PathMatch
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
PathMatch was a US startup founded in 2019 that built a career navigation app for Gen Z and college students. Users answered a few questions and were matched to modern careers based on their strengths, interests, personality and goals.
02 / PathMatch FAILURE REASONS
Failure factors supported by the current evidence
No public post-mortem explains why PathMatch closed. The company raised $2.7 million across three funding rounds (latest a pre-seed) and is now listed as shut down. With no founder statements or press coverage available, the specific reasons are undocumented.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
PathMatch is founded to build a career navigator for college students and Gen Z.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
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Career navigation app for Gen Z
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Founded 2019
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Raised $2.7M across 3 rounds
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Listed as shut down; reasons undocumented