What became of them.

Stories about the startups on these pages, each with its sources.

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Mezi started as a texting shopping assistant and sold to American Express as a travel appA 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.Short2026-09-29

The Skopje reminder app whose makers went on to build LetzA 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.Short2026-09-29

The London credit-check startup whose company Apple boughtA public-beta money app known to Stompstart only from a browse card, whose company, named by registration number on its January 2016 website, Apple took control of in 2022 and renamed Apple Payments Services Limited in 2023.Short2026-09-29

Stampsy, and the chatbot built from its co-founder's messagesA 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.Short2026-09-29

The live-typing London messenger that became HibooA London messaging app that showed friends each message as it was typed, relaunched by its three makers as Hiboo on Product Hunt in January 2016 and later marked as removed from the App Store by a user-edited directory.Short2026-09-29

The London backend startup that Apple folded into ClarisA backend service that pitched itself as "IFTTT meets Heroku," reportedly bought by Apple in March 2019 and announced that August as the basis of Claris Connect.Short2026-09-29

Dasheroo said goodbye, then got bought two months laterA 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.Short2026-09-29

The London heatmap tool that sold to Medallia for $160 millionAn enterprise heatmapping and session-replay tool listed from London, renamed Decibel in 2018 and bought by Medallia in March 2021.Short2026-09-29

The image-to-HTML email builder that Venngage bought in 2021A 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.Short2026-09-29

The Perth tool that redirected website visitors by locationA 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.Short2026-09-29

Front kept the inbox and built a company around itA 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.Short2026-09-29

The influencer search engine that came from UpfluenceA 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.Short2026-09-29

The Geneva gift-voucher site that became a shopping chatbotA 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.Short2026-09-29

The Riga spec-writing tool that a UK app agency bought in 2017A web specification tool listed from Riga, whose acquisition was announced in December 2017 by the UK agency Netsells, itself bought by hedgehog lab in 2023.Short2026-09-29

The London museum app built to rearrange collections for each visitorA 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.Short2026-09-29

A University of Tokyo gesture camera, and the company Nikon keptA high-speed-vision spin-off that crowdfunded a gesture-tracking camera called ZKOO in 2015; Nikon's fund bought all its shares in 2018 and Nikon made it a wholly owned subsidiary in 2021.Short2026-09-29

Atiim went to Workfront, then to Adobe, then off the price listA 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.Short2026-09-29

Droners.io was bought, orphaned by a bankruptcy, and bought againA 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.Short2026-09-29

The Halifax skill swap for women that became VendeveA 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.Short2026-09-29

The Melbourne drone-hire marketplace that closed in 2020A Melbourne marketplace where customers posted a brief and collected quotes from commercial drone operators, which ran from 2015 until a farewell from its team replaced the site between August and late September 2020.Short2026-09-29

Each story carries the date it was checked.