Inside Cursor’s Enterprise Push, Plus $1.8T Up For Grabs In AI64 Report
Redpoint's new report showcases 64 AI app leaders and their prospects; Upstarts goes deep with list standout Cursor's COO Jordan Topoleski for a rare interview.| Upstarts Media
Redpoint's new report showcases 64 AI app leaders and their prospects; Upstarts goes deep with list standout Cursor's COO Jordan Topoleski for a rare interview.| Upstarts Media
Led by serial founder Ian Livingstone, startup Keycard is emerging from stealth backed by a16z, boldstart and Acrew Capital to join the red-hot AI agent security race.| Upstarts Media
1,400 startup builders applied to hear Browserbase's Paul Klein IV, Decagon's Jesse Zhang and Linear's Cristina Cordova talk GTM at our latest Upstarts event. They share their 6 best tips below.| Upstarts Media
Garrett Lord's refocus of his 11-year-old startup around its fast-growing ($100M in ARR) AI business includes a layoff affecting 15% of staff.| Upstarts Media
CEO Howie Liu tells Upstarts why Airtable tapped a ChatGPT engineering leader to run its tech teams, and why he plans to keep DeepSky's 'superagent' as a standalone second product after its biggest startup buy to date.| www.upstartsmedia.com
Crosby, led by lawyer turned founder Ryan Daniels, has raised a $20 million Series A from Index and Bain Capital Ventures to expand its AI-assisted legal work.| Upstarts Media
Canva was all over OpenAI's dev day as a pilot partner for its app integration into ChatGPT. Co-founder Cameron Adams speaks exclusively with Upstarts about the partnership and Canva's wider AI strategy.| Upstarts Media
Amanda Peyton's last startup Braid had early traction before faltering. Now she's launching Pool, a new-look successor that's raised $4.5 million.| Upstarts Media
Upstarts spoke with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal about his note-taker's big Recipes launch, including one based on Matt Mochary's CEO coaching that shook him up.| Upstarts Media
Cyber startup Descope, led by 8 founders who sold their last startup to Palo Alto Networks, have raised $35 million more to take on Okta in securing a Wild West of AI agents gone rogue.| Upstarts Media
Sridhar Ramaswamy sits down with Upstarts. Plus: tips on shipping enterprise-grade products from the CEOs of Glean and Windsurf and OpenAI's startup lead.| www.upstartsmedia.com
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
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
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
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
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
