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Particle
Particle is an AI-powered news reader built by former Twitter engineers Sara Beykpour and Marcel Molina. It summarizes the day's stories from many sources, shows the political spread of coverage, extracts key quotes, and links prominently back to the publishers it draws from - positioning itself as an AI news product that pays and drives traffic to journalists rather than scraping them. Available on iOS, Android, and the web, Particle is developed by San Francisco-based Mina Labs and has raised $15.3M.
John Lai
John Lai is a Taiwanese-Australian entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of MixerBox, a Palo Alto-based AI super-apps company backed by Y Combinator. A former competitive programmer who won the Australian Championship and a silver medal at the ICPC world finals, Lai parlayed his University of New South Wales computer engineering degree (with First Class Honours and the University Medal) and a Harvard master's degree into building MixerBox in 2012. The company's portfolio of daily-essential mobile apps has surpassed 300 million downloads worldwide, and MixerBox became the largest developer in the ChatGPT Plugin Store by plugin count. Investors include Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo (Facebook's first CTO, Quora CEO), and Paul Buchheit (Gmail creator).
Adam Joseph
Adam Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Clipbook, the AI system of record for communications and public affairs teams. A Harvard summa cum laude graduate and Fulbright Scholar, he bootstrapped Clipbook to $1M ARR before landing a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban - won through a single cold email. Before building Clipbook, he served as Communications Director for Abdul El-Sayed's historic 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign and as a Strategy Consultant at BCG, where he led healthcare and government transformation work. Clipbook now monitors 1M+ media and policy sources for 200+ clients including Weber Shandwick and BCG.