Tab emerged from stealth at $300M: a text-message AI assistant that bets on trust
Tab launched from stealth at $300M: you text it tasks and it executes with its own phone, wallet and vault — betting trust beats capability.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTESwishX shut its device-leasing business to bet on agentic AI for pharma's back office
Swish Club killed its capital-hungry leasing model two years in, rebuilt as SwishX, and claims $1M+ ARR selling AI agents into pharma sales workflows.
Leer el casoSutro bet GPT-4 plus rule-based compilers could replace your whole product team
Describe an app in a prompt and Sutro generates the iOS, Android and web clients plus the production backend — 715 makers had built 934 apps by late 2023.
Leer el casoTwitter bought Sphere, a group-chat app for strangers, and shut it down
Sphere pivoted from paid-expert Q&A to topic-based group chats, then sold to Twitter for an undisclosed sum, closing in November as its 20 staff moved over.
Leer el casoSnap's $400M Perplexity deal to put AI search in Snapchat ended in six months
Perplexity was to pay Snap $400M over a year to live inside Snapchat's Chat; the companies 'amicably ended' it in Q1 2026.
Leer el casoSkipton launched a guarantor-free deposit-free mortgage for renters
The UK's fourth-biggest building society began underwriting 100% mortgages against 12 months of on-time rent and clean credit — no family backing, at 5.49%.
Leer el casoItalian AI sales startup SimpL charges only for meetings it books, raising EUR 1.2M
Milan's SimpL reads public signals through its own knowledge graph to book qualified B2B meetings — and gets paid per meeting, not per seat.
Leer el casoA Kenyan couple turned Sh250,000 into a listed packaging firm: Sh300M revenue by 2023
Nirmal Chaudhary and Sonvir Singh founded Shri Krishana Overseas with Sh250,000 in 2013; Sh300M revenue and 100 staff by 2023, NSE-listed in 2025.
Leer el casoRayon raises $4.2M to build Figma-style multiplayer CAD for architects
A French startup applies the Figma formula to architecture: a browser tool where a link puts teammates on the floor plan in seconds.
Leer el casoRapyd paid $610M for PayU's emerging-markets arm to reach 41 licensed countries
Fintech-as-a-service platform Rapyd bought Prosus's PayU GPO for $610M, funding it with a $700M round, en route to an IPO.
Leer el casoNigerian grocer Pricepally raises $1.3M to push group buying past three cities
It sources straight from contracted farmers, sells over WhatsApp, and bets pooled retail buyers can unlock wholesale prices in Nigeria food crisis.
Leer el casoPortcast bets AI can see 90% of world ocean trade without a tracker in every box
Founded by an ex-DHL executive and an ML PhD, Portcast predicts shipment disruptions from satellites and economics instead of costly per-container IoT.
Leer el casoPimento raised $3.2M betting generative AI belongs at the start of creative work
A French startup skips the finished image and sells the fuzzy first step: AI-generated mood boards of images, text and colours from a brief.
Leer el casoPaddle built a cut-price App Store payment system on a bet Epic's win would stand
Paddle's drop-in Apple IAP replacement charges 5-10% instead of 30% and launches December 7, 2021 — if the Epic v. Apple ruling survives appeal.
Leer el casoNexi paid $140-150M for Orderbird to put hospitality POS at its SMB core
Germany's Orderbird took a strategic exit over a Toast investment, betting full ownership by Nexi scales it like Clover scaled First Data.
Leer el casoMira's next bet: anonymized hormone tests become a women's health dataset (interview)
On TechCrunch's Found podcast, CEO Sylvia Kang said Mira is going beyond its at-home device, pooling anonymized results to fill women's health's data void.
Leer el casoMedium wound down its owned publications, offering buyouts to all 75 editorial staff
Two years into its owned publications, Ev Williams offered buyouts to all ~75 editorial staff and pivoted to 'relational media' and the Amplify program.
Leer el casoEx-Google TPU engineers' MatX raises ~$80M Series A for LLM-specific chips
Two years after leaving Google TPU, the founders raised ~$80M at a low-$300M post-money to chase chips 10x better than Nvidia GPUs for LLMs.
Leer el casoMammaly raised €14M to build Europe's answer in an unexplored pet supplements market
The Berlin pet-wellness company closed a €14m Series A from Five Seasons Ventures and Iris Ventures to build its offline and online supplements empire.
Leer el casoLedgebrook's quiet $1B premium run cashes in: $200M at $2.6B (interview)
Ledgebrook wrote nearly $1B of specialty-insurance premiums without publicizing a round, then landed $200M from Allianz X and Rockefeller at $2.6B.
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