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// GLOVO · €57.6M FINE · RIDERS LAW · 250 LAYOFFS · FULL ANATOMY

CB Insights calls it “acquired.”
We have the autopsy.
Your deal looks like a failure.

Run any deal against 5,032 failures we’ve documented and verified one by one. In about 6 of every 7 analyses, the real cause is already in our top three matches.

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5,032
VERIFIED AUTOPSIES
editorially reviewed · 15 structured dimensions
85.9%
TOP-3 MATCH ACCURACY
primary or secondary cause · 76.4% primary only
$1.4T
CAPITAL DESTROYED
estimated · documented failures

// the difference vs cb insights and pitchbook

CB INSIGHTS
Glovo: 'acquired'
no crisis detail
VS
UNICORNBURN
€57.6M fine · Riders Law · 250 layoffs — in chronological order
full anatomy
PITCHBOOK
WeWork: 'bankrupt'
outcome, no sequence
VS
UNICORNBURN
S-1 that killed the IPO · Neumann ousted · 2,400 layoffs · bankruptcy date
5 dated events
CRUNCHBASE
Kavak: 'operating'
no collapse pattern
VS
UNICORNBURN
2022 valuation correction · structural pattern · Risk Score calculated
documented pattern

The difference isn't coverage. It's anatomy.

// HOW IT WORKS

Structural matching. No noise.

We match your deal against every documented failure across 15 structural dimensions — fill what you know; a few fields are enough. Have a deck? We auto-fill the profile and read it critically, flagging the information that's missing. Same inputs, same verdict.

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01
Describe the company
Sector, country, round, moat, hype cycle. 2 required fields, 9 optional.
02
We score 5,032 failures
Structural similarity across 15 dimensions. Re-ranked by founder archetype.
03
Risk Score + anatomy
0–100 · cause distribution · historical closure rates · similar cases — saved and exportable as an IC memo.
↓ See a real output — WeWork, analyzed

// UNIQUE COVERAGE

For Spanish-speaking markets, there is no structured alternative.

1000
LATAM + SPAIN AUTOPSIES

Spain · Mexico · Argentina · Colombia · Chile · Brazil · Peru · Venezuela · Ecuador · Bolivia · Paraguay · Uruguay · Guatemala · Honduras · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Cuba · Dominican Republic · Puerto Rico

What CB Insights, Crunchbase & PitchBook miss:

  • Dated event timelines — not just outcomes
  • Local regulation documented (fines, labour law, orders)
  • 15 structured dimensions per autopsy
  • Risk Score calibrated for each company
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// USE CASES

What the data enables.

Structured to answer specific analytical questions, not to be browsed.

The gap:PitchBook has WeWork listed as "bankrupt." We have 5 dated events: the S-1 that killed the IPO, the day Neumann was ousted, the exact layoff count, and the Chapter 11 filing date. That sequence is what you need for pattern recognition — not the outcome.
VC Due Diligence

Cross-reference a new investment against historical collapse patterns before writing the check.

Startups with Tier 1 VC backing that ended in fraud
Sector collapse velocity post-2022
Founder conflict patterns by funding stage
Research Reports

Data-driven sector analysis, hype cycle post-mortems, and capital destruction reports. Licensed for publication.

Total capital destroyed by hype cycle
Collapse style distribution by geography
Average survival months by business model
LatAm & Spain Coverage

CB Insights has Glovo as "acquired" with zero crisis detail. We have the €57.6M fine, the Riders Law timeline, the 250 layoffs. No competitor covers the Spanish-speaking ecosystem with this granularity.

Startups killed by Spanish regulation 2019–2024
LatAm collapse patterns vs US equivalents
Capital destroyed in Spain and LatAm by sector
API Access

Programmatic access to the full dataset including timeline events. Filter by collapse style, hype cycle, moat type, geography.

GET /api/autopsies?collapseStyle=Fraud+Explosion
GET /api/autopsies?hypeCycle=COVID+Boom&sector=Edtech
GET /api/autopsies?country=spain

// EXAMPLE OUTPUT · REAL ANALYSIS

This is what 30 seconds looks like.

WeWork. Pattern identified before the S-1 was filed. Cross-referenced against 5,032 documented autopsies.

// REAL AUTOPSY — WEWORK · EVERYTHING UNLOCKED

// the model, blind

Evaluating only WeWork’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Unit economics as the #1 likely cause. Documented cause: Founder chaos.

// what the model would have predicted · peak profileretrospective · not a fact
49%
model conviction
Predicted failure cause
Unit economics49%
Founder chaos17%
Acquisition gone wrong12%
Market timing7%
Model’s #1 predicted cause: Unit economics · documented cause: Founder chaos.Evaluate a deal →
Cohort survival: Founder chaosn=168 · Kaplan-Meier
100%50%0%024mo48mo84mo10ymedian ≈ 84moWeWork · 13y
Half the cohort was gone within ~84 months. WeWork lasted 13 years — 1.9× the cohort median.

Key Events Timeline

2019-01
FUNDING
SoftBank invests $2B. Valuation hits $47B.
2019-08
FRAUD EXPOSURE
S-1 reveals $1.9B loss on $1.8B revenue. Conflicts of interest exposed.
2019-09
CEO CHANGE
IPO withdrawn. Neumann ousted. Valuation collapses from $47B to under $10B.
2019-11
LAYOFF
SoftBank bailout. 2,400 employees laid off — 19% of workforce.
2023-11
SHUTDOWN
WeWork files Chapter 11. $47B to $45M in 4 years.
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// Beta version

Public methodology · Editorially verified dataset · Published accuracy (85.9% Top-3) · ES/LatAm coverage — see how it works →

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// ACCESS

85.9%of historical collapses — the actual cause was in our Top-3 match (76.4% as the primary cause)

Which of your deals match a pattern that has already triggered a collapse?

We cross-reference any deal against 5,032 real collapses from the few fields you give us — and if you have a deck, we also read it to find what's missing. You just had to look.

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