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.
241-300 of 1,686 startups
Secret
The mobile social app for sharing anonymous messages with your circle of friends
Closed2011 – 2015Sidecar
One of the first-generation ride-sharing apps connecting drivers with passengers
Closed2014 – 2015Zano
The mini drone billed as Europe's biggest Kickstarter that was never delivered
Closed2010 – 2015Şehir Fırsatı (Groupon Türkiye)
Groupon's Turkish brand, a daily deals site selling vouchers for restaurants, spas and events
Closed2010 – 201499dresses
The infinite-wardrobe start-up that gave women a virtual currency for swapping clothes
Closed2012 – 2014Aereo
A streaming service that brought local TV channels online through tiny rented aerials
Closed2010 – 2014Argyle Social
A Durham-based software start-up offering social media management for marketers
Closed2005 – 2014BERG
The London design studio that created Little Printer and turned to connected products
Closed2004 – 2014Céidot Oyun Stüdyoları
The pioneering Ankara game studio behind Hükümran Senfoni and Umaykut
Closed2011 – 2014Desti
A super intelligence-driven travel planning app spun out of SRI, the birthplace of Siri
Closed2013 – 2014Metrekare.com
A mobile-first, next-generation property listings site with neighbourhood-level price analysis
Closed2010 – 2014Mt. Gox
The Tokyo exchange that once handled most of the world's bitcoin trading
Closed2002 – 2014OpTier
The transaction monitoring software that fell behind its market despite raising over $100 million
Closed2008 – 2014Springpad
The note-taking app that reached 5 million users in Evernote's shadow but never built a revenue model
Closed2013 – 2014Tablet Seminerler
A short-course platform that sold expert seminars online and delivered them in person
Closed2012 – 2014Verelo
The Toronto site-monitoring start-up sold to Dyn a few weeks after announcing it would close
Closed2012 – 2014Youlike
The dating site and social network that matched people by what they love and loathe
Closed2011 – 2013Admazely
The start-up that offered small online shops easy-to-install retargeting ads
Closed2010 – 2013BenVarım
Turkey's first home-grown crowd-giving platform, helping NGOs raise donations through social media
Closed2007 – 2013Better Place
The ambitious mobility start-up that built battery-swap stations for electric cars
Closed2011 – 2013DayBuyDay
A private shopping site founded as a partnership between Hepsiburada and Cem Hakko, which launched with Vakko
Closed2012 – 2013DesignLocks
An online shop offering different, original design products every day
Closed2007 – 2013Dopplr
The network that matched your travel plans with your friends', bought and shut down by Nokia
Closed2011 – 2013Everpix
The much-loved photo service that gathered all your photos in the cloud and picked out the best
Closed2011 – 2013Flowtab
The Los Angeles start-up that promised drinks ordered by phone, with no queueing at the bar
Closed2010 – 2013Flud
A San Diego app that wanted to turn reading the news into a social experience
Closed2009 – 2013Formspring
The social network that started the anonymous Q&A craze and reached 30 million users
Closed2012 – 2013Gamoba
A vertical e-commerce site selling PC and console games, gaming accessories and electronics
Closed? – 2013Gaxxi
A home-grown Turkish content management system offering paid blog and website hosting
Closed2012 – 2013Goboti
The e-commerce site selling one designer T-shirt a day from Turkish designers
Closed2012 – 2013Gurunzi
The curated shopping site selling, at a discount, products that celebrities had tried and recommended
Closed2009 – 2013Kno
The start-up that set out to build a dual-screen tablet for students and ended up in digital textbooks
Closed2011 – 2013Memurfoni
A group-buying site offering discounted deals to members of Memurlar.net
Closed2011 – 2013Pakette
The Turkish e-commerce site that sold one discounted product a day, with free shipping on three
Closed2008 – 2013Posterous
A Y Combinator-backed blogging platform that made it easy to publish posts by email
Closed2011 – 2013PostRocket
A marketing tool from young founders that promised to boost the reach of Facebook posts
Closed2009 – 2013Salorix
The social media analytics start-up whose founder and investors could not agree on an offer from Google
Closed2011 – 2013Sonar
The New York social discovery app that showed your connections with people in the same room
Closed2012 – 2013StilSOS
The social fashion showcase that presented products from different brands and designers as outfits
Closed2009 – 2013Totsy
The flash-sale site for mothers that went into liquidation a year after raising $23.5 million
Closed2011 – 2013Turntable.fm
The social listening site where users took turns playing DJ in virtual rooms
Closed2010 – 2013Tutorspree
The would-be Airbnb of tutoring that closed after becoming dependent on Google traffic
Closed2010 – 2013VIPDükkan
One of Turkey's first flash-sale sites, a branded-goods discount club that grew on TV advertising
Closed2011 – 2013Wantful
A personalised gift recommendation start-up that shut down abruptly when Nordstrom's investment failed to arri
Closed2012 – 2012Bamarang Türkiye
Rocket Internet's Turkish site selling design products through flash sales
Closed2010 – 2012Color Labs
The proximity photo-sharing app that raised $41 million and could not keep its users
Closed2011 – 2012Evimister
The vertical e-commerce site selling everything from home decor to home electronics
Closed2012 – 2012Fyonk
A social gifting app that let people send friends gift vouchers on their Facebook birthdays
Closed2009 – 2012Glitch
The combat-free, co-operative browser multiplayer game that gave birth to Slack
Closed2007 – 2012Gowalla
The Austin start-up that took on Foursquare in the check-in race and closed after joining Facebook
Closed2008 – 2012Monster Türkiye
The Turkish job listings and CV platform of the global careers site Monster
Closed2005 – 2012Pabbuc.com
A shoe and bag shop remembered as Turkey's first online shoe retailer
Closed2011 – 2012Saklışehir
A group-buying site offering traditional experiences to conservative users
Closed2006 – 2012Sosyomat
A home-grown, tag-based Turkish social network founded before Facebook caught on in Turkey
Closed2011 – 2012Sporena
The Turkish vertical e-commerce site selling sports shoes, clothing and accessories
Closed2010 – 2012Vimjo
A Turkish e-commerce site that set out to bring personal care and health products together in one place
Closed2012 – 2012Zidaya
The shoe, clothing and accessories site Rocket Internet set up in Turkey
Closed2008 – 2011İçkisepeti
The Istanbul site that delivered alcohol to your door in about half an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Closed2005 – 2011Solyndra
An energy start-up backed by a federal loan guarantee that made cylindrical thin-film solar panels
Closed2007 – 2010EventVue
The Boulder start-up that built private social networks to connect conference attendees
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