Intel Capital — portfolio autopsies

Luxury goods resale marketplace for Southeast Asia

Brazil's biggest social gaming startup was sued into irrelevance by Zynga over alleged game cloning.

Argentine-founded social gaming giant with 50M users crushed by Zynga's lawsuit and the Facebook platform collapse.

The enterprise CXM unicorn that IPO'd at $7.7B and compressed 75% as multiples normalized.

35 million recipe lovers lost all their saved meals when Whirlpool pulled the plug.

Built mobile-first support but couldn't outrun the giants.

The French IoT unicorn that raised €295M to wire the world — and sold its entire network for €5M

The enterprise social media management platform that IPO'd at $3.6B and watched two-thirds of its market cap disappear within 18 months

Canada's national digital ID champion that couldn't make citizens care.

The invisible backbone of 7 million smart homes, commoditized and absorbed by its own partners.

The mobile strategy gaming company that hit $400M in revenue at its peak — then watched the mobile gaming market consolidate around a handful of mega-titles

SoftBank's $6.5B Indian e-commerce bet collapsed when it refused a Flipkart acquisition offer and was left to slowly die as Amazon and Flipkart divided the market.

Intel paid $175M for ski goggle AR — and killed it in 12 months.

21-year-old Stanford student raised $25M from Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Silicon Valley royalty before launching. The app never achieved meaningful adoption. $25M consumed. Company dissolved 2016.

Brazil's Zynga — until Zynga sued them for being too similar

The $60M education tablet that tried to replace the college backpack and found the iPad had already won

Built the first mobile video streaming network — went bankrupt because customers would not pay their bills.