Which startups in Yuri Milner's portfolio are documented in UnicornBurn?

Yuri Milner has 9 portfolio companies documented in UnicornBurn, including Estimote, 23andMe, Quip.

What is the most common failure cause in Yuri Milner's documented portfolio?

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

¿En qué startups del dataset de UnicornBurn aparece Yuri Milner?

Yuri Milner tiene 9 empresas documentadas en UnicornBurn, incluyendo Estimote, 23andMe, Quip.

¿Cuál es la causa de fracaso más frecuente en las empresas del portfolio de Yuri Milner?

La causa más frecuente es "unit-economics", registrada en 4 de 9 casos documentados.

Yuri Milner — portfolio autopsies

Yuri Milner has 9 portfolio companies documented in the UnicornBurn autopsy dataset with verified collapse causes and timelines. Most frequent failure cause: "unit-economics".

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Venture Capital

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Unknown

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Serie B · Seed · Serie A

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Top failure cause

unit-economics

4/9 cases

Collapse pattern

Slow Death

Top sector

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// 9 documented companies

Estimote

✓ Verified

hardwareSweden

Polish beacon IoT pioneer faded as location-aware retail never materialized at scale

Slow Death

23andMe

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biotechUSA2025

A co-founder of Google's ex-wife put your DNA in a database. Then she lost the company.

Slow Death

Quip

saasUSA2023

Salesforce paid $750M for collaborative documents — then acquired Slack for $27.7B and absorbed Quip's features into the Slack ecosystem, discontinuing Quip as a standalone product

Slow Death

Coursera

✓ Verified

edtechUSA2023

The Stanford MOOC pioneer IPO'd at $4.3B in 2021 and fell 80% as lifetime learning economics proved unworkable

Slow Death

Science Exchange

✓ Verified

marketplaceUSA2023

The Airbnb for science experiments ran out of runway before labs ran out of needs.

Slow Death

Planet Labs

✓ Verified

spacetechUSA2022

The largest fleet of Earth imaging satellites — SPAC'd at $2.8B, now a penny stock struggling for survival

Slow Death

General Assembly

✓ Verified

edtechUSA2019

Acqui-hire

Path

✓ Verified

socialUSA2015

Dave Morin's "thoughtful" private social network raised $60M to fix Facebook. Sold to Kakao for a nominal sum. Shut down in 2018.

Fire Sale

Socialcam

✓ Verified

socialUSA2012

16 million downloads via viral spam tricks, then a $60M exit before the music stopped.

Fire Sale

// faq

Which startups in Yuri Milner's portfolio are documented in UnicornBurn?: Yuri Milner has 9 portfolio companies documented in UnicornBurn, including Estimote, 23andMe, Quip.
What is the most common failure cause in Yuri Milner's documented portfolio?: The most frequent failure cause is "unit-economics", recorded in 4 of 9 documented cases.
What collapse pattern dominates Yuri Milner'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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