CB Insights January 21, 2020

It’s hard to say goodbye. A compilation of startup failure post-mortems by founders and investors.

“I have learned fifty thousand ways it cannot be done and therefore I am fifty thousand times nearer the final successful experiment.”

In the spirit of failure, we dug into the data on startup death and found that 70% of upstart tech companies fail — usually around 20 months after first raising financing (with around $1.3M in total funding closed).

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