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Additionally, the Fairness group dips its toes into patriotism

Howdy, and welcome to Fairness, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And have an excellent time.

This week Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex (together with our superb manufacturing group Grace, Chris, and Kell) took on a bevy of subjects from all over the world of startups and expertise extra broadly.

• We naturally kicked off with information that Fb intends to rebrand itself. Which we don’t assume will do a lot to detract from its varied crises. However the information does underscore that Fb is, in truth, critical about writing its subsequent chapter.
• From there it was time to speak funding rounds. This week we picked Vertical Oceans and its fishy plans, Superplastic and its steady of impolite digital critters and Trendy Age and its plan to assist us all age a bit extra gracefully.
• Vibe Capital, based by Teachable’s Ankur Nagpal, is a $60 million fund for worldwide, scrappy founders. We spoke concerning the founder to investor pipeline, and why everybody desires one another’s jobs.
• After which Alex ran us via some information from the Chinese language enterprise capital market, info that was much more constructive than we anticipated. Given, you recognize, the nation’s regulatory crackdown on expertise corporations.
• We closed with plenty of main fintech rounds, together with new capital for Deel and a funding scoop on Brex, which is now formally a decacorn. Notably, Deel and Brex each raised mega-rounds simply six months after elevating mega-rounds.
• Whereas we’re in a bubble, it’s simple to get misplaced in the identical narrative: every part is booming! This week’s episode was an excellent reminder of how various, and nuanced, this ever-lasting startup summer season really is.