How businesses began, found their footing and faced what came next.
The full archive, in the appFounded in 2025 as India's DPDP Act moved from law to rules, Redacto sells AI-first privacy tooling to banks and NBFCs; PeerCapital led its ₹12 crore seed.
Read the caseFounded in 2024 for oral and injectable obesity therapies, Kailera IPO'd six months after its Series B, betting market momentum beats more private rounds
Read the caseMIT-born startup bet iron, water and air could store 100 hours at ~1/10th lithium-ion's cost; first commercial units hit Minnesota's grid in Oct 2025.
Read the caseKenya's B2B agritech linked 5,000 agro-dealers to fertilizer makers and served a million farmers, until the 2023 funding drought put it into administration.
Read the caseTiny Korean startup New Chat Inc. relaunches anti-Instagram sharing: hourly raw clips auto-stitched into group vlogs; App Store #1, 2M+ downloads in May 2026.
Read the caseOslo-based Kahoot bought U.S. edtech portal Clever, used by over half of U.S. K-12 students, to take its game-based learning platform international.
Read the caseMexico's SME lender bet machine learning on invoice data can underwrite businesses banks reject; ~MXN$100B disbursed since 2013.
Read the caseNASA paid Astrobotic $108M to fly five payloads to the Moon; Peregrine launched in January 2024, then a propellant leak ended the landing attempt.
Read the caseGPU startup by Nvidia's ex-China head lists on Shanghai STAR as China's first public GPU maker; shares open 468% higher.
Read the caseSuperLiving bets a vernacular AI companion makes wellness affordable for Tier II/III India: 1.5M installs, 100K payers, $7M Lightspeed Series A.
Read the caseBrazilian intercity-bus aggregator prices seats like airlines; 12M passengers, US$100M+ revenue, first operating profit, now buying rivals.
Read the caseA two-person YC Spring 2026 team attacks Datadog and Sentry with telemetry that installs itself and ships a fix PR per incident.
Read the casePony.ai took a discounted 2024 Nasdaq IPO, betting driverless economics would follow; by 2026 it posted its first GAAP profit and a 2,000-robotaxi Uber deal
Read the caseGE HealthCare already held FAPI-74 outside the US; buying its maker adds the US rights plus the network that makes and delivers PET isotopes.
Read the caseFour MIT alumni crack ammonia into hydrogen for fuel cells; world-first drone-to-tugboat demos drew >$300M and a Samsung manufacturing deal.
Read the caseFounded in 2022 by Hao Diep, it runs a B2B export supply chain. Raised $70M Series A in 2025, claims $220M revenue, plans expansion.
Read the caseIndonesia's grab-and-go coffee chain went from a Rp150M stall to 1,324 stores, a US$17M profit and a US$1B IPO exploration.
Read the caseA Caltech physics teacher's 2010 bet: one deep free HTML book plus paid screencasts becomes the standard path into Rails — Learn Enough still sells it.
Read the caseThe Winklevoss twins listed their 2014 crypto exchange in a 20x-oversubscribed IPO — the pop lasted a morning; by May 2026 the stock traded at $5.26.
Read the caseIIT Madras alumni's AI agents generate thousands of chip-material candidates daily; a $9M Lightspeed-led seed backs the bet.
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