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. 

On this episode of ⁠Equity⁠, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff discuss how the line between innovation and responsibility ⁠is getting blurrier⁠, plus what happens when pranks go from digital to physical. 

Equity unpacks the week’s headlines, from how the government shutdown is impacting startups to the messy reality of AI monetization experiments.

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech's talent shuffle.

Chipiron CEO joins Equity to discuss how his startup is tackling one of the most expensive hospital-bound technologies, MRI machines, and aims to make them available anywhere.

On the latest episode of ⁠Equity⁠, we dive deeper into how the AI data market is changing, check in on startups that recently went public and share their takes on the divisive orange iPhone.