Evaluating only NexusRisk’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Competition as the #1 likely cause. Documented cause: Regulation.
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FOUNDING
Camille Dubois and Romain Lefebvre co-founded NexusRisk in Paris for supply chain resilience scoring.
FUNDING
€9M Series A raised from Partech Ventures targeting automotive and electronics tier-2 suppliers.
Judicial liquidation filed after BPI France bridge loan declined; €9M fully consumed over 5 years.
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Documented cause
NexusRisk, a Paris-based startup founded by Camille Dubois and Romain Lefebvre in 2019, raised €9M to offer supply chain resilience scoring using financial distress signals and logistics data. A pivot to serving French defense-adjacent aerospace suppliers in 2022 brought regulatory hurdles around ITAR and dual-use goods compliance that delayed product release by 11 months. By early 2024, €9M was exhausted and BPI France declined a bridge loan. The company entered judicial liquidation in May 2024.
Lesson
“ITAR and dual-use compliance in defense-adjacent pivots requires 18+ month legal runway that most startups cannot afford.”
Failure anatomy
Collapse type
Bankruptcy
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