Swiggy licensed The Bowl Company and other in-house food brands to Kouzina
Swiggy handed its digital-first food brands to cloud-kitchen operator Kouzina in May 2025, after shutting Genie and as NRAI threatened action.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTStrava shut Fatmap, its 3D outdoor maps app, 20 months after buying it
In June 2024 Strava said Fatmap would close on 1 October and fold into its subscription, leaving grades, photos and guidebooks behind.
Fall lesenStarform soft-launched Metalstorm in five countries and reached nearly 1M downloads
Ex-Z2 founders' Seattle studio revealed its free-to-play 5v5 aerial combat game in open beta, hitting about 1M downloads mostly by word of mouth.
Fall lesenSquare Yards leans on loan arm Urban Money, 60% of revenue, ahead of an IPO (interview)
In an Inc42 interview the CFO says loan distribution now outearns real estate, taking FY26 revenue up 48% to Rs 2,086 Cr.
Fall lesenSparkToro's Rand Fishkin raised $2.15M from 38 angels for a cooking-game studio, no VCs
Fishkin copied SparkToro's personal-network funding model for Snackbar Studio and published its pitch deck and legal documents for other indie teams.
Fall lesenSlync raised $24M led by Goldman Sachs while its founder faced federal fraud charges
After its CEO was charged with taking $20M of the $50M it had raised, the logistics software startup replaced him and closed a $24M round.
Fall lesenSeries Entertainment quietly raised $28M for its GenAI game engine and bought Pixelberry
A year after a $7.9M a16z-led seed, Series grew from 17 to 100-plus staff, bought Pixelberry and pitched its Rho Engine as the new Unity.
Fall lesenSentinelOne buys Bengaluru cloud-security startup PingSafe about six months after its seed
SentinelOne agreed in January 2024 to acquire PingSafe for cash and stock to add a cloud-native application protection platform to its Singularity platform.
Fall lesenSennder buys C.H. Robinson's European trucking business to double its revenue
The German digital freight forwarder agrees an all-cash deal for C.H. Robinson's European surface transportation unit, doubling revenue to a reported €1.4B.
Fall lesenJay Chaudhry put $500K of savings into SecureIT and sold it for ~$70M (interview)
In a CNBC interview, Chaudhry says no VC would back him in 1996, so he and his wife funded a firewall startup themselves and sold it to VeriSign in 1998.
Fall lesenRhodium launched a med-spa marketing platform by merging in three DTC beauty brands
Ex-Petabyte execs raised $2M and combined a software startup with Rootine, SiO Beauty and Solomomo so it can test its tools on its own brands.
Fall lesenQOSMIC swapped quantum satellites for optical ground stations at $1/GB (interview)
Founder Shreyaans Jain told Inc42 operators wanted laser-link infrastructure, not quantum, so the pre-revenue Bengaluru startup pivoted.
Fall lesenPolyarc, maker of VR hit Moss, closed after almost 12 years with 29 jobs lost
The Seattle studio behind Moss shut in September 2026, six months after a big cut, as the VR market weakened; 29 staff lost jobs.
Fall lesenpoint.me turned a 60-agent reward-flight concierge into a search engine, raising $2M
Juicy Miles agents searched loyalty programs by hand; point.me automated it across 150+ airlines, launched from beta and raised a $2M seed in 2022.
Fall lesenPlanette raises $2.4M out of Techstars Seattle for seasonal climate forecasts sold by API
The climate-AI startup targets the gap between weather forecasts and long-term climate models with quarterly and seasonal predictions at 25-km resolution.
Fall lesenPalo Alto Networks agrees to buy Portkey to put an AI gateway under Prisma AIRS
The security giant said on 1 May 2026 it would acquire the LLM gateway startup, months after its $15M Series A, to secure enterprise AI agents.
Fall lesenItaly's OVS entered India alone, funding each store itself, to make it a top market abroad
OVS opened two Indian stores and says its first broke even at store level within 50 days; it wants India to be its biggest subsidiary outside Italy.
Fall lesenDAT Freight bought Outgo, the Seattle startup that banks small trucking carriers
Three years after launching and raising over $19M, Outgo's invoice and payment software joined North America's largest truckload marketplace.
Fall lesenOcado put suction-cup robot arms on its Grid to pack groceries, aiming for 80% automation
The arms packed 30M+ items in 2024 with under 100 installed; Ocado expects almost 500 by end-2025 and about 40% of groceries packed by machines already.
Fall lesenOcado paid $262M for Kindred and $25M for Haddington to automate picking and decanting
After a year-long search of about 15 robotics firms, Ocado bought two US companies to automate the two warehouse tasks still done by humans.
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