Natasha Mascarenhas
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Critiquing the value of a startup accelerator and demo days has been a decades-long conversation in the world of tech. The programs promise napkin-stage founders help...
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As I hear about more startups struggling amid shifting market conditions, the great resignation and the general inflection point that begins once a company hits growth...
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On Tuesday, AngelList Venture closed its first tranche of institutional funding since spinning out on its own in 2020. The $100 million round was led...
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As late-stage tech startups face the changing environment in the public markets, their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether. The cohort has had access...
When Winnie was first founded in 2016 by Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall, it was focused on childcare solutions built for parents.
“The other SaaS solutions in the childcare space have gone after the providers first and that’s been really hard and challenging because it’s a very fragmented market...
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I’m doing an abbreviated newsletter this week as I want to spend most of my energy amplifying the brave journalists on the ground reporting about this...
Hello friends, and welcome back to Equity, your podcast about the business of startups where we try our best to unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines with you.
Today we gathered to do our live show, something that was scheduled a long time ago. Obviously, the world’s...
WorkWhile founder Jarah Euston isn’t alone in her mission of connecting workers to flexible, reliable work. Where she does stand out, though, is her belief that many labor marketplaces today are built atop a fallacy.
“I never subscribe to this notion that what workers want is infinite flexibility,” she...
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In the beginning of the pandemic, we learned which companies were unprepared to handle a cataclysmic event. Now, as the world slowly starts to reopen in...
The widespread success of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. More recently, the rise of virtual HQs, Meta’s investment in interactive social software, and a handful of...
