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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak got on the mic

• Our deals of the week included toptechtrends.com/2023/02/07/partech-hits-first-close-of-largest-africa-focused-fund-at-e245m/”>a look at a large new fund focused on Africa, a startup raising big bucks to toptechtrends.com/2023/02/06/shiftmed-nursing-shortage-200-million/”>address the nursing shortage and Rebellyous toptechtrends.com/2023/02/03/rebellyous-raising-millions-rethink-chicken-nugget/”>raising in a crowded and struggling space toward its effort to ‘rethink the nugget.’
• We took a few to chat through the latest around FTX, which is attempting to toptechtrends.com/2023/02/07/ftxs-attempts-to-claw-back-political-donations-may-target-largest-recipients-experts-say/”>take back its political donations at the same time Robinhood is trying to buy back the 7.6% stake that an SBF entity acquired last year. We also marveled at how low Twitter Blue numbers really are.
•  To throw it back for a second, Mary Ann walked us through toptechtrends.com/2023/01/31/thrive-capital-believed-to-be-leading-potential-new-investment-in-fintech-stripe-report-says/”>the latest with Stripe AND all of our questions around its financial backing at the current moment. Becca reminds us that toptechtrends.com/2023/02/03/venture-funding-has-started-flooding-back-in-at-least-one-area-secondaries/”>secondaries, dear friends, may be quiet but are livelier than ever.
•  We end with notes on AI and inclusion, based on Dom’s toptechtrends.com/2023/02/08/ai-is-the-next-frontier-but-for-whom/”>recent piece looking at the data behind the disparities. Reminder to use code EQUITY for 50% off annual TC+ memberships!

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