Asaak acquires FlexClub to enter Mexico’s gig‑worker financing market
After struggling to grow in East Africa, Ugandan fintech Asaak bought FlexClub’s Mexican operations, gaining 150 e‑bikes and a credit model for gig workers.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDSquareFoot buys PivotDesk, adds flexible office leases, revenue doubles
By acquiring PivotDesk in 2018, SquareFoot entered the fast‑growing flexible office market, doubled revenue and headcount in two years, closed over 1,200 deals.
Read the caseBowery Secures $50M Extension to Scale Indoor Farms
Bowery’s $50M extension, led by Temasek and Henry Kravis, funds a 3.5× larger indoor farm in Baltimore‑DC and expands pesticide‑free produce to US retailers.
Read the caseZazu pivots from farmer marketplace to Zambian fintech, securing $2.3M funding
Zazu pivoted from a farmer marketplace to Zambian fintech, launching a prepaid card and wallet app that reached 1.1M users and raised $2.3M.
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In early 2020, under profit pressure, Rappi cut 6% of staff, shifted from rapid growth to sustainable earnings, and used RappiPay to stabilize revenue.
Read the caseInstabase founder leaves MIT PhD to build unicorn automating business apps
After leaving MIT PhD in 2015 Anant Bhardwaj founded Instabase to automate business processes, raising $105M Series B and achieving unicorn status with clients.
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After achieving cash‑flow positivity, Fieldwire raised $33.5 million to hire aggressively, boost R&D, and expand its construction‑management platform worldwide.
Read the caseCybereason relocates to Boston and raises $200M Series E, boosting its funding to $388.6M
Cybereason relocated from Tel Aviv to Boston and raised a $200M Series E led by SoftBank, total funding $388.6M — Greater Boston’s biggest cybersecurity round.
Read the casePeddlr: Free offline-first app digitalizes 1M Philippine sari-sari stores
Philippine startup Peddlr made its POS app free and offline-capable, then used Facebook groups to onboard 1M micro-merchants in 16 months.
Read the caseMeghalaya’s teer betting went digital in Covid-19, doubling bookies’ income.
Online streaming and digital payments expanded Meghalaya’s teer betting beyond the state, boosting income and preserving the tradition.
Read the caseGloroots moves funds to Mercury and diversifies banking after SVB collapse
When SVB failed in March 2023, Indian‑founded Gloroots moved its $300k to neo‑bank Mercury and pledged to split deposits across banks to protect cash flow.
Read the caseBrick & Mortar Ventures launches $97M fund to back construction tech startups
After early angel wins in construction tech, Darren Bechtel founded Brick & Mortar in 2015, then raised a $97.2M fund in 2018 to back startups.
Read the caseOYO’s tech‑driven standardization turns a rejected startup into India’s hospitality leader
After two investor rejections, OYO’s founder used tech‑enabled standardization to fix budget hotel quality, growing to a $5B leader with 700k+ rooms.
Read the caseLevey moves from Y7 Studio yoga to WAVE, launching app+ pillow with $5.65M seed.
Ex-Y7 Studio yoga founder Mason Levey launched WAVE, a meditation app and vibrating pillow, raising $5.65M seed to make meditation mainstream.
Read the caseLeafLink pivots to cannabis SaaS and finance, hits $1B orders after $35M Series B
LeafLink’s founders built a cannabis wholesale marketplace and payments SaaS to solve cash-only banking, driving over $1B in orders and a $35M Series B.
Read the caseKoo pivots to local languages, gains political backing and surges to millions of users
After launching as a language‑focused Twitter alternative, Koo gained political backing, surged to millions of users and raised $4.1 M in Series A funding.
Read the caseKarat raises $28M Series B to scale global technical hiring platform
Facing demand for technical hiring, Karat secured a $28M Series B led by Tiger Global to fund R&D, hire remote interview engineers, and improve hiring speed.
Read the caseCrowdStrike decides to go public amid rapid ARR growth and persistent losses
Despite strong ARR growth, CrowdStrike’s rising net losses led it to file an S-1 and seek an IPO to raise public capital for continued expansion.
Read the caseMyTherapist turns a Douban spreadsheet into China's leading digital therapy platform
Founder Zhen Li turned a personal Douban blog and spreadsheet into MyTherapist, building a network of 240 therapists and serving many users daily by 2020.
Read the caseMaskey shifts Fusemachines to AI education in Nepal, scaling to 250 staff, $500M funding
Sameer Maskey pivoted Fusemachines from AI products to teaching AI in Nepal, growing to 250 staff and helping clients raise over $500M.
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