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Synthesia’s AI Avatars Can Now Conduct Live Surveys. I Made One To Try.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO of $4B video AI startup Synthesia, chats with Upstarts about how interactive AI avatars could save us time -- and why he doesn’t…
Oct 2
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Alex Konrad
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September 2026
Exclusive: Sierra Gives Its AI Agent Builder More Rein To Run
The $15.8B AI unicorn’s upgraded agent-as-a-service tool Ghostwriter is a lot more proactive as of today, co-founder Clay Bavor tells Upstarts, as…
Sep 28
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Alex Konrad
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Inside The Invite-Only App For Booking New York’s Hottest Restaurant Tables
Stealth startup Spot’s AI agents have quietly snagged reservations at NYC hotspots like Via Carota and Le Veau d’Or for months – without user bans. I…
Sep 27
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Alex Konrad
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Growth Numbers That Can Tell Whether Your Startup Is Elite Or Cooked
Faster to $100M. Higher OpEx and hiring. Surprisingly low burn. New ICONIQ data shared exclusively with Upstarts shows what separates winning software…
Sep 17
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Alex Konrad
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Claude Code, Codex, And Cursor Have Leaky Sandbox Problems You Don’t Hear About
Stealth startup Accomplish’s founders flagged issues to Anthropic, Cursor and OpenAI this summer. They warn that coding agents have a bigger, structural…
Sep 10
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Alex Konrad
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Fast-Growing AI Sales Startup Lightfield Raises $47M For Its ‘Business World Model’
CEO Keith Peiris took Lightfield from a painful pivot to 5,000 business customers, 400% net dollar retention, and a Series A led by a16z.
Sep 9
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Alex Konrad
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SCOOP: Conflict With Instinct Knocks Index Out Of Town’s Buzzy New Raise
Exclusive details on Town’s new $90M fundraise at a $1B valuation, and the eleventh-hour cap table reshuffling behind it, per Upstarts sources.
Sep 3
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Alex Konrad
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What Fetches Top Dollar On The Dead Startup Data Marketplace?
Demand for company code and workplace data is soaring at AI labs and new vertical players. SimpleClosure CEO Dori Yona breaks down data from 350…
Sep 3
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Alex Konrad
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August 2026
I Went On An AI Show. It Made Me Feel Better About Human News.
Inside the good, the bad, and the ugly of a 24-hour live AI broadcast experiment by video startup Mirage.
Aug 30
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Alex Konrad
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This AI Startup’s New Model Could Unlock Cost-Effective Computer Use
Computer use still hasn’t taken off. Yutori says it’s solved the problem with n2, a 27B parameter model that delivers frontier performance at a fraction…
Aug 26
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Alex Konrad
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‘Maybe I’m Psycho’: Why Tech Founders And VCs Are So Online
AI psychosis, prediction markets, and why it feels like everyone in tech right now is terminally online.
Aug 23
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Alex Konrad
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How Fintech Clair Hit A $100M Run Rate By Offering Workers The 'Fairest' Early Access To Wages
CEO Nico Simko spent years cracking a business model he says can provide better access to credit for millions of working Americans. Now it's growing…
Aug 11
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Alex Konrad
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