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Equity is rounding up the week's startup and venture headlines, including a deep dive into Techstars shaking up its operations.

The unicorn company expects to price its IPO between $28 and $31

The Equity Podcast dug into Automattic buying Beeper for $125 million and its purchase of Texts.com last year for $50 million. Elsewhere, Proton bought Standard Notes, and Proxima Fusion raised $21M.

Like Reddit, both tech companies incorporate AI, but they aren't strictly AI businesses like Astera Labs

The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the mobile technology news coming out of MWC 2024.

This is a transcript of the latest episode of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast. Listen above or read below to catch up on our Wednesday show, in which we talk through the week’s leading startup and venture capital news. Hello and welcome back to Equity, the TechCrunch podcast where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

This is our Wednesday show, where we dig into the critical startup and venture capital stories from the week thus far.

If a noticeable chunk of Carta startup and venture customers do leave, it would hurt the company's otherwise impressive revenue figures, but that seems unlikely to happen.

Venture debt has its merits. It can be a better and cheaper alternative to raising equity, especially if you are building a company in a capital intensive…

In 10 minutes, companies can receive indicative debt terms for up to $250 million within five days from a network of lenders.