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Short · 29 September 2026
A San Francisco shopping-by-text service listed in February 2016 that narrowed to travel that November, took investment from American Express Ventures and was bought by American Express in January 2018.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Macedonian reminder app for phones and smartwatches that won a Pioneers Festival community award in 2014 and a Rockstart place in 2015, after which its makers raised money for an AI productivity chatbot, Letz.
Short · 29 September 2026
A New York visual storytelling platform, listed in 2015, whose co-founder Roman Mazurenko was killed that November; his friend Eugenia Kuyda later built a chatbot from his text messages in her company's app.
Short · 29 September 2026
A free small-business dashboard from San Francisco that announced its closure in October 2016 after failing to raise money or find a buyer, and was acquired by FreshLime that December.
Short · 29 September 2026
A London and Barcelona tool that turned an image of an email design into HTML carried on after its London company was dissolved, relaunched as a subscription under a new Barcelona team, and was sold to Venngage in early 2021.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Perth geotargeting service, listed from 2015 to 2019, whose business name was held by V&T Technologies Pty Ltd from 2016 until the registration ended in August 2019.
Short · 29 September 2026
A private-beta "collaborative inbox" from Paris in 2014 that grew into customer service software, announcing a $1.7 billion valuation in 2022 without changing its name or its central idea.
Short · 29 September 2026
A 2015 influencer search engine that its own contact page called a product of the marketing tech company Upfluence; reachr.io was parked by April 2018, and no record says whether Reachr was folded into Upfluence.
Short · 29 September 2026
A 2014 listing for a Geneva voucher marketplace whose London company was struck off in 2019, while its founder turned the same domain into Masha.ai, a chatbot run by Push.ai of Zug.
Short · 29 September 2026
A London startup that digitized museum objects and picked content for each visitor, went through an EU-funded accelerator and said it raised over 60,000 pounds on Seedrs, and was struck off the UK register in March 2018.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Boston-area OKR tool listed in 2019 that Workfront bought months later, whose goals product passed to Adobe with Workfront and is no longer sold to new customers.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Rhode Island marketplace for hiring drone pilots that PrecisionHawk bought in 2018, that survived PrecisionHawk's 2023 bankruptcy, and that was bought at auction in 2024 by customers who had used it for years.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Halifax site where women traded skills instead of cash, renamed Vendeve in January 2015 as it moved to paid services, and folded by its founder about a year before May 2018.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Raleigh service that got customers out of cell phone contracts without early termination fees, announced its own closure to launch Veeto, and later saw its name return on its old domain as a Veeto contract buyout offer.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Barcelona iOS keyboard for sharing files, photos and calendar slots mid-chat, whose makers took over the far larger Fleksy keyboard in 2017 and later licensed it to other companies as an SDK.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Moroccan site where developers voted up useful tools, listed in December 2014, which its co-founder says was shut down because handpicking tools and moderating entries took too much time.
Feature · 29 September 2026
A 2014 San Francisco app for tracking what your possessions were worth that began selling switch-on, switch-off insurance for single items in 2016 and sold its technology to Travelers in 2022.
Short · 29 September 2026
A free Barcelona form and survey builder listed in October 2014 that raised a $15 million Series A in 2015 and $135 million in 2022, and now sells AI-driven forms.
Short · 29 September 2026
A New York app that showed a new painting at every unlock, listed in December 2014, which by January 2016 was selling tastemakers' picks from the lock screen instead.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Pasadena browser extension listed in June 2014 with a million installs, bought by PayPal for about $4 billion in 2019, then reported to have lost millions of Chrome users after creators accused it of taking their affiliate credit.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Montreal iPhone app for anonymous one-to-one voice calls that other users could silently overhear, from Epic Meal Time co-creator Sterling Toth, whose company Hearium Inc. was dissolved in August 2015.
Roundup · 7 startups · 29 September 2026
Seven startups listed in the directory between 2014 and 2019 whose companies were liquidated, ceased, struck off or dissolved in records kept by Companies House, the Munich commercial register, Finland's trade register and India's insolvency regulator, from 2017 to a liquidation begun in 2026.
Short · 29 September 2026
A UK marketplace where university students bid on freelance projects, founded by three Portsmouth students and backed by Just Develop It in 2015; its company was renamed BJA UK Limited in 2017 and dissolved in 2019.
Short · 29 September 2026
A Melbourne widget listed in February 2014 that showed help tips where website users got stuck, acquired by customer service software company Dixa in February 2021 and still running as Elevio by Dixa.