What’s the opposite of a lean startup?

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Good day and welcome again to Equity, a podcast in regards to the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

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

Right here’s the present rundown:

• Teamshares: Here’s an interesting one. Teamshares has raised some huge cash and is shopping for loads of SMBs. However that’s simply the beginning. It additionally plans to permit workers of these corporations earn inventory via ongoing service over time, whereas serving up centralized fintech providers to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to speak a couple of new mannequin?
• MoonPay’s new enterprise arm: Crypto cost 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 have now two eyes mounted on what MoonPay decides to spend money on. New crypto-thematic, or crypto-adjacent funds are rarer today, 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 sizzling 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 have now been ready for actual tech IPOs. The excellent news? They’re (partially) again!
• What occurs whenever you bring lean startup ideology into the AI world? Loads of experiments, it seems.

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