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    "Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024"
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  "textContent": "Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:\n**Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024** — Ian Crosby, whose previous startup Bench Accounting famously shut down in 2024 before being bought for scraps …",
  "title": "Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)"
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