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Autumn
Autumn is a New York-based deathcare startup that built what it called the world's first deathcare marketplace: a free platform that walks bereaved Americans through the tangle of tasks that follow a death - funerals, estates, probate, moving, grief - with step-by-step guides and a directory of more than 500,000 local providers like funeral homes, estate attorneys, financial planners and grief specialists. Launched in July 2022 with a $600,000 pre-seed round led by Bullish, the company made the process free for grieving families and earned revenue from providers who paid to be listed.
Daniel Shaw
Daniel Shaw is the co-founder and CEO of Autumn, a New York-based end-of-life marketplace built to help bereaved families navigate the legal, financial, emotional and logistical mess that follows a death. A medical school dropout turned 15-year creative technologist (Director of Digital Accounts at Wieden+Kennedy), Shaw lost a string of close family members over a decade and was appalled by how disorganized and unhelpful the deathcare industry was. So he aggregated more than 500,000 local providers, wrote free guides, and set out to let people manage death the same way they manage life - under the banner 'We make loss more livable.'
Alix
Alix is a San Francisco wealthtech company that automates estate settlement, the slow, paperwork-heavy process of closing a person's affairs after they die. Pairing agentic AI with human Settlement Specialists, Alix handles 100+ tasks, from asset discovery and debt negotiation to probate filings and account closures, that typically take an executor up to 900 hours over 9 to 18 months. Founded in 2023 by Alexandra Mysoor and Hugh Tamassia, the company raised a $20M Series A in July 2025 led by Acrew Capital, with backing from Charles Schwab and Edward Jones Ventures.