Equity Monday: Hacks, IPOs, and the next generation of American tech giants
Aug 16, 2021
Discover the latest in tech as T-Mobile faces a possible major data breach. Listen in on the buzz surrounding upcoming IPOs, like ixigo's IPO and Tencent Music's delay. Funding rounds are heating up, with Carta raising $500 million and Chime securing $750 million. Meanwhile, Discord eyes a hefty valuation of $15 billion amid a changing investment landscape. Join the conversation on how geopolitical events are influencing these major developments!
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T-Mobile Data Breach
T-Mobile is investigating a potential data breach affecting 100 million people.
Vice confirmed some leaked data as genuine.
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Ixigo IPO
Indian travel service Ixigo plans a $215 million IPO.
This follows Zomato's IPO, suggesting India's startup ecosystem is maturing.
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Cisco Acquires Espagon
Cisco is acquiring Israeli firm Espagon.
Espagon specializes in application performance monitoring, focusing on microservices.
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here. I also tweet.
It's a surreal day to talk about technology, but here we are. If you can pull your eyes away from the greater geopolitical tragedy that is our world today, here's what we talked about:
T Mobile may have suffered a material breach. If this bears out, it could be a leading tech story for the week. Vice has confirmed that at least some of the data in the leak appears genuine.
Indian travel service ixigo is going public. The company's IPO follows Zomato's own domestic debut.
And a trio of American tech companies raised a raft of capital as last week concluded. Carta put together $500 million in a huge deal, as Chime raised $750 million. And as the week closed, Discord was reported to be hunting up a new round at a $15 billion price tag.
And stocks are set to open lower this morning. That's the morning report. Equity is back on Wednesday.
Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.
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