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Oct 2021
8m 10s

Equity Monday: Byju's raises more money,...

TechCrunch, Mary Ann Azevedo, Kell, Theresa Loconsolo, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Devin Coldewey, Margaux MacColl
About this episode
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. Sorry that the show is so delayed today, it's utterly my fault. Regular service retu ... Show More
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