[NEWS] What happens to late-stage VC if the Vision Fund goes away? – Loganspace

Hi there and welcome motivate to Equity, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-targeted podcast, where we unpack the numbers within the motivate of the headlines.

Suitable info!KateandAlexwere both motivate within the studio this week. And even greater info, the unusual TechCrunch studio is mountainous and soundproof and beautiful nice, in actuality.

Nonetheless ample about all of that, let’s receive into the suggestions. First, a quickly-fire sight at some most up-to-date objects:

• Thumbtack israising a Sequence Hat a flat valuation.
• Fowl is shopping Go, which is unsurprising andpresumably trim.
• Google isshopping Lookerand we don’t in actuality have great to sigh about it completely different than its linear funding history ischaracterize-very best doubtless.
• And Contemplate, the bike-free Peloton cognate, israising cash at a greater valuation.

From there we turned to four fabric issues. First up, the Peloton IPO info.

Every person’s accepted health tech firm is going public. We weregazing for this, silent, we’re mad. For now, all now we have is a lousy press releaseasserting the IPO. Sit tight, the S-1 will reach soon ample.

Next, we turned to a topic come and dear to the center of this direct: SoftBank’s Imaginative and prescient Fund. The 2d Imaginative and prescient Fund, to be trusty. Rumors narrate their non-public praises the of us within the motivate of the first Imaginative and prescient Fund are having a more necessary time than anticipated nailing down unusual cash for a sophomore automotive.

If the 2d Imaginative and prescient Fund doesn’t reach to be, what happens to uninteresting-stage startups? These of us are depending on wide chunks of money and had gotten at threat of a peculiar same earlier: mountainous, uninteresting-stage funds doling out IPO-sized rounds to firms silent too immature to trip public. Without the promise of SoftBank’s cash, would possibly per chance perhaps perhaps well we ogle an uptick in IPOs? Or an increasing quantity of uninteresting-stage firms floundering for capital? Will the whole lot tumble apart?

Talking of messes, the of us within the motivate of Social Capital that obtained left within the motivate of when their enterprise firm turned into a family office are motivate with one thing unusual. Tribe Capital is raising $150 million fund. Kate detailed the firmherebut here’s the TL;DR, Tribe has employed a bunch of mature Social Capital partners and as well they’re in fact rebuilding Social Capital sans Chamath Palihapitiya.

At closing, the tempo at which female-founded startups are reaching unicorn arenais accelerating,mountainous time. That’s genuine info. If the velocity of unusual, female-founded unicorn creation continues at this tempo, we’re in for some epic results.

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