Natasha Mascarenhas
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Welcome to spooky season in startups
In today’s newsletter, we’ll talk about the beauty of pivots, a creative way to prove that your startup hires entrepreneurial people and the latest from 500 global. → Read More
500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators
500 Global, a startup accelerator formerly known as 500 Startups, has rebranded to become a venture firm. Here's how it impacts startups. → Read More
We’re all just a Hop, Skip and a Drive away from a better Hustle
Equity, TechCrunch's weekly startups and venture podcast, gets into the latest startup financing and trends from ideas to IPOs. → Read More
Truepill, a digital health unicorn, conducts fourth round of layoffs in 2022
Truepill has laid off its fourth round of employees this year, in the latest tech layoff update amid a volatile market. → Read More
The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day
VC firm 500 Global held a Demo Day showcasing a handful of its portfolio companies. Here's TechCrunch's top picks. → Read More
Hustle Fund’s side hustle just helped it close a third fund
Hustle Fund, built by Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, just closed its third investment fund and shared its secret: a revenue-generating business. → Read More
CoRise’s approach to up-skilling involves fewer courses and more access
Despite the boom of education technology investment and innovation over the past few years, founder Julia Stiglitz, who broke into the edtech world as an early Coursera employee, thinks there’s a lot of room to grow. Her new startup, CoRise, sells expert-led programming to people who want to up-skill their careers. It’s a fresh play […] → Read More
Building startups in public has an end date
This week on the Equity podcast, Natasha Mascarenhas asked: How does the 'build in public' mindset impact the way that startups are built? → Read More
Twitter’s first comms exec is building a comms network for execs
Mixing Board is a network for communications and marketing professionals to share advice and upskill their executive function. → Read More
Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. When On Deck had to cut its staff twice within a matter of months, its co-founders Erik Torenberg and David Booth published a memo promising to focus more. Thus marked the company’s […] → Read More
The ‘ideal runway’ is a myth, isn’t it?
Startups are given a lot of advice about extending their runway, but after speaking to sources, it seems like there is no magic number. → Read More
When VCs fund the thing you didn’t think they’d ever fund
Startup financing from Polywork, Remofirst and Block Party, plus Instacart news and layoff update. → Read More
On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it’s trying to do less, better
On Deck shakes up its leadership, winds down startup accelerator and refocuses on a founder-led future. → Read More
Network isn’t a dirty word
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha asked: What does breaking into venture capital look like today, […] → Read More
Video game coaching marketplace Metafy cuts 23% of staff despite doubling revenue
The founder said that Metafy has most of the team needed to build over those next two years, but will hire in critical roles moving forward. → Read More
YC’s Michael Seibel clarifies some misconceptions about the accelerator
Y Combinator's Michael Seibel spoke to TechCrunch’s Equity podcast about Y Combinator amid market change. We extracted four key excerpts from the interview to analyze further. → Read More
Community isn’t a buzzword, it’s a challenge
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I first covered Launch House in Oct 2020, when the co-founders described a strong focus on inclusion when creating hacker homes. A co-founder said then, “I wouldn’t say we’re the next Y […] → Read More
Chain Reaction x Equity talk the Ethereum Merge
If you are into web3, the biggest news of the week in tech was not the massive Figma-Adobe deal. No, the leading story of the last few days — arguably even the last few weeks — has been the Ethereum Merge. The Merge, an upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain that moved it from a proof […] → Read More
Launch House holds private town hall, says investigation is underway
Launch House addressed the harassment and assault allegations surfaced by a Vox Investigation earlier this week. → Read More
Launch House’s community reacts to misconduct and harassment allegations
Launch House is facing community and investor backlash after a report from Vox detailed sexual harassment allegations. → Read More