Today on TechCrunch’s ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane break down ⁠everything we saw at CES 2026⁠ and more deals from the week that caught our eye. 

VC Vanessa Larco, who's been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we're about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Larco to talk about why consumer is back, what OpenAI won't kill, and where the real opportunities are hiding. 

⁠Fizz⁠ is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. Dominic Madori Davis sat down with ⁠Fizz’s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year's Disrupt⁠, digging into the company's plans for expansion and why he thinks social media stopped being social.    

TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode! The group tackles everything from why AI agents didn't live up to the hype in 2025 (but probably will in 2026), to how Hollywood will push back against AI-generated content, to why VCs are facing a serious liquidity crisis.  

Is the OR ready for AI? Equity caught up with Conor McGinn, co-founder and CEO of Akara, the startup that recently landed a spot on ⁠Time's Best Inventions of 2025⁠ and is building what’s essentially air traffic control for hospitals using thermal sensors and AI.   

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. 

Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Kirsten Korosec sat down with Jiten Behl to talk about why Rivian keeps spinning out companies, what founders in the "physical world" need that software founders don't, and why automation is becoming necessary if the US wants to compete without Chinese supply chains. 

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. 

Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, we’re bringing you ⁠a conversation with CEO Mati Staniszewski⁠ from this year's Disrupt, where he made a surprising admission: he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what's ElevenLabs' plan when everyone else catches up? 

This week on ⁠Equity⁠, the crew dug into the ROI on AI agents, plus the collision course between Hollywood and generative AI, and why everyone wants their own version of Spotify Wrapped. 

Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Day One's Masha Bucher to talk about why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online. 

Supabase, the open-source database platform that's become the backend of choice for the vibe-coding world, ⁠raised $100 million at a $5 billion valuation⁠ just months after closing $200 million at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone has a surprising strategy: he keeps turning down million-dollar enterprise contracts, betting instead that vibe coding will birth the next generation of companies.  Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Copplestone to explore Supabase's rise and what it means for the database race. 

Dominic-Madori Davis caught up with Propane co-founder Dennis Green-Lieber to talk about the Nordic startup ecosystem, from its collaborative culture to its deep tech future. 

This week on Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into Nvidia's massive earnings beat, the circular economy of AI infrastructure spending, and whether Jensen Huang's optimistic vision of AI agents handling everything in our daily lives can justify the investment. 

Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Russell Brandom sat down with Manara at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to explore how OpenAI is serving the startups building on its platform. 

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

Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Rogers to explore the emerging business of space defense and why the U.S. is playing catch-up. 

On TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Max Zeff, Anthony Ha and Sean O’Kane break down Atlas’s debut, the broader wave of new, alternative browsers, the AWS crash that broke much of the internet, and more of the week’s startup and tech news. 

Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian Ludwig, Chief Security Officer and Chief Architect at ⁠Tools for Humanity⁠, the company behind World’s eye-scanning Orbs appearing around the globe. Bellan and Ludwig discuss building privacy-first identity verification, the open-source approach to biometric tech, and why proving humanity matters now more than ever.