The company announced Tuesday it raised $1 million in a seed round led by Defy Partners. “We see ourselves as a trusted advisor for pet health and happiness,” Mawhinney told Built In. “Our mission is for pets to be treated, loved and cared for as equals.”

Apploi, a platform that simplifies the hiring process for service-oriented businesses, announced Thursday they raised $5.2 million in funding led by Silicon Valley-based Defy Partners.

Founded by veteran entrepreneur, startup investor, and expert in information retrieval and automated decision systems Brian Shin, Searchable.ai is a rather stealthy San Francisco-based startup. According to a press release announcing $2 million in seed funding, the company is developing “a new personalized semantic search engine for your work.”

Founders, employees, and investors ultimately want to know that the startup they are committing time and/or capital to has a reasonable probability of growing very quickly over a very long period of time. Whether a startup can achieve sustained growth (how fast, for how long, and how profitably) is really the difference between a startup…

“The problem we’re really solving is that there are a trillion documents created every year in Microsoft Office, Google Docs, etc., and it’s really difficult if you’re a knowledge worker to find what you need in terms of either a document, an asset like a slide or worksheet within a document or the actual answer…