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Upstarts Media

Alex Konrad

Startup news starts here. Founded by veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad, Upstarts delivers in-depth reporting and analysis on the startup ecosystem, from inception through IPO.

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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 startups from the rest.

Is your startup operating like a high achiever – able to hire to...

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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 security problem.

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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: Lightfield

Before joining our meeting, CEO Keith Peiris happily spends his morning ‘burning’ tokens from his own star...

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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 of VCs behind it, per Upstarts sources.

A major plot twist in a new funding round for Town has revealed a new fault line in the...

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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+ startup sellers.

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