https://www.cbinsights.com/research/biggest-startup-frauds/
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Theranos and the revolutionary blood tests that never existed
- Zenefits skirts compliance regulations
- The Honest Company not so honest about labeling
- Outcome Health fights for its life
- LendingClub founder violates own company’s business practices
- Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco
- Hampton Creek busted buying its own merchandise
- Virgin Hyperloop One’s utopian vision derailed by fraud
- Rothenberg Ventures breaches ‘fiduciary duty’
- Bouxtie’s broken promises
- WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down
- Asenqua Ventures, the shell game disguised as a VC firm
- Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme
- Autonomy: Big problems with big data
- Pixelon: Online video vaporware
- Pseudo: Entrepreneurship as performance art
