The major distribution channel for Theranos, Walgreens has ended the speculation that they may drop the disgraced biomed start-up by… dropping them. Not much left for this former unicorn. Forbes recently marked-to-market founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes net worth from $4.5 billion …to zero.

Pop-up dining start-up (I know I’m a square but, wtf is “pop up dining?”) Dinner Lab has burned through $10.2 million and filed for bankruptcy. Along the way they acquired competitor “Dishcrawl”, who I guess goes down with them now. Assets will be liquidated and creditors paid out. Members will probably be stiffed for their membership fees.  

  The tag line for this site is “True Fact: Funding rounds are not revenue”, except in India, where a new tax code law has deemed that funding rounds that take place “at above fair value” are indeed income. The new rule applies to startups that have undergone a down round. If the preceding round was not from a VC firm registered with the Indian securities regulator (in other words it was from an angel...

In a $40 million dollar funding round at a lower share price (a.k.a “a down round”) Glassdoor CEO went on record to say “We view this as a slight up round” (I guess you can add diluting shares to inflate market cap to the alchemical bag of tricks in this wonderful New Economy). Still, with shares down 6.3% in this round, they are still clobbering their publicly traded Unicorn peers such as LinkedIn and Yelp....

They were working on a spinal chord treatment but their clinical trials have failed. Bay area biotech “StemCells” (I was surprised they didn’t “invest” in the .com version of their name) which was publicly traded  will wind down operations. They are hoping to see what can be salvaged for investors and skirt a 100% loss. At their peak: $74 million market cap. Now, not so much. ($6 million) They also raised 32 million in two...