We’re all only a Hop, Skip and a Drive away from a greater Hustle • TechCrunch

Howdy and welcome again to Equity, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Earlier than we get into this week’s present notes, some programming notes:

OK, now to the present. This week, Natasha, Mary Ann and Rebecca took the mic, with Theresa on manufacturing responsibility, to speak by means of fairly a various information cycle:

• Our offers of the week have been Scout, HopSkipDrive and Hustle Fund’s new fund (so I feel you lastly get the headline of this present).
• Then we jumped into the human aspect of the layoff story, as Mary Ann and Christine dug into 4 tales of these impacted by the Higher.com layoff spree.

• After that, we debated whether or not or not the Adobe/Figma deal will spur extra M&A contemplating the shortage of firms going public and the state of the enterprise market.
• Talking of the enterprise market, we ended with a dialogue about how VCs are funding again, however specializing in sure phases, after which seemed forward at what This autumn may appear like.