The value differential for engineers is declining – TechCrunch

Hello and welcome again to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

The complete crew was right here this week, with Danny and Natasha and Alex  along with Grace and Chris to type by a really, very busy week. Yep, one way or the other it’s Friday once more which implies it’s time for our weekly information roundup.

Here’s what we acquired to in our brief window of time:

• The Jianzhi Education IPO: We have questions. The Chinese edtech firm is looking to list within the United States after Chinese regulators clamped down on Didi and different China-based, American public choices. Bravery? Stupidity? Brilliance? It’s exhausting to say, however we’ll be watching.
• Zomato’s IPO and the Indian tech scene: As Zomato puts the final touches on its impending public offering, we chatted concerning the itemizing and what it might imply for the bigger, red-hot Indian startup market.
• The AI dialog: ZoomInfo bought Chorus.ai this week, which we had a lot of say about particularly in mild of Gong’s epic valuation. And Discord bought Sentropy, which additionally makes use of AI, albeit for a really completely different goal. The nice AI startup advertising push of years’ previous has lastly led to some neat exits.
• Apple vs. Startups: That’s the gist of our chat about the BNPL space and Apple’s possible invasion of the hot startup market. In brief, who’s in danger? We have just a few concepts.
• The TechCrunch List is dead — long live commodity capital: We get into how a listing that separates VCs by sector and stage is senseless into right now’s lawless investing world.
• Which brings us to a collection of recent funds. As Natasha pointed out, the scene for rising fund managers has by no means appeared extra numerous. 
• Nooks raised a seed spherical, which turned us again into the world of virtual HQs. 
• And we closed with a fast digest of the newest morsels from the fake-meat startup smorgasbord, together with what Gourmey is cooking, what Next Gen Foods is whipping up, and how Beyond Meat plans to keep its market cap sizzling.

Like we stated, a busy week! Chat you all on Monday morning, early.