Six Months After Launch, Website Monitoring Startup Verelo To Shut Down And Return Funding

We’ve received word that Verelo, a Toronto-based startup that provides website monitoring services, is shutting down. The company announced the news today in an email to users signed by co-founder Andrew McGrath. The company, which provided uptime and performance analytics as well as malware detection and site health monitoring services, stopped billing several weeks ago and plans to return its remaining funding to investors. It was a short run for Verelo. The company was founded at the beginning of this year by CEO McGrath and CTO Michael Curry and made its official public launch in June as it graduated out of Toronto’s Extreme Startups incubator program. But it turns out Verelo did not have the traction and funding needed to make it to the next level amid the serious competition that already exists in the space. Curry left the company earlier this fall, and, McGrath wrote, “it’s clear that we’re still playing a big game of catch up and have not got the financial backing required to truly fulfill our one big goal of making the Internet a better place.” It takes a lot of courage to admit when something isn’t working out as well as had been hoped, and Verelo users have taken to Twitter to give their goodbyes: @verelo Sad to see you guys leaving. The best website monitoring site i have ever used.— ken (@sinkronoxc) December 19, 2012 Verelo.com – our great competitor from Canada – has just announced it's closing down. — Website Monitoring (@monitoringblog) December 19, 2012 Just read that Verelo.com is closing down… It's probably very difficult competing with the likes of New Relic, Monitor.us, etc.— David Joos (@davidjoos) December 19, 2012 We’ve reached out to Verelo for additional details and comment on what’s next for the team, and will report back with anything we hear. Here is the email McGrath has sent to users: “Hi Everyone, Its with great sadness that I write this message to inform you that we’ve made the decision to close down Verelo. We’ve been weighing up our options for a while now, however at the end of the day we’ve been struggling to grow at a sufficient rate to become long term profitable. I personally feel that the most responsible thing we can do as a company is to conserve our remaining funding and return it to our investors. If you’re not familiar with our story, Verelo was

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