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b"This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter\\xa0here\\xa0and myself\\xa0here \\u2014 and don\\u2019t forget to check out the first of our two holiday eps, the last one talking to VCs about what surprised them in 2020.\\n\\nAnyhoo, from vacation, here's what Chris and I got up to:\\n\\nA report looking at how ecommerce changed during 2020.\\n\\nThe epic carnage surrounding the Chinese government's clamping down on its tech sector (more here, and here from TechCrunch).\\n\\nLalamove raised $515 million in a Series E.\\n\\nYuanfudao raised another $300 million.\\n\\nIndian startups did not have the strongest year of venture fundraising, which felt a bit surprising.\\nAnd it doesn't appear that Japan did either.\\n\\nBut here in the United States, holy\\xa0shit things were bonkers."