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Startups that failed, and what they teach.
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Goldpe’s Golden Promise Falters: Inside the Rise and Stumble of India’s Digital Gold Platform
GoldPe was a fintech platform that enabled users to invest in digital gold and offered a prize-linked savings (PLS) feature, where users could potentially win windfall gains.
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Niki.ai’s Last Conversation: Why India’s Chatbot Commerce Pioneer Went Silent
Niki.ai was an AI-powered conversational commerce platform and chatbot, available as a mobile app and on messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger and iOS.
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Investmint’s Fintech Leap: Simplifying Investments for the Next Generation
Investmint was a signal-based trading and investment platform designed to help users make informed investment decisions and manage wealth using data-backed signals.
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Bluelearn’s Ambitious Leap: The EdTech Startup That Tried to Rethink Learning—and What Went Wrong
Bluelearn operated as a social learning and upskilling platform. It began as a Telegram group aimed at helping students resolve academic doubts and quickly evolved into a large online community.
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Zoomo’s Ride to Nowhere: The Electric Bike Startup That Ran Out of Charge
Zoomo was a peer-to-peer (P2P) used-car marketplace based in Bangalore.
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Gro Intelligence (Kenya/US, global)
A satellite‑AI agrifood data unicorn ($115 million in VC, featured in TIME’s 100). Closed in June 2024 after failing to find scalable revenue, laying off ~60%, and losing investor support
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InsurStaq.ai: The GenAI Insurance Disruptor That Burned Bright—And Brief
InsurStaq.ai operated as a GenAI infrastructure startup focused on the insurance industry.
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Rario’s Digital Cricket Dream Fades: When NFT Hype Couldn’t Sustain the Game
Rario was a cricket-based NFT collectibles platform that allowed fans to buy, sell, and trade officially licensed digital collectibles (NFTs) of cricket players and moments.
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How Seasonality Sank Oxen Farm Solutions: The Agri-Tech Startup That Couldn't Beat the Harvest Cycle
Oxen Farm Solutions operated as an agri-machinery sharing platform, offering services such as combine harvester rentals and other mechanization solutions to farmers.
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OKX India’s Crypto Crash: How Regulatory Hurdles and Market Turmoil Ended a Promising Exchange
OKX operated as a cryptocurrency exchange, offering Indian users access to spot, margin, and derivatives trading, as well as wallet services and DeFi products.
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From Farm Machinery to Agri-Fintech: How farMart Pivoted to Survive
Original Model: farMart launched as an on-demand agri-machinery sharing platform, connecting farmers who owned underutilized equipment (like tractors and tillers) with small and marginal farmers needing to rent such…
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Resso’s Final Note: How ByteDance’s Music Streaming Dream Was Silenced by Regulatory Crackdown in India
Resso was a music-streaming app launched by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok.