Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And
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Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders
Fundraising is still ‘a paradoxical issue’ As of this month, personal care and beauty retailer Sephora is selling vibrators on its U.S. website. It is a significant milestone not just for Dame and Maude, the startups it partnered with, but
Stronghold launches $100M venture arm to invest in underrepresented founders and fintech
Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an
After the acquisition: 3 startup founders share their exit experiences
In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014, then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. He didn’t pull any punches: “Acquisitions always suck, and suck worse than you think that they are
Project Veritas founder’s apartment raided as part of probe into Ashley Biden’s stolen diary: report
The FBI raided Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home on Saturday, as authorities continued to investigate the apparent theft of President Biden’s daughter’s diary, a report said. The court-ordered early morning raid of O’Keefe’s Mamaroneck apartment was reported by The New
Backpage founders get mistrial because US overplayed child sex trafficking claims
Getty Images | imaginima A federal judge yesterday declared a mistrial in the case against Backpage’s founders, ruling that US prosecutors unfairly tainted the jury by focusing too heavily on claims of child sex trafficking in a trial that involved
“Failure is not a crime,” Theranos founder’s lawyers tell jury
Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes collects her belongings after going through security at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team on August 31, 2021 in San Jose, California. Ethan Swope | Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes’ failure