Inside Round: The difference between survival and extinction for startups during slowdown

Over the past few weeks, “The Deadpool List”, a compilation of technology start-ups that are dead or have one foot in the grave, has been the subject of much interest across mainstream and social media. Bloomberg reported last week that the list, compiled by Bengaluru-based analytics firm Tracxn and which is not public, runs into 800 start-ups, all founded after 2011. Most of them, not surprisingly, hail from the consumer Internet sector.