Meta spins Kustomer out at $250M, a quarter of its $1B price at the 2022 close
Meta's year of efficiency ends its enterprise CRM experiment: Kustomer starts over with $60M from its old backers, Meta keeping a minority stake.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDJSW Steel's Italian revival lives or dies on Italian railway rail orders
Six years after buying the Piombino plant, JSW's Italian losses narrowed to €6.4M — but the CFO says only sustainable rail orders can save it.
Read the caseIpremom's blood test reads first-trimester risk of later pregnancy complications
The Spanish femtech startup raised a €15m seed (reported 2026-09-02) to detect, from early pregnancy, the risk of complications that appear months later.
Read the caseifeel's $20M Series B bets insurers will pay for AI-triaged mental health prevention
Founded as a consumer therapy app, ifeel pivoted into employer and insurer health cover, and its AI assessment predicts each person's risk before care begins.
Read the caseHullo's Vancouver-Nanaimo ferry cancelled its first two days of sailings
The new foot-passenger fast ferry between Vancouver and Nanaimo cancelled its first two days on wind and a power outage, then ran half schedule.
Read the caseHilt's kernel-level breach bet raised $4.2M from Array Ventures (interview)
Hilt watches data movement from inside the operating-system kernel and stops breaches in real time — starting in microsecond-fast trading desks.
Read the caseHealthleap reads hospital notes to flag undiagnosed patients and prices on outcomes
A sibling-founded startup pivoted from a nutrition tool to nightly AI screening of hospital charts, paid on validated hard ROI rather than beds.
Read the caseEyeEm, the Instagram-era photo marketplace, was rescued by Freepik out of bankruptcy
Once tipped as Europe's Instagram challenger, EyeEm shrank to three staff before Freepik bought it out of bankruptcy, vowing to pay owed photographers.
Read the caseCourse Hero's first layoffs in 17 years: 15% cut under a new CEO after the boom
A rare profitable edtech unicorn that waited years to raise VC cut 42 people as its first-ever layoff, four months after its founder-CEO moved up to the parent.
Read the caseCloaked launched proxy emails, numbers and passwords so you never give real ones out
After two years in private beta, Cloaked's apps generate unlimited 'identities' — proxy email, phone number and password per account — for $10 a month.
Read the caseCJ Foods enters India's QSR market through GTGO with Bibigo Bapsang
Korea's CJ Foods brought its Bibigo Bapsang restaurant concept to Bengaluru via GTGO — three test stores at Rs 1 crore each decide the next phase.
Read the caseCisco paid a reported $500M for Epsagon to watch containers and Kubernetes
Epsagon took a ~$200M-valuation Series B off the table to sell to Cisco, joining AppDynamics and ThousandEyes in a full-stack observability push.
Read the caseCabinet Health accepted a lower valuation in its televised Shark Tank deal
The founders agreed on screen to $500,000 for 7% plus royalties. A February 2023 founder interview said the deal had not been finalized.
Read the caseBumble cuts 350 staff, 30% of its workforce, to fund an AI-led app overhaul
After a $32M quarterly loss and a 10% share drop, new CEO Lidiane Jones cut a third of Bumble and pivoted the roadmap to AI, safety and younger users.
Read the caseBrevian raised $9M to let business users build enterprise AI agents without code
Founded by a Databricks product director and a Bell Labs/HP Labs veteran, Brevian came out of stealth targeting support teams and security analysts first.
Read the caseBloom pivoted to an AI supplier marketplace — 2,000 matches later it raised $3.6M
A Detroit mobility-ops startup reinvented itself as an AI supplier marketplace, hit 2,000 matches for 140+ companies and closed a $3.6M seed led by SNAK.
Read the caseBites lets diners order in ChatGPT straight to the restaurant, skipping DoorDash's cut
A 10-person pre-seed startup with ~300 Bay Area restaurants made the market leader nervous enough to email warnings to its own partners.
Read the caseBetter's ChatGPT app cuts mortgage underwriting from 21 days to 47 seconds
Better pivoted from lender to mortgage-as-a-service, putting its underwriting engine inside ChatGPT and sending Rocket and UWM shares sliding.
Read the caseAtoco's MOFs turn data-center waste heat into water with no electricity needed
Atoco's MOF machines harvest drinking water from air using data-center waste heat instead of electricity; demo yields 300 liters a day.
Read the caseWells Fargo put its balance sheet behind 3D-printed homes: Icon mortgages, 50bp credit
Wells Fargo will write mortgages on Icon's 3D-printed homes, give buyers a 50 basis point credit, and finance builders buying Icon's $899,000 Titan printers.
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