Which startups in IA Ventures's portfolio are documented in UnicornBurn?

IA Ventures has 9 portfolio companies documented in UnicornBurn, including Simple (neobank), Lore, x.ai.

What is the most common failure cause in IA Ventures's documented portfolio?

The most frequent failure cause is "acquisition-gone-wrong", recorded in 3 of 9 documented cases.

¿En qué startups del dataset de UnicornBurn aparece IA Ventures?

IA Ventures tiene 9 empresas documentadas en UnicornBurn, incluyendo Simple (neobank), Lore, x.ai.

¿Cuál es la causa de fracaso más frecuente en las empresas del portfolio de IA Ventures?

La causa más frecuente es "acquisition-gone-wrong", registrada en 3 de 9 casos documentados.

IA Ventures — portfolio autopsies

IA Ventures has 9 portfolio companies documented in the UnicornBurn autopsy dataset with verified collapse causes and timelines. Most frequent failure cause: "acquisition-gone-wrong".

documented

Venture Capital

type

USA

country

Undisclosed · Seed · Serie A

stages

// dominant patterns

Top failure cause

acquisition-gone-wrong

3/9 cases

Collapse pattern

Silent Shutdown

Top sector

fintech

// 9 documented companies

Simple (neobank)

✓ Verified

fintechUSA

Pioneering US digital bank acquired by BBVA for 117 million dollars in 2014 and quietly killed seven years later when the acquirer decided it no longer fit the strategy.

Silent Shutdown

Lore

✓ Verified

edtechUSA

The edtech startup that renamed itself twice and still couldn't crack university LMS procurement

Acqui-hire

x.ai

✓ Verified

aiUSA

AI scheduling assistant Amy/Andrew that raised $44M and was quietly acquired and shuttered.

Acqui-hire

DataRobot

✓ Verified

aiUSA2023

The AutoML unicorn that automated its own irrelevance

Mass Layoff Spiral

Simple (Argentina)

✓ Verified

fintechArgentina2022

Argentina's BCRA regulations and a parent company pivot ended Simple before it could prove its model.

Regulatory Kill

Simple

✓ Verified

fintechUSA2021

The original neo-bank — killed not by the market but by the acquirer.

Silent Shutdown

x.ai (Amy Ingram)

✓ Verified

saasUSA2021

The AI scheduling assistant that came before LLMs — and watched AI scheduling become a free feature of every email client.

Silent Shutdown

Transcriptic

✓ Verified

biotechUSA2019

The AWS for biology labs burned through $18M proving that robot pipettes don't scale like cloud servers.

Fire Sale

Metamarkets

✓ Verified

saasUSA2017

Real-time ad analytics pioneer quietly absorbed into Snap for a fraction of its promise.

Acqui-hire

// faq

Which startups in IA Ventures's portfolio are documented in UnicornBurn?: IA Ventures has 9 portfolio companies documented in UnicornBurn, including Simple (neobank), Lore, x.ai.
What is the most common failure cause in IA Ventures's documented portfolio?: The most frequent failure cause is "acquisition-gone-wrong", recorded in 3 of 9 documented cases.
What collapse pattern dominates IA Ventures's documented failures?: The predominant collapse pattern is "Silent Shutdown". UnicornBurn documents 9 distinct collapse styles based on sequence and speed of failure.

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