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OneDay
OneDay is a Dallas-based B2B SaaS company that helps businesses create, personalize, and automate short videos to build stronger customer relationships and drive sales. Originally built to capture and preserve the life stories of senior living residents, OneDay expanded its video storytelling technology into multifamily real estate and the funeral industry, and now leans on an AI video assistant called AVA for scriptwriting, teleprompting, automated delivery, and engagement analytics. The company partners with thousands of senior living communities across the U.S., U.K., and Canada and has raised roughly $24-25 million to date.
Sam Gerstenzang
Sam Gerstenzang is the co-founder and CEO of Meadow Memorials, a software-enabled funeral and cremation company he started in 2024 after arranging his grandfather's funeral and finding the experience opaque, overwhelming and impersonal. Meadow runs funerals at chapels, beaches, theaters and restaurants instead of traditional funeral homes, with transparent pricing and what Sam calls 'unreasonable hospitality.' Before Meadow he led consumer payments product at Stripe, invested at Andreessen Horowitz, incubated companies at Sidewalk Labs, was early at Imgur, and co-founded Umbrella (acquired by IAC/Angi) and the medspa platform Moxie. In March 2026 Meadow raised a $9M Series A led by Lachy Groom and Haystack.