Kakao Pay Insurance's first product pays out for online fraud in weeks, not months
Korea's first IT-platform digital insurer launched with cyber-fraud cover that compensates before regulators rule, claimable inside KakaoTalk.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDKakao's Piccoma hit 2.9M users in Japan and rode wait-to-free into video
Two years after launching in Japan, Kakao's manga app out-earned Netflix on in-app revenue — and announced Piccoma TV on the same playbook
Read the caseVF's Icebreaker restructure cuts up to 50 NZ jobs to push merino into workwear
Four years after buying Icebreaker for $288M, VF Corp moved global-focused roles offshore and stretched the merino brand from outdoors into everyday wear.
Read the caseGrab and Singtel won a digital bank licence — analysts warned it wasn't easy money
The licence win spiked Singtel 10.5% intraday, but analysts flagged Kakao Bank as the only profitable precedent and Dash's thin record.
Read the caseLG and SM's home fitness JV Fitness Candy dissolved after two years of losses
The LG Electronics-SM Entertainment home fitness venture launched its Init app a year late, never turned a profit, and voted to liquidate in April 2024.
Read the caseDelivery Hero returns to Germany in 2021 to retake the market it sold in defeat
Three years after selling its German business, the DAX group relaunched foodpanda in Berlin with seven-minute deliveries — and aimed at number one.
Read the caseCozo Pets: Sequoia and Matrix walked after diligence found staged dog-walkers
Moneycontrol's investigation: revenue inflated, cash siphoned to founders' relatives, and the pet-walking startup's $7M in term sheets gone after diligence.
Read the caseAirbnb is scaling boutique and independent hotels onto its platform worldwide
Airbnb is expanding its boutique-hotel pilot to mature markets, betting hotel rooms add peak supply — 55% of hotel bookers come back for a home.
Read the caseWe Roam sold nomads a year abroad — lawsuits stranded them mid-journey
The self-funded nomad startup folded mid-trip in 2018 after rival lawsuits; 33 customers say they were left $107K out of pocket across Latin America.
Read the caseUrban Ladder raised Rs 857 crore, then sold 96% to Reliance for Rs 182 crore
The online furniture pioneer had laid off 40% of staff and shut verticals before Covid forced a fire sale to Reliance Retail at a fraction of its 2019 value.
Read the caseTheobroma doubled down on stores post-Covid: 100 outlets, Rs 600 crore by FY25
While dining collapsed in the pandemic, the ICICI Venture-backed bakery kept its stores, crossed pre-Covid numbers first, and plans 175-200 outlets by FY25.
Read the caseSugru sells to Tesa for £7.6M and crowdfunding investors lose up to 90%
FormFormForm, London maker of mouldable glue Sugru, sold to Tesa at 9p a share after its bank pulled a £1.5M tranche — despite 20% YoY sales growth.
Read the caseParis Baguette's family bet billions on taking its Korean bakery global
SPC took its French-styled Korean bakery to 6,000 locations including Paris — and the founding family's wealth fell from $3.6B to $770M.
Read the caseShell bought green retailer Powershop — 6,000 customers left in two weeks
The oil major's clean-energy retail bet backfired immediately: partner groups terminated tie-ups and competitor data showed at least 6,000 accounts defecting.
Read the caseMom's Touch plans a master-franchise push to go nationwide in Japan (interview)
With the Shibuya store drawing about 3,000 visitors a day, Mom's Touch CEO Kim Dong-jeon says the Korean burger chain will scale Japan via a master franchisee.
Read the caseKookmin Bank started selling phone plans — its own union fought Liiv M
Korea's biggest bank launched the country's first budget 5G plan with LG Uplus; at 80,000 subscribers, its union asked regulators to revoke the licence.
Read the caseKathmandu pushes into Europe and North America with wholesale-first soft launch
Pummelled by Covid, KMD Brands is taking Kathmandu beyond Australasia — wholesale to 20-25 influential outdoor accounts in Europe and Canada first.
Read the caseFlash Express shuts its Malaysia operations to refocus on Thailand and the Philippines
Thailand's first unicorn says its Malaysian delivery arm closes on January 31 after 3+ years — regional ambitions giving way to core-market defence.
Read the caseDoorDash took DashMart into Australia's graveyard of failed grocery startups
As Voly, Send and Quicko folded and Milkrun bled $13 an order, DoorDash opened its own stocked corner stores in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Read the caseAustralian Wool Innovation bets grower levies can be recouped by selling WoolQ
After five years and $6.3 million of levy funds, AWI will commercialise the market component of WoolQ, the wool trading platform the trade wouldn't use.
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