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Exclusive: Why Zendesk Just Committed $100M To Startups
The 10x bigger commitment is all about flexibility, and relevance, in the AI moment. For startups, it's shopping time, as other SaaS survivors will…
May 20
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Alex Konrad
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Why A Software Startup With $300M In ARR Is Refocusing Its Entire Business
Remote was cash-flow positive and growing. In the AI era, CEO Job van der Voort says that wasn't enough.
May 14
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Alex Konrad
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These Startups Can Capitalize On AI Security's Coming Boom (And Doom)
Notable Capital's Rising in Cyber 2026 list and report show an urgent lag in the race to secure AI agents, and a wave of startups hoping to help…
May 12
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Alex Konrad
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Meet The DJing a16z Alum Who Raised $30M For New VC Firm Worldbuild
New Yorker 'Renaissance man' and a16z alum Sumeet Singh has raised $30M for a thesis-driven fund that invests early in startups like SF Compute.
May 6
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Alex Konrad
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Runway’s Cris Valenzuela: Building The Video AI That OpenAI Couldn’t
Runway builds video models for Hollywood, amateur filmmakers and corporate types. Its Brooklyn-based CEO joins The Upstarts Podcast to share how he…
May 1
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Alex Konrad
9
April 2026
Meet The Startup Hiring Future Founders To Work As Forward Deployed Engineers
Serval needs more top talent on its big accounts. So the AI unicorn is launching Serval Start, a novel program offering accelerated equity vesting to…
Apr 28
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Alex Konrad
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Scoop: Apple's Former AI Chief John Giannandrea To Join Science Startup CuspAI
The former Apple Intelligence and Siri lead will help the U.K. materials lab hire top talent in the U.S. and plans to advise several other AI startups…
Apr 27
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Alex Konrad
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Medicare's 'Most Hated' Man: Chapter's Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz
Chapter has reached $100M in revenue and a $3B valuation by helping seniors get cheaper care. How its ex-Palantir CEO is doing it -- and sparking new…
Apr 26
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Alex Konrad
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Scoop: How A Board Departure And Product Launch Sparked An Anthropic And Figma Feud
Sources tell Upstarts what CEO Dylan Field privately said about Claude Design's launch, why Anthropic didn't expect a spat, and why startups should…
Apr 23
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Alex Konrad
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Would You Try This AI-Powered Email App?
Extra, a consumer app founded by 3 Pinterest vets, launches today with $9.5M in funding and AI features it hopes can shake your loyalty to Gmail.
Apr 21
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Alex Konrad
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The Data Problem Holding Back AI In Women's Health
How the CEOs of Oura and Midi Health are attacking it. Plus: Miro and Gamma founders on how agents are turning us all into execs, like it or not.
Apr 17
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Alex Konrad
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Cohere's Aidan Gomez On Sovereign AI, Turning Down Big Tech Money, And An IPO
The Canadian co-author of the Transformer paper shares why he's building a frontier AI model lab outside Silicon Valley on The Upstarts Podcast.
Apr 16
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Alex Konrad
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