What’s the other of a lean startup?

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Hey and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast in regards to the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

That is our Friday present, and we’re speaking in regards to the week’s greatest startup and tech information. This week, Mary Ann and Alex ran as a duo, overlaying a large swath of startup and expertise information. Don’t overlook that the Fairness crew are opening this 12 months’s starcrypto Disrupt occasion, so snag a bagel and are available dangle in just a few weeks!

Right here’s the present rundown:

• Teamshares: Right here’s an attention-grabbing one. Teamshares has raised some huge cash and is shopping for loads of SMBs. However that’s simply the beginning. It additionally plans to permit workers of these corporations to purchase most of their inventory over time, whereas serving up centralized fintech companies to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to speak a couple of new mannequin?
• MoonPay’s new enterprise arm: Crypto fee infra firm MoonPay is entering into the enterprise recreation, with a give attention to crypto, gaming, and fintech. The union of these three is crypto video games, after all, however we now have two eyes fastened on what MoonPay decides to spend money on. New crypto-thematic, or crypto-adjacent funds are rarer as of late, making the MoonPay information thrilling.
• Lease Butter and Kiki: Now that the zero rate of interest interval is over, and the experiment in constructing new iBuying and mortgage service startups has partially concluded, renting is scorching once more. And thus, so too are rental-focused startups.
• The IPO drought has lasted longer than you anticipated: Working off a Crunchbase dataset, Alex has notes on simply how lengthy we now have been ready for actual tech IPOs. The excellent news? They’re (partially) again!
• What occurs while you convey lean startup ideology into the AI world? Numerous experiments, it seems.

And that’s us till subsequent week. On account of an American vacation, Fairness will kick off on Tuesday subsequent week as a substitute of Monday!