News site The Messenger on Wednesday dismissed a report that the money-bleeding startup would shut down by the end of the month as “beyond absurd.” Board members met last Friday and weighed closing Jimmy Finkelstein’s embattled company — which just launched last May — after learning that it is “on track to run out of cash at the end of January,” Semafor reported earlier in the day. However, a spokesman shot down the accuracy of the rival news outlet. “We have already secured investment as part of our second raise, and so the notion of us discussing closure is beyond absurd,” a spokeswoman for The Messenger told The Post. News of…
