Failed Startups

MightyQuiz

Shut down

What they do:

MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links".

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Mixwit

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What they do:

Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Tipjoy

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What they do:

social micropayments

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Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Deluux

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Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people's online identities to their websites, which exist outside of…

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HQ: Atlanta, GA, United States

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YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Snaptalent

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Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings. Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the…

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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Joberator was formed to tackle head-on the growing challenges and connection-gap issues in the STEM employment and recruitment marketplace. Our goal is to…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Bountii

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Bountii is a price search startup that has built a search engine capable of finding shoppers lower and more accurate prices than any existing price comparison…

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

iJigg/Top440

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iJigg is a social music site that lets users vote on submitted singles using Digg-like voting. The site's home page shows what popular or recent singles the…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Splashup, formerly known as fauxto, is an online image editing service that provides some advanced tools and is unique for its incorporation of image editing…

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Roll your own contest or giveaway. No longer in business.

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HQ: Southfield, MI, United States

SocialPicks

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SocialPicks was a platform where stock investors could exchange…

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HQ: New York, NY, United States

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P2P Music Sharing

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

Fuzzwich

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Fuzzwich is an online animation platform developed by Habit Industries.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Messaging.

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

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Writewith is a collaborative writing web app, enabling you to easily flow through the steps of writing, editing, and publishing a document with a group. A…

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HQ: Corvallis, OR, United States

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Whitenoise is like a social network for the music industry. It comes with specially made tools for bands, agents, publicists, and venues to manage each part…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Socialmoth

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What they do:

Socialmoth is a community to post your thoughts anonymously. You can view postings (mostly gossip and secrets) from the whole community as well as get updates…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Jamglue

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Jamglue is an online community allowing users to listen or mix music from a library of user-contributed music.

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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States

Likebetter

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What they do:

An online personality test game, where you look at two photos and choose which one you “Like Better”.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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A platform bridging mobile text messages, email, and IM communication without needing to download anything. Users can send mass messages on any of the…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Flagr enables users to share places, adding photos, video and descriptions from their mobile phone. They can then create maps and embed them on any website.

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HQ: NY, United States

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What is Infogami? The art of transforming data into meaningful information. Infogami Business Intelligence (BI) solutions turn raw data into information…

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HQ: London, United Kingdom

TomoGuides

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What they do:

Mobile travel guides done right. Personalized, context-aware, and…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

LeanMarket

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What they do:

Mobile advertising

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Imgfave

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What they do:

A fun image sharing community.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Arc

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What they do:

aerial videography

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Automating mobile app testing.

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HQ: CA, United States

Framebase

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What they do:

API for video.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Hiptype is a marketing and analytics platform for eBooks. We can…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Kippt

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What they do:

Kippt is a social bookmarking service

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Collections

Shut down

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Finder for the Cloud

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Simple 3d modeling software for 3d printers.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States