Upstarts Media

Welcome to Upstarts Media, a new tech publication founded by veteran tech reporter @alexrkonrad.

We focus on the startup ecosystem, from inception through IPO.

Check out our Upstarts newsletter at upstartsmedia.com and on Substack.

Videos, a podcast and events to come!

Upstarts is coming to London Tech Week to co-host a breakfast with @meetgranola on 11 June in partnership with @localglobevc. 🇬🇧

Join local founders to hear @cjpedregal in conversation with @alexrkonrad about how he's building a new AI unicorn.

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Our first Subscriber Meetup is in the books, thanks to our Launch Partner @brexHQ for hosting us in SF!

We can't wait to do more of these.

Upstarts Media just officially turned 1 day old, or as we are told, 18 months in startup years.

In today's issue, @alexrkonrad shares notes from the road as he recounts deal rumblings, founder insights into ‘vibe coding' and more from a recent trip to San Francisco.

Plus sign up for our first Subscriber Meetup with @brexHQ.

More here:
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Bat signal activated 🦇

📣 Calling all pre-seed and seed stage founders 📣

We're teaming up with @mercury, @gowithengine and @CompanyVentures for a @Techweek_ roundtable on raising your first round of funding.

If you're beginning your fundraising journey, we'd love to see you.
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thanks to our launch partner @brexHQ for supporting another in-depth, paywall-free edition of the Upstarts newsletter today 👏

Bay Area builders: we still have a few spots left at our #SFTechWeek founder lunch 👀

Editor @alexrkonrad will talk agents with:
-@daytonaio CEO @ivanburazin
-@andocorporation CEO @saradu
-@get_sphere CEO @nrudder_

Co-hosted with @airwallex + @TrustVanta. Sign up below 👇

Upstarts made our @Techweek_ debut yesterday with a panel on raising your first round.

Thanks to Matthew Harrigan, @jefielding and @nchirls for bringing the real talk for founders, and to @CompanyVentures, @Mercury and @gowithengine for helping to make it happen.

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In an environment where ~20 U.S. AI startups have raised more than $100M each this year, Gamma is a black sheep. Why?

It's profitable.

The AI deck builder startup has turned A/B testing and an understated amount of funding into $50M in ARR.

Read more: upstartsmedia.com/p/gamma-ai-sta…

Margot runs our socials, in case you were wondering.

thanks to our launch partner @brexHQ for continuing to support this kind of in-depth reporting remaining fully free for readers!

Two-year-old Doss has reached $1 million in ARR by using AI to radically speed up its sales process.

Now it’s raised a Series A from Tomasz Tunguz's Theory Ventures. Can this newbie stand up to NetSuite and take ERP software into the future?

Read on:
upstartsmedia.com/p/ai-startup-t…

Anyone want to guess what startup tomorrow's issue is covering? If you guess correctly, we won't tell you, though.

Worth just a few billion five years ago, the stablecoin market is now valued at more than $230B.

Startups like Noble are fighting to carve out share in a market that’s of interest to incumbent financial institutions and fintechs. Can they pull ahead?

upstartsmedia.com/p/a-stablecoin…

Today we went deep on a startup in a category we wouldn’t have predicted until recently...note-taking apps.

Even its founder felt the same: “We begrudgingly entered into this."

But Granola's on a grander mission to build a “tool for thought." Read on:

upstartsmedia.com/p/granola-ai-m…

When Stanford’s Human-Centered AI group released a massive annual report this week, Upstarts gathered a few New York-based AI founders to see how they'd react.

Read the highlights from the report and the startup response today in Upstarts.

upstartsmedia.com/p/stanford-hai…

thanks to our launch partner @brexHQ for continuing to support in-depth, original startup reporting like today's piece!

Today's premium issue is about Nothing.

Enjoy. upstartsmedia.com/p/nothing-phon…