Best Mary Ann Azevedo Podcasts (2024)

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AI Friends, deepfake foes, and which Tiger Global partner is leaving now 31:12

24m ago31:12

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On today's Friday news roundup, we just had to talk about AI hardware taking on a new shape with Friend’s $99 necklace. The pendant gives you an AI friend to talk to and…that’s about it. Friend’s pitch is that its wearable can help combat loneliness, but other AI hardware products that have come to market lately – like Humane’s Ai Pin and Rabbit’s …

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Global startup funding is picking up with AI still in the spotlight 25:10

5h ago25:10

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Global startup funding was up 16% in the second quarter, according to Crunchbase data, led by an uptick in mega-rounds. That increase was led, unsurprisingly, by the AI sector. Funding to companies in AI made up 30% of all dollars invested and actually doubled quarter over quarter to $24 billion. On today's episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, M…

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Stripe’s easy-peasy acquisition, and why is Twitch still losing money? 11:15

4h ago11:15

11:15

Today’s episode is packed with M&A talk, how one YouTuber succeeded at the creator economy, why Twitch is still losing money and an autonomous vehicle company that is making a comeback. First up, Rebecca took a look at fintech giant Stripe’s acquisition of four-year-old competitor Lemon Squeezy. The buy will allow Stripe to beef up its merchant of …

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Alphabet is clearly looking to buy, so who's selling, and why did Wiz say no? 33:13

2h ago33:13

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This week felt like two weeks rolled into one. To kick things off, Mary Ann Azevedo walked everyone through Clio’s huge fundraise. The Canadian legal tech company raised $900 million at a $3 billion valuation — a very large sum anytime, but especially in this market. Impressively, the company is still growing rapidly, which isn't easy to do when yo…

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Cracking the AI and consumer code with early Zoom-backer Maven Ventures 26:48

9h ago26:48

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Maven Ventures General Partner Sara Deshpande has been investing in the consumer tech space for a decade. Over time, the seed-stage venture firm has backed the likes of Zoom, Cruise, Hello Heart, Perplexity and x.AI and has grown to over $200 million in assets under management. Now, with a new $60 million fund — and plans to write six to eight chec…

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CrowdStrike’s fallout, where Harris stands on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes 11:26

2h ago11:26

11:26

On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan did a deep dive into the CrowdStrike outage that affected around 8.5 million Windows devices around the world, causing disruptions in air travel, banking, hospitals, media outlets, federal agencies and businesses of all kinds. The outage began when CrowdStrike, a cloud security giant, sent out a defectiv…

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Silicon Valley's impact on the election and an acquisition making our HeadSpin 32:52

14d ago32:52

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To kick off this week's news roundup, Kirsten walked us through Elon Musk’s recent declaration of his intent to move both SpaceX and X’s headquarters out of California to Texas. Whether or not he’ll see those plans through remains to be seen, but of course, the Equity crew had thoughts. We then got into the deals of the week. First up, we talked ab…

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If the music stops, what startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners' co-founders are finding out 29:15

7d ago29:15

29:15

Renegade Partners co-founders Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek have seen it all in their careers — notably over the past four years when they launched their first fund as the COVID pandemic took hold and navigated the economic roller coaster that followed. Now, with a second $128 million fund — and a plan to write checks of up to $10 million int…

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Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue 8:01

14d ago8:01

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On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan explored Google’s reported talks to acquire Wiz, a cloud security company, for around $23 billion. Wiz provides an “all-in-one approach to cloud security,” pulling data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and others, then scanning it all for security risk factors – something that Goog…

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There's always something happening to OpenAI's board 27:38

1d ago27:38

27:38

Mary Ann was off this week, and Kirsten took the lead with Becca Szkutak and Rebecca Bellan in the co-host seats. This episode is packed with deals, antitrust musings, AI and more, so let's get into it! For our first deal of the week, one of the many lawsuits Musk faces after firing 6,000 Twitter employees after his 2022 takeover was dismissed. The…

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Floodgate's Mike Maples says startups that people 'don't like' may be the best ones to back 29:17

