At least $1.48 billion in VC funding has gone up in smoke this year as the list of dead startups grows

Where there's life, there's death, and Silicon Valley is no different.

For every billion dollar unicorn, there are endless numbers of start-ups that have passed into the ether - laying off their engineers in matching, branded t-shirts; closing down their game rooms filled with ping-pong tables; and leaving heartfelt goodbye notes for customers on their soon-to-be defunct websites.

We're halfway through 2017 and already a group of startups that together raised $1.48 billion have shut down.

From February's shuttering of Beepi, a used car exchange once valued at $560 million, to this week's closure of gadget maker Jawbone, which was once worth $3 billion, these are the start ups we've lost so far in 2017 - and one whose demise looks imminent. May they disrupt in peace.