How businesses began, found their footing and faced what came next.
The full archive, in the appThe plant-based protein startup, founded in the US in 2022, targets markets where refrigeration is scarce — 30-plus B2B clients and a new Bengaluru base.
Read the caseThe Black- and Latino-focused neobank folded in Kinly's 300,000 claimed users and hired its CEO after the rival burned $360K a month and ran to five staff.
Read the caseThe Instagram-scanning city guide app built on Hinton-inspired deep learning was acquired and shut within a month — its team folded into Google.
Read the caseWith no warehouse and no credit line, Fleet automated device financing across seven lenders, then added furniture, insurance, donations and device management.
Read the caseTwo years after a $100M raise and a first-ever CEO, the YouTube brand parted ways with him over 'different perspectives' and went back to founder leadership.
Read the caseZocdoc's founder raised $8M from Lerer Hippeau and Founders Fund to turn Dr. B into COVID telehealth where hardship cases pay nothing and ads buy nothing.
Read the caseWith FreshMenu suspended after a cash crunch, Dil Foods signed a brand licensing and operator deal to revive select kitchens while acquisition talks continue.
Read the caseThe UK food delivery startup quit its fifth-biggest expansion market in August 2019, paying riders goodwill, as Takeaway.com and Just Eat built a $10B rival.
Read the caseThe French startup behind feedback tooling for Brex, Qonto and Alan joined Atlassian, its engine rebuilt inside Jira Product Discovery.
Read the caseThe Slovakian startup's digital twin scores messages against an audience's beliefs across 100+ languages; Zero Gravity Capital backed its move to SaaS.
Read the caseThe sprinter's dockless rental company abruptly shut across US cities in 2022, leaving inoperable scooters on streets and unanswered messages to officials.
Read the caseEighteen months after a NYSE delisting warning ended his CEO run, Bird's founding CEO gave up his board chair seat to the man who rescued the company.
Read the caseShashvat Nakrani stepped down as COO to a board-advisor role — three years after cofounders Koladiya and Grover left the payments firm.
Read the caseTJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, whose $750M pharmacy startup became Amazon Pharmacy's foundation, left as Amazon installed operators over its health bets.
Read the caseThe all-cash deal brings OneCare's wearables-plus-virtual-care model in-house as Acko builds an ecosystem from protection to prevention, care and recovery.
Read the caseMunich's 5U AI raised $3.2M led by Emerge Capital for AI digital workers that quote, book, track and reconcile freight — logging the reasoning behind each call.
Read the caseLunchtime.cz — worth INR 28.2 lakhs, zero turnover — entered liquidation as Zomato closed units in Indonesia, Portugal and Jordan and exited 225 Indian cities.
Read the caseThe corporate travel platform acquired the agent marketplace — 7,000 verified partners, 2 lakh packages — to push into leisure, MICE and experiential travel.
Read the caseThe Carlow operator made its second acquisition in a year, absorbing Zipp Mobility's staff and pushing Zeus past 50 locations in nine countries.
Read the caseFresh-meat delivery firm DSM Fresh Foods paid Rs 25 crore enterprise value for Ambrozia's operations, entering RTE/RTC foods and exports under the Meevaa brand.
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