Great Oaks Venture Capital — portfolio autopsies

DTC custom furniture startup raised $45M and shut overnight leaving thousands of orders unfulfilled

The payment platform that let businesses pay any invoice with a credit card — then filed for Chapter 11 as interest rate rises made the arbitrage impossible

A $53M-funded event marketing platform absorbed into a competitor after COVID broke the market.

A pandemic unicorn that discovered celebrity shoutouts were a fad, not a market.

Google Glass in the doctor's office — $117M later, they dropped the glasses.

Bombfell competed with giants on a shoestring budget and quietly disappeared in the pandemic.

The meal kit company Albertsons acquired for $200M to fight Amazon in grocery — shut down the subscription service 2 years later when the grocery synergy never materialised

The farm-to-phone meal delivery startup that discovered vertical integration is a cost trap at small scale.