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Clockwise from top left: Privacy License founder Nabanita De; Mvue founder Payal Tiwana; Saturday founder Michelle Howe; and Pansophy founder Anshu Dwibhashi.
We’re back with another spotlight on new startups sprouting out of the Seattle area. This time we’re featuring companies building products in privacy, fintech, knowledge search, and wellness.
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Mvue.ai
After more than 18 years at Microsoft and the past three years at Amazon, Payal Tiwana is making the startup leap with Mvue, a Seattle-based fintech company tackling what she describes as “one of the most persistent cash flow challenges in B2B industries.” The company’s software uses generative AI to automate how mid-market businesses recover payments and free up working capital. Features include predicting late payments, resolving disputes, and negotiating payment plans with customers. Tiwana previously was a head of product for Microsoft Azure and led an advertising tech team at Amazon.
Saturday
Can tech help endurance athletes fuel up more effectively? That’s the idea behind Saturday, a Seattle-area company with a mobile app that provides personalized hydration advice based on activity and individual characteristics. The app has more than 13,000 users and charges $5.99 per month for subscription benefits. Saturday is led by a husband-wife co-founding duo that includes Alex Harrison, a former professional bobsledder who has a PhD in sport physiology and performance, and Michelle Howe, the company’s CEO who is a registered dietitian, exercise scientist, and pro triathlete.
Pansophy
Anshu Dwibhashi recently left his engineering job at Amazon to launch Pansophy AI. The company aims to synthesize knowledge from documents across an organization to create “wiki-style pages” that automatically update and can be queried with AI-powered search. Dwibhashi said he was inspired to launch the company in part based on his experience at Amazon sharing documents with different teams. Pansophy is based in Seattle but Dwibhashi is currently in San Francisco participating in Afore Capital’s new Founders-in-Residence program.
Privacy License
Global privacy laws are evolving at a rapid pace and Nabanita De wants to help companies stay on top of all the changes with Privacy License. The Seattle-based startup provides businesses with “privacy agents” embedded in various teams that use AI to analyze regulations, audit existing policies, automate data discovery, and more. De previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Remitly, and is an advisory board member at privacy nonprofit IAPP. She finished first and second at hackathons over the past year.
