Hello there and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast about the enterprise of startups wherever we unpack the numbers and nuance guiding the headlines.

It is just about Christmas, which signifies you might be caught with household at the moment. No matter of what, if any, holidays you may perhaps rejoice, there is fantastic chance that there are extra people all-around you than ordinary. We’re below to distract you from that.

To make certain that you get respite from Precise Human Conversation, the Fairness team has geared up a appear-back again at the calendar year. Significant quantities? Examine. Big themes? You know it. Big times of ‘wait, that transpired this year?!’ Well, we’d have it no other way.

Here’s what we have in retail outlet for you:

• Substantial-degree venture funds stats from the 12 months, from all-around the earth which include India, Latin The us, and the United States.
• The rise of memes and funds: Recall the Gamestop/stonk saga? That was this year, astonishingly. So too was the Robinhood IPO, the Coinbase immediate listing, and a host of other associated tales. Guaranteed, by the conclusion of the calendar year we experienced moved on to other parts of key news, but really don’t forget how wild the start out of 2021 was from a trading viewpoint.
• The crypto increase: Enjoy it or hate it, crypto was one of the important startup themes this calendar year. Funds raced into NFT marketplaces, crypto infra initiatives, new blockchains, and extra. It was a gold hurry, but all the gold was electronic.
• A switching creator economic system: We experienced very little selection but to talk speaking, to chat chatting, to yammer about yammering. Sure, we riffed on the rise and fall of Clubhouse, and the bigger are living-audio marketplace. Podcasts, films, and the creator economic system as a complete had been rather large narratives this 12 months, so we talked by way of what went down.
• We also touched on remote get the job done, fintech, insurtech mistakes, media startups, and a grip of matters that you, the Equity family, sent in through Twitter.

Did we get to almost everything? Heck no. We didn’t even get close. But that is because 2021 was a fast paced damn calendar year. It commenced active and under no circumstances slowed down. What do we be expecting in 2022? Perfectly, just wait for following week’s episode!