Collaborative Robotics bets non-humanoid robots win work; Proxie rents from $5K/mo
Ex-Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter bets safe non-humanoid cobots take human-scale tasks; $140M raised, Proxie ships from $5,000/month.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEEargo's OTC-hearing-aid bet ends in a $2.55 take-private, then a merger
Betting FDA's OTC rule would crown direct hearing-aid sales, Eargo ended at a $2.55 take-private and a 2025 merger into LXE Hearing.
Leer el casoDexory's bet: send tall scanning robots through warehouses and sell a live digital twin
Dexory bets warehouses need live inventory truth: autonomous towers scan every pallet and DexoryView sells the data, winning $165M and GXO, DHL and Maersk.
Leer el casoChronosphere's data-cost observability bet ended in a $3.35B Palo Alto buyout
Two ex-Uber engineers bet observability had to control data volume and cost; $369M raised, $160M+ ARR, then Palo Alto Networks bought it for $3.35B in 2026.
Leer el casoPSI's physics-lab bet: $58M seed led by Breakthrough Energy
AI 'virtual physicists' industrialize physics discovery, starting with data-center power and cooling; $58M seed led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy.
Leer el casoPrime Medicine proves prime editing in humans, then hands CGD off for bigger markets
Prime Medicine bets prime editing can fix disease mutations, proves it in two CGD patients, then pivots the ultra-rare program outward.
Leer el casoElectra: Betting AFIR on Fast Charging, Raised Over €1B
Paris-based fast-charging network founded 2021, betting EU AFIR makes charging statutory; raised €304M equity and €433M loan, ~664 stations by 2025.
Leer el casoMusinsa's K-fashion IPO bet: a 2001 streetwear forum targets a ₩10T listing
Korea's biggest fashion platform, born as a 2001 streetwear community, returned to profit under its founder and now targets a ₩10 trillion KOSPI listing.
Leer el casoSocialAI: the bot-only social network where everyone but you is AI
Michael Sayman bet the social feed, not the chat box, is the right AI interface; his bot-only app went viral within days.
Leer el casoBloomy bets an AI tutor with a hard 90% mastery gate can make tutoring affordable
Teacher-turned-founder builds an AI tutor plus adaptive curriculum for K-12; an MA charter pilot showed ~1.8x expected NWEA MAP growth, families pay $39/month.
Leer el casoDepay bets QR payments can cross borders; $400M processed in year one
Depay connects Latin America's Pix, QR and instant-payment systems through one API; within a year it processed $400M+ and raised a $4M seed.
Leer el casoIsar's rocket bet: first flight crashed at T+30s; €270M raised since, orbit still pending
Munich startup builds Spectrum rockets in-house; debut crashed 30s after liftoff, four scrubbed attempts, €270M raised, orbit still pending.
Leer el casoXPeng AeroHT bets the Land Aircraft Carrier makes flying cars a mass-market product
XPeng's flying-car arm lands 2,008 pre-orders at Airshow China, raises a $250M Series B, and pushes the X3-F modular aircraft toward 2026 deliveries.
Leer el casoPetfolk's connected-care bet: vet clinics plus an app, 2,016% growth
A vet and her Freshly-founder brother rebuilt vet care as app-plus-clinic 'connected care'; $40M A, $36M C, Inc. 5000 #160.
Leer el casoDoorstep bets phone sensors prove deliveries reached the door; $8M seed follows
Antler alum Doorstep tracks couriers indoors through their own phone, ending fake 'not delivered' claims; Canaan led its $8M seed as it went live nationwide
Leer el casoEarendil bought the open-source Pi agent to own the harness layer under AI coding
Flask creator Armin Ronacher's Earendil acquired Mario Zechner's minimal coding agent Pi, kept it MIT, and is monetizing hosted layers on top.
Leer el casoThinking Machines' bet: real-time, customizable AI — $2B seed, 1GW of Nvidia, then Inkling
Mira Murati's lab bet the frontier's next step is interaction and customization, not just scale — a record $2B seed and 1GW of Nvidia compute behind it.
Leer el casoVow bets weird meat over beef: world-first cultivated quail lands in Singapore
World-first cultivated quail, approved in Singapore April 2024: Vow bets 'weird meats' beat beef — then cut 20%+ staff in Jan 2025 amid slow approvals
Leer el casoFervo Energy's fracking-style geothermal bet: 3.5 MW pilot to a $2.2B IPO and 500 MW plant
Fervo applied oil-and-gas drilling to hot rock, delivered the US's first enhanced-geothermal power in 2023, then scaled to a 500 MW plant and $2.2B IPO.
Leer el casoSky.Garden's Amazon-for-Kenya bet: $5.2M raised, failed round, two rescues, gone
Sky.Garden bet Kenyan SMEs would sell on a mobile Amazon-style marketplace; a failed 2022 round nearly killed it, and rescuer Lipa Later collapsed in 2025.
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