On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.

Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?

Equity breaks down why OpenAI pulled the plug on Sora, what Meta’s back-to-back legal losses mean, and more of the week's headlines.

Equity digs into the rise of "microdramas," the short-form, mobile-first shows quietly becoming a multi-billion dollar industry, with Watch Club founder Henry Soong.

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

Equity breaks down Nvidia's GTC keynote plus xAI's reboot, Travis Kalanick's complicated comeback, and Uber's $1.25B bet on Rivian.

Arena’s founders join Equity to explain how their AI leaderboard became the go-to LLM benchmark, address neutrality concerns, and discuss what comes after chatbots.

Shardul Shah of Index Ventures walks us through Google's biggest acquisition ever.

Equity breaks down the largest venture-backed acquisition in history, a DOGE data breach, and the growing battle between Anthropic and the Trump administration.

Allison Ellsworth joins Equity to talk about her journey from creating Poppi in her kitchen to selling it to pitching on Shark Tank and selling to PepsiCo for nearly $2 billion.

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.

Equity breaks down the Pentagon’s split with Anthropic over AI control, OpenAI’s role in defense tech, and the week’s biggest startup and tech headlines.

PopSockets founder and former CEO David Barnett tell Equity how he scaled the consumer hardware brand, their $10–20M Amazon fight, and why he stepped down as CEO.

Alex Bores joins the Equity podcast to discuss the RAISE Act, the super PAC battle shaping AI policy, and what real AI regulation in the U.S. could look like.

Token Relations CEO Jacquelyn Melinek joins Equity to make sense of how the market has changed and what in the world of crypto is built to last.

Equity⁠ unpacks how creators are diversifying beyond ads, whether their model can scale beyond the top 1%, everything happing at India's AI Impact Summit, and more of the week's headlines.

 Google Cloud’s vice president of global startups, Darren Mowry, joins Equity to discuss how Google Cloud is competing for AI startups, and what founders should be thinking about as they scale.

"We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs."

Equity is digging into the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies like xAI and OpenAI.

Glean CEO and founder Arvind Jain joins Equity to break down how enterprises are thinking about AI architecture, what's driving consolidation, and what's real versus hype in the agent space. 

Flapping Airplanes' founders join Equity to discuss why investors wrote the lab a $180M check, what the "neolabs" generation means for AI development, and more.

Elon Musk is building something bigger than a single company. Equity breaks down the SpaceX and xAI merger, the rise of the personal conglomerate, Waymo’s $16B raise, AI chip wars, and more.

The Equity podcast crew rolls through Uber's AV partnership strategy, why Waabi's "simulation-first" approach might be different, IPO news, and more.

Equity unpacks why SpaceX's IPO feels different, how secondary markets are heating up, and what investors are actually looking for in pre-IPO shares.

Tech CEOs dominated Davos while AI startups raise hundreds of millions on mission statements alone. Equity breaks it all down on today's episode.

Equity digs into why Anthropic, OpenAI, and the rest of the AI world is suddenly obsessed with healthcare, and more of the week's headlines. 

What are enterprises really worried about with AI? WitnessAI and Ballistic Ventures join Equity to break down the rise of AI security, a potential $1T market, and the risks of autonomous AI agents.

AI left the screen at CES 2026. The Equity podcast team unpacks humanoid robots, physical AI, big deals, and the week’s biggest tech news.

AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody discusses how his startup became a $10B middleman in AI’s data gold rush, on the Equity podcast.

Fizz founder Teddy Solomon joins the Equity podcast to explain why Gen Z is done performing online and how his app took over college campuses.

The Equity podcast crew breaks down what actually happened in tech in 2025, and what AI, startups, and VCs should expect in 2026.

The Equity podcast crew digs into how Akara uses AI and thermal sensors to fix one of hospitals’ most expensive bottlenecks: OR coordination.

iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes were very different companies, but they faced some similar challenges.

What went wrong for three once-promising hardware companies? Equity is discussing the latest wave of bankruptcies, plus ⁠Amazon's massive OpenAI bet ⁠and ⁠Trump's new approach⁠ to AI regulation.

Jiten Behl joins Equity to talk Rivian spinouts, what founders in the "physical world" need that software founders don't, and why automation is becoming necessary. 

Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Anthony Ha discuss what happens when the startup that used to mail you DVDs grows up and tries to buy a legacy entertainment empire as well as the other headlines that caught their eye. 

ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski admits he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what's ElevenLabs' plan when everyone else catches up? 

The latest episode of Equity digs into the ROI on AI agents and why everyone wants their own version of Spotify Wrapped. 

Day One's Masha Bucher joines Equity to unpack why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online.

Supabase's co-founder and CEO joins Equity to discuss the startup's rise and what it means for vibe coding, developers and the database giants who have historically controlled this market. 

On this week’s Equity, we sat down with Dennis Green-Lieber, the founder of the AI company Propane, to talk about the booming success of the Nordic ecosystem.

Propane co-founder Dennis Green-Lieber joined Equity to talk about the Nordic startup ecosystem, from its collaborative culture to its deep tech future. 

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that $580 billion will be spent globally on AI data centers in 2025 alone. This is $40 billion more than will be spent on new oil supplies — leading us to conclude that data centers are the new oil fields. But is this a net […]

AI isn't all or nothing, and even good bets can turn sour if you aren't careful about how you make them. 

Equity⁠ takes a closer look at the new SoftBank-OpenAI, what it signals about the sustainability of AI's current investment model, going public, and more. 

True Anomaly CEO Even Rogers joins Equity to explore the emerging business of space defense and why the U.S. is playing catch-up.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Equity team broke down where the actual business models are for AI, and why some founders are betting against the scaling race entirely.

Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Tim Chen to explore the rise of solo VCs and who's rewriting the traditional venture playbook.