Rescued Opportunities

A startup that shut down, but whose underlying pain point has since been validated by new trend data - meaning the market or technology conditions that caused it to fail have measurably changed since it closed.

It combines a base score for the documented failure reason, up to 20 points for time elapsed since shutdown (1 point per 2 years), up to 20 points for capital raised on a log scale, and a trend-alignment score reflecting how much current signal data supports the underlying pain - clamped to 0-100.

Only startups whose resurrection score reaches our publish threshold are listed - a low score usually means either too little time has passed to reassess the market, or the failure reason (e.g. no real market need) isn't one that timing alone would fix.

It's a proxy for real market validation: institutional investors put real money behind the underlying pain, which is stronger evidence than a survey or a landing-page test that the pain itself was genuine.