Which startups in TriplePoint Capital's portfolio are documented in UnicornBurn?

TriplePoint Capital has 9 portfolio companies documented in UnicornBurn, including Heyday, Dash, Dash.

What is the most common failure cause in TriplePoint Capital's documented portfolio?

The most frequent failure cause is "competition", recorded in 4 of 9 documented cases.

¿En qué startups del dataset de UnicornBurn aparece TriplePoint Capital?

TriplePoint Capital tiene 9 empresas documentadas en UnicornBurn, incluyendo Heyday, Dash, Dash.

¿Cuál es la causa de fracaso más frecuente en las empresas del portfolio de TriplePoint Capital?

La causa más frecuente es "competition", registrada en 4 de 9 casos documentados.

TriplePoint Capital — portfolio autopsies

TriplePoint Capital has 9 portfolio companies documented in the UnicornBurn autopsy dataset with verified collapse causes and timelines. Most frequent failure cause: "competition".

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Venture Capital

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USA

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Seed · Serie B · Debt_Financing

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// dominant patterns

Top failure cause

competition

4/9 cases

Collapse pattern

Slow Death

Top sector

ecommerce

// 9 documented companies

Heyday

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ecommerceUSA

The Amazon brand aggregator raised $225M from General Atlantic to buy and scale FBA brands and quietly wound down when the aggregator model revealed structural unit-economic failures.

Slow Death

Dash

✓ Verified

fintechGhana

Pan-African P2P payments platform that burned through $86M chasing continental scale before collapse.

Silent Shutdown

Dash

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fintechNigeria

Pan-African payments app raised $32M and shut down in 2022 unable to close Series B

Sudden Collapse

Chegg

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edtechUSA2023

The homework help unicorn IPO'd at $7B and lost 80% of its value the day ChatGPT made its core product obsolete

Slow Death

Aquion Energy

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climateUSA2017

Bankruptcy

Placemeter

✓ Verified

saasUSA2016

Turning every window into a traffic sensor was brilliant until privacy lawyers got involved.

Acqui-hire

Gilt Groupe

✓ Verified

ecommerceUSA2016

Members-only flash sales pioneer raised $236M and hit $1B valuation. Trained customers to never pay full price. Luxury brands pulled merchandise. Sold to Hudson's Bay for $250M — a 75% haircut.

Fire Sale

One Kings Lane

✓ Verified

ecommerceUSA2016

The flash sale home décor unicorn that Bed Bath & Beyond bought for less than its last funding round

Fire Sale

Kno

✓ Verified

edtechUSA2013

The $60M education tablet that tried to replace the college backpack and found the iPad had already won

Acqui-hire

// faq

Which startups in TriplePoint Capital's portfolio are documented in UnicornBurn?: TriplePoint Capital has 9 portfolio companies documented in UnicornBurn, including Heyday, Dash, Dash.
What is the most common failure cause in TriplePoint Capital's documented portfolio?: The most frequent failure cause is "competition", recorded in 4 of 9 documented cases.
What collapse pattern dominates TriplePoint Capital's documented failures?: The predominant collapse pattern is "Slow Death". UnicornBurn documents 9 distinct collapse styles based on sequence and speed of failure.

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