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2,000 已發佈案例 · 定期更新BlissClub 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.
閱讀案例Animpet 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.
閱讀案例Yotta 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.
閱讀案例Worldover 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.
閱讀案例Wingreens 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.
閱讀案例Walmart 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.
閱讀案例v2food 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.
閱讀案例Upward 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.
閱讀案例thymia 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.
閱讀案例TBO 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.
閱讀案例Taxfix 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.
閱讀案例Taco 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.
閱讀案例Space 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.
閱讀案例Sober & 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.
閱讀案例Skyted 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.
閱讀案例SirionLabs 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.
閱讀案例Shein 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.
閱讀案例SeekOut 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.
閱讀案例Schmooze 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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