- GoJek raised $1.2 billion more, a stunning round for this time in the venture cycle.
- HashiCorp raised $175 million at a price of more than $5 billion, a huge round at an enormous price in any era, but even more so in today’s market.
- AI startups are being snapped up at record rates, with a record-setting 231 deals in 2019. According to the same dataset, the Big Five were buy buying the most AI startups, along with Intel.
Equity Tuesday: Wild markets, a neat early-stage round, and the closed IPO window
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.
For folks hunting for our longer form work, here’s last week’s episode with Danny Crichton and Natasha Mascarenhas, and here’s yesterday’s interview with YC boss Michael Seibel.
Equity Monday is a day late this week as I was off yesterday, but it’s here today and what a mess the world is at the moment. That was a key theme of the show, but not the only thing that we mentioned. Here are some other bits of news that caught our eye: