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Hey and welcome again to Equity, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

To shut out the 12 months, I wished to sit down down with a enterprise capitalist and riff on the approaching 12 months. On right now’s episode, we’re joined by Deepka Rana from Northzone to talk via a bevy of key matters for the brand new 12 months:

The place enterprise capital is heading within the new 12 months;
The prognosis for startups at totally different levels of maturity;
Why 2023 was the 12 months of adjustment, and 2024 could possibly be the brand new venture-startup regular;
And, the destiny of AI within the EU the place regulation is afoot. (n.b. After we recorded this, the EU’s first-draft of AI regulation had not but dropped).

I feel each particular person in startups and enterprise capital is hoping that 2024 brings a hotter macroeconomic surroundings and plenty of exits. We’ll see. What was clear from our chat with Rana, nevertheless, is that the brand new 12 months goes to be something however boring.

We now have two extra episodes headed your method earlier than we formally wrap up 2023, so keep near Fairness!

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