Alphabet's Wing ended drone deliveries in Canberra, its first market, after five years
Wing shifted from its own warehouses to flying out of large shopping centres — and with no suitable Canberra site, its first market lost the service.
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500 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEVenice leaves stealth with $25M to replace CyberArk and Okta in one identity platform
A 35-person Israeli-American startup says one platform for human and AI-agent access is already replacing legacy identity vendors at Fortune 500 firms.
Leer el casoUnagi raised a €4.7M seed to take its NFT fantasy platform from football to basketball
The Paris web3 studio behind Ultimate Champions, founded by the Ubisoft founder's son, bets NFT fantasy synced to real matches can outlast the crypto hype.
Leer el casoSpan raised a second Series B in 13 months to chase IRA-funded home electrification
The smart electrical panel startup raised $96M at a $600M valuation, betting IRA rebates had pulled its mass market forward five years.
Leer el casoPrivacy Dynamics hit ~$1M revenue, raised $13M — then shut down: sell data, not privacy
The Seattle anonymization startup had happy customers processing billions of records, but product-market fit never clicked; pitch the data, not the compliance.
Leer el casoPlus Gold shut its digital gold savings app a year after its Shark Tank India fame
Founded in 2022, it raised $1.2M for a full-stack digital gold savings app, then wound down in July 2025 after its Series A commitments collapsed.
Leer el casoLucid's founder-CEO stepped down; an interim COO took over with no successor named
Days after its Gravity SUV launch, Lucid swapped CEOs for the first time in six years — and analysts immediately asked why no permanent successor was announced.
Leer el casoDouxMatok renamed itself Incredo and raised $30M to cut sugar in food by up to half
The Israel-based foodtech took its product's name and closed a $30M Series C co-led by dsm-firmenich Venturing and Sienna Venture Capital, with Ferrero joining.
Leer el casoGoogle assembled the Moto X in Texas at 3x Chinese wages — and America didn't buy it
The last major US-assembled smartphone: a Fort Worth plant with ~3,800 workers and Moto Maker customization that collapsed within a year when sales never came.
Leer el casoAfter 400M photo sorts, AI photo app GoodOnes renamed itself after its octopus mascot
Six months post-launch, GoodOnes became Ollie — aligning the brand with the AI octopus users already loved, while keeping every photo on the device.
Leer el casoFound Energy turned a self-cannibalizing space robot into an industrial heat business
Born at JPL as a probe that would eat its own aluminum parts, Found Energy raised a $12M seed to crack scrap aluminum into carbon-negative industrial heat.
Leer el casoFlyhomes bought Loftium to add rent-to-own style affordability to its homebuying stack
With rates rising and buyers frozen out, the all-cash-offer startup acquired the host-to-own platform whose Airbnb roommates fund a 3-5% down payment.
Leer el casoFlockjay cut half its staff and pivoted its sales bootcamp into B2B SaaS tool Elevate
The YC-backed bootcamp laid off 30 to 45 people, then rebuilt itself as Elevate, a B2B SaaS platform where sales teams keep their best practices alive.
Leer el casoDPDzero bets AI agents and pay-on-success pricing can fix India's debt collection
Founded by two Setu alumni, DPDzero routes delinquent borrowers to AI voice agents or ethics-trained human advisors — and gets paid only on recovery.
Leer el casoAttackIQ bought Portland's DeepSurface to give its attack simulations a hacker roadmap
The risk-assessment startup — founded 2017, $1M seed, a product that maps the riskiest vulnerabilities — embedded into AttackIQ's exposure validation suite.
Leer el casoBootstrapped Cypher bets generative AI can fix how companies choose security tools
Ex-Facebook and FanDuel operators built a platform matching companies to cybersecurity vendors, charging both sides instead of letting marketing budgets decide.
Leer el casoCanva bought Leonardo AI to fold its Phoenix model into Magic Studio
Canva acquired the Australian generative-image startup — 19M users, 1B+ images, a fresh in-house model — to speed its AI roadmap against Adobe and Midjourney.
Leer el casoEstonian startup Yummy lets you prompt your groceries and AI rebuilds the menu
Born from a meal-kit startup, Yummy's AI rewrites recipes around preferences — 'no rice', 'less carbs', 'more Polish' — and generates the dish photos too.
Leer el casoTitan AI raised pre-seed to build inclusive mobile games with generative AI art
A SmartNews marketing VP and a Scenario founder bet Stable Diffusion and DALL-E can cut game art costs and finally let their families be the heroes.
Leer el casoTennr raised $101M to stop half of referred patients from falling through the cracks
A proprietary model trained on tens of millions of medical documents automates referral paperwork — IVP led at a $605M valuation.
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