// startup autopsy
Quallaby Corporation
Video search technology ahead of its time, absorbed before the market caught up.
timingAcqui-hire
Fatal mistake: Quallaby built enterprise video search infrastructure during the dot-com bubble when enterprise budgets for unproven media technology were abundant, but failed to establish recurring revenue before the market collapsed.
Key Events Timeline
FOUNDING
Quallaby Corporation founded to build enterprise video content management and search technology during the dot-com boom.
FUNDING
Raised significant venture capital totaling $44M at peak dot-com valuations to build out product and enterprise sales team.
LAYOFF
Post dot-com crash forces significant workforce reduction as enterprise budgets freeze and new funding becomes unavailable.
PIVOT
Quallaby pivots to focus on government and media verticals seeking emergency sales channels to extend runway.
SHUTDOWN
Quallaby Corporation acquired and dissolved; operations cease as an independent entity with assets absorbed by acquirer.