The AI Graveyard.

Nuance

Microsoft completed its purchase of Nuance on 4 Mar 2022. In Mar 2025 Microsoft folded DAX Copilot and Dragon Medical One into a new product, Microsoft Dragon Copilot.

Affinity

Canva acquired Serif, maker of Affinity, in Mar 2024. In Oct 2025 Designer, Photo and Publisher were replaced by one free app called Affinity.

Magnific

Freepik bought the Magnific upscaler in May 2024, then renamed itself Magnific on 28 Apr 2026. The upscaler still runs at magnific.com.

Protect AI

Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of Protect AI on Jul 22, 2025; the technology now feeds its Prisma AIRS platform.

Remove.bg

Canva bought maker Kaleido in 2021. remove.bg says its standalone site closes on 1 Dec 2026 as the tool moves into Canva, with the API moving to Leonardo.Ai.

Frame.io

Adobe announced the deal in Aug 2021 and completed its purchase of Frame.io on 7 Oct 2021. Frame.io continues as an Adobe product.

Lemon Squeezy

Stripe acquired Lemon Squeezy in Jul 2024. In Jan 2026 it said it is helping users move to Stripe Managed Payments; the product still operates.

Loom

Atlassian announced on 12 Oct 2023 that it was acquiring Loom, the async video messaging tool. Loom still runs under its own name as an Atlassian product, with AI features, as of Sep 2026.

Renovate

WhiteSource, now called Mend, acquired Renovate in Nov 2019. It still runs as Mend Renovate.

Census

Fivetran signed an agreement to acquire Census on May 1, 2025, adding Census reverse ETL to its platform.

Class Companion

Panorama Education announced the acquisition on 23 Apr 2025. The tool continues as Panorama Class Companion.

dbt Labs

dbt Labs, maker of the open source dbt Core, completed its all-stock merger with Fivetran on 1 Jun 2026. dbt Core continues, with v2.0 released in alpha under Apache 2.0 that day.

Elevar

Buxton announced it acquired Elevar on 17 Jan 2024. Buxton later brought Elevar under its Audiense brand, so Elevar's site now points to audiense.com.

Gretel

NVIDIA acquired Gretel in Mar 2025, as reported by Wired and TechCrunch. gretel.ai now redirects to an NVIDIA synthetic data page.

Koala

Cursor maker Anysphere bought Koala in Jul 2025, as TechCrunch reported on 18 Jul 2025. Koala's site says it was acquired by Cursor and would shut down on 30 Sep 2025.

Mosaic

HiBob announced on 13 Feb 2025 that it acquired FP&A startup Mosaic (reported at $35M). Mosaic's planning tools are being built into HiBob's Bob platform.

ProfitWell

Paddle announced on 25 May 2022 that it acquired ProfitWell for over $200M. ProfitWell's metrics and retention tools became part of Paddle.

Ready Player Me

Netflix announced it was buying Ready Player Me on 19 Dec 2025, and TechCrunch reported that the avatar platform would wind down its services, including the PlayerZero avatar creator, on 31 Jan 2026.

Relay.app

Relay.app shut down in Sep 2026, and all accounts, workflows and run history were permanently deleted.

Saykara

Nuance Communications announced on 8 Feb 2021 that it had acquired Saykara, a Seattle startup building a mobile AI assistant to automate clinical documentation for physicians.

Segment

Twilio agreed to buy Segment for about $3.2B in Oct 2020 and closed the deal on Nov 2, 2020.

Skyline AI

JLL announced its acquisition of Skyline AI on Aug 11, 2021 to fold its models into JLL products. skyline.ai no longer responds.

Smartmockups

Canva bought Smartmockups in Feb 2021. Canva says Smartmockups.com closed on 27 Sep 2024, and mockups are now made inside Canva.

Spirit AI

PC Gamer reported on 23 Nov 2022 that Twitch had acquired Spirit AI, a language processing AI company, to help build classifiers for detecting harmful text on Twitch.

