DoorDash paid $175M for Symbiosys to push its ads beyond its own app
DoorDash, whose ad business crossed $1B annualized, bought off-site adtech startup Symbiosys for $175M to reach consumers on Google and Instagram.
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500 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Directo turns TikTok's reverse-image-search booking hack into a Chrome extension
Gen Z travellers reverse-image-search listings to book direct and skip OTA commissions; Directo automated the hack and sells hotels access to the demand.
사례 읽기Devolut builds Happy Returns-style return points for Latin America's e-commerce
The Mexico startup pairs a no-box, QR-code return-point network with AI that pushes exchanges over refunds — instant refunds, 50% lower returns costs.
사례 읽기Cyera pays $162M for year-old stealth startup Trail Security as buyers demand platforms
Trail raised $35M and never launched — its founder chose to sell to Cyera rather than fight a market that only wants all-in-one data security platforms.
사례 읽기Climate X raises $18M to price climate risk on a digital twin of Earth
Out of stealth with a GV-led Series A, the UK startup models floods and extreme heat to 2100 on 500 trillion data points; clients already cover $6.5T in assets.
사례 읽기After paying $28B for Splunk, Cisco launched HyperShield to catch the AI wave
The networking giant — whose stock trailed the Nasdaq badly — unveiled an AI-native security architecture built for a world of AI assistants in data centers.
사례 읽기Circular's $7.6M seed bets APAC is ready to subscribe to iPhones instead of buying
YC-backed Circular subscribes Singapore and Australia to iPhones, iPads and MacBooks, aiming to run each device through six cycles before recycling.
사례 읽기Brandless, SoftBank's $240M instalment bet, becomes its first startup to shut for good
SoftBank pledged $240M in milestone-gated instalments; Brandless missed the targets, lost its CEO, and its board chose an orderly wind-down over a pivot.
사례 읽기Bcomp's ladder from skis to Volvo and BMW interiors lands a $40M Series C
The Swiss composites maker dropped its ski-company dream, sold flax fibre through niche sports and motorsport, then reached volume production with Volvo.
사례 읽기Bayer bets India self-care can be a top-three global market, starting with Alka-Seltzer
Bayer Consumer Health is entering India's Rs 2,500 crore digestive market with Alka-Seltzer, aiming to reach 100 million households within four years.
사례 읽기Banzai lists via SPAC, raises $100M and buys Hyros for $110M to arm its M&A run
With the IPO window shut, Banzai used a $580M SPAC merger as currency: cash, a Nasdaq listing and an attribution startup, bought in one move.
사례 읽기atmio emerges from stealth with €1.3M to find, fix and report methane leaks 10x faster
Founded by an entrepreneur who sold a gas-detection company to Draeger, the Hamburg startup sells gas operators a ground-level methane operating system.
사례 읽기Amazon entered the $300B pharmacy business and pharmacy stocks fell up to 22%
Built on PillPack's infrastructure, Amazon Pharmacy brought prescription delivery to 45 states with free Prime shipping; GoodRx fell 22.5% on the news.
사례 읽기Adora bets enterprise brands need AI trained on their own brand DNA
Founded 2023 by ex-Pinterest and Amperity veterans; the Seattle startup stealth-exited in October 2025 with Alaska Airlines and Brooks Running as customers.
사례 읽기A raises $37M to attack its customers' systems nonstop with AI before real hackers can
Ex-Sygnia incident responders founded A to run the full cyber offensive lifecycle nonstop; it stealth-exited with $37M from Lightspeed and Cyberstarts.
사례 읽기Zomato froze Wings, its restaurant-funding marketplace, nine months after launch
Zomato launched a marketplace matching restaurants and cloud kitchens with equity investors in Nov 2021; the funding winter put it on ice by April 2022.
사례 읽기Ex-NSO researchers' Kodem exits stealth with $25M to cut appsec alert noise by 95%
Kodem analyzes apps at runtime and alerts only on vulnerabilities reachable in a customer's real stack, instead of flagging everything that could be wrong.
사례 읽기IonQ's pivot from research house to product company claimed its co-founder
Quantum computing company IonQ shifted from research to products just as co-founder Chris Monroe left for Duke; the stock fell 13% on the news
사례 읽기Humaans bets European scaleups will swap HR spreadsheets for one fast people-data layer
Two product designers found HR software 'clunky and slow', rebuilt it with design-tool speed, and in 2023 launched Tables to kill spreadsheet sprawl.
사례 읽기Zopper sold its retail app to PhonePe, then raised $75M to embed insurance at checkout
After selling its point-of-sale business to PhonePe in 2018, Zopper became an insurance API layer for marketplaces and neobanks; $75M Series C in 2022.
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