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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEBlissClub raised Rs 160 Cr to push athleisure offline and into menswear
The women's athleisure brand took its D2C playbook into 40-plus stores and menswear, with FY25 revenue up 51% and losses halved.
Ler o casoAnimpet Ecomm launched AnimStok.com to organize India's unorganized animal economy
The Gurugram startup opened a B2B/B2C/C2C marketplace for livestock, dairy, poultry, feed and vet services after company-stated trial runs with 25,000 vendors.
Ler o casoYotta Energy raised an $8M Series A extension in 2023 for rooftop batteries
Austin's Yotta Energy raised $8M led by Evergy Ventures to deploy modular rooftop batteries kept at temperature by phase-change heat exchangers.
Ler o casoWorldover raised $3.8M in 2023 for a cosmetics compliance platform it plans to widen
London startup Worldover, with 20 companies on its platform, raised $3.8M led by Index and Chalfen to automate cosmetics regulation, then any physical product.
Ler o casoWingreens Farms bought cash-strapped Raw Pressery at about a fifth of its 2018 valuation
Dips-and-sauces maker Wingreens Farms reportedly took over cold-pressed juice startup Raw Pressery at Rs 100-110 crore, versus Rs 500 crore two years earlier.
Ler o casoWalmart said ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse, so it moved to Sparky inside ChatGPT
Walmart listed 200,000 products in ChatGPT; an executive said in-chat conversion was three times lower than site redirects, prompting a Sparky pivot.
Ler o casov2food said it would close its $20M Wodonga plant, three years after it opened in 2020
Australian plant-based meat maker v2food planned to shut its Victorian factory, where staff had fallen from about 30 to four, as the category struggled.
Ler o casoUpward Farms shut down after planning a 250,000 sq ft Pennsylvania vertical farm
Brooklyn vertical farmer Upward Farms closed in April 2023, a year after planning a 250,000 sq ft Pennsylvania farm, citing near-infinite complexity.
Ler o casothymia raised a $2.7M seed to expand its gamified AI mental health assessment
London health tech thymia bet gamified tasks and AI can give clinicians more objective mental health assessments; it claims data from over 5,000 patients.
Ler o casoTBO Tek refiled for an IPO in 2023 after shelving its approved 2021 plan
B2B travel portal TBO Tek filed a new DRHP for INR 400 Cr fresh issue plus a share sale, after not launching the IPO SEBI approved at INR 2,100 Cr.
Ler o casoTaxfix cut 120 jobs (20%) in 2023, two months after buying Steuerbot
Berlin tax-filing app Taxfix laid off 20% of staff, citing synergies from the Steuerbot acquisition and a funding market that had turned toward profitability.
Ler o casoTaco Bell put AI voice ordering in 500+ drive-thrus, then began rethinking where to use it
Taco Bell's tech chief said its AI drive-thru is in 500+ US stores, but trolling and glitches made it rethink where AI should take orders alone.
Ler o casoSpace Perspective furloughed most of its 140 staff and owed $90K rent while seeking cash
Branson-backed balloon space-tourism startup Space Perspective furloughed nearly all staff in January 2025 and faced eviction notices over unpaid rent.
Ler o casoSober & Co raised Rs 75 lakh to grow zero-sugar mixers beyond Kolkata and Goa
Indian monk-fruit mixer brand Sober & Co raised angel money to move from a city-focused strategy to wider quick-commerce and retail reach.
Ler o casoSkyted took its silent-speech voice mask to CES 2024 and a Kickstarter, selling ~300 masks
Skyted, a 20-person startup with $1M raised, showed a mask that lets users talk without being overheard and sold nearly 300 on Kickstarter for about $64,000.
Ler o casoSirionLabs laid off about 15% of staff days after closing a $25M Series D extension
SirionLabs cut around 130 jobs in January 2023, within 15 days of a $25M raise, saying it was shifting its strategy toward profitability.
Ler o casoShein bought struggling UK brand Missguided and took over its making and shipping
Shein bought Missguided from Fraser Group for an undisclosed sum, forming a licensing joint venture with its founder while Shein makes and ships product.
Ler o casoSeekOut cut 30% of staff, saying it was spending about $2 to earn $1
AI recruiting startup SeekOut, last valued above $1.2B, cut about 30% of staff in May 2024, its second layoff in seven months, after a year of heavy cash burn.
Ler o casoSchmooze moves its meme-matching dating app from the US to India and raises $4M Series A
Schmooze matches users by meme taste, pivoted from the US to India in 2023 and says it passed 1M users in 10 months; Elevation Capital led its $4M Series A.
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