Better.com bet Amazon employees would pledge startup equity for mortgage down payments
Better.com launched Equity Unlocker with Amazon: employees pledge vested shares, not cash, for down payments — at rates up to 2.5 points higher
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEBetter bought Trussle for its first overseas bet, months before its SPAC
Better, riding a $25B refinancing year and a $7.7B SPAC merger, paid roughly $9M for UK broker Trussle to take its digital mortgage model overseas.
Ler o casoZepto walked away from Flipkart's under-$2Bn majority buyout to stay IPO-bound
Flipkart's offer valued Zepto below $2Bn and demanded a majority stake; the founders refused, and Zepto turned to General Atlantic and ADIA at $2.5-3Bn instead.
Ler o casoUstraa sold to VLCC at a 40% valuation cut after FY23 losses hit Rs 40 crore
The men's grooming D2C brand grew revenue 47% to Rs 97 crore in FY23 but spent Rs 1.42 per revenue rupee — and exited to Carlyle-owned VLCC in July 2023.
Ler o casoTier Mobility pivoted from 'all-out growth' to 'profitability first', cutting 7%
A year after a $200M Series D and four acquisitions, the micromobility leader shut side projects and unprofitable cities to stop the bleed.
Ler o casoTable Space hired bankers for an IPO targeting $2.5B, up from a $550M mark
The Indian managed-workspace firm serving Apple and Google runs 60+ centers and 9.5M sq ft — and wants to nearly double it before listing.
Ler o casoRo bet on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs in 2021 — its fastest-growing line by 2024 (interview)
CEO Zachariah Reitano says Ro moved significant resources into GLP-1s in 2021, launched in 2023, and is in no rush to go public.
Ler o casoRapidAPI cut half its staff as a week-old CEO refocused a $1B API marketplace
Six months after touting 4M developers and 40,000 APIs, Rapid cut about 115 people — 50% — betting discipline beats competing on every front.
Ler o casoPlume laid off a sixth of staff to speed a fee-for-service pivot, a year after Series B
Trans telehealth startup Plume cut more than two dozen jobs in October 2023 to accelerate a fee-for-service build-out, a year after a $24M Series B.
Ler o casoByteDance's Pico halted its VR expansion, laying off hundreds to refocus on hardware
ByteDance's VR unit Pico restructured in November 2023, letting go a few hundred staff and refocusing on hardware and core technologies after sluggish sales
Ler o casoOrange QS raised €1.5M betting qubit testing is quantum's scaling bottleneck
A TNO spinout sells room-temperature, automated test equipment for quantum chips, pitching 'lab to fab' for the quantum supply chain.
Ler o casoMiso's $50M fry robot Flippy went to work in a Jack in the Box kitchen
Years of development landed in one California restaurant at $3,500 a month, betting kitchen robots answer fast food's labor gap.
Ler o casoMenhood, a men's grooming D2C, opened a ~INR 19.5 Cr IPO on NSE Emerge
Jaipur's Macobs Technologies took its 2019-vintage men's grooming brand public on India's SME board amid a record SME IPO surge.
Ler o casoAfter $88M raised, Melorra weighed a sale at a tenth of its $120M valuation
The online jeweller that raised $88M saw surging losses, a one-tenth-valuation bridge and unpaid-salary reports end in INR 40-50 Cr sale talks.
Ler o casoLollipop AI launched a recipe-first grocery marketplace with Sainsbury's alongside
A Monzo-era UK entrepreneur built a marketplace that turns recipes into shopping baskets, betting meal planning is grocery's missing front door.
Ler o casoHypernative raised $9M to predict web3 attacks before they happen
Two ex-IBM, Google and Microsoft engineers emerged from stealth with Pre-Cog, betting crypto needs threat detection before the hack, not after.
Ler o casoHook raised $3M to let fans remix licensed tracks for TikTok legally
A former JioSaavn COO is building an AI remix app that pays rights holders, betting attribution can turn derivative music into a market.
Ler o casoHeads Up For Tails took its first VC round at 14, scaled stores — losses tripled
The pet-care retailer raised $37M from Verlinvest and Sequoia in 2021, grew FY22 revenue 85.9% to Rs 125.5 crore — but losses shot up 3.3X.
Ler o casoGreenLite bet owning the whole permitting pipeline could cut waits from months to weeks
Austin proptech GreenLite emerged from stealth with $8M to own construction permitting end to end for chains like Chick-fil-A, Domino's and Chipotle
Ler o casoEve came out of stealth with $14M to put pre-trained legal LLMs in law firms' hands
Three Rubrik veterans launched an AI platform for document review, case analysis, intake and research, already serving a dozen-plus firms.
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