Fund individuals, a new perspective!
Their first upstarts are funded by the following backers
Upstart about
Upstart allows you to raise capital in exchange for a
small portion of your future income. It’s a new and very different service, but
it's not for everybody. By becoming an upstart, you are telling the world and
your backers that you want to build a compelling and worthwhile career. And
you’re committed to repaying the backers who have taken a chance on you.
In celebration of our first
birthday as a company, we created this birthday cardto show
you what we’ve been up to. Today we’re happy to announce:
- We’ve closed a
$5.9M Series A funding round (in addition to $1.75M raised in April 2012)
- New Upstart
investors include Founder’s Fund, Khosla Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Eric
Schmidt, Marc Benioff, and Scott Banister.
- Since launching in
November, more than $1M in funding offers have been made to upstarts.
- We’ve published more than 80 upstart and 135 backer profiles to our site. 555 unique funding offers have been made to date.
We’re also excited
to announce two new advisors who are joining Upstart:
- Bob Kerrey, Former
Governor of Nebraska, US Senator, President of The New School, US Navy Seal,
and Executive Chairman of the Minerva Institute
- Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org and founder & CEO of ProFounder
We’re just getting
started, but we’d like to thank all those who have helped us come this far!
