Lantern
Elizabeth Eddy and Alyssa Ruderman are cofounders of Lantern, a platform for planning for death.
The goal is to turn end-of-life planning into simple tasks to help users prepare and build a legacy.
Their user base grew 450% when the pandemic hit, and they've since closed a $1.4 million seed raise.
When Elizabeth Eddy was 27, she turned up at her grandmother's Connecticut nursing home to find two police officers waiting for her.
Her grandmother's death at the age of 96 didn't come as a surprise, but what did surprise Eddy was how unprepared she was to deal with what happened next. She found herself turning to Google, typing into her phone questions such as,