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Upstart is a crowdfunding platform that lets college grads raise capital in exchange for a small share of their future income

San Mateo, United StatesFounded 2012Fintech
Valuation $3.83B Market cap · 2026
Revenue $1.42B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $297M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Mateo, United States
Listing
IPO 2020
Sector
Fintech
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News Upstart taps ABS market for $400M in consumer-loan bonds Sep 30, 2026

Investors

18 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed5 investors entered at this stage

Series A7 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later6 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 1,929 incl. 67 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 36 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 5 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 startups

Former Upstart employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ElicitEst. 2023
Jungwon ByunUnited States
Signal score89
PANTASTICEst. 2020
Tom ColeUnited States
Signal score74
DBOSEst. 2023
Andy PalmerUnited States
Signal score69
HivewireEst. 2019
Dave ChristisonUnited States
Signal score55
WellpayEst. 2019
Jonathan EngUnited States
Signal score50
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
11 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States98.6%
🇧🇷 Brazil0.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.2%
🇨🇳 China0.2%
🇮🇳 India0.1%
Top 5 of 11 shown
Web traffic by country
5.6M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States98.3%
🇨🇦 Canada0.6%
🇮🇳 India0.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.1%
🇮🇱 Israel0.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$282k

4 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Upstart was the backer or acquirer, 2021–2022. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across Upstart's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where Upstart deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        Upstart's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Upstart on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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