Startup Graveyard
1,744 startups that shut down, went under or quietly disappeared. $78.6 billion of investment on record was laid to rest here. Every headstone holds a lesson.
61-120 of 1,744 startups
Fisker Inc.
The car start-up behind designer Henrik Fisker's electric SUV, the Ocean
Closed2016 – 2024Forward
A subscription clinic from an ex-Google executive bet on health pods and closed overnight in November 2024
Closed2013 – 2024Genesis Global
Crypto's institutional lending desk went bankrupt in the 2022 chain of collapses and was wound down
Closed2017 – 2024Ghost Autonomy
An OpenAI-backed start-up developing autonomous driving software for carmakers
Closed2020 – 2024Gorillas
The start-up delivering groceries ultra-fast by bicycle courier from dark stores
Closed2012 – 2024Gro Intelligence
A New York- and Nairobi-based platform that analysed global agricultural data with super intelligence
Closed2004 – 2024instela (İTÜ Sözlük)
A collaborative dictionary born as İTÜ Sözlük that turned into a social community called instela
Closed2011 – 2024InVision
The prototyping tool of design teams: fell behind Figma, from USD 1.9 billion to closure
Closed2014 – 2024Karhoo
The London taxi app that set out to rival Uber and went into administration twice
Closed2013 – 2024Koinim
A first-generation Turkish bitcoin wallet and trading platform, launched in 2013
Closed2019 – 2024Koo
The microblogging app born in India as a home-grown alternative to Twitter
Closed2006 – 2024Mint
A personal finance app that brought bank, card and investment accounts together on one screen
Closed2019 – 2024Motif FoodWorks
Motif made a heme protein to give plant-based meat its flavour, then closed in 2024 after a patent fight
Closed2007 – 2024OneSmart International Education
China's premium tutoring chain shut its doors almost overnight after the 2021 crackdown
Closed2012 – 2024Royole Corporation
The Chinese display maker that sold a foldable phone before Samsung was ordered into liquidation in 2024
Closed2014 – 2024Selina Hospitality
Hostels and co-working for digital nomads: from USD 1.2 billion to a 99% loss
Closed2007 – 2024Shapeways
The marketplace that opened 3D printing to everyone lasted three years on the stock market
Closed1988 – 2024Silvergate Capital
A small California bank turned crypto's banker, then chose voluntary liquidation in 2023 after FTX fell
Closed? – 2024Superpeer
The platform where experts and influencers held paid one-to-one calls and livestreams
Closed2014 – 2024Synapse
Banking-as-a-service infrastructure that sat between fintech companies and banks
Closed2015 – 2024Tally
The fintech valued at $855 million that managed credit card debt automatically
Closed2018 – 2024Terraform Labs
The company behind the Terra blockchain, which created the algorithmic stablecoin UST and LUNA
Closed2019 – 202354gene
A Nigerian start-up that set out to open up Africans' genomic data to drug research
Closed2017 – 2023AppHarvest
A company that grew soil-free crops in giant greenhouses in Kentucky's coal country
Closed2013 – 2023Babylon Health
The health company offering an SI-powered chatbot and video consultations with doctors
Closed2013 – 2023Boxed
The online retailer that delivered bulk-size goods to the door without a membership fee
Closed2019 – 2023Britishvolt
The start-up that set out to build an electric-vehicle battery gigafactory in the north of England
Closed2011 – 2023BuzzFeed News
BuzzFeed's Pulitzer-winning investigative journalism and news division
Closed2015 – 2023Convoy
A digital freight broker that used software to match shippers with truckers
Closed2011 – 2023Dergilik (Turkcell)
Turkcell's digital publishing platform offering hundreds of magazines and newspapers in a single app
Closed2014 – 2023Ello
The social network born as an ad-free alternative to Facebook that became an artists' community
Closed2016 – 2023Embark Trucks
A start-up that built self-driving software for long-haul lorries and went public via a SPAC
Closed2016 – 2023Frank
The student financial aid start-up that JPMorgan bought
Closed2014 – 2023Hyperloop One
The company that promised aircraft-speed travel in magnetic pods running through low-pressure tubes
Closed2013 – 2023Infarm
The Berlin company that put farms inside supermarkets never turned a profit, despite USD 500 million
Closed2018 – 2023IRL
An events and messaging network for young people whose users turned out to be 95 per cent bots
Closed2014 – 2023JOLED
Born from Sony and Panasonic's OLED units, Japan's printed display hope never made the process pay
Closed2021 – 2023LINK Türkiye (Superpedestrian)
US-based Superpedestrian's shared scooter service in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir
Closed2018 – 2023Lordstown Motors
The company that tried to build the Endurance electric pickup in GM's former Ohio plant
Closed2020 – 2023Mevsimi
The Turkish start-up that brought seasonal fruit and vegetables straight from growers to the door, with no mid
Closed2014 – 2023Modacruz
A mobile marketplace where women bought and sold second-hand luxury clothing and accessories
Closed2011 – 2023Morhipo
Boyner Holding's fashion site that brought new-season products and promotions together in one place
Closed? – 2023Multichain
A crypto bridge moving billions stopped in 2023 because one man held the keys
Closed2019 – 2023Neeva
A search engine founded by a former Google executive that promised search without ads or tracking
Closed2012 – 2023Olive AI
Set out to automate the hospital back office: from USD 4 billion to a piecemeal sale
Closed2013 – 2023Pear Therapeutics
The FDA-authorised digital health pioneer developing prescription software therapies
Closed2004 – 2023Proterra
The US company making electric city buses, battery systems and charging infrastructure
Closed2014 – 2023Singulato
An early Chinese EV start-up: RMB 17 billion claimed, and not a single car sold
Closed2014 – 2023SmileDirectClub
It posted clear aligners to your door, fell 28 per cent on listing day and shut down four years later
Closed2018 – 2023Thundra
A platform for monitoring, debugging and securing serverless applications such as AWS Lambda
Closed2017 – 2023Trapmine
The security software that used machine learning to protect corporate computers from malware
Closed2009 – 2023VanMoof
The Dutch brand that sold its own smart electric bikes direct to customers
Closed2008 – 2023Veev
A housing start-up that built walls in a factory: half of its USD 400 million round never arrived
Closed2017 – 2023Virgin Orbit
Launched rockets from under a Boeing 747's wing: from USD 3.7 billion to a USD 36 million auction
Closed2009 – 2023Zulily
The e-commerce site offering mothers daily flash sales on children's products
Closed2015 – 2023Zume
The start-up that went from robot-made pizza baked in the delivery van to packaging
Closed2013 – 2023Zymergen
The company that set out to make materials from microorganisms using genomics and machine learning
Closed2019 – 2022Airlift
A Pakistani start-up that went from a shuttle bus app to 30-minute grocery delivery
Closed2016 – 2022Argo AI
A Ford- and Volkswagen-backed company developing software and hardware for driverless cars
Closed2019 – 2022Barty
A peer-to-peer platform where second-hand goods were swapped for points rather than money
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