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Extra Crunch roundup: Digital health VC survey, edtech M&A, deep tech marketing, more I had my first telehealth consultation last year, and there’s a high probability that you did, too. Since the pandemic began, consumer adoption of remote healthcare has increased 300%. Speaking as an unvaccinated urban dweller: I’d rather speak to a nurse or doctor via my laptop than try to remain physically distanced on a bus or hailed ride traveling to/from their office. Even after things return to (rol...

Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch Dear Sophie: What are Biden’s immigration changes? — The latest edition of Dear Sophie, the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Hello, Extra Crunch community! — Tell us what else you want from Extra Crunch. (Extra Crunch is our membership program, which aims to democratize information about startups. You can sign up here.) Everything else Reflections on the first all-virtual CES — We’v...

How many recent tech IPOs are down from their opening price? We looked at 14 debuts from the last year to find out.

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This morning, as America itself resets, let's take a moment to understand last year just a little bit better as we get into this new one.

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups.

Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more Some time ago, I gave up on the idea of finding a thread that connects each story in the weekly Extra Crunch roundup; there are no unified theories of technology news. Watching Plaid and Visa sing “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” in harmony after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block their deal wasn’t shocking. But I was surprised to find myself editing an interview Alex Wilhelm conducted with ...

WhatsApp delays enforcement of a controversial privacy change, Apple may get rid of the Touch Bar in future MacBooks and Bumble files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 15, 2021. The big story: WhatsApp responds to privacy backlash Earlier this month, WhatsApp sent users a notification asking them to consent to […]

Stay gold, ‘Plaid for X’ startups A failed acquisition usually triggers the same series of questions: What does this mean for early-stage startups in the sector? Will a chilling effect occur and hurt valuations? Will VCs stop funding this category? How will the exit environment look going forward? This week gave that narrative a bullish twist. Visa and Plaid announced that they have reached a mutual agreement to no longer pursue a merger. The $5.3 billion deal had been under antitrust scrut...

This is not a new theme. I’ve touched on it for years, but what matters for us today is that there appear to be three distinct valuation bands for companies, and the gaps between them do not appear ready to shrink. You could even argue that they have widened. Band 2 is the long-term public investing cohort. These are folks critical in the IPO pricing context. They are willing to pay more for startups than the private capital crew. Affirm was not worth under $20 per share to this group, instea...