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Upstart
Fintech · San Mateo, United States · Founded 2012 · IPO 2020 Unicorn
Upstart mafia
Startups founded by Upstart alumni
Former Upstart employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Global footprint
Where Upstart has talent and traffic
(67 of 1,858 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$271k patent portfolio · 4 active families
Where Upstart concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Upstart and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Upstart's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Upstart appeared as a 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.
3 deals across Upstart's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Upstart's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Upstart
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Upstart on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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