With $3.6 million in funding from Homebrew and Ludlow Ventures, Albanese's Stir is working on tools and software for influencers to run their businesses. Stir has released a number of one-off software products, too, such as Presubscribe.me, which helps a creator build a fanbase before going independent, and OnlyTweet, which builds a paywall-protected Twitter account. Prior to cofounding Stir, Albanese was on the founding team of Yik Yak and then went to work at Facebook as a product designer.