Monopoly Go's licensed-casual bet: $1B in 7 months, $5B in two years — a mobile record
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.
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2,000 公開済みの事例 · 随時更新ApplyBoard's Basiri brothers turned their own study-abroad struggle into a $1.4B unicorn
Three brothers who struggled as international students in Canada built ApplyBoard, a matching platform for study-abroad that hit unicorn status at $1.4B.
事例を読むa16z-backed custody startup Entropy returns ~$27M and winds down in 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.
事例を読むAstroForge bets asteroid mining works; Odin lost, Vestri lands in 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.
事例を読むRest's hotel smoke-sensor bet backfires when $500 false fees hit Hyatt guests
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.
事例を読むBioactivx bets a synthetic skin substitute can move wound care out of sterile hospitals
A*STAR and SingHealth spin-out Bioactivx raises $3M to commercialize Bioactiv Matrix, an animal-free skin substitute needing no cold chain.
事例を読むBolt’s lax driver onboarding in Nigeria fueled account sales and safety crises
Bolt’s ride‑hailing growth bet on easy driver sign‑up led to widespread account selling, passenger attacks, and regulatory pushback in Nigeria.
事例を読むAstral bets Rust can rewrite Python's toolchain; OpenAI acquires it for Codex in 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.
事例を読むTractian's industrial-AI bet: $120M Series C, Forbes AI 50, ~R$250M revenue
Brazilian-founded industrial AI startup bets factories subscribe to cheap sensors plus AI predictive maintenance; $120M Series C in Dec 2024
事例を読むBigHat Biosciences bets a wet lab looped to ML beats antibody screening
BigHat raised a $19M Series A to replace mass antibody screening with an in-house wet lab tightly looped to machine-learning models.
事例を読むClimeworks switches on Mammoth, world's largest direct air capture plant
Swiss DAC pioneer opens its second Iceland plant — 10x Orca at 36,000 tCO2/yr — betting modular carbon removal scales to megatons.
事例を読むBlip's 'Zepto for fashion' bet: 30-minute apparel delivery shuts down after a year
Bootstrapped Blip bets quick commerce works for fashion; capital crunch and slow go-to-market kill it in July 2025
事例を読むBUSSID bets Indonesian streets beat global sims; indie bus sim tops Indonesia charts
Surabaya indie studio Maleo's hyper-local bus simulator: 100M+ Play installs, Microsoft's 2021 growth award, #1 Indonesia simulation chart in 2026
事例を読むMultiverse raises $44M Series B to scale apprenticeship alternative to university
Multiverse raised $44M from General Catalyst to expand its apprenticeship model from the UK to the US, targeting 3k apprentices in digital roles.
事例を読むHALA's pivot bet: Saudi micro-firms, not consumers, take the $157M
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.
事例を読むPsiQuantum Bets on Photonic Qubits in Semiconductor Factories
PsiQuantum broke ground in Chicago on 2025-09-30 to build first million-qubit-class fault-tolerant quantum computer in US.
事例を読むUntether AI's energy-efficient chip bet: AMD acquihire, then 2025 bankruptcy
Toronto AI chipmaker with $152M raised sold its team to AMD in June 2025, then filed for bankruptcy with $128M in liabilities
事例を読むBaichuan AI pivots to healthcare, IPO planned for 2027
Baichuan AI raised RMB 5 billion, pivoted to healthcare, open-sourced M3, IPO planned for 2027.
事例を読むLyft raised $600M at $15.1B to fund the ridesharing fight
Lyft used a Fidelity-led $600M round to extend its runway while expanding from ride-hailing toward a broader urban-transport stack.
事例を読むLilac bets idle enterprise GPUs become a spot market; YC S25, $1.5M seed
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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