Alex Konrad

The New Startup Using AI To Solve Growth Marketer 'Chaos' Roadway, led by Webflow and Notion veteran Tim Dalrymple, is launching with $3.2 million in funding and customers like Clay and Decagon.

Exclusive: Startups in the AI race are throwing money at growth. But the result is often "chaos."

Roadway, a new startup by veteran Webflow and Notion growth marketer Tim Dalrymple, has launched today with $3.2M in funding and customers like Clay and Decagon to use AI tools of its own to help.

Exclusive Interview: Wiz's Co-Founder On AI, Security And Google CTO Ami Luttwak dishes on how AI has changed cybersecurity and Wiz's product roadmap -- plus life since Wiz's announced $32 billion acquisition by Google.

AI is sparking a moment of big change in cybersecurity.

I sat down with Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak to talk in depth about how his security startup is thinking about AI - as well as the latest on its $32B acquisition by Google, his take on CyberArk's big deal, and his advice for founders today.

Can a financial market for GPU compute improve access for startups, and help finance big datacenter projects better?

Today's @upstarts.bsky.social post talks to Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Milgrom about his newest project to create such a market, a partnership with startup OneChronos.

Best thing about flying Delta is the chance to watch Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s 2025 CES Keynote over and over again

Startup AIUC Launches New Certificate For Safer AI Led by an early Anthropic staffer, AIUC has raised $15 million from Nat Friedman, Emergence and others to sell a certificate of safety for AI tools, called AIUC-1, and develop an insurance market.

Can insurance underwriting and a new SOC 2-like certificate help AI startups grow faster? Or will it just create a new "racket" for them to pay?

I spoke with the founder behind the idea, AIUC CEO Rune Kvist, as well as with a bunch of other AI startup leaders, to dive in 👇

16. The Article was published in The Wall Street Journal as an exclusive.' However, since publication, Defendants have widely disseminated it to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

they’re good dogs

Transcript saying "good girl" repeatedly

Sometimes I forget to turn off my recorder and it catches me talking to my dog

Inside The Stealthy European Defense Tech Startup Raising $100 Million Defense tech startup Cambridge Aerospace has quietly raised multiple funding rounds to build products including the Skyhammer and Starhammer missiles. Upstarts has the first look at its funding histor...

I've written about startups for a decade-plus. For today's scoop on Cambridge Aerospace, a stealthy defense tech startup based in the U.K. that's raising big VC $, I turned to a career-first source:

An investor presentation posted publicly... on Vimeo.

www.upstartsmedia.com/p/inside-ste...

Yeah it's interesting, Unify is betting against fully automated SDRs and AI managing everything. Will maybe appeal to different kinds of customers...

Unify, A Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million Unify's funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month. But is a clash with GTM darling Clay coming up?

AI companies like Cursor and Perplexity are increasingly turning to tools from a smaller startup, Unify, to automate their outbound emails to potentially interested customers.

Unify's part of a new GTM software tech stack with Clay. Now it's raised $40M. I wrote about in @upstarts.bsky.social.

Cheering alone in the theater at Superman when the reporters bravely publish their story directly from the CMS

Awesome to hear it!

The 'Stoic' Startup CEO You've Never Heard Of With $1 Billion In Smartphone Sales Nothing founder Carl Pei is bringing his industrial-looking phones to the U.S. market. He knows cracking the market will take a historically-inspired approach.

I wrote today about Nothing, the smartphone company with $1B in sales you’ve probably never heard of, and whose phone some reviewers call “ugly”.

But founder Carl Pei isn’t bothered by it.

“As a startup, we have to have an opinion,” he tells @upstarts.bsky.social. “We have to be different.”

A dedicated new @upstarts.bsky.social subscriber (a GTM leader at a startup) has been steadily working his way through our entire back log of stories and commenting on each one... I am both thrilled and concerned 🤣

Starbucks to develop "coffeehouse of the future" that looks as much as possible like your local coffee shop it previously killed

Inside The Talent Battle for The 'LeBron James of LLMs'; Plus: OpenAI Salaries Revealed Top research talent can command $10 million-plus yearly salaries to switch teams like it's the NBA. Upstarts obtained OpenAI's salary bands as part of a startup's cheat sheet to the roster moves.

