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Allie Garfinkle

Exclusive: Empathy raises $72 million Series C to tackle the agonizing logistics of death

Ron Gura (Credit: Empathy)

Ron Gura doesn’t use the word “death” every day. 

“From a chemistry perspective, we tune out when we hear the word death, because death is our biggest denial. Nobody wants to contemplate their own self-mortality,” says Gura, a longtime entrepreneur who sold his previous company The Gifts Project to eBay. 

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