Competitive Displacement

“A competitor with deeper pockets entered your space and is outspending you.”

Structural failure pattern in healthcare B2B

73 companies failed due to competitive displacement in the Stressline corpus.

Deaths

73

Funding Raised by Companies That Failed

$2.1B

Sub-Vertical Breakdown

Care Navigation & Consumer Health8 (11%)
Health Data Integration & Interoperability8 (11%)
Clinical Workflow & Documentation7 (10%)
Other Healthcare B2B7 (10%)
Pharmacy Technology & Delivery6 (8%)
Telehealth Infrastructure6 (8%)
Credentialing & Provider Enrollment6 (8%)
Health Insurance & Benefits5 (7%)
Care Coordination & Transitions4 (5%)
Prior Authorization & Utilization Review4 (5%)
Compliance & Regulatory3 (4%)
Revenue Cycle Management3 (4%)
Primary Care & Employer Health3 (4%)
Digital Therapeutics & DTx2 (3%)
Behavioral Health & Mental Health1 (1%)

Founding Year Timeline

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73 companies, 134 failure dimensions coded, 1997–2022.

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Data sourced from SBIR/STTR databases, SEC EDGAR filings, ClinicalTrials.gov, CMS data, and founder postmortems. Coded using the Gioia qualitative methodology. Read the methodology.