Adyen's billionaire co-founder left to build Tebi, and CapitalG added €30M
Arnout Schuijff missed coding, started over with bars and restaurants, and eight months after a €20M Series A closed €30M from Alphabet's fund.
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500 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEMozilla bought six-person Pulse to seed machine learning across its products
Mozilla's second-ever acquisition was a talent deal: the Slack status-updater team that ran out of funding joins Firefox's ML push.
Leer el casoModern Electron renamed itself Modern Hydrogen and went all in on methane pyrolysis
Backed by NextEra's $32.8M round, the heat-to-electricity startup shelved its original tech for modular reactors that make hydrogen and carbon black.
Leer el casoCompass shut down Modus, the title startup it bought in 2020, to cut costs
As mortgage rates cooled housing, the brokerage killed its Seattle title-and-escrow automaker and laid off 10% of its own workforce.
Leer el casoAdapty raised seed to become the growth layer for app subscriptions, not just A/B tests
Surface Ventures led Adapty's seed as the paywall-testing startup bet pooled cross-app data beats any single developer's data.
Leer el caso14.ai raised $3M to be an AI-native customer support agency, not a SaaS tool
Snips and Workwell's founders sell the whole support department — software plus staff — taking over tickets from email to TikTok within a day.
Leer el casoNigerian neobank Yep! raised $1.5M pre-seed to turn an agent network into a super app
E-Settlement's PayCentre had 5 million customers transacting $2B through 100,000 merchants; Yep! bets a microfinance licence can bank them digitally.
Leer el casoMusk rebuilds xAI from the foundations after co-founders head for the exits
Down to two of eleven co-founders, xAI is purging staff, rebooting its coding tools and folding Macrohard into Tesla to catch Anthropic and OpenAI.
Leer el casoVimeo's B2B pivot hit indie creators with $3,000-a-year ultimatums
Told to pay custom rates or leave within days, top-bandwidth Patreon creators lost videos and subscribers — while Vimeo chased corporate clients.
Leer el caso98point6's Robbie Cape launches The Instrument to reimagine insurance for profit
After a nine-month search that nearly ended in a salaried healthcare job, Cape chose a trillion-dollar industry and said the quiet part out loud: money.
Leer el casoSaltz raises €20M to digitise how European restaurants buy ingredients
Two brothers who sold Oberlo to Shopify came back with a cross-border food marketplace for professional kitchens — no middlemen, transparent prices.
Leer el casoLoop raised $24M to cut freight invoice lag from 50 days to 3
Two Uber Freight builders found 20% of freight invoices have errors and payments take 50 days — then built payments infrastructure to fix both.
Leer el casoHedgehog bets open-source Ethernet can run AI clouds without vendor lock-in (interview)
CEO Marc Austin says Hedgehog's open-source software turns GPU fabric setup from months of specialist work into hours of declared intent.
Leer el casoValeria turned restaurant accounting into AI payroll for frontline workers (interview)
The Barcelona startup raised $2M betting AI-native payroll, wired into government systems, can crack high-turnover frontline industries.
Leer el casoSpotify bought viral game Heardle, then shut it down nine months later
The Wordle-like music game peaked at 69 million monthly visits; after Spotify's in-app discovery redesign duplicated it, the plug was pulled.
Leer el casoProtect AI's tuck-in acquisition bet ended in a $500M-plus Palo Alto exit (interview)
Ignoring investor worries, a three-time founder bought four small security teams to build full-stack AI security — then sold to Palo Alto Networks.
Leer el casoOrigin raised $5M to plan workcations with machine learning and curators (interview)
Two tech veterans built an app where machine learning and human curators design personalized trips — with workcation hotel criteria down to the Wi-Fi speed.
Leer el casoLula ran frugal through the 2021 peak, then raised $35.5M in weeks at 5x valuation
The 'Stripe for insurance' spent the frothy market cutting burn on purpose, so when the downturn hit it could raise a Series B fast, at 5x its 2021 valuation.
Leer el casoLatch rebrands as Door.com under Ring's founder to bet on gig-worker platforms
A delisted smart-lock maker hires Ring's founder, buys his stealth startup, and bets its second act on gig workers keeping 100% of their fares.
Leer el casoJoon Care sold teen teletherapy startup to peer Handspring after raising $9.5M
Six years of insurance-covered virtual therapy for teens ended in a sale to Handspring Health, a New York peer that raised nearly twice as much.
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