Galvanic Games closed after Wizard With a Gun sales could not cover its runway
The Seattle indie studio, founded in 2015, shut down in June 2024 with ten jobs lost, as new publishing deals took longer than its cash lasted.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDFlyhomes sold its home-search business to Real Brokerage to focus on wholesale mortgages
Nine years after launch and about $200M raised, Flyhomes offloaded its consumer search tech and team to keep only its Buy Before You Sell financing.
Read the caseEvoloh bets hydrogen needs cheaper electrolyzer manufacturing, raises a $20M Series A
The startup builds alkaline electrolyzers with roll-to-roll printing and domestic parts, aiming for a TSMC-like role and a 3.75 GW factory.
Read the caseEmber spun out a medicine-shipping unit from its smart-mug business (interview)
Founder Clay Alexander says Ember sold 3M+ mugs, went global via Apple in 27 countries, then split off Ember Life Sciences with Carrier as investor.
Read the caseEli Lilly launches LillyDirect in Australia to ship Mounjaro home; doctors push back
After dropping PBS subsidy listing, Lilly routes Australian e-scripts for Mounjaro via online pharmacists; GP and pharmacy bodies called it a safety risk.
Read the caseEasyKnock bought home-maintenance startup Onder to build a national property-care platform
In September 2023, as VC funding tightened, Seattle's Onder sold to EasyKnock, its second small acquisition after Ribbon in May.
Read the caseDeel bought Zavvy, a Munich people-development startup, to build a one-stop HR suite
The $12B HR company approached Zavvy about a partnership, then made an offer; Zavvy was heading to a Series A. Price undisclosed, above a ~$16M valuation.
Read the caseDakota, a stablecoin-powered business neobank, raised a $12.5M Series A led by CoinFund
Ex-Coinbase custody lead Ryan Bozarth's Dakota moves money between banks by stablecoin, with $1.6B volume and 500+ mostly non-US businesses.
Read the caseCycode bought Bearer to add the missing static-analysis engine to its security platform
Cycode, which began in supply chain security, bought SAST startup Bearer after talks since August 2023 to become a full application-security platform.
Read the caseCurative dropped a $600K-a-year Salesforce contract for an AI-built CRM made in two months
Curative's CEO said on a podcast the health insurer will cut about 80% of SaaS spend and put the money into AI, as Anthropic costs hit millions a month.
Read the caseCUR8 raises £5.3M led by GV to sell a carbon-removal portfolio at £150 a tonne
The London startup, founded in 2022, brokers direct air capture, rock weathering and soil carbon for companies at one price pegged to the social cost of carbon.
Read the caseMatrix-backed Crejo.Fun shut down after school reopenings and a failed raise
The IIM Bengaluru founders closed their 170-200-person kids' extracurricular edtech in June 2022, refunded customers and sought to sell the IP.
Read the caseClub Feast dropped its $5.99 meal-subscription app for corporate catering, stranding users
A year after a $3.5M seed, Club Feast raised prices, then shut its consumer app in mid-2022 for office catering, leaving credits and refunds in dispute.
Read the caseMastercard told clients it is shutting three CipherTrace crypto-analytics products
Three years after buying the blockchain analytics firm, Mastercard ended Armada, Inspector and Sentry, a month after pulling a CipherTrace court report.
Read the caseChomp, maker of 'mechanical cow' food-waste digesters, sold itself to Martin Energy Group
After 11 years and $4M raised, the Auburn, Washington, startup joined a 50-year-old digester maker to scale manufacturing and sales.
Read the caseSegment's Peter Reinhardt left Twilio to run Charm Industrial's bio-oil carbon removal
After selling Segment for $3.2B, Reinhardt went full-time at Charm in January 2022, which says it buried 5,400 tons of CO2 in 2021 for buyers like Stripe.
Read the caseBlank Street Coffee launched a capped $8.99-a-week drink subscription to win regulars
The low-cost cafe chain drew 5,000 paying Regulars and a 4,000-person waitlist within months, then took the model to London.
Read the caseBeyond Meat quietly dropped its first product, frozen chicken strips, as burgers took off
The strips launched in 2012; by April 2019 Beyond pulled them, cutting frozen revenue 5%, while its stock soared after the May IPO.
Read the caseAutonomy's founder spun out ADS to sell car-subscription software as his EV fleet stalled
Painter converted $32M of Autonomy debt into equity and sold assets to launch Autonomy Data Services, a SaaS platform for automaker car subscriptions.
Read the caseAther Energy launched the Konarc metal-body scooter to take EVs mainstream (interview)
In an ETAuto interview, CEO Tarun Mehta said a new platform targets petrol-scooter buyers, with a Rs 1 lakh variant to follow when Aurangabad opens.
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