What’s the opposite of a lean startup?

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

This is our Friday present, and we’re speaking about the week’s largest startup and tech information. This week, Mary Ann and Alex ran as a duo, masking a extensive swath of startup and expertise information. Don’t overlook that the Equity crew are opening this yr’s Ztoog Disrupt occasion, so snag a bagel and are available dangle in a few weeks!

Here’s the present rundown:

• Teamshares: Here’s an fascinating one. Teamshares has raised a lot of cash and is shopping for a lot of SMBs. But that’s simply the begin. It additionally plans to permit staff of these corporations to purchase most of their inventory over time, whereas serving up centralized fintech providers to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to talk about a new mannequin?
• MoonPay’s new enterprise arm: Crypto fee infra firm MoonPay is stepping into the enterprise sport, with a give attention to crypto, gaming and fintech. The union of these three is crypto video games, of course, however we have now two eyes mounted 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 have now been ready for actual tech IPOs. The excellent news? They are (partially) again!
• What occurs if you deliver lean startup ideology into the AI world? Loads of experiments, it seems.

And that’s us till subsequent week. Due to an American vacation, Equity will kick off on Tuesday subsequent week as an alternative of Monday!