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One of the joys of working at TechCrunch: everyone on the staff is a nerd on some level.
Back in middle school, some kids collected Pokemon cards or played Magic: The Gathering. Senior Editor Alex Wilhelm, on the other hand, read the print edition of The Wall Street Journal.
Tomorrow morning, he launches a weekly newsletter that studies the latest developments in startups, markets and money.
The TechCrunch Exchange newsletter weaves a narrative from his weekday stories that dive into the latest funding rounds, S-1s, conversations with investors and entrepreneurs, and publicly available information.
This week, he studied the latest developments in the public markets; despite a wearying level of uncertainty, “this is the IPO market unicorns were waiting for,” he wrote on Wednesday, assessing the strong debut of Jamf, an Apple-device management company.
On Thursday, he turned his attention to the strength of insurtech marketplaces, specifically looking at Lemonade’s post-IPO price jump to see if it offers any insight into Hippo’s $150 million Series E.
Today, he ends the week with a provocative question: are insuretech startups undervalued?
Adding Root and Metromile to to the cohort of companies under consideration, he attempts to stake out their value relative to the larger players, because “how they exit will help determine the results of many a venture fund.”
Alex’s daily analysis is fascinating to read, and it’s exciting to edit such top-level business writing. Sign up here to subscribe to The Exchange newsletter. To read his column every day, become an Extra Crunch member.
Have a great weekend,
Walter Thompson
Senior Editor, TechCrunch
@yourprotagonist
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