California has no water and lots of liquidity

Hello and welcome back to

Equity

, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Danny,

Natasha

, and Alex

were on deck this week, with Grace

on the recording and edit. But, if you want to hear more about Robinhood, *this is not the episode for you. *If you want to learn more about the consumer fintech company’s IPO filing *this

*is the episode you want. Basically, Robinhood filed after we had wrapped taping, so we had to do a special pod for the news.

So, this is the everything-but-Robinhood episode. And here’s what’s inside of it:

• Startup and investor tensions at Bessemer and Hinge Health

  . Natasha has the latest.

• Didi’s IPO

  , and what’s going on with Chinese IPOs more generally

  . Also SentinelOne’s expensive and notable debut

  .

• And then all things Duolingo, including TechCrunch’s overview

  and more in-depth look

  .

• From the venture capital side of things, Zipline raised $250 million

  , Daylight raised $5 million

  , Articulate raised $1.5 billion

  , Acceleprise rebranded to Forum Ventures

  , and Peanut put together a micro-fund

  .

• We closed with Neeva, Brave, and other alternative search tools. Alex has a piece coming on the subject, once he gets around to finishing it.

A four-episode week! With only Grace handling production! She’s amazing.

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