- notes
- {"status": "Acquired; product later shut down; company inactive", "acquirer": "Avant", "acquisition_announced_date": "2015-03-31", "acquisition_terms": "Undisclosed", "acquisition_type": "Acquisition / acqui-hire (team and technology integrated into Avant)", "post_acquisition": {"founders_continued_at_acquirer": true, "new_avant_la_office": "Planned near Playa Vista, opening April 2015", "brand_continued_initially": true, "product_shutdown_date": "2016-11-12", "product_shutdown_scope": "Credit score and debt planner tools deactivated; user accounts deactivated"}, "source_urls": {"acquisition": ["https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/31/online-lender-avant-acquires-debt-management-service-readyforzero/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ready-for-zero", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/readyforzero/__8fLSzK_mPBFfl1sULR0n4Yw-vvB9tIpvm2Ix7GnDAZ8"], "product_shutdown": ["https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2016/11/92251-avant-quietly-shuts-readyforzero-credit-monitoring-debt-management-site/"], "inactive_status": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ready-for-zero"]}}