Zydus and MSN launched the first US generic of Bayer's $850M Adempas
The Indian partners split the work — MSN develops and makes, Zydus sells — to be first to market with generic riociguat as Bayer's drug lost US exclusivity.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTETrev Mobility bets on chauffeur-driven premium EVs, targeting 2,500 cars by 2031
Founder Naveen Gupta grew the fleet from two cars to 105, funded first by its own CXO customers, with salaried drivers and leased premium EVs.
Leer el casoMusk kept the Cybertruck's alien design knowing it could flop: 'I don't care'
With 500,000-plus $100 deposits booked and conventional electric rivals coming, Musk said the trapezoid truck could flop — and kept the design anyway.
Leer el casoStuut raises $52.5M Series B betting AI agents can run order-to-cash end to end
Stuut says 150+ enterprises including Honeywell and ZoomInfo let its AI agents chase invoices, match cash and resolve disputes — collections without humans.
Leer el casoCanningvale resurrected Singapore's dead Robinsons as an online-only department store
Canningvale bought the shuttered Singapore brand after its last store closed, betting 50 returning brands and a middle-market reset could work online-only.
Leer el casoPortpass verified a fake vaccine record, then broke down before a Flames game
A Calgary vaccine-verification app claiming 500,000 users verified a developer's fake ID and fabricated record — then crashed hours before a Flames game.
Leer el casoParallel Systems raises $100M Series C to scale driverless freight rail vehicles
Ex-SpaceX founders are betting coupler-free battery-electric rail vehicles can win back the short-haul freight railroads gave up to trucks.
Leer el casoIBM bets its AI reputation on Wimbledon, extending the partnership to 2030
Fortune reports IBM extended Wimbledon to 2030 to prove enterprise AI under maximum scrutiny — 2.7 million data points a fortnight, myWimbledon sign-ups up 39%.
Leer el casoGrand Slam Track's six-figure-prize bet collapsed into Chapter 11 in its debut season
Michael Johnson's pro track circuit promised quit-your-day-job money on a funder's non-binding pledge; when Eldridge walked, season one ended in bankruptcy.
Leer el casoEuler Motors priced electric cargo trucks at diesel parity — share jumped 2% to 25%
Euler Motors says diesel-parity pricing took its share of India's electric cargo truck segment from under 2% to nearly 25%; monthly sales went 50 to 1,000.
Leer el casoX Money finally launched in most of the US — without New York or Massachusetts
Musk's peer-to-peer payments went live for X's Premium users with a 6% yield and Visa-backed card, but two of the biggest financial markets are excluded.
Leer el casoVontive raised $135M to make investment-property mortgages close in days, not weeks
A Palantir engineer and a Freddie Mac exec built embedded investment-property mortgages — 900% GMV growth, profitable since 2021, three defaults on $600M.
Leer el casoVeho cuts 19% of corporate staff after 90% revenue growth to speed its path to profit
The Tiger Global-backed delivery unicorn reversed its plan to nearly quadruple headcount, laying off 65 corporate staff while revenue grew almost 90% in 2023.
Leer el casoValon raised a $50M Series A to break Black Knight's mortgage servicing monopoly
Three founders built a cloud-native, mobile-first mortgage servicer, reached $10B of committed loans in a year, and tripled down with a16z's $50M.
Leer el casoTwitter's Super Follows made about $6K on iOS in two weeks despite 37M US daily users
Twitter's creator subscriptions launched to fewer than 100 hand-picked creators and generated roughly $6,000 of US iOS spending in the first fortnight.
Leer el casoTwitter bought podcast app Breaker's team to build Spaces against Clubhouse
Twitter's first social-audio acquihire: Breaker's three founders joined to work on Spaces while Maple Media took over the app they built.
Leer el casoTrove bets GPT-4 can turn tedious surveys into conversations people answer
Two Silicon Valley engineers built a SaaS platform for conversational surveys, kept it free, and drew 1,000 SMB users in six weeks.
Leer el casoTreasure Financial cut 60-70% of staff months after boasting explosive growth
The cash-management fintech doubled clients to 300 and AUM to $500M by August, then laid off 14 people — most of the company — by December.
Leer el casoA Swift Student Challenge winner launched Thoughts, an anti-doomscroll quote app
22-year-old German student Henri Bredt built a paid, ad-free inspiration manager after realizing he could never find the passages that once inspired him.
Leer el casoTezi raised $9M to let an AI agent run hiring end to end, not just rank resumes
Founded by Raghavendra Prabhu and Jason James, Tezi's agent screens resumes, books interviews and emails candidates; $9M seed led by 8VC and Audacious Ventures.
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