Startup Graveyard
1,686 startups that shut down, went under or quietly disappeared. $31.2 billion of investment on record was laid to rest here. Every headstone holds a lesson.
61-120 of 1,686 startups
Neeva
A search engine founded by a former Google executive that promised search without ads or tracking
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
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
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
Closed2018 – 2022BenzinLitre
The app that mapped petrol stations with their latest prices and facilities
Closed2017 – 2022BlockFi
A $3 billion company offering lending products backed by crypto assets
Closed2007 – 2022Bobiler.org
The photomontage community that brought "monte" culture to Turkish internet humour
Closed2017 – 2022Celsius Network
A crypto lending platform that promised depositors returns of up to 17 per cent
Closed2008 – 2022Edmodo
The social network-style learning platform for teachers and students
Closed2019 – 2022Fast
The Stripe-backed fintech that wanted to bring one-click checkout to every e-commerce site
Closed2019 – 2022FTX
The crypto exchange that reached a $32 billion valuation and collapsed within days
Closed2001 – 2022GittiGidiyor
The site that started with auctions and grew into one of Turkey's longest-established marketplaces
Closed2017 – 2022Gönder
A grocery platform that brought neighbourhood shopkeepers' goods to the door through online ordering and deliv
Closed2014 – 2022Kite
The pre-Copilot assistant that offered super intelligence autocompletion as you coded
Closed2010 – 2022Kitty Hawk
The electric flying vehicle start-up backed by Larry Page
Closed2011 – 2022LendUp
A fintech offering short-term online loans and credit cards to people with poor credit scores
Closed2007 – 2022Local Motors
The 3D-printed vehicle start-up that designed with its community and built in microfactories
Closed2020 – 2022Nimo TV Türkiye
The live-streaming platform through which China's Huya gathered mobile gaming streamers in Turkey
Closed2013 – 2022TutumluAnne
The Turkish marketplace where mothers bought and sold second-hand children's and women's items
Closed2018 – 2022Voyager Digital
The crypto broker offering trading and loyalty rewards that lent out its assets
Closed2017 – 2022Yaani
Turkcell's mobile-first search engine, launched with the promise of keeping data in Turkey
Closed2010 – 2022Yakala.co
The Turkish daily-deals site, backed by Hürriyet, that stood out for its witty voice
Closed2015 – 2022Zilingo
A marketplace and B2B platform digitising fashion sellers and the supply chain in Asia
Closed2016 – 2021Arıkovanı
Turkcell's reward-based crowdfunding platform for technology start-ups
Closed2016 – 2021Byton
The Chinese-German electric car brand that never reached series production
Closed2018 – 2021Coinzo
An İzmir-based platform that ranked among Turkey's five most-used crypto exchanges
Closed2016 – 2021Element AI
The Montreal super intelligence company co-founded by Yoshua Bengio
Closed2011 – 2021Greensill Capital
The supply chain finance firm that grew at breakneck speed and collapsed in 2021
Closed2016 – 2021Houseparty
The group video chat app that told you when your friends were online
Closed2015 – 2021Katerra
A construction technology company that built walls in a factory and assembled them on site
Closed2016 – 2021Knotel
The $1.6 billion WeWork rival that built flexible, dedicated headquarters for companies
Closed2014 – 2021Periscope
The app that popularised live streaming from your phone, bought and then closed by Twitter
Closed2009 – 2021Simple
One of the first branchless, app-first neobanks
Closed2017 – 2021Thodex
The Turkish crypto exchange, founded as Koineks, that went dark overnight in 2021
Closed2017 – 2021Vebitcoin
The Muğla-based crypto platform that halted operations right after Thodex
Closed2013 – 2021Zomato Türkiye
The restaurant discovery platform that grew by buying Mekanist, and came and went twice
Closed2004 – 2020Alkışlarla Yaşıyorum
The video site that became Turkey's archive of comedy clips during the years YouTube was blocked
Closed2017 – 2020Atrium
A company from Twitch's co-founder that delivered legal services to start-ups through software
Closed2005 – 2020Blogcu.com
Turkey's first free blogging service, which helped hundreds of thousands of people start a blog
Closed2016 – 2020Brandless
The unbranded everyday-essentials start-up that sold every product for $3
Closed2016 – 2020Careem Türkiye
The Gulf ride-hailing start-up's taxi-hailing service in Istanbul, Bursa and Adana
Closed2015 – 2020Essential Products
The hardware start-up from Android co-founder Andy Rubin that only ever shipped one phone
Closed2018 – 2020Glovo Türkiye
The Turkish arm of the Spanish app that brought everything from meals to groceries to the door by courier
Closed2012 – 2020Hemen Kiralık
The Turkish rental site connecting hosts with people renting flats by the night or the day
Closed2015 – 2020Honestbee
The Singaporean platform that delivered groceries through personal shoppers
Closed2016 – 2020HubHaus
The co-living start-up that leased large houses and opened their rooms to young professionals
Closed2014 – 2020Jet.com
The online retailer that took on Amazon on price, then was bought and shut down by Walmart
Closed2014 – 2020ofo
The Chinese dockless bike-sharing company whose yellow bikes spread to 20 countries
Closed2018 – 2020OtoParlat
A mobile car-wash service that cleaned vehicles where they were parked, without using water
Closed2001 – 2020Proteus Digital Health
A digital medicine company valued at USD 1.5 billion that put ingestible sensors into pills
Closed2018 – 2020Quibi
The streaming service that raised $1.75 billion for short shows made to be watched on a phone
Closed2014 – 2020ScaleFactor
The start-up that raised $100 million on the promise of automating accounting with super intelligence
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