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Empathy closes $47M for AI to help with the practical and emotional bereavement process
Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn't make coping with it any easier -- not least because while
The funding will be used to continue building out its tools and to focus on a larger mission to “redefine bereavement care,” in the words of CEO Ron Gura, who co-founded the company with Yonatan Bergman. Gura — a serial entrepreneur who had founded a social commerce company that he sold to eBay (The Gifts Project) who then spent years in senior roles at WeWork — said a tragedy in his own family, and facing this very predicament of managing practicalities through his own emotional times, is what got him thinking of Empathy to begin with. Alongside Index and the insurance companies, others in this round included previous backers General Catalyst, Entrée Capital, Latitude (sister fund of existing investor LocalGlobe), and Brewer Lane.
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