My Tirth India: Sacred Vision to Silent Exit

Bhakti Sabikhi September 5, 2025

My Tirth India began with the dream of fusing spirituality and technology by providing online puja services, pilgrim bookers, and even spiritual showrooms. With the support of Subrata Roy, it launched rapidly but made enormous losses. With his death in 2023, the startup was hit with a life-threatening funding crisis, and after some time, it had to shut down in August 2024. A dream that dominated the spiritual-tech landscape came to a peaceful end.

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Kyte: The $300M Car Rental Dream That Crashed

Bhakti Sabikhi August 28, 2025

Kyte, which once vowed to revolutionize car rentals by bringing them right to your doorstep. Funded by deep-pocketed investors and a provocative dream, it seemed the mobility future. Yet with more than $300 million raised and spreading to U.S. cities nationwide, Kyte was unable to bear the increasing expenses and stiff competition. This blog examines how a fantastic idea still ended in disaster and the lessons it leaves behind.

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ANS Commerce: The Startup Flipkart Couldn’t Save

Bhakti Sabikhi August 14, 2025

ANS Commerce was a Gurugram e-commerce startup with great things to offer, helping brands sell online and manage logistics. Flipkart also saw the potential and acquired it in 2022. Although it began well, but the company kept on suffering losses and could not be profitable. So ultimately Flipkart decided to shut it down in 2025. The failure of ANS Commerce is a lesson in scaling a startup and being financially sustainable in the fast-changing e-commerce landscape.

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Dunzo: From Startup Stardom to Sudden Shutdown

Bhakti Sabikhi August 14, 2025

Dunzo was India’s delivery app, which had promised groceries, medicines, and parcels in minutes to its customers. But with enormous investments by Google and Reliance, it was hit with massive losses, unpaid wages, and top leadership departures. The app went dark by 2025, and its journey came to an end. This blog discusses how Dunzo failed, what happened, and what can be learned from its meteoric growth and abrupt shutdown.

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Kenko Health: One year since this revolutionary startup ceased its operations. What exactly happened?

Rajeshree Jhanshikar August 14, 2025

Kenko was a Mumbai-based insurtech startup founded in 2019 by Aniruddha Sen and Dhiraj Goel. It was committed to revolutionising healthcare financing by offering subscription-based health plans that offered benefits like OPD coverage, medicines, doctor fees, lab tests, dental care, and other healthcare products. These facilities were provided on a super low monthly plan. The company raised 13.7 million dollars

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When a Premium Pour Converts into a Final Farewell: The Fall of O’Be Cocktails

Bhakti Sabikhi August 13, 2025

O’Be Cocktails, a high-end ready-to-drink cocktail company, has ceased operations after more than five years of attempting to deliver bar-quality beverages to Indian homes. The company raised funds and scaled up across several states but didn’t manage in a price-conscious market, in addition to withstanding strong competition. The founder, Nitesh Prakash, revealed that the world of alcoholic beverages was not where they envisioned it to be, so closure became unavoidable.

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The Fall of Koo, Twitter’s Clone: “The Little Yellow Bird Says Its Final Goodbye,” Say Founders

Ansu shaw August 11, 2025

The digital world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and social media is at the frontline. Social media itself claims to be a ‘medium’, providing a voice for the masses to those without influential reach. Nonetheless, new social media platforms, such as “Koo,” often fail to establish a foothold due to the absence of a clear brand identity. Why? Owing to the lack of an effective cost management strategy?

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Nikola: From EV Beams to Fraud Scream Scenes

Bhakti Sabikhi August 7, 2025

Nikola started with a big dream to bring a change in the world of trucks. People even called it the “Tesla of Trucks” and it was valued at $30 billion without even selling a single truck. But the truth does not hide for long. Later on, it was revealed that all the promises were just lies and the promo videos were fake as well. In the end, Nikola went from a great idea to being a fraud.

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Subtl.ai: The Startup That Whispered Goodbye

Bhakti Sabikhi August 6, 2025

Subtl.ai was once a rising name in India’s GenAI space, which had smart tech and real clients like SBI, and â‚č1.8 Cr in funding. Despite having early wins, the startup shut down in 2025. Have a look at what it failed and what we can learn from it.

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