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Hi there and welcome encourage to Equity, TechCrunch’s project capital-focused podcast, the build we unpack the numbers on the encourage of the headlines.

We injure up having extra to chat about than we had time for but we packed as worthy as we could into 34 minutes. So, climb aboard with Danny, Natasha and myself for one other episode of Equity.

Earlier than we win into issues, a reminder that whenever that you just might perhaps well be signing up for Additional Crunch and desire to build some money, the code “equity” is your buddy. Alright, let’s win into it:

• Robinhood is encourage within the news this week after a Fresh York Cases part dug into its history, product decisions and extra. Tidbits galore are to be had, but the Equity crew wished to debate the morality of offering atypical financial tooling to much less-skilled customers.
• We adopted that debate with a dive into immigration, doubtlessly the most unusual news from the federal government and our takes on the topic. TechCrunch has lined doubtlessly the most unusual news, and equipped some context on the broader view. Our takeaway is that doing self-defeating things for no motive isn’t vivid for the nation as a complete.
• Postmates has a house! After winding up somewhere within the guts of the pack of the on-inquire cohort a few years encourage, the upward thrust of DoorDash place Postmates in a acquire 22 situation. Happily, Uber became readily on hand to de-brine the unicorn for $2.65 billion in stock. That’s a diminutive bit extra money than Postmates’ final valuation. What we desire to understand subsequent is how the sale label impacted frequent stockholders. E-mail us if .
• Palantir has filed to run public, but privately, so that’s basically all there is to divulge about that. Except you should a history lesson.
• Lastly, funding rounds. We had three this week: MonkeyLearn raising $2.2 million for no-code AI, Quaestor raising $5.8 million for startup financial tooling and $4.5 million for Mmhmm, which is both correctly timed and spruce.

Whew! Previous all that we had some enjoyable, and, expectantly, were of some exercise. Hugs and chat Monday!