Don’t give all your data to your cannabis dealer – TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we break down the numbers behind the headlines.

Our beloved Danny was back, joining Natasha and Alexis and Grace and Chris to chat for yet another incredibly busy week. As a window into our process, each week we tell ourselves that the next week we will downsize the show. Then, the week is so interesting that we end up cutting a lot of news, but also keeping a lot of news. The chaotic process is a work in progress, but that means the end result is still what we decided not to talk about.

Here’s what we got into:

• A little IRL update url from Natasha, who just got in an edtech conference.
• How a VC was hit by ransomware and why the stolen LP data could be a red flag for investors.
• The team discussed some Cloud 100 numbers and riffed for a minute about Figma, Gusto, and Mailchimp, companies that are all said to be worth around $ 10 billion.
• On the initial funding side, we took advantage of the $ 4 million increase in Surfside and the capital that Pave recently attracted. Felt also raised money to make the cards more mainstream, which got us thinking about a lot of use cases.
• In the land of unicorns, Trendyol amassed a mountain of money, while UpGrad became the new Indian unicorn.
• Climate change is going to mean many more companies have to deal with disaster preparedness, says Danny. His recent EC-1 here on RapidSOS has entered the deep and complex world of three simple digits: 911.
• And we ended the show with a Salesforce + riff, which we had fun with but also tried to take seriously because we’re journalists after all.