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A new digital companion application helping families navigate the logistical and emotional journey of losing a loved one launched this week with $13 million in seed funding. Called Empathy, the company is backed by the round’s leading investors General Catalyst and Aleph.
Empathy’s platform leads grieving families through end-of-life bureaucratic tasks such as arranging a funeral, validating a will, canceling accounts and cleaning out properties. It also has a human support element where loss experts are available to provide emotional and practical advice. It’s the inherent optimism of human nature that causes us to avoid talking about death,” Ron Gura, the cofounder and CEO of Empathy, said in a statement. But because we don’t discuss it, we miss out on important opportunities to innovate and provide families with technology that can help them manage some of life’s most challenging mo
Orchid Launches Reports to Help Couples Have Healthy Babies By Quantifying Genetic Risk
Backed by $4.5M in seed funding and a team of scientists from Stanford, Orchid enables couples to safely and naturally mitigate their family s genetic predispositions to diseases for the first time ever.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Orchid, the first preconception system to quantify how a couple s genetics impacts their future child s health, today announced a $4.5M seed round with backing from top institutional VCs including Refactor Capital, Village Global, Day One Ventures, Olive Capital, and Boom Capital. The round also includes participation from proven operators including the founders of 23andMe, Counsyl, Clover Health, Coinbase, Eventbrite, Flatiron, Oscar Health Insurance, and Stellar.
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