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01consumer2023–2025
Scopely rebuilt Hasbro's board game as an always-online social loop, set mobile gaming's fastest climb to $5B — and sold the company six days before launch.
Leer el caso ↗02education2015–2020
Three brothers who struggled as international students in Canada built ApplyBoard, a matching platform for study-abroad that hit unicorn status at $1.4B.
Leer el caso ↗03fintech2021–2026
Entropy raised a $25M a16z-led seed to replace centralized crypto custody, pivoted for four years, then returned remaining capital to investors in January 2026.
Leer el caso ↗04frontier2022–2026
AstroForge launches the first private deep-space mission on a $3.5M spacecraft, loses Odin after launch, and keeps a $55M bet alive with lander Vestri.
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NoiseAware rebranded as Rest to sell hotels algorithmic smoke detection and $500 auto-fines; false-positive charges at a Hyatt went viral in July 2025.
Leer el caso ↗06health2026
A*STAR and SingHealth spin-out Bioactivx raises $3M to commercialize Bioactiv Matrix, an animal-free skin substitute needing no cold chain.
Leer el caso ↗07logistics2016-2022
Bolt’s ride‑hailing growth bet on easy driver sign‑up led to widespread account selling, passenger attacks, and regulatory pushback in Nigeria.
Leer el caso ↗08tools2022–2026
Charlie Marsh's Astral rebuilt Python's linter, package manager and type checker in Rust, grew to hundreds of millions of monthly downloads, and joined OpenAI.
Leer el caso ↗09ai2019–2024
Brazilian-founded industrial AI startup bets factories subscribe to cheap sensors plus AI predictive maintenance; $120M Series C in Dec 2024
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BigHat raised a $19M Series A to replace mass antibody screening with an in-house wet lab tightly looped to machine-learning models.
Leer el caso ↗11climate2009–2024
Swiss DAC pioneer opens its second Iceland plant — 10x Orca at 36,000 tCO2/yr — betting modular carbon removal scales to megatons.
Leer el caso ↗12commerce2024–2025
Bootstrapped Blip bets quick commerce works for fashion; capital crunch and slow go-to-market kill it in July 2025
Leer el caso ↗13consumer2016–2026
Surabaya indie studio Maleo's hyper-local bus simulator: 100M+ Play installs, Microsoft's 2021 growth award, #1 Indonesia simulation chart in 2026
Leer el caso ↗14education2019–2023
Multiverse raised $44M from General Catalyst to expand its apprenticeship model from the UK to the US, targeting 3k apprentices in digital roles.
Leer el caso ↗15fintech2017–2025
Riyadh fintech HALA started as a consumer wallet, then bet micro-businesses were the real gap; the pivot scaled it to 140k firms and a $157M Series B.
Leer el caso ↗16frontier2016–2025
PsiQuantum broke ground in Chicago on 2025-09-30 to build first million-qubit-class fault-tolerant quantum computer in US.
Leer el caso ↗17hardware2018–2025
Toronto AI chipmaker with $152M raised sold its team to AMD in June 2025, then filed for bankruptcy with $128M in liabilities
Leer el caso ↗18health2023–2026
Baichuan AI raised RMB 5 billion, pivoted to healthcare, open-sourced M3, IPO planned for 2027.
Leer el caso ↗19logistics2018
Lyft used a Fidelity-led $600M round to extend its runway while expanding from ride-hailing toward a broader urban-transport stack.
Leer el caso ↗20tools2025-2026
Brothers from AWS and Webflow open-source a GPU scheduler, then bet a marketplace can broker idle enterprise H100s at up to 90% off cloud prices.
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