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Would You Trust AI To Help Raise Your Round?
Brash chatbot Boardy promised to help 100 startup founders fundraise by year's end. Upstarts has the story on what happened next.
23 hrs ago
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Alex Konrad
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December 2025
More Bangers, More Fun: 6 Upstarts Media Resolutions For 2026
Looking back at what stories worked, what didn’t, and where we’re excited to spend more time with Upstarts next year.
Dec 31, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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The New Vibe Coding Startup Taking Aim At Lovable (And Everyone Else)
Kilo Code, cofounded by GitLab’s former CEO, has launched an App Builder in just 6 weeks, Upstarts exclusively reports.
Dec 22, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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Deep Dive: As Smaller VC Firms Build AI Tools To Compete, Founders Should (Mostly) Benefit
Challengers like Alpaca VC, DVC and Topology Ventures are going beyond ChatGPT: “We want to give everybody their own personal AI analyst, so they can…
Dec 16, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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Why Lyft's CEO Is Embracing Waymo And 'Falcon Mode' For Its Turnaround
Lyft CEO David Risher talks about balancing short-term and long-term vision and the 'dark side' to Founder Mode in an Upstarts interview.
Dec 12, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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She Helped Launch ChatGPT. She's Back With A New Startup To Bridge The AI Value Gap
Worktrace AI founders Angela Jiang and Deepak Vasisht are launching a workflow automation agent backed by $9M from Conviction, 8VC, OpenAI and prominent…
Dec 11, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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Data: Zombie VC Firms Walk Among Us
A new study by Carta shows that later-cycle funds raised in 2021 and 2022 have dramatically slowed down their investment pace. Here's what it means for…
Dec 4, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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Scoop: Stripe Is Paying $1 Billion For Startup Metronome – Here’s Why
The deal announced yesterday will double Metronome’s valuation in less than a year, sources tell Upstarts. And it’s all about AI software growth.
Dec 3, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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November 2025
Their Startup Raised $131M And Nearly Died. A Hard Pivot To AI Has Them On The Way Back.
Sales engineering startup Vivun had buzz and a $500M+ valuation. Then it hit a wall. CEO Matt Darrow's refocus around AI agent Ava has it growing again.
Nov 25, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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Protein Diet: Inside The Bezos-Backed Biotech Training AI To Fight Disease
Profluent CEO Ali Madani has raised $106M from Altimeter and Jeff Bezos to generate drug-boosting molecules from new AI models built with the world's…
Nov 21, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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This Startup Can Track If Your AI Code Is Worth It
Span's 'developer intelligence' software helps Ramp and Vanta track how engineers spend their time, and which AI code editors they use. Now it's raised…
Nov 17, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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They're Building An AI Expert Network. Would You Ask It For Help?
SuperMe is launching with $6.8M in funding to connect users with AI versions of highly-online experts like Elena Verna, Lenny Rachitsky... and me.
Nov 11, 2025
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Alex Konrad
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