Equity

Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane

Booking Overview

A twice-weekly technology and venture-capital news briefing focused on startup business, funding, artificial intelligence, and market developments, with occasional interviews featuring prominent investors and technology leaders. Credible pitches include venture capitalists, startup founders, and executives with significant financing, product, or market expertise; booking difficulty is high because the show favors highly newsworthy industry figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 792

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.2/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 673.0k subscribers

Instagram: 2.0M followers

Contact Information

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Host

Kirsten Korosec - TechCrunch reporter and podcast host covering transportation, mobility, automotive technology, and startups.

Anthony Ha - TechCrunch journalist covering technology companies, startups, and the business of technology.

Sean O'Kane - TechCrunch journalist covering transportation, mobility, automotive technology, and related startups.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Venture capital partners, startup founders, technology executives, and other senior professionals with direct involvement in major financings, fast-growing companies, significant product developments, or consequential technology-market trends.

Required Achievements:

Leading or participating in major venture financings, Building or scaling a high-growth startup, Holding senior leadership at a notable technology company, Providing authoritative insight into major technology or investment trends

Recent Guest Discussions

Matt Murphy - Backing Anthropic Before Its Launch, Startup Growth, Artificial Intelligence Company Moats, Platform Strategy, And Lessons For Founders.

Recent Topics

Venture Capital, Startups, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Finance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Equity

Automattic's 33-Hour coup, and can AI labs police themselves?

September 18, 2026

A week after an Anthropic researcher's doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company's CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it's already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia's Jensen Huang. On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, ...

Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids

September 16, 2026

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently raised $163 million from the likes of Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Valor Equity Partners CEO Antonio Gracias. The buzzy startup aims to build hearing aids that understand the sou...

An ex-Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

September 11, 2026

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company's own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It's the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land differently. &n...

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