Yaysay launched a swipe-and-30-minute-timer app to bring off-price fashion online
Casper co-founder Philip Krim's Yaysay gives each user a daily AI-picked feed of designer items and 30 minutes to buy what they swipe on.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEWordy, a solo developer's iOS app, teaches English vocabulary while you watch TV
A 23-year-old Budapest developer built Wordy, which listens to a TV show and shows word translations, with 500,000 titles at $2.99 a month.
Ler o casoWeRoad raises a $58M Series C led by Airbnb to take group travel and meetups to the US
Milan's WeRoad, with €130M 2025 revenue, will use an Airbnb-led $58M round to enter the US in Austin with its WeMeet in-person events app.
Ler o casoVisionrare pulled its paid NFT startup-share marketplace after a day and refunded buyers
Visionrare sold NFT shares of real startups as fantasy investing; after a day of pushback it refunded users and said it would relaunch free-to-play.
Ler o casoVirgio pivots from Shein-style fast fashion to circular fashion, cutting 33% of staff
Accel-backed Indian fashion startup Virgio dropped fast fashion for a circular brand, laid off 20 people and replaced four ex-Myntra department heads.
Ler o casoVibrant Planet raises a $15M Series A and signs PG&E for its land-management software
Vibrant Planet moved beyond nonprofits and agencies by landing utility PG&E as a customer for per-acre landscape and wildfire-risk planning software.
Ler o casoVFlowTech raised $10M to build a 200 MWh line for vanadium flow batteries
Singapore's VFlowTech raised a $10M Series A led by Real Tech Holdings to set up 200 MWh of production capacity for modular vanadium redox flow batteries.
Ler o casoVerse spins an AI creative canvas app out of its music app Discz's profile feature
Discz's founders saw users treating song-and-image profiles as a creative tool and built Verse, an iOS canvas app with 200,000+ creations by September 2024.
Ler o casoVerb launched a marketplace where consumers sell their own data to AI labs
Verb's phone tracker collects selected activity so users can set a price and sell data to companies, betting AI labs will pay.
Ler o casoutu raises $33M and buys CardsPal to give tourists miles or 120% vouchers on VAT refunds
The tax-free-shopping startup, co-founded by the Global Blue founder, has 10 airline partners and says partners can lift tourist spend by up to 40%.
Ler o casoUpLift raises $10.7M for insurance-based telemental health, incl. Medicaid and Medicare
The Tampa startup contracts with insurers at a single blended rate, aiming to help the 45% of psychiatrists who take no insurance.
Ler o casoAlex Cooper's Nestle-backed Unwell beverage line is reported shutting down after a year
The Call Her Daddy host's women-targeted hydration brand will end production after a Halloween flavor run, as Unwell raised at a $500M valuation.
Ler o casoTruepill agreed to a $525M sale to LetsGetChecked, mostly in stock, per Axios
Axios reported telehealth pharmacy Truepill, once valued at $1.6B, agreed to be bought by LetsGetChecked for $525M with only $25M in cash.
Ler o casoTickertape lays off 29 of about 96 staff as the Smallcase spin-out seeks sustainability
Two years after Smallcase hived it off, stock-research app Tickertape cut about 30% of staff in April 2023 and may fold back into its largest investor.
Ler o casoThrone repaid its investors in 2023 to bootstrap, then added Happy Wishlist
Creator wishlist startup Throne, profitable at mid-seven-figure revenue, repaid its $830K SAFE investors by December 2023 instead of chasing venture scale.
Ler o casoTezLab adds AI 'car reports' to a $5.99 Pro plan, built on Tesla's official API
The 'Strava for EVs' app, run by a team of five that spent a year working with Tesla's API, is expanding from Tesla to Rivian, then Hyundai and Kia.
Ler o casoTeachmint lays off about 70 more staff after pivoting to schools-only software
The Bengaluru edtech, which had raised over $100M, narrowed to school software and cut a second round of jobs five months after the first.
Ler o casoTAR raises $120M at a $1B valuation to build off-grid power for AI data centres
The Austin startup, founded in 2026, builds self-contained solar-and-battery sites in West Texas that never connect to the grid.
Ler o casoTalkiatry raises $130M Series C to scale in-network psychiatry with employed doctors
The telepsychiatry firm employs 300 psychiatrists on W-2s and takes insurance from 60+ plans; its CEO says it is preparing for an eventual IPO.
Ler o casoTagZ Foods sells to Reliance Consumer Products for Rs 28 Cr after halting production
The Shark Tank India snack brand, which had raised about $3.2M, was bought by Reliance Retail's FMCG arm in what Inc42 called a distress sale.
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