The legal tech startup is now valued at $3 billion, and its newest investor, Qualtrics billionaire Ryan Smith, is bullish. Other founders say Utah still has work to do in the AI era.| Upstarts Media
Startups like the newly-launched Logical Intelligence, and the Robinhood CEO's new venture Harmonic, are pushing math-heavy "formal verification" models to secure AI code.| Upstarts Media
Year-old startup Console works with Ramp, Flock Safety and Scale AI. Now it's raised a $23 million Series A to go beyond IT, too.| Upstarts Media
Upstarts interviewed Klarna co-founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski at NYSE during its drama-free IPO week to talk his visit to Sam Walton's grave, stablecoin adoption, his own Cursor use and more.| Upstarts Media
Founded by two ex-Apple PhDs, Nuance Labs has raised $10 million from Accel to train its own AI model, then ship a next-gen companion app.| www.upstartsmedia.com
In the media and AI great debate, Every co-founder Dan Shipper can wear both hats. His advices comes Sir Richard Branson approved.| Upstarts Media
Startup HappyRobot, led by Pablo Palafox, his brother Javi and friend Luis Paarup, has raised a $44 million Series B to bring real-world AI benefits to shipping and freight.| Upstarts Media
The 80-year-old software billionaire shares startup and life lessons that have kept him "all in" while running a high-impact global business for 50+ years.| Upstarts Media
London-based Delfa already speeds up patient enrollment for 50-plus live clinical trials. Now it's raised $3.8 million from Air Street to build a CRM on top.| Upstarts Media
Meta has talked deals with Midjourney and video AI startups including HeyGen and Krea as part of its researcher talent hunt, sources tell Upstarts, while Midjourney has pursued other partnerships.| www.upstartsmedia.com
Y Combinator alum careCycle thinks its AI calls are better for Medicare policy sellers and senior citizens alike. Now it's raised $2 million to build a Medicare-focused CRM.| Upstarts Media
In an exclusive Upstarts interview, CEO Shoaib Makani talks AI, Motive's international plans and his biggest mistake building in startup building.| Upstarts Media
Canadian startup Mecka AI launches with $8 million and brash young founders looking to build the Scale AI for robotics data.| Upstarts Media
Cohere spent 18 months building North, its new platform for AI agents. Its CEO argues the flagship product could revive enterprise adoption of AI tools.| Upstarts Media
Roadway, led by Webflow and Notion veteran Tim Dalrymple, is launching with $3.2 million in funding and customers like Clay and Decagon.| www.upstartsmedia.com
CTO Ami Luttwak dishes on how AI has changed cybersecurity and Wiz's product roadmap -- plus life since Wiz's announced $32 billion acquisition by Google.| Upstarts Media
OneChronos teamed up with prize-winning economist Paul Milgrom of Auctionomics to develop the world's first financial market for GPU compute. Now comes the hard part.| Upstarts Media
Led by an early Anthropic staffer, AIUC has raised $15 million from Nat Friedman, Emergence and others to sell a certificate of safety for AI tools, called AIUC-1, and develop an insurance market.| Upstarts Media
Inforcer's software helps IT shops manage security for SMB clients. Now the startup's raised $35 million in a Series B round to get them AI-ready, too.| www.upstartsmedia.com
Defense tech startup Cambridge Aerospace has quietly raised multiple funding rounds to build products including the Skyhammer and Starhammer missiles. Upstarts has the first look at its funding history and plans.| Upstarts Media
Unify's funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month. But is a clash with GTM darling Clay coming up?| www.upstartsmedia.com
New quarterly funding data from Crunchbase shows that just 11 mostly-AI companies raising $1 billion-plus rounds account for 1/3 of all startup funding so far this year. Here's what VCs say about it.| www.upstartsmedia.com
Top research talent can command $10 million-plus yearly salaries to switch teams like it's the NBA. Upstarts obtained OpenAI's salary bands as part of a startup's cheat sheet to the roster moves.| www.upstartsmedia.com
The reinforcement learning startup, founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is valued at $100 million pre-launch -- and has already received investment interest at 5x that price.| www.upstartsmedia.com
Skyramp is emerging from stealth with $10 million in funding and design partners like Box and Intel. Can its automated testing improve AI-generated code? Not everyone's convinced.| www.upstartsmedia.com
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Jason Warner and Eiso Kant think they can still win the AI model race at poolside. They tell Upstarts how -- and why VCs are giving AI founders some bad advice. Plus code editors, Meta and more.| www.upstartsmedia.com
The 16-month-old infrastructure startup behind 'headless browsers' is now valued at $300 million and claims more than 1,000 customers. Now it's launching a tool for non-developers, called Director.| www.upstartsmedia.com
This week's free edition of Upstarts dives into the new note-taking tool that's all the rage with VCs and founders alike.| www.upstartsmedia.com
Modern Technical Fund founder Amanda Robson embodies a startup zeitgeist that favors technical founders and an always-on, fly-anywhere approach. Now, she's raised a $22 million fund to back them, too.| www.upstartsmedia.com
AI startup CEO Grant Lee has turned obsessive A/B testing – and a healthy distrust of venture capital – into 50 million in ARR and profits to go with 50 million users. Plus: Upstarts is on the road.| www.upstartsmedia.com