Tab emerged from stealth at $300M: a text-message AI assistant that bets on trust
Tab launched from stealth at $300M: you text it tasks and it executes with its own phone, wallet and vault — betting trust beats capability.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTESwishX shut its device-leasing business to bet on agentic AI for pharma's back office
Swish Club killed its capital-hungry leasing model two years in, rebuilt as SwishX, and claims $1M+ ARR selling AI agents into pharma sales workflows.
Ler o casoSutro bet GPT-4 plus rule-based compilers could replace your whole product team
Describe an app in a prompt and Sutro generates the iOS, Android and web clients plus the production backend — 715 makers had built 934 apps by late 2023.
Ler o casoTwitter bought Sphere, a group-chat app for strangers, and shut it down
Sphere pivoted from paid-expert Q&A to topic-based group chats, then sold to Twitter for an undisclosed sum, closing in November as its 20 staff moved over.
Ler o casoSnap's $400M Perplexity deal to put AI search in Snapchat ended in six months
Perplexity was to pay Snap $400M over a year to live inside Snapchat's Chat; the companies 'amicably ended' it in Q1 2026.
Ler o casoSkipton launched a guarantor-free deposit-free mortgage for renters
The UK's fourth-biggest building society began underwriting 100% mortgages against 12 months of on-time rent and clean credit — no family backing, at 5.49%.
Ler o casoItalian AI sales startup SimpL charges only for meetings it books, raising EUR 1.2M
Milan's SimpL reads public signals through its own knowledge graph to book qualified B2B meetings — and gets paid per meeting, not per seat.
Ler o casoA Kenyan couple turned Sh250,000 into a listed packaging firm: Sh300M revenue by 2023
Nirmal Chaudhary and Sonvir Singh founded Shri Krishana Overseas with Sh250,000 in 2013; Sh300M revenue and 100 staff by 2023, NSE-listed in 2025.
Ler o casoRayon raises $4.2M to build Figma-style multiplayer CAD for architects
A French startup applies the Figma formula to architecture: a browser tool where a link puts teammates on the floor plan in seconds.
Ler o casoRapyd paid $610M for PayU's emerging-markets arm to reach 41 licensed countries
Fintech-as-a-service platform Rapyd bought Prosus's PayU GPO for $610M, funding it with a $700M round, en route to an IPO.
Ler o casoNigerian grocer Pricepally raises $1.3M to push group buying past three cities
It sources straight from contracted farmers, sells over WhatsApp, and bets pooled retail buyers can unlock wholesale prices in Nigeria food crisis.
Ler o casoPortcast bets AI can see 90% of world ocean trade without a tracker in every box
Founded by an ex-DHL executive and an ML PhD, Portcast predicts shipment disruptions from satellites and economics instead of costly per-container IoT.
Ler o casoPimento raised $3.2M betting generative AI belongs at the start of creative work
A French startup skips the finished image and sells the fuzzy first step: AI-generated mood boards of images, text and colours from a brief.
Ler o casoPaddle built a cut-price App Store payment system on a bet Epic's win would stand
Paddle's drop-in Apple IAP replacement charges 5-10% instead of 30% and launches December 7, 2021 — if the Epic v. Apple ruling survives appeal.
Ler o casoNexi paid $140-150M for Orderbird to put hospitality POS at its SMB core
Germany's Orderbird took a strategic exit over a Toast investment, betting full ownership by Nexi scales it like Clover scaled First Data.
Ler o casoMira's next bet: anonymized hormone tests become a women's health dataset (interview)
On TechCrunch's Found podcast, CEO Sylvia Kang said Mira is going beyond its at-home device, pooling anonymized results to fill women's health's data void.
Ler o casoMedium wound down its owned publications, offering buyouts to all 75 editorial staff
Two years into its owned publications, Ev Williams offered buyouts to all ~75 editorial staff and pivoted to 'relational media' and the Amplify program.
Ler o casoEx-Google TPU engineers' MatX raises ~$80M Series A for LLM-specific chips
Two years after leaving Google TPU, the founders raised ~$80M at a low-$300M post-money to chase chips 10x better than Nvidia GPUs for LLMs.
Ler o casoMammaly raised €14M to build Europe's answer in an unexplored pet supplements market
The Berlin pet-wellness company closed a €14m Series A from Five Seasons Ventures and Iris Ventures to build its offline and online supplements empire.
Ler o casoLedgebrook's quiet $1B premium run cashes in: $200M at $2.6B (interview)
Ledgebrook wrote nearly $1B of specialty-insurance premiums without publicizing a round, then landed $200M from Allianz X and Rockefeller at $2.6B.
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