How a $600K AI Companion Startup Survived a Data Loss Scare and Reimagined Redundancy

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How a $600K AI Companion Startup Survived a Data Loss Scare in Year One MuseMate launched with $600,000 in seed funding, 12 engineers, and a simple promise: let users create and keep multiple intelligent companions - friends, mentors, even