Moroccan proptech Agenz raised $5M with 730,000 monthly visits
Founded by two brothers in Casablanca, Agenz turns Morocco's opaque property market into data — and an oversubscribed $5M seed backs the bet.
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300 RECENT CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDZomato and RBL Bank wound down their Edition co-branded credit cards after 3 years
From 15 May 2023 the 5–10% cashback cards died: users get a generic RBL Shoprite card, cashback expired 14 May and the dashboard vanished from the Zomato app.
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After shutting the US, UK, Singapore and Lebanon, CEO Deepinder Goyal said international business no longer fits — India alone has 10x room for growth.
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Zaro emerged from stealth with a Cherry Ventures-led $5.1M pre-seed, betting companies should own their AI context instead of feeding vendors' data layers.
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Beth Zotter's XPrize-winning seaweed carbon removal team launched Umaro Foods, raising a $3M seed to sell bacon made from ocean-farmed seaweed.
Read the caseUdayy wound down rather than chase pivots once kids went back to school
The Alpha Wave and Norwest-backed edtech shut down in April 2022, refunding customers, paying severance and returning remaining capital to investors.
Read the caseTruva raised ₹78 Cr to take its full-service home-buying platform beyond Mumbai
Founded in 2023, Truva lists properties and handles financing, paperwork and registration end to end; it raised ₹78 Cr ($8.6 Mn) to reach Delhi and Bengaluru.
Read the caseStoa School shut its MBA bootcamp after four years rather than go offline
Stoa trained 1,000+ students at ₹2.5 lakh a seat for its startup-ecosystem MBA; when live-online demand fell post-pandemic, it shut down rather than go offline.
Read the caseCloud gaming firm Shadow makes its first acquisition: Android emulator maker Genymobile
Shadow, the French cloud gaming startup, bought Genymobile — its first acquisition — to sell Android virtual devices in the cloud to enterprise clients.
Read the caseRevolt Motors: Micromax cofounder's e-motorcycle startup sold fully to RattanIndia
RattanIndia bought out Rahul Sharma's Revolt Motors in October 2022, doubling down on electric motorcycles just as a FAME-II subsidy compliance probe loomed.
Read the caseRario sunset its cricket NFT product and bet on a new platform without the cards
Months after its founders were pushed out, the Dream11-backed cricket NFT startup killed its card product in January 2024 and promised a new games platform.
Read the casePoshmark closed its India marketplace two years after launch to refocus on the US
The Naver-owned social-resale platform closed India on 26 October 2023 — reportedly with Australia and the UK — to refocus on the US and Canada.
Read the casePliant bought hi.health to put a payment card inside insurance claims
The Berlin B2B payments fintech made its second acquisition, adding an Austrian startup whose card lets insured patients skip upfront payments.
Read the casePeloton's cofounder-CPO Tom Cortese out; ex-Twitter exec Nick Caldwell takes product
After nearly 12 years, Peloton cofounder and chief product officer Tom Cortese moved to an advisory role; former Twitter VP Nick Caldwell replaced him.
Read the casePasarPolis hired Allianz Indonesia's ex-CEO to lead its full-stack insurance push
Indonesian insurtech PasarPolis brought in former Allianz Indonesia CEO Peter Van Zyl as president to drive its full-stack insurer strategy.
Read the caseOrderlion bought French peer Supli to take its food-ordering app into France
Vienna's Orderlion, whose platform moves $150M+ a year in food wholesale, acquired French B2B marketplace Supli to enter its fifth European market.
Read the caseNot So Dark swapped dark kitchens for virtual delivery brands run inside restaurants
Not So Dark raised an $80M Series B after pivoting from owning dark kitchens to giving existing restaurants delivery-only brands like JFK Burgers and Fat Panda.
Read the caseN26 quit the UK rather than pay for a banking licence its EU passport no longer covered
Brexit stripped N26's European banking licence in the UK, so the neobank closed all accounts there on 15 April 2020 rather than seek a local licence.
Read the caseMinders absorbed Telegram-native CRM Dise to complete its B2B sales stack
Minders, whose Telegram-first tools reach an estimated 450M users, acquired Dise — the first CRM native to Telegram — taking autonomy of the software.
Read the caseMilkbasket's last founders left as Reliance folded it fully into JioMart
Reliance Retail bought subscription-commerce startup Milkbasket in October 2021; by July 2023 the full integration into JioMart had emptied the founding team.
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