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Founded by an entrepreneur who sold a gas-detection company to Draeger, the Hamburg startup sells gas operators a ground-level methane operating system.
Leer el casoBuilt on PillPack's infrastructure, Amazon Pharmacy brought prescription delivery to 45 states with free Prime shipping; GoodRx fell 22.5% on the news.
Leer el casoFounded 2023 by ex-Pinterest and Amperity veterans; the Seattle startup stealth-exited in October 2025 with Alaska Airlines and Brooks Running as customers.
Leer el casoEx-Sygnia incident responders founded A to run the full cyber offensive lifecycle nonstop; it stealth-exited with $37M from Lightspeed and Cyberstarts.
Leer el casoZomato launched a marketplace matching restaurants and cloud kitchens with equity investors in Nov 2021; the funding winter put it on ice by April 2022.
Leer el casoKodem analyzes apps at runtime and alerts only on vulnerabilities reachable in a customer's real stack, instead of flagging everything that could be wrong.
Leer el casoQuantum computing company IonQ shifted from research to products just as co-founder Chris Monroe left for Duke; the stock fell 13% on the news
Leer el casoTwo product designers found HR software 'clunky and slow', rebuilt it with design-tool speed, and in 2023 launched Tables to kill spreadsheet sprawl.
Leer el casoAfter selling its point-of-sale business to PhonePe in 2018, Zopper became an insurance API layer for marketplaces and neobanks; $75M Series C in 2022.
Leer el casoAfter a quiet acquisition, Yik Yak's app became Sidechat reskinned on shared servers; users decried the college-email sign-up and lost features.
Leer el casoWeeks after raising $110M at $3.5B, Via acquired the 50-million-user trip app for cash and stock; sources said investors mostly did not recoup.
Leer el casoThe four-month-old Dutch startup uses GPT-4 and a curated asset library to build role-playing games from text, aiming for a 2024 public launch.
Leer el casoA year after Velodyne went public via Graf Industrial, Hall said in May 2021 he would use his roughly 52% stake to replace the board members chosen by the SPAC.
Leer el casoUplift asked Upgrade to join its Series D; Upgrade offered to buy instead, paying $100M in cash and stock for a firm that had raised nearly $700M.
Leer el casoAfter a flat 2018, Thrun's email led to layoffs, 90% cheaper course production and a mentor program aimed at lifting a 34% graduation rate.
Leer el casoThe Seattle workplace-connection startup, eight years old, closed in December 2024 as its funding ran out despite big-name customers and warm leads.
Leer el casoA third-time founder skipped camera hardware and automated Indian manufacturers' mid-mile freight; Inc42 reports 100+ clients, growth self-reported.
Leer el casoEurope's two big scooter operators combined with fresh funding and a planned €200M+ in revenue after a funding drought and layoffs at Tier.
Leer el casoThe founders say Tap packs nine sensors and on-device AI into a wall switch sold via electricians; the team is 16 staff, mostly bootstrapped.
Leer el casoThe Seattle pay-equity software company bought Austin's Embrace.ai in June 2026 to speed up its agentic compensation platform, hiring the whole team.
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