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Dutch investor Main Capital bought Finland's VideoVisit in April 2022 — its first Finnish bet — to roll up European virtual care from 200+ municipal customers.
Lire le casUK AI procurement platform Vertice bought US software-pricing peer Vendr, combining $75B+ in spend data and 250,000 negotiated contracts with AI agents.
Lire le casVerta evolved from ML model management into an LLM control centre — and Cloudera, chasing AI relevance, acquired it in June 2024.
Lire le casThe French foodtech's 'umisation' texturising process makes whole-cut plant-based fillets with under 10 ingredients — now scaling in Alsace and the US.
Lire le casThe subscription startup Tonx joined Blue Bottle in April 2014, choosing the roaster's resources over a VC round; shipments continued before the brand sunset.
Lire le casIn December 2020 Swiggy shut its marketplace grocery and fresh produce in about 100 cities, betting dark stores under Instamart would beat listing local shops.
Lire le casBitkraft led a €5M seed for Spectarium's Myths, a cross-platform ARPG where AI is the narrative backbone, dynamically tailoring story to each player.
Lire le casDelhi fintech Slash, unable to raise a Series A, sold its assets to BharatPe cofounder Bhavik Koladiya's family office; founders, staff and investors exited.
Lire le casShopX raised $54M-plus at a $100M valuation to run assisted e-commerce for kiranas, then pivoted, ran out of runway, and filed for insolvency in 2022.
Lire le casSetapp Mobile, one of the first EU alternative app stores under the DMA, launched in September 2024 and will remove all its apps by February 16, 2026.
Lire le casAfter a Series C collapse, 25% layoffs and a year under a manufacturing veteran, Our Next Energy brought founder Mujeeb Ijaz back as CEO.
Lire le casTiger Global-backed OkCredit shut its merchant e-commerce tool OKShop in April 2022, refocusing on fintech after a 40% layoff and a failed fundraise.
Lire le casToshihiro Nagoshi left Sega in October 2021 and launched Nagoshi Studio in January 2022, wholly funded by NetEase and staffed with Yakuza veterans.
Lire le casUK open-banking fintech Moneyhub began winding down its direct-to-consumer app in February 2025, refocusing on B2B products and cutting ~30% of staff.
Lire le casLinktree's fourth acquisition folds Plann's social media scheduling — its most requested feature — into a link-in-bio platform used by 50M creators.
Lire le casWorkspace provider Incuspaze acquired CRE analytics platform VSKOUT in July 2025 for a GCC vertical — its second acquisition in weeks, ahead of IPO talks.
Lire le casEx-Better.com product lead Landy Liu shelved his own home purchase to build Foyer, a guided down-payment savings platform, and raised a $6.2M seed.
Lire le casTravis Kalanick's CloudKitchens laid off its 40-person India team and shut KitchenPlus in December 2022, with 30 of 80 kitchens taken over by Speed Kitchen.
Lire le casSwiss edtech Avallain acquired UK startup TeacherMatic in March 2024, adding click-to-generate lesson plans and quizzes for educators to its publisher platform.
Lire le casFour years after acquiring Apostrophe, Hims & Hers discontinued the personalized acne business to fold dermatology into one seamless experience.
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