Dead AI other products.
$1.0B of capital across this category
AI products that do not slot neatly into the other categories. IBM Watson Health, Element AI, Vicarious, Mighty, Google Stadia, Bench. Brain-inspired robotics, enterprise services, cloud gaming with ML features, AI-augmented bookkeeping. The deaths here vary, but the pattern beneath them does not: a high-burn product trying to defend a valuation set during cheaper times.
Bench
2012 - 2024An online bookkeeping service that pitched itself as AI-augmented bookkeeping for small businesses.
$113M raised · 13 years aliveSplash
2017 - 2024An AI music generator from the Australian studio behind a hit Roblox music game, able to compose backing tracks and synthesize singing from a text prompt.
$27M raised · 7 years aliveJoonko
2016 - 2023An AI recruiting startup that claimed to source diverse job candidates, brought down when its founder fabricated customers and revenue.
$38M raised · 7 years aliveGoogle Stadia
2019 - 2023Google's cloud gaming platform, marketed around machine-learning features for streaming and game development.
Undisclosed raised · 4 years aliveMighty
2019 - 2022A cloud-streamed Chromium browser that ran Chrome on remote servers to free up local laptop resources.
Undisclosed raised · 4 years aliveVicarious
2010 - 2022A long-horizon AI research startup building brain-inspired models for industrial robotics and visual reasoning.
$250M raised · 12 years aliveElement AI
2016 - 2021A Montreal-based enterprise AI services company building custom machine learning solutions for large companies.
$257M raised · 4 years aliveROSS Intelligence
2015 - 2020An AI-powered legal research platform that used natural language queries to surface relevant case law for lawyers.
$13M raised · 6 years aliveKnewton
2008 - 2019A heavily funded adaptive-learning company that promised to personalize coursework for every student in real time.
$180M raised · 11 years aliveSentient Technologies
2007 - 2019One of the best-funded AI startups of its era, built on evolutionary computation and deep learning, that was broken up and sold for parts.
$143M raised · 12 years alive