Equity Monday: Oyo’s losses, global growth concerns, and four early-stage rounds

Good morning friends, and welcome back to

TechCrunch’s Equity Monday

, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the years don’t worry — we’re not changing the main show.

Here’s

last week’s episode

with Danny Crichton

and Bessemer’s Elliott Robinson

which I really enjoyed. And, we just posted the video from that taping

, in case you wanted to see what a podcast looks like IRL. Spoiler: It’s mostly a bunch of microphones and cables and nerds.

Turning to the news, global growth concerns stemming from the coronavirus outbreak are starting to come true, with

Singapore changing its own forecasts

. Singapore now expects either slower growth, or negative expansion in 2020. That’s bad news. And, Japan’s economy was on the ropes

even before the virus really slowed things down. Expect more of this to keep happening.

Also this weekend there was yet another tech-media dustup. If you missed it, you didn’t miss much.

The week ahead looks pretty tame. No major earnings reports or IPOs are on our horizon, though Dropbox, Wix and Zscaler will report. If you are a SaaS person, that’s for you.

We then talked about

Dovetail

, Copper

, Seez

, and Bosta

— bringing the morning venture update together with a theme, a first I think for Equity Monday.

All that and we wrapped with Oyo’s most

recently disclosed financial performance

. Surprise, it contained a lot of growth and quickly expanding losses.

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