Particle

Particle

Larkspur, California, USA
21 employees
AI
Series A · $15.3M

About Particle

Particle is an AI-powered news reader app and website (operated by Mina Labs, Inc.) that aggregates stories from a wide range of publishers and delivers personalized summaries, multiple perspectives, key quotes, and an interactive Q&A chatbot to help readers better understand the news. It targets consumers frustrated with information overload, offering tailored feeds, entity-specific topic pages, and audio briefings. The platform partners with publishers like Reuters, Fortune, AFP, and TIME to drive traffic back to original sources rather than replacing them.

Company details

Team Size21
LocationLarkspur, California, USA
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$15.3M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners
Kindred Ventures
AAdverb Ventures
AAxel Springer

Founders

Sara Beykpour

Sara Beykpour

Former Senior Director of Product Management at Twitter (2015–2021), where she worked on Twitter Blue, Twitter Video, and the experimental twttr app.

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Marcel Molina

Marcel Molina

Former senior staff software engineer at Twitter and Tesla.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.