Bird exited Germany, Sweden, Norway and dozens of cities to stop the bleeding
Under new CEO Shane Torchiana, the cash-strapped scooter company left markets lacking self-sustaining regulatory frameworks — cities unnamed.
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300 条近期案例 · 持续更新Better.com shut its Zillow-chasing real estate unit and its salaried agents
Two years after renaming itself to own every step of homebuying, Better laid off its real estate team and shifted to a partnership-agent model.
阅读案例Be Clinical raised ₹21 Cr to double down on clinically tested Indian skincare
Hemangi Dhir's Be Clinical, launched in 2025 after two years of R&D, raised a ₹21 Cr seed extension to scale in-house clinical testing and manufacturing.
阅读案例NAB bought Pay-by-Bank startup Banked, which will now exit the UK and US
London's account-to-account payments startup, backed by Bank of America, Citi and Insight, was bought by its customer NAB to focus on Australia.
阅读案例Walmart ended its shelf-scanning robot contract after finding humans did the job as well
Five years and 500 stores into the retail-automation showcase, Walmart dropped Bossa Nova's machines — online-order picking was already walking the aisles.
阅读案例Accell hired VanMoof's founders for Raleigh after refusing to fund their e-bike startup
Two years after reportedly turning VanMoof's desperate cofounders away, bicycle giant Accell put the Carlier brothers to work on a new Raleigh commuter e-bike.
阅读案例Tractive bought Whistle from Mars Petcare, then switched off every Whistle tracker
The Austrian pet-tech firm absorbed a US rival's customers with free replacement trackers — while Whistle devices died on August 31, 2025.
阅读案例Swiggy shut Minis, its zero-commission online-store SaaS for small Indian businesses
Three years of free storefronts for home bakers and D2C brands ended in 2025 as Swiggy concentrated on food delivery and quick commerce under competitive fire.
阅读案例Surescripts cut PillPack's patient-data pipeline as Amazon entered US pharmacy
The e-prescription network — 80% of US scripts, owned by CVS and Express Scripts — terminated PillPack's data vendor, forcing phone-call pharmacy.
阅读案例Rivian canceled its cheapest R1T trim in 2022, raising entry prices about $5,500
With 25,000 trucks to build and a $1.71B quarterly loss, Rivian killed the $67,500 Explore package and steered preorder holders to the $73,000 Adventure.
阅读案例Reveall pivots from customer insights to product discovery tools to take on Productboard
Eighteen months in, Amsterdam's Reveall refocused on validating features before roadmap bloat, backed by Fortino Capital and Dutch Founders Fund.
阅读案例Paystand buys Yaydoo to pair US receivables with LatAm's payables
Paystand acquired Mexico City's Yaydoo — 'two sides of the same coin' — uniting 500,000 customers and $5B+ processed across accounts receivable and payable.
阅读案例OSlash shut down after three years, returning capital and open-sourcing its shortcuts
The Accel-backed keyword-shortcut startup raised $7.5M, never found commercial success, and wound down with refunds to investors and an export tool for users.
阅读案例Riskee rebranded to Olino and raised €2.2M to embed insurance in SME software
The Paris insurtech, live in 15 digital insurance products with partners like Silvr and Axonaut, wants to be Europe's benchmark for embedded SME cover.
阅读案例Okta bought a16z-backed password manager Uno to speed its first consumer product
The enterprise identity giant acqui-hired the a16z-backed app — discontinued November 1 — to push Okta Personal, its consumer password manager, out of beta.
阅读案例OfBusiness cofounder Nitin Jain quit the IPO-bound unicorn to build in manufacturing
The cofounder-CBO of the $5B B2B marketplace left a decade in, a year after first stepping down and rejoining while raising for a manufacturing venture.
阅读案例NopeaRide, Kenya's first EV taxi service, died at 70 cars when its Finnish parent folded
Three EVs grew to 70 with its own Nairobi charging network — until parent EkoRent Oy's insolvency cut off funding and the Kenyan unit filed too.
阅读案例Mellow locked its $399 sous vide's smarts behind $6 a month — and owners revolted
The 2014 'world's first smart sous-vide' walled its app features behind a $6/month plan citing pandemic losses; users cried bait and switch.
阅读案例Jubilant FoodWorks launched Hong's Kitchen, its first own restaurant brand
The Domino's India operator bet on fast-casual Chinese to fill the gap between street vendors and pricey chains, opening in Gurugram in March 2019.
阅读案例Indifi cofounder Siddharth Mahanot stepped back, leaving the professional CEO to run it
Eighteen months after a NBFC-turned-lender raised $35M and turned its first profit, a cofounder exited daily ops while staying on the board.
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