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The wild story of how gut health AI toilet startup Throne raised $4M led by Moxxie


The tale of how smart toilet startup Throne landed its seed round is so full of serendipities, one could almost believe it was orchestrated by the hand of

The tale of how smart toilet startup Throne landed its seed round is so full of serendipities, one could almost believe it was orchestrated by the hand of Fortuna, Roman god of providence. The device is currently in a pre-production working prototype form, with a planned launch date of January, 2026, co-founder CEO Scott Hickle tells TechCrunch. He asked her if there would be any medical benefit in “looking at people’s waste” and she began regaling him with somewhat disgusting stories of the photos of such things that her patients loved to send her.

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