Clutch, a creator-marketing marketplace, sold itself to Plaiced after turning profitable
Clutch co-founder Madison Long sold the $2M-raised marketplace to Plaiced, saying a partner could take it further as GenAI reshaped content creation.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTClaimSorted raises $3M pre-seed to replace claims agencies with AI plus human handlers
Founders who ran an insurer and hit slow, error-prone claims agencies launched ClaimSorted, raising a $3M pre-seed led by firstminute capital with Y Combinator.
Fall lesenCheckr cut 382 employees, 32% of staff, in April 2024, two years after a $5B valuation
Background-check platform Checkr laid off 382 people across all departments, saying economic conditions had hurt customers' hiring, and gave no runway details.
Fall lesenCercle launched an AI fertility-data platform with Sheryl Sandberg's new fund as lead
Health AI startup Cercle debuted in November 2023, led by Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, partnering with US Fertility's 100+ clinics and Eurofins Genoma.
Fall lesenButternut Box raised £280M ($354M) from General Atlantic and L Catterton for dog food
UK fresh-dog-food subscription Butternut Box said in September 2023 it was raising £280M led by General Atlantic and L Catterton to expand across Europe.
Fall lesenBumble launched Plans for group meetups and teased a swipe-free flagship
Bumble said on its Q2 2026 call that its new Plans app showed promising early results, and it is building a model to replace swiping, with revenue down 15.2%.
Fall lesenBlush launched an invite-only dating app that turns $3.50 roses into local gift cards
Blush raised a $7M seed in LA, betting digital roses redeemable at local businesses plus in-person events make dating feel more rewarding and real.
Fall lesenBlueQubit raises $10M seed to sell quantum software built on fast GPU emulation
BlueQubit, founded by Stanford alumni, raised a $10M seed led by Nyca for a quantum-software platform; it says its emulators run 100x faster than common ones.
Fall lesenBeing builds a mental-health app around a user-built map of concerns, not diagnoses
Being starts users from how they feel, not a diagnosis, with $9.99 and $19.99 tiers; it showed at TechCrunch Disrupt's Battlefield 200 while closing a $3M seed.
Fall lesenBeamery cut about 12% of staff a month after announcing a $50M raise at a $1B+ valuation
London HR tech scale-up Beamery told staff it would lay off over a tenth of its workforce, blaming inflation, energy costs, interest rates and sparser funding.
Fall lesenBabbel bought language extension Toucan's technology after the startup had wound down
Babbel acquired Toucan's tech, not its team, after the $30M-funded startup shut down, and made its paid features free as a referral engine for Babbel.
Fall lesenAmazon merged Amazon Fresh and Happy Belly into Amazon Grocery, most items under $5
Amazon Grocery launched with 1,000+ items, mostly under $5, merging two private labels to rival Walmart's Great Value and Target's Favorite Day.
Fall lesenAmazon renamed IMDb TV 'Freevee' and promised 70% more original shows
In April 2022 Amazon rebranded ad-supported IMDb TV as Freevee, pitching half the ads of traditional TV and a 70% bigger original slate by year-end.
Fall lesenAkili cut 46% of staff and weighed strategic options as reimbursement lagged
Akili, maker of the FDA-cleared video game EndeavorRx, laid off 46% of staff and reworked its Shionogi deal as reimbursement for digital therapeutics lagged.
Fall lesenAhron raises €2.2M for AI agents that run HR processes on top of existing systems
Munich's Ahron, founded late 2025, raised €2.2M led by Cusp Capital for an AI-agent layer over existing HR software, and says it passed €1M ARR this year.
Fall lesenAgility Robotics cut a small number of staff in 2024 to focus on Digit commercialization
Agility parted with staff not central to product development and commercialization while hiring for Digit production, after Amazon's pilots ended.
Fall lesenAfter launched in Austin in 2024, a dating app that makes users say why they unmatched
Founded in October 2023, After makes users pick a reason before swiping again once a match expires, sending the other person a kind closure message.
Fall lesenZopper laid off about 100 staff in 2025, including its insurance team, post-Series D
Embedded-insurance API startup Zopper let go about 100 employees from January to April 2025, five months after raising $25M.
Fall lesenAirbnb-backed Zeus Living reportedly winds down after raising $150M as rates bit
The furnished-rental startup, valued at $205M in 2019, told landlords in November 2023 it could no longer make payments on homes, The Information reported.
Fall lesenZappfresh extends its undersubscribed SME IPO, trims the price band and lists 20% up
D2C meat seller Zappfresh was 52% subscribed on its closing day in September 2025, extended the offer, cut the band to ₹95-100 and debuted at ₹120 on BSE SME.
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