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Appiterate was a mobile marketing company that was acquired by Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company. It was closed 2 years after launching.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Anuj Bhargava, Mayank Kumar, Tanuj Mendiratta, Varun Sharma
Country:
United States
Industry:
Marketing
Started in:
2013
Closed in:
2015
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
< $1M
Specific cause of failure:
Acquisition Flu
You can read more about their failure here.
Brisk was a sales and marketing platform founded in 2012. They started to offer customization to paying customers, but this became costly in the long term.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Alfred Beckman, Andreas Pålsson, Hampus Jakobsson, Mikael Tellhed
Country:
Sweden
Industry:
Marketing
Started in:
2012
Closed in:
2016
Nº of employees:
10-50
Funding Amount:
< $1M
Specific cause of failure:
Lack of Focus
You can read more about their failure here.
Lookery gave statistics showcasing services that empowered organizations. It was based on Facebook platform, and after the redesign, they had to shut down.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
David Cancel, Rex Dixon, Todd Sawicki
Country:
United States
Industry:
Marketing
Started in:
2007
Closed in:
2009
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
$1M-$10M
Specific cause of failure:
Dependence on Others
You can read more about their failure here.
Monitor110 offered real-time monitoring services for Wall Street. They lost the edge they had by not validating the product and shut down in 2008.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Roger Ehrenberg
Country:
United States
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2003
Closed in:
2008
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
$10M-$50M
Specific cause of failure:
Multiple Reasons
You can read more about their failure here.
OpTier provided customers with a business transaction monitoring platform. Little market share, revenue, and investment led to OpTier's failure.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Amir Alon, Motti Tal
Country:
United States
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2002
Closed in:
2014
Nº of employees:
50-100
Funding Amount:
> $50M
Specific cause of failure:
Lack of PMF
You can read more about their failure here.
Parse offered a platform for mobile app devs with tools to let them build, run and test applications. Facebook bought Parse and shut it down in 2017.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Ilya Sukhar, James Yu, Kevin Lacker, Tikhon Bernstam
Country:
United States
Industry:
Software & Hardware
Started in:
2011
Closed in:
2016
Nº of employees:
10-50
Funding Amount:
$1M-$10M
Specific cause of failure:
Acquisition Flu
You can read more about their failure here.
Poliana's aim was to bring order to the USA political system. They had low market demand and ran out of funds even after implementing 3 business models.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Grayson Carroll, Patrick Cason, Seth Whiting, Shawn Whiting
Country:
United States
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2013
Closed in:
2015
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
< $1M
Specific cause of failure:
Bad Business Model
You can read more about their failure here.
PostRocket was a Facebook marketing platform co-founded in October 2010. Many technical issues and depending on FB affected the quality of their service.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Murry Ivanoff, Tim Chae
Country:
United States
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2010
Closed in:
2013
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
< $1M
Specific cause of failure:
Poor Product
You can read more about their failure here.
Reach.ly was an analytics tool for e-commerce sites providing customer behavior patterns. Lack of proper market feedback made the company shut down.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Ernests Štāls
Country:
Latvia
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2011
Closed in:
2015
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
< $1M
Specific cause of failure:
Multiple Reasons
You can read more about their failure here.
Salorix offered an engagement platform for brands. It closed down because of its inability to raise money after its investors stopped supporting it.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Santanu Bhattacharya
Country:
United States
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2009
Closed in:
2014
Nº of employees:
10-50
Funding Amount:
$1M-$10M
Specific cause of failure:
Bad Management
You can read more about their failure here.
Verelo was a Canadian startup that offered web monitoring services from multiple locations. Not enough traction made the company shut down in 2012.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
McGrath, Michael Curry
Country:
Canada
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2012
Closed in:
2012
Nº of employees:
1-10
Funding Amount:
No Data
Specific cause of failure:
Lack of Funds
You can read more about their failure here.
Wesabe is a former Personal Finance Management system that helped clients make better financial decisions. Having better competitors made Wesabe fail.
Details of the startup:
Founders:
Jason Knight, Marc Hedlund
Country:
United States
Industry:
Finances
Started in:
2005
Closed in:
2010
Nº of employees:
10-50
Funding Amount:
$1M-$10M
Specific cause of failure:
Bad Management
You can read more about their failure here.
ABBY was a documentation service for A/B tests. To make such a service successful, Andy would have needed to educate the users, and that was not possible.
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Andy Goldschmidt
Country:
Germany
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2015
Closed in:
2016
Funding Amount:
$0
Specific cause of failure:
No Market Need
You can read more about their failure here.
BeehiveID was a startup on the dating market, that identified online accounts created for fraudulent use. Techstars and RightSide Capital decided to invest $70K on their business. However, after some months BeehiveID closed their doors. Being too dependent on Facebook data killed their startup.
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Mary Haskett
Country:
United States
Industry:
Software & Hardware
Started in:
2013
Closed in:
2015
Funding Amount:
< $100K
Specific cause of failure:
Dependence on Others
You can read more about their failure here.
Andrew Kamphey has started several projects related to creators and influencer marketing. One of them was Creator Growth Lab, a tool to help Instagram creators grow by themselves. He invested $5,000, never made a penny, and realized there was no need for that product.
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Andrew Kamphey
Country:
Indonesia
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2018
Closed in:
2019
Funding Amount:
$0
Specific cause of failure:
Dependence on Others
You can read more about their failure here.
Gregg Blanchard developed Readership from a fascination with Twitter API. While the visual analytics on Readership was appealing, it didn’t bring enough marketing value to get the buy-in needed to be a successful start-up.
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Gregg Blanchard
Country:
United States
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2019
Closed in:
2019
Funding Amount:
$0
Specific cause of failure:
No Market Need
You can read more about their failure here.
Charlie Reese is a Canadian software developer who came with (what he thought it was) a revolutionary idea for a SaaS business in the real estate industry. Using his knowledge in JavaScript, React, and SQL, he built a prototype in 6 weeks. But he failed to validate his idea and shut down.
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Charlie Reese
Country:
Canada
Industry:
Software & Hardware
Started in:
2017
Closed in:
2018
Funding Amount:
$0
Specific cause of failure:
Poor Product
You can read more about their failure here.
Joe is a 25-year-old founder who, following Pieter Levels example, decided to build 12 startups in 12 months. Doing some A/B testing for his other projects, he found the existing tools had a lot of missing features and decided to spend 2 months full-time working on a new solution. But things didn't go well...
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Joe D’elia
Country:
United Kingdom
Industry:
Analytics
Started in:
2017
Closed in:
2017
Funding Amount:
$0
Specific cause of failure:
Bad Marketing
You can read more about their failure here.
Vladimir was the founder of Toki, a one-stop solution to finding trends and analytics on TikTok. It started as a side-project, but after launching on Product Hunt, they realized they didn't have a deep connection with the problem they were tackling and lost motivation to keep going.
Details of the startup:
Founder:
Vladimir Esaulov
Country:
Russia
Industry:
Marketing
Started in:
2020
Closed in:
2020
Funding Amount:
$0
Specific cause of failure:
Lack of Experience
You can read more about their failure here.