Exclusive: AI research labs are in a NBA-style free agency frenzy.

@upstarts.bsky.social obtained OpenAI's comp tiers for research staff, including how much each level researcher can expect in comp and the cash-equity split, as well as its pitch for why talent should turn down Meta.

folding a fitted sheet is truly the final boss of adulthood. every how-to video I watch makes it worse

Scoop: Ex-OpenAI Staffers Raise $20M For New Startup Applied Compute The reinforcement learning startup, founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is valued at $100 million pre-launch -- and has already received investment interest at 5x that price.

Scoop: 3 ex-OpenAI staffers -- all recent Stanford students -- have raised $20M for an unannounced company, Applied Compute.

The reinforcement learning startup is in tests with several other tech companies, and has fielded investment offers at valuations up to $500M, @upstarts.bsky.social learned.

Scoop: Ex-OpenAI Staffers Raise $20M For New Startup Applied Compute The reinforcement learning startup, founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is valued at $100 million pre-launch -- and has already received investment interest at 5x that price.

Scoop: 3 ex-OpenAI staffers -- all recent Stanford students -- have raised $20M for an unannounced company, Applied Compute.

The reinforcement learning startup is in tests with several other tech companies, and has fielded investment offers at valuations up to $500M, @upstarts.bsky.social learned.

How Old-School PowerPoint Decks Pushed Hebbia To Buy A Fellow Startup AI startup Hebbia's first acquisition is of FlashDocs, which generates PowerPoint presentations from a prompt. CEO George Sivulka tells Upstarts it solves a "last-mile" problem.

News: Hebbia has made its first acquisition. The AI startup is acquiring another one, FlashDocs, which makes an API for generating presentations that can be exported to PowerPoint and Google Slides.

The move solves a last-mile problem, CEO George Sivulka tells @upstarts.bsky.social exclusively.

Please tell me they moved you and comped it…

What is acceptable dress code for speaking on a tech panel when it’s 100 degrees 🥵

Vibe Check: Meet The Sequoia-Backed Startup Building Tests For AI Code Skyramp is emerging from stealth with $10 million in funding and design partners like Box and Intel. Can its automated testing improve AI-generated code? Not everyone's convinced.

Does vibe coding mean vibe testing?

Skyramp founder Nithin Michael spent 3 years working on a solution to code gen's testing limits: agents that generate tests automatically without calling LLMs itself, so you have "one leg to stand on".

He's launching from stealth today with $10M from Sequoia.

At this point I’ve gotten so many campaign texts about the NYC elections that I’m pretty sure the hot dog vendor guys have my number

'Alien Intelligence': poolside's Founders On The AI Model Race, Meta, And VC Bad Advice Jason Warner and Eiso Kant think they can still win the AI model race at poolside. They tell Upstarts how -- and why VCs are giving AI founders some bad advice. Plus code editors, Meta and more.

“It only takes one breakthrough to turn the tables.”

Amid splashy moves by OpenAI and Meta, you might be sleeping on poolside, the frontier AI lab led by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant.

I spoke to them about the model race, VC groupthink, Meta and more, for this week’s premium @upstarts.bsky.social ⬇️

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When someone messages you how great it was to meet at an event you RSVPed for but didn't make 🙃

Browserbase Raises $40M To Help AI Agents Work With Websites The 16-month-old infrastructure startup behind 'headless browsers' is now valued at $300 million and claims more than 1,000 customers. Now it's launching a tool for non-developers, called Director.

Is there such a thing as a good bot? Ethical web scraping?

Startup Browserbase argues so — claiming its headless browsers democratize publicly available data for others to build AI agents that can improve our lives.

It’s now raised $40M in funding to try to get non-developers to use it, too.

No Product. No Partnerships. No Customers: How A Smooth-Talking Crypto Founder Bamboozled Executives And Investors CEO Jeremy Jordan-Jones signed on seasoned executives for his crypto cannabis payments startup Amalgam by touting big-name customers and big revenue numbers — that didn’t exist.

In Nov 2022, @alexrkonrad.bsky.social and I wrote in @forbes.com about Jeremy Jordan-Jones, a man who made wild claims of his blockchain startup.

Last month, he was federally indicted on one count of wire fraud.

DOJ: www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

Our story: www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...