Jasper pivoted its cooking robots from B2B sales to in-building meal subscriptions
After corporate buyers never bit, the robotics startup moved its kitchens into apartment buildings and charged residents subscriptions for robot-cooked meals.
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500 已发布案例 · 定期更新Edera's $5M seed bets containers should run like virtual machines, not namespaces
Three founders left Chainguard to rebuild container isolation as virtualization — no shared kernel, Rust control plane — for Kubernetes and AI workloads.
阅读案例Balaji Telefilms resets around family-first Kutingg and films after ALTT ban (interview)
With its edgy OTT app ALTT blocked by India's government, Balaji Telefilms rebuilt around a family-friendly platform, a films pipeline and side businesses.
阅读案例Arctic Wolf spent its war chest on Revelstoke to make security response turnkey
The Minnesota cybersecurity platform made good on a year-old promise to deploy M&A money, buying SOAR automation startup Revelstoke as its third acquisition.
阅读案例123 Baby Box grew 245% in a garage before raising its first $1.2M pre-seed
A student who saw a juggling mom in Target built a development-stage-curated baby subscription, tripled revenue in 2022, then took pre-seed money.
阅读案例Walmart pushed pharmacy discounts up to 85% through Walmart+ RX, bypassing insurance
In June 2021 Walmart added discounts up to 85% (average ~65%) on prescriptions via a Walmart+ RX savings card that works like a drug plan but skips the insurer.
阅读案例Walmart launched Free Assembly, an elevated fashion label by Bonobos' ex-CCO
Two years in the making, Free Assembly debuted online and in 250 stores in September 2020 at $9–$45, chasing pandemic apparel share.
阅读案例Sēkr raised $2.25M to drag campsite bookings out of the era of phone calls and paper
Founded by two van-lifers, Sēkr digitizes campsite inventory with crowdsourced data — 200 bookable properties and 10,000+ weekly sessions at seed.
阅读案例Profitable landlord-software firm RentSpree moved its HQ to Seattle for talent
RentSpree left LA for Seattle in 2025 — 4M+ users, 150% payments growth, new banking-as-a-service — to recruit from Zillow, Redfin and Opendoor's pool.
阅读案例Plantish raised $12M on whole-cut plant salmon, skipping the fish-finger stage
A year-old Israeli startup says alt-seafood's future is structure, not mince — its $12M seed funds whole-cut salmon filets headed to restaurants.
阅读案例Phlair skips the heat: a pH-swing machine bets acid, not energy, makes DAC cheap
Phlair (ex-Carbon Atlantis) raised a €12M seed on a hydrolyzer that liberates CO2 with acid instead of heat, targeting $100-per-ton capture.
阅读案例Retool alumni's Pallet raised $18M to be the AI operating system for moving things
Pallet's all-in-one TMS and WMS reached a $3M run rate and 60 customers in 18 months — Bain Capital Ventures doubled down with an $18M Series A.
阅读案例Google cut off Gener8's Gmail API access; the UK data startup called it predatory conduct
After approving Gener8's Gmail access in 2023, Google revoked it in July 2024 — the £39M-valued startup that lets users monetize their data vows to fight.
阅读案例Cost Plus Drugs planned a Dallas factory and a run at brand-name drug pricing
By July 2022 Cuban's pharmacy had 800+ cheap generics at a 15% markup — next it bet on making its own drugs and cracking brand-name pricing.
阅读案例AquaNab feeds salmon alpaca-derived nanoantibodies to fight a $4B sea lice plague
A Hamburg biotech, Nordic Foodtech VC's first bet outside the Nordics, puts camelid nanobodies in fish feed — replacing chemical baths and mechanical delousing.
阅读案例Whizz bet $12M that delivery workers want subscribed e-bikes, not shared ones
The NYC startup rents UL-certified e-bikes to gig couriers at $139–149 a month, pairing them with an ERP that claims 85% fleet utilisation and 35% cost cuts.
阅读案例Welcome Homes swapped custom builds for move-in-ready models — and sales sextupled
DigitalOcean's three co-founders applied the cloud-simplicity playbook to homebuilding, then cut the choices: buyers wanted pre-designed homes, not custom ones.
阅读案例Taur bets owned scooters beat shared ones, starting with a front-facing ride (interview)
In a TechCrunch interview, co-founder Carson Brown says the $1,495 front-facing Taur and a flagship brand can make scooters daily transport, not toys.
阅读案例Rubrik paid up to $250M for Laminar to become a one-stop data security shop
After a 2018 ransomware attack forced a pivot from backup to security, Rubrik bought cloud data security startup Laminar after meeting a dozen rivals.
阅读案例Nosh.bio skipped EU novel-food review with Koji, betting flexitarians eat blended meat
A Berlin startup fermenting Koji fungus into hybrid meat mince picked an organism the EU doesn't class as novel food, trading patents for speed.
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