Equity Podcast

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/sof…

On this week's episode of @EquityPod, @TimDe_Chant and I chatted with Rachel Slaybaugh, general partner at DCVC, about what it's like investing in nuclear fusion. techcrunch.com/podcast/fusion… via @techcrunch

The ridiculousness of Allbirds becoming an AI company seems like it would be hard to beat...but as @EquityPod knows, never bet against 2026's ability to surprise: spr.ly/6012B6Abgk

What happens when a Grammy-nominated artist enters biotech? @aloeblacc tells @EquityPod getting the initial idea isn’t the hard part. It’s regulators, clinical trials, and a system where celebrity doesn’t matter. Catch the full convo here: spr.ly/6017B64e95

SCOOP: Aron D'Souza, founder of Enhanced Games and the lawyer who helped bring down Gawker, is back with another startup. Objection, a platform that aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.

Had the pleasure of interviewing @aloeblacc on @EquityPod this week. He's much more than an award-winning singer-songwriter! techcrunch.com/podcast/the-mu… via @techcrunch

This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/par…

Huh.

The rise of AI is pushing private wealth/family offices to cut out the VC middleman and get directly on the cap table. Arena Private Wealth, which co-led a $230M AI chip startup round, is one such firm. I talked to them on this week's @EquityPod techcrunch.com/podcast/why-pr…

Snowflake is betting the future of AI goes beyond chatbots to autonomous agents that actually get work done. This week on @EquityPod, I spoke with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy about how the company is reorganizing around that shift. techcrunch.com/podcast/snowfl…

LMArena (now just Arena) has become the AI industry's top leaderboard. CEO @ml_angelopoulos walks us through how @arena remains neutral in its rankings, even though it partners with/accepts money from the top AI labs. This week on @EquityPod

"Wiz is at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend." @shardul_shah on why Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz makes it the "deal of the century," or at least the deal of the month.

Listen to the full @EquityPod episode for a breakdown of Meta's Moltbook acquisition, Anthropic's beef with the DOD, the AI note-taking wearables raising $$$, and more. techcrunch.com/podcast/wizs-f…

Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/wiz…

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/byt…

The billionaires made a promise — now some want out techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the…

A successful Shark Tank appearance doesn't create a deal the next day. For @DrinkPoppi co-founder Allison Ellsworth, it took much longer for "I'm in" to become "I'm funded." @EquityPod explores Poppi's ascent in our latest episode: spr.ly/6010B6J61G

Meta didn’t buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/met…

VC mega funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/vc-…

Contracts take forever to get baked in at the government level. So terms changing mid-contract? Not normal. @EquityPod explains why startups chasing defense dollars should pay attention to Anthropic vs the Pentagon. spr.ly/6013B66g6X