Shift bought Fair's dealer marketplace for $15M plus stock to become 'Amazon of used cars'
Used-car seller Shift bought Fair Technologies' dealer-marketplace assets for $15M cash and 2.5% of its stock, with SoftBank lending $20M for it.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTESaveo bets on dark stores to streamline India's B2B pharma supply chain
At $50M with 12,000+ active outlets, the B2B pharmacy marketplace raised $4.5M to turn suppliers into dark stores in a managed marketplace.
Leer el casoRidepanda dropped direct-to-consumer e-bikes to supply employers like Amazon and Google
Ridepanda launched in 2020 as a D2C e-bike marketplace, then rebranded as a corporate benefit provider after thin margins and service burdens; it raised $7.5M.
Leer el casoRevenueCat bought Dipsea, a 'spicy' audiobook app, to run its own subscription testbed
RevenueCat's first acquisition was a ~$6M-ARR subscription app with 93,847 payers, kept running as a live demo for its tools.
Leer el casoRad Power Bikes pulled out of the UK and Europe in 2023 to refocus on North America
Six years after opening a Dutch office, Rad said it would stop selling in the UK and EU from 2024 and lay off about 40, after four layoff rounds since 2021.
Leer el casoQonto used its cash pile to acquire accounting automation startup Regate
French business bank Qonto, with 450,000 customers and large cash reserves, bought Regate in March 2024, its second acquisition, to reach accountants.
Leer el casoQogita raised an $86M Series B for its health and beauty wholesale marketplace
Qogita, founded by a father and son, raised €80M led by Dawn Capital to take its one-cart wholesale marketplace beyond beauty, under an outside CEO.
Leer el casoProfishop took its first institutional round — $35M from Tiger Global at $100M sales
The Bremen B2B marketplace spent a profitable decade replacing fax-catalogue supply buying, then raised its first real round to expand beyond Europe.
Leer el casoPipe's three founders all stepped aside to hire a 'veteran' CEO
'We're 0-1 builders, not at-scale operators': the $2B fintech's co-CEOs and CTO gave up their roles with $7B of ARR connected and no layoffs, no cash crunch.
Leer el casoPerplexity bought Carbon, a four-person data-connector startup, for its answer engine
The $9B AI search company absorbed the Seattle team that connects LLMs to Google Drive, SharePoint and other external data sources.
Leer el casoPaytm shut its Canada consumer app in March 2022 to focus on India
Paytm told Canadian users its bill-payments app would close on March 14, 2022, calling it a small experiment too immaterial to keep as it focused on India.
Leer el casoPasses bought rival Fanhouse in 36 hours, and a Fanhouse co-founder quit over it
Seven-month-old Passes acquired a16z-backed creator platform Fanhouse in July 2023 and offered a 95% take rate; Fanhouse co-founder Rosie Nguyen resigned.
Leer el casoParcha, from two ex-Brex product leads, raised a $5M seed for fintech compliance AI agents
Parcha builds custom LLM agents for KYB, fraud and onboarding, and closed a $5M seed with no revenue two months after launch; Brex and Bridge are customers.
Leer el casoParamount+ added the UK, South Korea and India via partners as quarterly profit fell 52%
With 39.6M subscribers and a 100M target for 2024, Paramount bet on partner launches in three markets as Q1 profit fell.
Leer el casoPanera's CEO reversed the iceberg-lettuce cost cut and launched RISE to win back traffic
Panera CEO Paul Carbone undid a 2024 cost cut that added iceberg to salads and launched RISE to win back traffic; visits fell every month of early 2026.
Leer el casoPanera pilots Miso Robotics' AI coffee brewing to protect its $8.99 drink subscription
Panera tested Miso's CookRight Coffee in two cafes, framing it as quality for subscribers rather than labor savings.
Leer el casoORNG: Phood's founder bet the campus-payments company on real-time transfers
After six years of fronting vendors while universities paid in 15-30 days, Parmley pivoted the startup into an instant cross-border payments network.
Leer el casoOn Deck cut to a founder-only focus after its venture-fund plan lost Tiger's backing
After two layoffs and a reported Tiger Global pullback from its $100M fund, On Deck spun off careers and shrank its accelerator terms.
Leer el casoOfBusiness built Nexizo on a fine-tuned Llama, not an LLM wrapper (interview)
In an Inc42 interview, OfBusiness's Nitin Jain says a ChatGPT-style layer wasn't enough, so it fine-tuned Llama on tender data.
Leer el casoMono (Colombia) built a 'bankingless bank' for LatAm small businesses and raised $6M
Mono, a Y Combinator fintech, offers Colombian startups business accounts opened in 15 minutes, backed by a $6M Tiger Global-led seed.
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