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In this Friday edition of your Daily Crunch,

how gut health AI toilet startup throne raised $4 million.

I'm M. Ron Shake, and you may want to sit down for this because it's startup stories, a tech crunch special.

The tale of how an aptly named Smart Toilet startup Throne landed its seed round is so full of

serendipities, one could almost believe it was orchestrated by the hand of Fortuna, Roman goddess

of Providence.

You see, Throne is an Austin-based company working on an

AI-powered toilet device for consumers of food. It uses computer vision, don't worry, the cameras

are pointing in the bowl, plus AI software, to monitor gut health conditions. It just raised

$4 million in seed financing, led by Moxie Ventures founder

Katie Jacob Stanton with a bunch of other VCs participating and several famous angels like

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