Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

Sunshine, customer AI Startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Myer In 2018, you saw the bright days.

Small startup is closing and selling in a new entity included by its assets MireThe ward is called dazzle according to an email seen by. Myer September September September sent the email to Sunshine shareholders, informed them that Dazle had officially incorporated and ready to achieve sunshine holdings.

The agreement requires the approval of Shareholders with Sunshine Cofounder Enrique Mouz Torors, Norwest Ventures Partners, Felicis Partners, Ron Conway SV Angel, PRM ArchitiP Agency and others. Until Sunday afternoon, 99 percent of the shareholder signed, according to sources near the situation. Myer itself is the largest shareholder and investor in the company.

The email could not be published in detail what the purpose of Dazle would be, but the sources told Ward that Maya was keeping an eye on a new type of AI personal assistant. According to sources, Sunshine is expecting about 15 employees to find a new role in Dazle.

“After cautiously considering the Sunshine management and its shareholders, 99.99%, the most powerful way for the company was to be included in a new company and sold with committed funds,” Mayer said through a spokesperson, Mayer said through a spokesman. “As the largest investor, shareholder and CEO of Sunshine, the Marissa team is proud to be waiting for the team to take on new opportunities around Dazle.”

Myer founded Sunshine, originally known as Lumi Labs, returned to 2018 after a five -year turn -to -end effort in Yahoo. Before becoming Yahoo’s CEO, Mai had a store career in Google, where he was an employee’s number 20. Myer designed the interface for Google Search and helped Google Map and Google Adwards.

Concept for the first product of Sunshine, an app for the management of contacts, derived from Tapping of Maiyar’s own experience Silicon Valley Luminari’s deep network when he was trying to launch his company. This app, Sunshine contacts, launched that in 2021

In the beginning, the Sunshine app was overwhelmed by the allegations that it probably violated the user’s privacy. The app, which used AI to identify and merger in your phone’s contact list, was also The data from the WhitePages is pulling the data To automatically add home address to contacts.

In 2024, Sunshine launched a photo sharing app called Shine. Like the sunshine, Shine was widely seen as flop.