Crunchbase says these startups are operating. Their domains are casinos now
Published 12 November 2026
Crunchbase still lists Wave Computing as an operating company. It raised $203M, its last round in November 2018. Today wavecomp.ai is a page called "$100 No Deposit Bonuses and 200 Free Spins for Real Money in 2025".
We wanted to know how common that is. Our Crunchbase file has 35,207 startups marked as operating, with a website on file and a last funding round in 2019 or earlier. We drew a random 8,000 of them and loaded each homepage on 12 November 2026. 79 of the 8,000 (1.0%, 95% interval 0.8% to 1.2%) now serve gambling: online casinos, sports betting, slot sites or lottery results. Across all 35,207, that puts the count at about 350, somewhere between 280 and 430.
The 79 had raised $520M between them before their domains changed hands.
The ones that raised the most
| Company | Domain | Raised | Last round | Homepage title today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wave Computing | wavecomp.ai | $203.3M | 2018 | $100 No Deposit Bonuses and 200 Free Spins for Real Money in 2025 |
| PIQUR Therapeutics | piqur.com | $86.9M | 2017 | Keluaran HK Lotto, Live Draw HK, Togel Hongkong Pools |
| Arrow Therapeutics | arrowt.co.uk | $64.1M | 2003 | Best Non UK Casinos 2026 |
| Triplet Therapeutics | triplettx.com | $59.0M | 2019 | Мостбет зеркало (a Mostbet casino mirror) |
| QBotix | qbotix.com | $23.5M | 2014 | Top-Rated Crypto Casinos in Singapore for 2026 |
| Remote Year | remoteyear.com | $17.0M | 2019 | Remote Year: Guides to Living and Working Remotely Abroad |
| Cyber adAPT | cyberadapt.com | $15.0M | 2016 | NONA88, Link Alternatif ke Situs Slot Gacor |
| Firedome | firedome.io | $14.5M | 2019 | ALEXISTOGEL, Bandar Slot Gacor |
| Planet Soho | planetsoho.com | $11.0M | 2012 | Simplified Business Management Tools for Small Businesses |
| Qool Therapeutics | qooltherapeutics.com | $8.0M | 2017 | Slot Thailand, Situs Slot Super Gacor |
| NousDecor | nousdecor.com | $3.6M | 2015 | BRO138: Situs Resmi Taruhan SLOT Online |
| Anatha | anatha.io | $3.0M | 2018 | 1Win India 2026: Top Features & Betting Guide |
| AdaptiLab | adaptilab.com | $2.1M | 2019 | Singapore Evolution Gaming, Experience The Live Casino |
| PipeCandy | pipecandy.com | $1.1M | 2019 | Best Online Casinos in Canada for Real Money in 2026 |
Three of the top five are biotechs.
Remote Year and Planet Soho look normal at first. Remote Year's homepage still carries its name, but the site now runs guides, and one of the sections is "Online gambling". Planet Soho's page keeps its old product title and has a block of links like "UK Casinos Not On Gamstop" pasted near the top. We found five sites like that: the old page, or a copy of it, with casino links added.
Three ways a domain turns into a casino
- 45 domains serve the gambling page themselves.
- 29 redirect to a separate gambling domain, such as olxtimah.com or kiatoto86.com.
- 5 keep the old startup page with casino links added.
38 of the 79 page titles are in Indonesian, mostly slot sites ("slot gacor") and togel lottery pages. The rest are English casino review pages aimed at Canada, Australia, the UK and India, plus a few in Russian, Turkish, Italian, French and Spanish. Our guess is that the buyers want the links that still point at the old startup domains.
37 of the 79 startups are American and 9 British. The median last round was in 2017.
How we counted
We took every startup in our Crunchbase file (1.72 million records) that is marked as operating, has a dated funding round and a website, and whose most recent round was in 2019 or earlier: 35,207 companies. We drew 8,000 at random and fetched each homepage once through rotating proxies, with up to three tries, following redirects. 528 did not answer at all and 2,272 returned an error status; those count in the base and not as gambling, so 1.0% is a floor.
A page counts as gambling when its title has a gambling term (casino, slot, togel, betting and similar, in several languages) or its text has three or more. We read every match by hand and took out four that are real gaming or betting companies (Huuuge Games, WHOW Games, BetTech Gaming) or that only list casinos as customers (BCaster).
- casino-domains.csv, all 79 companies with domain, where it lands, homepage title, founding year, last round and total raised.