Wheel bought GoodRx Care's tech backbone for $19.5M to become health care's plumbing
The virtual-care staffing company bought its partner's clinical-management tools so it could power urgent care centers and traditional providers too.
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The Berlin challenger, built to fight N26 and Revolut with 500,000+ retail users, is putting products and investment behind its 30,000-SME business instead.
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Founded in 2021 by two Check Point veterans, Veriti raised $12M from Insight Partners plus $6.5M from NFX and Amiti to unify security tools via AI.
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The UK frontline HR platform, backed by Google's Gradient Ventures, absorbed the messaging app used by BrewDog, Caffè Nero and Welcome Break.
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The full-stack logistics platform with 220+ enterprise clients added a warehouse management system, aiming to cover everything from transport to fulfilment.
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The 'buy before you sell' proptech began shutting down in August 2022, a year after a $100M Series B, laying off most of its 140 staff.
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The Marlboro maker put IQOS — tobacco heated to 350°C, not burned — at the center of a plan to move out of the mainstream cigarette business, starting in Asia.
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Cross-border payments firm Payoneer folded Singapore-based Skuad's global payroll and contract management into its SMB offering for $61M cash plus up to $20M.
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After layoffs and a $4B valuation, the creator platform bought the ticketed-livestream startup backed by Halsey to own live experiences for creators.
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Bhavik Koladiya moved from board member to CEO on 1 January 2023, reuniting with the BharatPe founding members who started the WhatsApp-login SaaS.
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Chairman Tim Harvey told staff he was now CEO; co-founding CEO Nadav Shoval fired back that the board 'falsely stated' his exit and breached his contract.
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Ten months after a $4.1M raise, the Miami neobank for affluent young consumers emailed customers that accounts were closing and moved to B2B.
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Six years after expanding abroad, SoftBank-backed Ola quit the UK, Australia and New Zealand in April 2024 to shore up its home market ahead of an IPO.
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One month after betting on quick commerce, the Indian mobility giant killed it and its used-car arm, repurposing their infrastructure for EVs.
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After its French flagship retreat, M&S bet on websites from Nepal to Bolivia — international online sales already up 75% in the pandemic.
Read the caseLime suspended South Korea, its only Asian market, over 'chaotic' scooters
No request-for-proposal system meant 20+ operators and 50,000+ scooters in Seoul; Lime pulled its 22,000 vehicles and asked Korea to adopt Paris-style RFPs.
Read the caseNestAway's ex-co-founder raised Rs 8 crore for AI land title verification startup TLB
After a NestAway exit marked by an FIR against investors, Amarendra Sahu bet Rainmatter and Kunal Shah's money on cleaning up Indian land deals.
Read the caseRadiator Labs becomes Kelvin, takes $30M to push radiator retrofits into heat pumps
The NYC steam-radiator startup renamed itself Kelvin, raised a 2150-led $30M Series A, and bet it could expand from Cozy covers into heat pumps and Europe.
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