Sidechat turned acquired Yik Yak into a college-email clone, and users revolted
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500 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEVia bought Citymapper in a reported washout, to feed rider data into its transit software
Weeks after raising $110M at $3.5B, Via acquired the 50-million-user trip app for cash and stock; sources said investors mostly did not recoup.
Ler o casoVersed raised a $1.7M pre-seed from Google's Gradient to turn written stories into 3D RPGs
The four-month-old Dutch startup uses GPT-4 and a curated asset library to build role-playing games from text, aiming for a 2024 public launch.
Ler o casoVelodyne founder David Hall, ousted as chairman, demands the SPAC's two directors resign
A year after Velodyne went public via Graf Industrial, Hall said in May 2021 he would use his roughly 52% stake to replace the board members chosen by the SPAC.
Ler o casoUpgrade bought travel BNPL Uplift for $100M after it came asking for investment
Uplift asked Upgrade to join its Series D; Upgrade offered to buy instead, paying $100M in cash and stock for a firm that had raised nearly $700M.
Ler o casoThrun retook Udacity's helm, cut 130 jobs and assigned every student a mentor in two weeks
After a flat 2018, Thrun's email led to layoffs, 90% cheaper course production and a mentor program aimed at lifting a 34% graduation rate.
Ler o casoTribute shut down after enterprise buyers praised the product but signed no deals
The Seattle workplace-connection startup, eight years old, closed in December 2024 as its funding ran out despite big-name customers and warm leads.
Ler o casoTraqo dropped logistics cameras for mid-mile freight software; founder claims INR 5 Cr
A third-time founder skipped camera hardware and automated Indian manufacturers' mid-mile freight; Inc42 reports 100+ clients, growth self-reported.
Ler o casoTier and Dott agreed to merge in January 2024 to reach scale, with Dott's CEO leading
Europe's two big scooter operators combined with fresh funding and a planned €200M+ in revenue after a funding drought and layoffs at Tier.
Ler o casoTewke rebuilt the light switch as a bootstrapped energy-control device (interview)
The founders say Tap packs nine sensors and on-device AI into a wall switch sold via electricians; the team is 16 staff, mostly bootstrapped.
Ler o casoSyndio makes its first acquisition in nine years, buying agentic-AI startup Embrace.ai
The Seattle pay-equity software company bought Austin's Embrace.ai in June 2026 to speed up its agentic compensation platform, hiring the whole team.
Ler o casoSwiggy licensed The Bowl Company and other in-house food brands to Kouzina
Swiggy handed its digital-first food brands to cloud-kitchen operator Kouzina in May 2025, after shutting Genie and as NRAI threatened action.
Ler o casoStrava shut Fatmap, its 3D outdoor maps app, 20 months after buying it
In June 2024 Strava said Fatmap would close on 1 October and fold into its subscription, leaving grades, photos and guidebooks behind.
Ler o casoStarform soft-launched Metalstorm in five countries and reached nearly 1M downloads
Ex-Z2 founders' Seattle studio revealed its free-to-play 5v5 aerial combat game in open beta, hitting about 1M downloads mostly by word of mouth.
Ler o casoSquare Yards leans on loan arm Urban Money, 60% of revenue, ahead of an IPO (interview)
In an Inc42 interview the CFO says loan distribution now outearns real estate, taking FY26 revenue up 48% to Rs 2,086 Cr.
Ler o casoSparkToro's Rand Fishkin raised $2.15M from 38 angels for a cooking-game studio, no VCs
Fishkin copied SparkToro's personal-network funding model for Snackbar Studio and published its pitch deck and legal documents for other indie teams.
Ler o casoSlync raised $24M led by Goldman Sachs while its founder faced federal fraud charges
After its CEO was charged with taking $20M of the $50M it had raised, the logistics software startup replaced him and closed a $24M round.
Ler o casoSeries Entertainment quietly raised $28M for its GenAI game engine and bought Pixelberry
A year after a $7.9M a16z-led seed, Series grew from 17 to 100-plus staff, bought Pixelberry and pitched its Rho Engine as the new Unity.
Ler o casoSentinelOne buys Bengaluru cloud-security startup PingSafe about six months after its seed
SentinelOne agreed in January 2024 to acquire PingSafe for cash and stock to add a cloud-native application protection platform to its Singularity platform.
Ler o casoSennder buys C.H. Robinson's European trucking business to double its revenue
The German digital freight forwarder agrees an all-cash deal for C.H. Robinson's European surface transportation unit, doubling revenue to a reported €1.4B.
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