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Grant Belaire Has Spent 20 Years Turning Products Into Habits
From AOL's reinvention to sports-only newspaper subscriptions and consumer cybersecurity, Belaire has kept returning to the same problem: how to earn a direct, useful place in a customer's digital life. Now he is applying that discipline to MacPaw's shift from a suite of Mac apps to a connected AI ecosystem.
The Mac Cleaner That Wants to Become Your Mac's Operating Layer
CleanMyMac made digital housekeeping into a global business. Now MacPaw is spending that trust on a harder bet: security, software distribution and an AI assistant that can actually do things on your Mac.
Copilot Money
Copilot Money is a subscription personal finance app for the Apple ecosystem that pulls all of your accounts - checking, credit cards, investments, loans - into one private, ad-free dashboard. Its standout feature is AI-powered transaction categorization that learns from your corrections, plus net worth tracking, budgets, recurring-expense detection and investment monitoring. Founded by Chilean engineers Andres Ugarte and Gabriel Dieguez Franzani, the app launched in January 2020, reached profitability in 2023, crossed 100,000 subscribers, and raised a $6M Series A in March 2024 led by Adjacent.