The world's most comprehensive country-by-country failure database. $678.4B+ in destroyed capital across 14 ecosystems — what went wrong, why, and what every founder should learn from each market.
Wirecard, Gorillas and the Berlin scale-up correction.
London fintech, scale-ups and Silicon Roundabout collapses.
Cross-border European failures: fragmented markets, regulation and capital gaps.
Mosaicoon, Velasca, Supermercato24 — the lessons of the Italian ecosystem.
Station F unicorns, French Tech failures and post-2022 fundraising freeze.
Bike-sharing wars, Luckin Coffee fraud and the post-tech-crackdown shake-out.
Byju's, Snapdeal, BharatPe — 25+ unicorn collapses from the world's 3rd largest ecosystem.
Honestbee, Zilingo and the Southeast Asian super-app implosions.
Tanihub, Fabelio and the Jakarta unicorn correction.
Startup failure patterns are radically local. Indian startups die from unit economics in a $2-ARPU market. American startups burn out from premature blitzscaling. European startups stall on fragmented multi-country expansion. Brazilian and Indonesian startups get crushed by interest-rate-driven funding cliffs. Singaporean super-apps implode under unsustainable subsidies.
Studying global "top 10 reasons startups fail" lists is useful — but studying your local ecosystem's specific failure pattern is 10x more actionable. Each country page below combines documented case studies, ecosystem-specific cultural factors, locally-tuned founder lessons, and an FAQ optimized for that market's queries.
For founders building in 2025-2026, the cheapest education in the world is studying who tried what you're about to try — and lost millions doing it.
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