23d ago29:17

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Mike Maples Jr. is a prolific angel investor and co-founder of early-stage venture firm Floodgate. Over the years, he’s taken a lot of bets. Some have paid off handsomely (Twitter, Twitch, Lyft and Bazaarvoice, for example). Others have not. On today's episode of Equity, Mary Ann sat down with Mike to dig into a number of topics, including some of …

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A new trend for Seed VCs, and the scariest part about OpenAI's data breach 6:11

5d ago6:11

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On today's episode of Equity, we're taking a look at news you might've missed over the holiday weekend here in the U.S., starting with the recent OpenAI security breach. While it doesn't seem that people have to be too worried about what the hackers actually accessed, the fact that it happened is worth paying attention to. TechCrunch's Devin Coldew…

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Jon McNeill on VC 2.0 and creating startups in house 32:38

1M ago32:38

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What’s the common thread between Tesla, building startups, General Motors, venture capital and Lyft? Jon McNeill, co-founder and partner of DVx Ventures, joins TechCrunch editor Kirsten Korosec on Equity to discuss how Elon Musk’s pay package has influenced founders, when it makes sense to go light on cash and heavy on equity, and his firm’s unique…

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AI-powered drug development, VW teams up with Rivian, and DEI is 'bad' 29:52

1M ago29:52

29:52

Mary Ann, Haje and Kirsten are back on the mic for this week's episode, which was is jam-packed with deals, hot topics, and the latest dramaaaaaa in the tech world. For Deals of the Week, Haje wanted to chat about Formation Bio, an AI-focused drug development startup that just raised a whopping $372 million in Series D funding, led by Andreessen Ho…

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Y Combinator sets its sights on D.C. with Luther Lowe 21:39

1M ago21:39

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Today, we’re bringing you a conversation from TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in DC earlier this month, where TechCrunch Editor in Chief & General Manager Connie Loizos sat down with Luther Lowe, who serves as Y Combinator’s Head of Public Policy. Lowe joined the accelerator last fall from Yelp, where he was SVP of Public Policy. Connie and Luther to…

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The EU's DMA is coming for Apple, and X bots are on the loose 12:02

1M ago12:02

12:02

In a press release this morning, the European Commission named Apple as the first of tech’s so-called “gatekeepers” to be charged for violating the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Apple is one of six tech giants named by the European Commission as “gatekeepers” last year, alongside Alphabet, Amazon, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft. While we continue to kee…

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Ilya Sutskever's new AI venture, and time to BeReal about bankruptcy 33:35

1M ago33:35

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This week, co-hosts Mary-Ann Azavedo and Haje Kamps were joined by the ever-insightful Kirsten Korosec to dive into the latest and greatest happenings in the startup world. Kicking things off, our trio of hosts break down three major deals of the week. First, there's Waabi, an autonomous trucking startup that just closed a whopping $200 million Ser…

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Mary Ann Azevedo Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Equity

TechCrunch, Mary Ann Azevedo, Kell, Theresa Loconsolo, Rebecca Bellan, Rebecca Szkutak

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AI Friends, deepfake foes, and which Tiger Global partner is leaving now 31:12

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Global startup funding is picking up with AI still in the spotlight 25:10

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Stripe’s easy-peasy acquisition, and why is Twitch still losing money? 11:15

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Alphabet is clearly looking to buy, so who's selling, and why did Wiz say no? 33:13

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Cracking the AI and consumer code with early Zoom-backer Maven Ventures 26:48

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CrowdStrike’s fallout, where Harris stands on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes 11:26

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Silicon Valley's impact on the election and an acquisition making our HeadSpin 32:52

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If the music stops, what startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners' co-founders are finding out 29:15

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Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue 8:01

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There's always something happening to OpenAI's board 27:38

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Floodgate's Mike Maples says startups that people 'don't like' may be the best ones to back 29:17

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A new trend for Seed VCs, and the scariest part about OpenAI's data breach 6:11

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Jon McNeill on VC 2.0 and creating startups in house 32:38

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AI-powered drug development, VW teams up with Rivian, and DEI is 'bad' 29:52

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Y Combinator sets its sights on D.C. with Luther Lowe 21:39

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The EU's DMA is coming for Apple, and X bots are on the loose 12:02

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Ilya Sutskever's new AI venture, and time to BeReal about bankruptcy 33:35

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