Evaluating only Entelo’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Acquisition gone wrong as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
Key Events Timeline
FOUNDING
FUNDING
ACQUISITION ATTEMPT
SHUTDOWN
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Documented cause
Entelo built AI-powered candidate sourcing and talent search tools, enabling recruiters to find passive candidates from social and professional data. After raising $17M, the company was acquired by HR tech firm Outmatch (now Harver) in 2020. The acquisition was primarily for talent and IP, and Entelo's standalone sourcing product was discontinued as the market consolidated around integrated ATS platforms that had built similar capabilities.
Lesson
“Point solutions in enterprise HR must integrate deeply with ATS platforms or partner with them — otherwise you are building a feature, not a company.”
Failure anatomy
Collapse type
Acqui-hire
📉 MEDIUM
Hype cycle
None
Moat type
Data
Fatal mistake
Acquisition Failure
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