The Startup Roundup – 8th May 2020

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Startup news this week:

1. Iris: Your Personal AI For Dating – Iris is currently only available in New York City and helps daters understand what physical characteristics they find most attractive.
2. ‘Tinder For Trading’: Beaxy Intros Swipe-To-Trade App – Trender will take the research, learning, and technical analysis of traditional finance, and reduce it to an easy-to-digest piece of actionable content with a simple swipe right.
3. Vangst Creates The ‘Bumble’ of Cannabis Job Hunting – The company launched a new talent matching feature that puts the “first move” in the hands of the cannabis job seeker.
4. New website Therapeasy looks to be ‘eharmony for therapists’ – Therapeasy uses a questionnaire-based system to partner users with compatible therapists.
5. A ‘Tinder for Songwriters’ App Is Thriving in Quarantine – ‘We Should Write Sometime’ uses swipe-right technology and geotagging to pair up compatible songwriters.