Mega-rounds and massive post-mortems of venture-backed giants that raised over $100 million in institutional capital.
In March 2011, a photo-sharing app nobody had used yet announced it had more money than Google got from the same investor at the same stage. The Color app start...
A $699 kitchen appliance that needed a Wi-Fi connection to squeeze a bag of pre-cut vegetables. That was the promise of Juicero, and for about four years it was...
In the summer of 2015, a Luxe valet in a blue windbreaker could be standing on a San Francisco curb, key fob in hand, ready to run your car to a garage three bl...
In April 2019, Anki a robotics company that had sold 1.5 million AI-powered toy robots and pulled in close to $100 million in revenue in a single year laid off ...
The Arrivo Collapse: Executive Summary The Promise: Founded in 2017, Arrivo promised to build a high-speed transportation network capable of moving vehicles...
In June 2024, a Munich sensor company that had spent seven years building toward the self-driving car boom filed for insolvency and most retrospectives of that ...
In January 2013, three founders in New York launched an app that Twitter had already agreed to buy four months earlier before it had a single user. Three years ...
Why Homejoy failed comes down to one broken week in July 2015 but the real story starts two years earlier. Homejoy, a San Francisco cleaning startup that had ra...
In November 2016, employees of Karhoo a London taxi-comparison startup that had spent a year telling the press it raised $250 million - were told the company's ...
In November 2015, a small Welsh drone company quietly filed for insolvency, and with it went the largest crowdfunding failure Europe had ever seen. The Zano dro...
A weekly dispatch covering startup funding rounds, shutdown case studies, and founder lessons.
