Stanza Living bought an IoT startup to run its 75,000 beds
Coliving operator Stanza Living acquired enterprise IoT firm Singularity Automation in cash, a week after a $57M debt raise.
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500 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTESchoolnet bought quiz app Genius Teacher to reach India's private schools
Edtech Schoolnet acquired Genius Teacher in an all-stock deal and hired its cofounder Advitiya Sharma as chief growth officer.
Leer el casoInsuranceDekho acquihired Verak to own India's micro-business insurance
Insurtech InsuranceDekho absorbed SME insurance distributor Verak, founder Rahul Mathur included, to deepen its micro-business insurance vertical.
Leer el casoIngenico bought Phos to turn phones into payment terminals
Payments hardware giant Ingenico, newly private under Apollo, bought software startup Phos to move 'increasingly toward software over hardware'.
Leer el casoDtex hired a Mandiant veteran to make insider risk the next big thing (interview)
In an Axios interview, new Dtex CEO Marshall Heilman explains his bet that insider-risk monitoring is where threat intelligence was 20 years ago.
Leer el casoGetHenry renamed itself Cycle after a $17.4M round — and skipped the trademark
German electric utility-bike maker GetHenry renamed itself Cycle weeks after a $17.4M raise, betting couriers would identify with the generic name.
Leer el casoCowboy sold itself to ReBirth Group after a frame recall nearly bankrupted it
Brussels e-bike maker Cowboy closed a rescue sale to ReBirth Group Holding, owner of Peugeot, Gitane and Solex; founder-CEO Adrien Roose left.
Leer el casoZomato Now pilots vending-machine food pods at Gurugram workplaces
Eternal's Zomato is stocking fresh-food pods at corporate offices with restaurant brands — its latest attempt at rapid delivery, no kitchens required.
Leer el casoWalmart put its everyday-low-price playbook on analog insulin at $73 a vial
Walmart launched private-label ReliOn NovoLog analog insulin with Novo Nordisk, undercutting branded rivals by up to $101 a vial and $251 a pen pack.
Leer el casoWalmart's Jetblack text-a-concierge service shut after $15k-per-member costs
Walmart's invite-only texting service let Manhattanites shop by message at $50 a month — until 600 members costing $15,000 each a year ended the bet.
Leer el casoVendr paid about $100M for Blissfully to own SaaS buying, use and renewal
SaaS-buying startup Vendr acquired management tool Blissfully for around $100M, aiming to track company software from purchase through renewal.
Leer el casoSociété Générale sold freelancer bank Shine to serial consolidator Ageras
Four years and around €100 million after buying Shine, the French giant handed the freelancer bank to Danish fintech consolidator Ageras.
Leer el casoRoyal Enfield built its EV bet as a startup-style brand: Flying Flea, Rs 400 crore in
Eicher Motors' Royal Enfield revived its WWII-era Flying Flea name as a dedicated lightweight electric brand — 220 people, 45+ patents, C6 launching 2026.
Leer el casoPorsche folded Greyp Bikes into its e-bike unit to go all in on two wheels
Porsche took majority control of Rimac-founded Greyp and folded it into Porsche eBike Performance — completing its pivot from sports cars to e-bikes.
Leer el casoPaytm's Rs 568 crore Raheja QBE insurance acquisition auto-terminated
Two years after announcing it would buy an insurer outright, Paytm's Raheja QBE deal died on a technicality — and the company pivoted to a fresh licence.
Leer el casoPapier bet analog stationery could win online — and sales doubled by 2026
Taymoor Atighetchi left Bain to build a digital-first stationery brand; by 2026 Papier served 2.5M customers, doubled sales, and is adding board games.
Leer el casoFamily investing app Nosso shut, closing all accounts from February 2024
Anthemis and Octopus-backed Nosso helped parents invest for their kids via Junior ISAs — four years on, it wound down without disclosing why.
Leer el casoNosh's robot chef went enterprise, failed, and came back on 1,000 consumer pre-orders
Euphotic Labs' AI cooking robot Nosh chased cloud kitchens, lost them to cold chains, and rebuilt around consumers who pre-paid Rs 40,000 sight unseen.
Leer el casoNightCafe: the bootstrapped AI-art site that beat Midjourney to market (interview)
A failed AI wall-art store found its business by accident — a hosting bill forced a credit system, users asked to pay, and NightCafe hit $4M annualized revenue.
Leer el casoMeta closed Ready at Dawn outright as Reality Labs budgets tightened
One year after killing Echo VR, Meta shut the studio that made it — effective immediately — to keep Reality Labs inside a budget cut 20% by 2026.
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