Miso Robotics buys Zignyl to run fry robots and restaurant ops from one app
With revenue down and deployments shrunk to 14 units, Miso bet robots only scale inside a full restaurant operating system and bought Zignyl in early 2026.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDMilo's founder messaged Sam Altman after laying off her team, then built on OpenAI models
Avni Patel Thompson was close to shutting Milo, her parent-scheduling assistant, until a message to Sam Altman brought OpenAI funding, model access and a CTO.
Read the caseLydia rebuilds its payment app as a social journal that hides your balance (interview)
In a TechCrunch interview, Lydia's founders said the 2022 redesign starts a 10-year plan to make payments social — 'the WhatsApp of money.'
Read the caseLemon Cash cut its Brazil team after finding the market 'a casino' for crypto
A year after launching hard in Brazil, Lemon Cash dismissed most of the local team: trading-mad Brazil wasn't ready for its everyday, stablecoin-first product.
Read the caseLalo shut down its family memory-archive app after two years: users would not pay
Seattle solo founder Juan Medina closed Lalo in July 2023 despite thousands of users and millions of TikTok views: customers would not pay, VCs would not fund.
Read the caseKite shut its AI coding assistant after seven years, saying it was a decade too early
Kite had 500,000 free developers and tens of millions in VC but never monetized, its founder wrote in a November 2022 postmortem.
Read the caseJumbo Privacy tore down its paywall after churn capped consumer subscriptions
25,000 paid subscribers and 40% annual retention still wasn't a business — Jumbo went free, added viral ID-theft insurance, and pivoted to B2B.
Read the caseJuked pivoted from esports news hub to a less-toxic esports social network
After user growth plateaued serving the top 1% of esports fans, Juked.gg asked users what was missing and rebuilt around community instead of news.
Read the caseIntercom's board brought founder Eoghan McCabe back as CEO to take on Zendesk
In October 2022 Intercom replaced CEO Karen Peacock with co-founder Eoghan McCabe, who said he would 'pick a lane' in support after a 5% layoff.
Read the caseInflection.io bought Keyplay as B2B buyers consolidate onto AI platforms
The account-scoring startup's founder concluded he had a feature, not a company, in the AI-agent era — and sold to the Marketo rival he'd invested in.
Read the caseInflection AI refocused on empathetic business chatbots after Microsoft took its founders
With about 12 staff left and 18 months of funding, Inflection told VentureBeat it would sell 'EQ' bots to businesses.
Read the caseHmlet bought back its Singapore and Hong Kong units from Habyt with Mitsubishi Estate
Four years after merging into Habyt, Hmlet's founder returned as APAC CEO in April 2026 as a Mitsubishi Estate arm reacquired its Singapore and Hong Kong units.
Read the caseHims & Hers launched a $49 compounded Wegovy pill and drew Novo and FDA pushback
Weeks after Novo's Wegovy pill launched at $149, Hims offered a liposomal copy from $49; the FDA chief vowed swift action the next day.
Read the caseHappy Cashier piloted Philippines-based video cashiers at New York restaurants
A New York startup put Filipino cashiers on screens at Sansan Chicken and other restaurants from October 2023; Fortune says they earn about $2.50 an hour.
Read the caseButter's founders pitched GrubMarket a merger, and it bought the AI startup in weeks
After four years without a distribution channel, Butter pitched rival GrubMarket in March 2024; GrubMarket closed the acquisition by the end of April.
Read the caseGrab shut AutoInvest and Earn+, winding down its GrabInvest business
Grab wound down GrabInvest, telling customers to withdraw from AutoInvest and Earn+ by 13 October 2023 after a review found it commercially unviable.
Read the caseGoNuts shut its celebrity-engagement B2C business after three years of a stalled audience
Mumbai's GoNuts, with 2,000 celebrities and ~INR 7 Cr raised, closed B2C in 2022 and kept serving about 300 B2B clients.
Read the caseGoldPe shut its prize-linked digital gold app after a year: ₹1.5 lakh revenue
GoldPe's founders closed their Ahmedabad app on April 1, 2024 with 2.25 lakh users after earning ₹1.5 lakh in a year and failing to raise money.
Read the caseFronted, a UK renter-deposit lender founded by ex-Apple and Monzo staff, closed in 2023
Fronted raised about £22M to finance renters' deposits, then closed when its cost of capital forced a price above £100 that renters would not pay.
Read the caseFoundation bets wholesale B2B deserves its own platform, not a D2C afterthought
A former Fabric CEO raised $3M to replace PDF catalogs and Excel order forms with one wholesale platform for manufacturers and retailers.
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