Spotter Studio

Spotter shut off public access to its Studio AI suite in Oct 2025 and kept it as an internal tool. Spotter itself continues, focused on brand deals.

Unscreen

Canva bought maker Kaleido in 2021. Canva says Unscreen.com closed as of 29 Jun 2026; an earlier Unscreen FAQ had set 1 Dec 2025. The site redirects to Canva.

Unsplash

Getty Images acquired Unsplash in 2021 (announced Mar 30, closed Apr 1). Unsplash runs as a standalone Getty Images brand.

Bench

TechCrunch reported that Employer.com bought Bench for $9M in Dec 2024, days after the bookkeeping startup abruptly shut down. Bench still offers bookkeeping and tax filing as of Sep 2026.

Campsite

Not acquired as a product. Campsite wound down on 28 Feb 2025 and its founders joined Notion.

Clari

Clari and Salesloft merged in 2025 and now run as one company under the Salesloft brand. Clari Forecast keeps the Clari name.

Clearbit

HubSpot completed its purchase of Clearbit on 4 Dec 2023. Clearbit's marketing data tools were folded into HubSpot's platform.

Codecademy

Skillsoft completed its acquisition of Codecademy on 5 Apr 2022. Codecademy still operates.

ContentKing

Conductor announced the ContentKing acquisition on 16 Feb 2022. Its real-time SEO monitoring is now part of Conductor.

Continue

Cursor bought Continue, the open-source coding agent, in Jun 2026 and shut the product down. The New Stack reported on 22 Jun 2026 that billing had been disabled and users had until 15 Jul 2026 to export their data before deletion.

ContractRoom

Mitratech acquired ContractRoom in May 2021 and relaunched it as EraCLM on 10 Nov 2021. Mitratech still offers the CLM with online negotiation as of Sep 2026.

Copy.ai

Fullcast announced its acquisition of Copy.ai on 15 Oct 2025. Copy.ai still runs as of Sep 2026, producing campaign copy and other marketing content through its AI workflows.

Dynamic Yield

McDonald's bought Dynamic Yield in 2019 and sold it to Mastercard, which closed the deal on 4 Apr 2022. The site now redirects to Mastercard.

Finmark

BILL completed its Finmark acquisition on Nov 16, 2022. finmark.com now redirects to bill.com; third-party sites report the standalone app was retired Apr 1, 2026.

Fivetran

Fivetran completed its all-stock merger with dbt Labs on 1 Jun 2026, and the combined company operates as Fivetran + dbt Labs. Fivetran's automated data movement platform still runs.

Hotjar

Contentsquare acquired Hotjar in 2021 and fully absorbed it on 1 Jul 2025. hotjar.com redirects to Contentsquare, which still offers Hotjar heatmaps.

Narrato

Typeface bought Narrato in Sep 2024. narrato.io now redirects to typeface.ai; third-party sites say the app closed in Jun 2026, not confirmed officially.

Nearpod

Renaissance completed its purchase of Nearpod on 8 Mar 2021 (reported at $650M). Nearpod still operates.

New Relic

Private-equity take-private: Francisco Partners and TPG completed their $6.5B acquisition of New Relic in Nov 2023.

OctoAI

NVIDIA acquired Seattle startup OctoAI in Sep 2024. OctoAI then wound down its public inference service on 31 Oct 2024.

Placeit

Envato acquired Placeit in Jul 2018. Placeit still operates.

PlayHT

Meta acquired Play AI, the AI voice generation company formerly called PlayHT, in Jul 2025. TechCrunch reported on 13 Jul 2025 that a Meta spokesperson confirmed the deal and that the entire team would join Meta.

Pod

Pod founder Patrick Monnot announced on 22 Sep 2026 that Pod is joining Backstory, the revenue intelligence company formerly called People.ai. Pod's site still offers its deal intelligence product.

Reclaim.ai

Reclaim.ai announced on 20 Aug 2024 that Dropbox had acquired it. Reclaim still runs as an AI calendar and scheduling app as of Sep 2026.