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Salad Labs

A small gaming studio that ran out of runway before finding its audience.

marketfitSilent Shutdown

Quiet closure with no public announcement · Fatal mistake: The company burned through its limited seed funding without achieving meaningful user retention or a viable monetization model.

Founded	2011
Closed	2015
Country	USA
Sector	Gaming

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Key Events Timeline

2011-01-01

FOUNDING

Salad Labs founded in the USA as a casual gaming studio.

2013-06-01

FUNDING

Received last known funding, totaling $825K — no further rounds secured.

2014-06-01

PIVOT

Attempted to refocus game portfolio after initial titles underperformed, but lacked capital to execute.

2015-06-01

SHUTDOWN

Salad Labs ceased operations silently after exhausting its seed funding with no revenue path.

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Salad Labs, a mobile and web gaming platform focused on conversation, content-sharing, and casual gaming, failed to gain traction in a highly competitive market. The company raised only $825K in funding with it...

s last funding round occurring in 2013, indicating difficulty in securing sustained capital to support operations and product development. With limited resources and insufficient market traction, the

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€1.2M

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Salad Labs raised €0.825M before the company burned through its limited seed funding without achieving meaningful user retention or a viable monetization model. ended it. See the documented cause, verified lesson and all failure signals.

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