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Funding and backers

Total raised
$26.6M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$6.5M
Seed · Feb 2025 · 20 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
1
Stage 2 Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
20 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
10/100
a new city
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 20, 2025 Raised a round Seed $6.5M · Silicon Prairie News Nov 16, 2017 Raised a round Venture round $20.1M · SEC Form D 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Feb 2025 $6.5M — Silicon Prairie News
Venture round Nov 2017 $20.1M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity UpWell Holding, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Matt SimasExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Alison Conrad-WistnerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Upwell automates freight AR from invoice to payment. Purpose-built for brokers, carriers, and 3PLs. Reduce DSO, eliminate manual billing work, and get paid faster.

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Shared investors1
Stage 2 CapitalVia a fund
106 portfolio companies: WISBOO HOLDING LLC, Wizerr, Stage2 and 103 more

News

News YahooFinance 5 months ago
Freight billing gets AI boost as Kleinschmidt backs Upwell
Carriers on Kleinschmidt's network can now route invoices directly through Upwell's audit engine for faster payment processing. The post Freight billing gets AI boost as Kleinschmidt backs Upwell appeared first on FreightWaves.
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News PE Hub 8 months ago
Crestview-backed Upwell Water spins out Turnclear
The transaction coincides with Nuveen investing in Turnclear.
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News Silicon Prairie News 1 year ago
Logistics billing startup Upwell raises $6.5 million seed round
Upwell seeks to solve payment processing inefficiencies in the logistics industry through its AI-driven platform. The startup's journey highlights the opportunities in Nebraska for startups in the logistics and supply chain spaces.
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News PE Hub 6 years ago
Crestview invests in Upwell Water
Crestview Partners has made an investment in Upwell Water LLC, a San Francisco-based water-focused specialty finance company.
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Press release PRNewswire 6 years ago
Crestview Partners To Invest In Upwell Water LLC To Create A $1 Billion Specialty Finance Company Focused On Enabling A Sustainable Water Future
/PRNewswire/ -- Funds managed by Crestview Partners ("Crestview") announced today an investment into Upwell Water LLC ("Upwell Water" or the "Company"), a San...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Upwell over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Practices & domains
Machine Learning
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People

Matt Simas
Executive Officer, Director
Alison Conrad-Wistner
Executive Officer, Director
Justin Reber
Director
Ron Heinz
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
56/100
Growing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Omaha
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South Jordan United States
HQ
Omaha United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $125k – $232k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
JavaScript
TypeScript
Copilot
Cursor
Windsurf
OCR
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Management
QuickBooks
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Financials

Total raised
$26.6M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2025 $6.5M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2017 $20.1M Details