This week, <a href="https://twitter.com/bayareawriter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Ann</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/alex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex</a> had the pleasure of having TC reporter extraordinaire <a href="https://twitter.com/DominicMadori" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dominic Madori-Davis</a> as a guest on the show.  
Here’s what we got into:
<ul>
<li>A quick update on the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/sbf/">SBF trial</a>, which quite frankly, has us all riveted.</li>
<li>An Atlanta-based fintech startup called <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/rainforest-raises-8-5m-to-help-software-companies-embed-financial-services-payments/">Rainforest’s $8.25M equity raise</a> and how it is hoping to take market share away from the likes of Stripe.</li>
<li>A bunch of new fund raises this week, including At One’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/at-one-ventures-climate-tech/">$375M climate-focused raise</a>; Section 32’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/section-32-closes-on-525m-fund-says-there-is-a-zone-of-commoditization-that-you-have-to-avoid-while-investing-in-ai/">$525M fund close</a> and Greylock’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/03/greylock-1b-venture-capital-founders-program/">$1 billion haul</a>. </li>
<li>With so much capital flowing to VCs, it is more than a little mind-boggling that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/the-global-vc-market-continues-to-stumble/">venture funding declined</a> for yet another quarter in the three-month period ending September 30. But it did. </li>
<li>Dom came on to talk about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/02/fearless-fund-trial-aaer/">Fearless Fund’s being barred from awarding grants to Black women founders</a> and how <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/29/vc-office-hours-how-data-can-help-improve-social-impact-investing/">how data can help improve social impact investing</a>. </li>
</ul>
Equity is back next week bright and early on Monday. And we have a lot of really cool interviews coming up. So make sure that you are tuned in and caught up!
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