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Blog 29 days ago
Growth Numbers That Can Tell Whether Your Startup Is Elite Or Cooked
Is your startup operating like a high achiever - able to hire top tier talent, with a steady stream of interested venture capitalists at your door - or is it more of a striver?According to new data, a few markers can suggest whether you're keeping pace, f
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Blog 1 month ago
Claude Code, Codex, And Cursor Have Leaky Sandbox Problems You Don't Hear About
Accomplish founders Or Hiltch, Amit Avner and Guy Zipori think new AI models make formerly low-priority vulnerabilities now high-risk. Credit: AccomplishLast week, two veteran founders of a still stealthy startup called Accomplish, spent visited San Franc
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Blog 1 month ago
Fast-Growing AI Sales Startup Lightfield Raises $47M For Its 'Business World Model'
Lightfield's Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani with additional co-founders Jack Reed, Pete Nichols and Ves Stoyanov. Credit: LightfieldBefore joining our meeting, CEO Keith Peiris happily spends his morning 'burning' tokens from his own startup, Lightfield.
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Press release 1 month ago
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 of VCs behind it, per Upstarts sources.
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Blog 1 month ago
What Fetches Top Dollar On The Dead Startup Data Marketplace?
The SimpleClosure team, with CEO Dori Yona at center, has helped list nearly 500 million lines of code across 3,000 repositories. Credit: SimpleClosureIn the humming new market for dead company data, not all code is created equal.Like wines from rarer vin
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Blog 2 months ago
I Went On An AI Show. It Made Me Feel Better About Human News.
Several weeks ago, just before 9am, I sat down with an online news channel, Mirage News Network, to talk about the state of startup news.As far as such interviews go, it wasn't my best. When I quipped that Upstarts is like a Mazda competing with big newsr
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Blog 2 months ago
This AI Startup's New Model Could Unlock Cost-Effective Computer Use
Yutori founders Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das and Dhruv Batra think their new model can unlock cost-effective computer use. Credit: YutoriWhat happens when AI models can operate a computer more efficiently than a person - not just writing code or calling APIs
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Blog 2 months ago
'Maybe I'm Psycho': Why Tech Founders And VCs Are So Online
Tech Twitter isn't the Matrix, even if it feels that way sometimes. Credit: loops7 via Getty ImagesIs your favorite startup CEO terminally online?A quirk of hosting a podcast is that you quickly learn the internet habits of your guests. Some will be up-to
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Blog 2 months ago
How Fintech Clair Hit A $100M Run Rate By Offering Workers The 'Fairest' Early Access To Wages
Clair co-founders Nico Simko and Alex Kostecki say their startup's moat is "death by one thousand cuts." Credit: ClairThe UpshotOn the website of Nico Simko's startup, Clair, you'll find an unusual stat: percentage of U.S. businesses that offer his compan
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Blog 2 months ago
They Knew He Was A Scammer, So They Offered Him A Job
When the job applicant logged on, he looked nothing like his profile. Credit: CheckrOn April 8, recruiters and a hiring manager at startup Checkr logged on to meet over video chat with a promising applicant for an engineering role. And immediately, they k
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