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bankruptcy E-commerce Giant Thrasio Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as Reign Comes to an End

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It said it has also secured an emergency $90 million in emergency financing from unnamed existing lenders. The $90 million in new capital, it said, “is expected to provide sufficient liquidity to support the Company throughout this process and beyond. The news should not come as a surprise: there have been murmurs of the company’s impending bankruptcy since last year. At the time, the company had just raised $1 billion at a valuation, it said, of “up to” $10 billion. (It noted that even in 2022 it was “just” $4.5 billion, not the $10 billion that the company had said it was.)

Bird, Leading Electric Scooter Company, Declares Bankruptcy

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Bird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping off a turbulent year for the electric scooter company. This decline led the NYSE to issue a warning that Bird’s share price was too low. Separately, Bird also announced a round of layoffs shortly after buying rival Spin for $19 million. Chapter 11A Chapter 11 bankruptcy will enable Bird to restructure its financials without disrupting day-to-day operations, with Apollo Global Management division MidCap Financial among existing lenders providing $25 million in financing through the bankruptcy proceedings. And in Europe, dockless scooter startup Tier recently laid off 22% of its workforce, which followed Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof’s bankruptcy proceedings.