Galvanic Games closed after Wizard With a Gun sales could not cover its runway
The Seattle indie studio, founded in 2015, shut down in June 2024 with ten jobs lost, as new publishing deals took longer than its cash lasted.
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2,000 已发布案例 · 定期更新Flyhomes sold its home-search business to Real Brokerage to focus on wholesale mortgages
Nine years after launch and about $200M raised, Flyhomes offloaded its consumer search tech and team to keep only its Buy Before You Sell financing.
阅读案例Evoloh bets hydrogen needs cheaper electrolyzer manufacturing, raises a $20M Series A
The startup builds alkaline electrolyzers with roll-to-roll printing and domestic parts, aiming for a TSMC-like role and a 3.75 GW factory.
阅读案例Ember spun out a medicine-shipping unit from its smart-mug business (interview)
Founder Clay Alexander says Ember sold 3M+ mugs, went global via Apple in 27 countries, then split off Ember Life Sciences with Carrier as investor.
阅读案例Eli Lilly launches LillyDirect in Australia to ship Mounjaro home; doctors push back
After dropping PBS subsidy listing, Lilly routes Australian e-scripts for Mounjaro via online pharmacists; GP and pharmacy bodies called it a safety risk.
阅读案例EasyKnock bought home-maintenance startup Onder to build a national property-care platform
In September 2023, as VC funding tightened, Seattle's Onder sold to EasyKnock, its second small acquisition after Ribbon in May.
阅读案例Deel bought Zavvy, a Munich people-development startup, to build a one-stop HR suite
The $12B HR company approached Zavvy about a partnership, then made an offer; Zavvy was heading to a Series A. Price undisclosed, above a ~$16M valuation.
阅读案例Dakota, a stablecoin-powered business neobank, raised a $12.5M Series A led by CoinFund
Ex-Coinbase custody lead Ryan Bozarth's Dakota moves money between banks by stablecoin, with $1.6B volume and 500+ mostly non-US businesses.
阅读案例Cycode bought Bearer to add the missing static-analysis engine to its security platform
Cycode, which began in supply chain security, bought SAST startup Bearer after talks since August 2023 to become a full application-security platform.
阅读案例Curative dropped a $600K-a-year Salesforce contract for an AI-built CRM made in two months
Curative's CEO said on a podcast the health insurer will cut about 80% of SaaS spend and put the money into AI, as Anthropic costs hit millions a month.
阅读案例CUR8 raises £5.3M led by GV to sell a carbon-removal portfolio at £150 a tonne
The London startup, founded in 2022, brokers direct air capture, rock weathering and soil carbon for companies at one price pegged to the social cost of carbon.
阅读案例Matrix-backed Crejo.Fun shut down after school reopenings and a failed raise
The IIM Bengaluru founders closed their 170-200-person kids' extracurricular edtech in June 2022, refunded customers and sought to sell the IP.
阅读案例Club Feast dropped its $5.99 meal-subscription app for corporate catering, stranding users
A year after a $3.5M seed, Club Feast raised prices, then shut its consumer app in mid-2022 for office catering, leaving credits and refunds in dispute.
阅读案例Mastercard told clients it is shutting three CipherTrace crypto-analytics products
Three years after buying the blockchain analytics firm, Mastercard ended Armada, Inspector and Sentry, a month after pulling a CipherTrace court report.
阅读案例Chomp, maker of 'mechanical cow' food-waste digesters, sold itself to Martin Energy Group
After 11 years and $4M raised, the Auburn, Washington, startup joined a 50-year-old digester maker to scale manufacturing and sales.
阅读案例Segment's Peter Reinhardt left Twilio to run Charm Industrial's bio-oil carbon removal
After selling Segment for $3.2B, Reinhardt went full-time at Charm in January 2022, which says it buried 5,400 tons of CO2 in 2021 for buyers like Stripe.
阅读案例Blank Street Coffee launched a capped $8.99-a-week drink subscription to win regulars
The low-cost cafe chain drew 5,000 paying Regulars and a 4,000-person waitlist within months, then took the model to London.
阅读案例Beyond Meat quietly dropped its first product, frozen chicken strips, as burgers took off
The strips launched in 2012; by April 2019 Beyond pulled them, cutting frozen revenue 5%, while its stock soared after the May IPO.
阅读案例Autonomy's founder spun out ADS to sell car-subscription software as his EV fleet stalled
Painter converted $32M of Autonomy debt into equity and sold assets to launch Autonomy Data Services, a SaaS platform for automaker car subscriptions.
阅读案例Ather Energy launched the Konarc metal-body scooter to take EVs mainstream (interview)
In an ETAuto interview, CEO Tarun Mehta said a new platform targets petrol-scooter buyers, with a Rs 1 lakh variant to follow when Aurangabad opens.
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