Etiquetas: M13

Former physician Jenny Shao left her Harvard residency to launch Robyn, an empathetic AI companion designed to support users without replacing clinicians. The app uses an emotional memory system to offer personalized insights, such as emotional fingerprints and attachment styles, while enforcing safety guardrails that provide crisis line numbers and direct users to emergency care when needed. Backed by a $5.5 million seed round led by M13, Robyn is priced at $19.99 per month and has grown from three to ten team members. Investors praise its potential to strengthen human connections in an increasingly disconnected world. Leer más

Startup Anything, founded by former Google engineers Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe, announced an $11 million financing round that values the company at $100 million. The San Francisco‑based firm offers an AI‑driven platform that lets non‑technical users create complete web and mobile applications, handling everything from databases to payment processing. Within two weeks of launch the service recorded $2 million in annualized run rate, and early adopters have already published functional apps to the App Store, some of which are generating revenue. Investors include Footwork, Uncork, Bessemer Venture Partners and M13, reflecting strong confidence in the company’s end‑to‑end approach to vibe‑coding. Leer más