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No product, no problem!! VC's are still funding pre-product companies. 👇 Koo's founder Mayank Bidawatka raises $4M in seed from Blume, General Catalyst and Athera even before beta launch. This comes after 2 months of Pre-seed and announcement o

“2 million daily active users to Failure” Billions to Bankruptcy #11 Koo was founded in 2020 by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka as a microblogging platform for Indians in multiple languages.Initially experienced a rapid rise due to its p

seekh sirf failure se milti hai ! Indian content space added a first ever microblogging startup KOO in April 2020. It closed in 2024. there are many reels on Instagram telling how it failed but are not able to convey properly as how it actually

Why KOO Failed? Product Superiority : Koo aimed to disrupt rather than create a new category, needing to be significantly better ( for users and brands) than X.com. Achieving this required time and capital, scarce during a funding downturn. One inte

I worked with Mayank back during the Goodbox days, a very soft spoken person. Despite of what markets play, an entrepreneur keeps building one thing or other until they receive a key success. But what killed the Koo bird? 1. Differentiation: - N

12 Indian Startups That Shut Down in 2024 – What Went Wrong? 💔 While the startup ecosystem witnessed unicorn success, 2024 also saw the unfortunate shutdown of 12 startups, despite millions in funding. Let’s take a closer look: Startups That Calle

1K Kirana, a kirana tech startup, is facing potential bankruptcy and a distress sale after significant operational struggles. Founded in 2018, it expanded rapidly during the pandemic but has since downsized drastically, reducing its workforce from ov

Business Incidents BlackBerry a pioneer in the smartphone industry. Despite initially dominating the market with its secure email and messaging services, BlackBerry failed to innovate and adapt to the rapidly changing smartphone landscape. The compa

Koo's Fall: Twitter's Indian Challenger Bows Out India's homegrown Twitter rival, Koo, is shutting down. Let's unpack its journey: The Rise: → 9M+ monthly active users → $285.5M valuation → Multilingual appeal The Fall: 1. Funding Drought • Add