Equity

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week we — Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace -- had more than a little to noodle over, but not so much that we blocked out a second episode. We try to stick to our current format, but, may do more shows in the future. Have a thought about that? equitypod@techcrunch.com is your friend and we are listening.Now! We took a broad approach this week, so there is a little of something for everything down below. Enjoy!Hims is going to SPAC itself onto the public markets, which should prove interesting for other D2C startups eyeing the same move.The final quarter of 2020 and the full year brought an ocean of capital to bear on US startups, something that we delighted in chewing on. Fintech is also hot as all heck.Plaid is building a fintech accelerator, which we thought was cool.An edtech startup based in Nigeria raised a $7.5 million Series A on the back of a really neat distribution