listener's question (shoutout Karissa!) about implementing 'bar raiser' interview programs at her Series D company. Are they worth the hype, or just an HR trend? Kelli and Nolan dig in.You too can email us your questions or topics for Kelli & Nolan: hrheretics@turpentine.coHR Heretics is a podcast from Turpentine.Support HR Heretics Sponsors:Metaview is the AI assistant for interviewing. Metaview completely removes the need for recruiters and hiring managers to take notes during interviews—because their AI is designed to take world-class interview notes for you. Team builders at companies like Brex, Hellofresh, and Quora say Metaview has changed the game—see the magic for yourself: https://www.metaview.ai/hereticsDiscover Workvivo, Zoom's employee experience platform, designed to delight your hybrid workforce. With dynamic and intuitive features people actually like using, Workvivo fosters a sense of belonging and boosts retention and productivity. Join Ryanair, Dollar General, and Virgin — head to https://bit.ly/hrhereticsworkvivo to book a demo (tell them Kelli and Nolan sent you).Planful empowers teams just like yours to unlock the secrets of successful workforce planning. Use data-driven insights to develop accurate forecasts, close hiring gaps, and adjust talent acquisition plans collaboratively based on costs today and into the future. ✍️ Go to http://planful.com/heretics to see how you can transform your HR strategy.KEEP UP WITH NOLAN, + KELLI ON LINKEDINNolan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolan-church/Kelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellidragovich/—TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Intro(00:21) Implementing a bar raiser interview process(00:57) Amazon's Bar Raiser Program(01:36) Rebranding the "Bar Raiser" Process(02:42) The Amazon Approach(03:24) Avoiding Bias & Alternative Approaches(04:46) DoorDash's Experience(06:00) Challenges & Trade-offs(07:18) Sponsor: Metaview | Workvivo(08:16) DoorDash's Shift From the "Bar Raiser" Program(10:18) Alternatives & First Principles(12:31) Addressing CEO Expectations(13:25) Bias & Homogeneous Cultures(14:44) The Role of CEOs & Founders(15:19) Diligence & Feedback(17:21) Going Slow to Go Fast(18:17) Misaligned Expectations(19:10) Start Small & Experiment(19:33) Wrap(19:47) Sponsor: Planful This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hrheretics.substack.com

Send us a Text Message.Is Google Cloud truly the underdog in the cloud industry despite a 28% revenue spike? Tune in to uncover the hidden drivers behind Google Cloud's impressive financial performance, and learn why its AI and data analytics capabilities might be the secret sauce. We also dissect a shocking move by the cybersecurity giant Wiz to back out of a $23 billion acquisition deal, delving into the complex mix of regulatory fears and strategic recalculations that may have influenced this decision.Ever wondered how a simple software update could wreak havoc across millions of devices? Our deep dive into the recent CrowdStrike update catastrophe reveals how it triggered blue screen errors and authentication nightmares, resembling a full-blown supply chain attack. Discover how bad actors took advantage of the chaos to launch phishing scams and why Microsoft partly blames EU regulations. To lighten things up, we pivot to our mandatory AI news update, offering a refreshing break from the technical turmoil.Finally, let's take a nostalgic journey as we explore the potential revival of classic digital assistants like Ask Jeeves, now empowered by advanced AI like GPT-4. We also spotlight Astranis and its ambitious plans to revolutionize internet connectivity with geostationary satellites, having just secured a hefty $200 million in Series D funding. With targets to churn out 24 satellites annually, Astranis aims high, but what are the real challenges of maintaining such technology for a decade? Plus, we address the looming issue of space debris. Join us for a compelling episode brimming with industry insights and forward-thinking discussions!Check out the Fortnightly Cloud Networking NewsVisit our website and subscribe: https://www.cables2clouds.com/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cables2cloudsFollow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cables2clouds/Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cables2cloudsMerch Store: https://store.cables2clouds.com/Join the Discord Study group: https://artofneteng.com/iaatjArt of Network Engineering (AONE): https://artofnetworkengineering.com

In this 200th episode of Tank Talks, host Matt Cohen reflects on the podcast's journey and the lessons learned.The episode features a discussion with John Ruffolo of Maverix Private Equity, about major events in the tech and investment world, including recent funding rounds, the impact of AI, a significant cybersecurity outage, and political developments.In this episode, we discuss:(01:04) Tips for aspiring podcasters: embrace mistakes, maintain consistency, and stay curious(01:49) Introduction to guest John Ruffolo(02:00) Discussion about Clio's $3 billion valuation Series F round(03:00) The significance of Clio's funding and its market implications(04:00) Insights into the role of Gen AI in Clio's business model(05:21) Analysis of Clio's vertical market expansion(06:00) Breakdown of the primary and secondary capital in Clio's funding(07:48) Comparison of Clio's funding with Cohere's Series D round(09:17) Thoughts on asset managers investing in AI startups(11:55) Impact of the CrowdStrike outage on global cybersecurity(13:05) The importance of robust contingency plans for startups(15:22) Speculations on the political ramifications of Joe Biden's recent actions(18:00) Potential impacts on Canada's political landscape and its relationship with the US(22:15) Jamie Dimon's potential role in the US governmentFollow Matt Cohen and Tank Talks here!Podcast production support provided by Agentbee.ai This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tanktalks.substack.com

Mary Ann, Haje and Kirsten are back on the mic for this week's episode, which was is jam-packed with deals, hot topics, and the latest dramaaaaaa in the tech world. For Deals of the Week, Haje wanted to chat about Formation Bio, an AI-focused drug development startup that just raised a whopping $372 million in Series D funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Next, Kirsten broke down the surprising partnership between Volkswagen Group and Rivian and how its initial $1 billion investment could grow up to $5 billion. To wrap up our deals, Mary-Ann highlighted Nubank's acquisition of Hyperplane, an AI-for-banks startup. Moving onto our themes, Haje took us on a deep dive into the fediverse, a decentralized network of social media platforms like Mastodon, Threads, and even Trump's Truth Social. The fediverse has seen a surge in popularity, especially after Elon Musk acquired Twitter (now X). Mastodon, for example, has just about tripled its user base since Musk took over. The appeal lies in its decentralized nature, offering users more control and niche communities. Whether you're a photographer, a journalism enthusiast, or just someone fed up with traditional social media, the fediverse has something for you.Last but not least, we discussed the ongoing debate around DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) in tech in a more controversial segment. Scale AI's founder Alexandr Wang recently sparked a debate by advocating for MEI (Merit, Excellence, Intelligence) over DEI. This has drawn support from big names like Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey but also significant criticism.The stats are troubling: new women recruit levels in the U.S. data industry have dropped dramatically, and DEI-related job listings are down.Equity will be back on Wednesday with a new interview episode, so stay tuned!Equity is TechCrunch's flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes over at Simplecast. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.