Drafted's second swing at home design: shut the agency down, let the model draw
After rate hikes killed his $20M human-designer startup Atmos, Nick Donahue rebuilt custom home design as a pure generative model selling plans at $1,000–2,000.
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Bioptimus' $76M bet: one foundation model for all of biology, open first
Owkin spin-off Bioptimus raised a $35M seed, open-sourced the largest pathology AI model, then added $41M to build a multimodal 'world model of biology'.
사례 읽기Sympower bets EU market rules open grid balancing to flexible factories; €21.3M Series B1
Amsterdam demand-response aggregator betting EU rules force grids to buy flexibility from factories, batteries and pumps: 2GW portfolio.
사례 읽기Fabricated revenue topples eFishery, Indonesia's $1.4B aquaculture unicorn
eFishery was Southeast Asia's first aquaculture unicorn, then a whistleblower showed most of its revenue was fake and it collapsed
사례 읽기Tonghuashi (童话师) tops China's iOS free chart for 3 days, then hits the monetization wall
4399-published cozy flower-farming game Tonghuashi hit #1 on China's iOS free chart day one (June 18, 2026), held 3 days, but never cracked iOS grossing ~#116.
사례 읽기Fluently bets near-native speakers pay an AI coach that listens to real calls
Fluently built an AI English coach for near-fluent speakers that listens to real work calls, won two Product Hunt #1 days, and raised a $2M seed.
사례 읽기Finkargo's import-collateral bet: $95M round to triple SME trade finance
Colombian fintech lends to SME importers with the cargo as collateral: 450 clients, US$510M in imports, US$95M raised in 2024
사례 읽기Axiom Space Ax-4: three governments buy seats, India's first astronaut reaches the ISS
Axiom's fourth private mission carried state-sponsored crews from India, Poland and Hungary to the ISS — nations renting spaceflight instead of building it.
사례 읽기EngineAI bets humanoid front flip can be mass-produced
Shenzhen humanoid robot firm founded 2023; gained attention with world's first front flip; April 2026 Series B $200M, valuation over RMB 10B.
사례 읽기Telepatia's AI clinical copilot: $9M seed, then $33M a16z-led A for LatAm hospitals
Colombian founders bet AI copilots can fix LatAm's clinical gaps; after a $9M seed, a16z led a $33M Series A — the region's largest healthtech round.
사례 읽기RoboTruck Bets on Japan's Driver Shortage: TuSimple Co-founder's New Venture, ¥1.65B Pre-A
Founded April 2024, RoboTruck uses L4 tech for driverless trucks on Tokyo–Nagoya and Tokyo–Osaka routes, with ¥1.65B Pre-A funding.
사례 읽기CopilotKit bets an open agent-to-user protocol, not chat, wins the agent era
Seattle startup's AG-UI protocol is adopted by Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle; a $27M Series A follows in May 2026.
사례 읽기Cactus Compute bets tiny 26M tool-calling model can run phone AI agents
YC S25 startup distills Gemini tool-calling into a 14MB, 26M-parameter model at 6,000 tok/s — 776 HN points, 211 comments.
사례 읽기Unity Biotechnology raises $116M with Bezos backing to build anti-aging drugs
Anti-aging startup Unity Biotechnology bet clearing senescent cells could become a drug pipeline; its $116M Series B, backed by Bezos, arrived in October 2016.
사례 읽기Uravu's water-from-air bet: liquid desiccant at 4,000+ L/day, ₹3/L, still scaling
Bengaluru's Uravu Labs extracts drinking water from air with liquid desiccant, betting unit cost can fall below ₹1/L for industrial buyers.
사례 읽기Meituan-Dianping merged after China's O2O cash war and became a top unicorn
Dianping's restaurant discovery and Meituan's daily deals survived a subsidy war by merging into China's dominant O2O platform.
사례 읽기Blue Tokai's fresh-roast bet: ₹325 Cr FY25 revenue, 175+ cafés, $235M valuation
A Delhi home-roasting duo in 2013 grew fresh coffee subscriptions into 175+ cafés, ₹325 Cr FY25 revenue and a $235M valuation.
사례 읽기Focus Town's study-hall bet: two founders take #8 on Korea's App Store with a cozy game
A two-person Korean–French team turned the pomodoro timer into an Animal Crossing-style study hall that hit #8 on Korea's App Store free chart in June 2026.
사례 읽기Superbet bets Brazil's betting law turns grey-market chaos into licensed share
Romanian operator Superbet paid the first $30M Brazilian licence, got certified first, and rose from 8th to 3rd as the R$37B regulated market consolidated.
사례 읽기Router Protocol's cross-chain bet ends: Coinbase-backed bridge to a 303M-token burn
Router bet every chain would need connectors and monetise bridging; four years later, thin liquidity and fees forced an orderly shutdown with a 303M-token burn.
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