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35% -- startup failure rate due to cash exhaustion for startups (2025)

2025  · CB Insights

According to CB Insights, 35% of startups fail because they run out of money.

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35%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
startups
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Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
CB Insights Primary Tier C
https://americanchase.com/how-to-build-mvp/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Common Crawl
Source Article
How to Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in 2025
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CB Insights · Original study ↗

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startups: 35% startup failure rate due to cash exhaustion. Source: CB Insights (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cb-insights-startups-fail-run-out-of-money
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