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Location: United States, California, Santa Monica
Employees: 1-10
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B
Portfolio 24
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 17.08.2024 | Sun Day Ca... | sundaycarwash.com | - | United Sta... |
| 11.04.2023 | Aionics, I... | aionics.io | - | United Sta... |
| 11.04.2023 | REPOWR | repowr.com | $4.2M | United Kin... |
| 23.03.2023 | Pull Syste... | pull.systems | - | United Sta... |
| 10.02.2023 | Teleo | teleo.ai | $12M | United Sta... |
| 04.01.2023 | BeyondMath | beyondmath.com | $8.5M | United Kin... |
| 01.01.2023 | Loft Dynam... | loftdynamics.com | $20M | Switzerlan... |
| 01.01.2023 | Range Ener... | range.energy | $31.5M | United Sta... |
| 05.06.2022 | Kolors | kolors.com.mx | $26M | Mexico, Ch... |
| 30.09.2021 | Quincus | quincus.com | $100M | Singapore |
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Persons 7
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Brian | McClendon | Venture Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | b***n@up.p... | - |
| - | George | Durzi | - | linkedin.c... | - | g****e@up.... | - |
| - | Joshua | Schachter | - | linkedin.c... | - | J****a@up.... | - |
| - | Ben | Marcus | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | b*n@up.par... | - |
| - | Jen | Nguyen | - | linkedin.c... | - | j*n@up.par... | - |
| - | Luciano | Froes | Partner &a... | linkedin.c... | - | l*****o@up... | - |
| - | Ally | Warson | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | a**y@up.pa... | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2024 | BeyondMath: Revolutionizing Engineering with AI-Powered Simulations | In the world of engineering, speed and precision are paramount. Enter BeyondMath, a startup that recently secured $8.5 million in seed funding to reshape how we approach complex simulations. This innovative company is not just another tech ... |
| 20.08.2024 | BeyondMath secures $8.5M for multiphysics simulation platform | BeyondMath, a leader in advanced engineering simulation, has raised $8.5M in Seed funding led by UP.Partners with significant participation from Insight Partners and InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of JLR. This funding supports Beyond... |
| 05.10.2023 | Alaska Airlines launches aviation-focused startup program with Los Angeles venture lab | An Alaska Airlines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The airline is partnering with UP.Labs to launch an aviation venture lab. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Alaska Airlines wants to help more startups take off. The Sea... |
| 17.03.2023 | Pull Systems launches out of Up.Labs-Porsche partnership to tackle EV performance | When Porsche partnered with venture studio UP.Labs, the mission was to create six startups over three years all designed to solve the German automaker’s biggest problems and be compelling enough as a standalone business it that can attract ... |
| 13.02.2023 | Uber and Lyft earnings diverge, a self-driving truck roadblock emerges and Redwood Materials lands a big one | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, y... |
| 10.02.2023 | The pilot shortage is slowly easing — but isn't going away anytime soon. Autonomous planes could fill the gap. | The pilot shortage is due to a combination of factors, including baby boomers reaching the mandatory retirement age at 65 and a diminishing pool of potential candidates. Additionally, during the Covid-19 pandemic many pilots were encouraged... |
| 01.12.2022 | How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators | One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. CVC boomed through last year, leading TechCrunch to interview a number of CVC investors last August to better understand the ... |
| 10.06.2022 | Why Porsche is turning to startup builder UP.Labs to solve its biggest problems | John Kuolt hates the term “incubator” — at least when describing UP.Labs, a new venture that launched this week with inaugural partner Porsche. “It has a connotation that we aren’t,” the CEO and founder of UP.Labs told TechCrunch. So what i... |
| 06.06.2022 | The Station: Ford’s vision for dealerships and Rimac’s big raise | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future mea... |
| 03.06.2022 | Carlyle’s CEO says he is on alert as recession looms | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Carlyle Group CEO Kewsong Lee wants everyone to know that he isn’t concerned—but he’s certainly o... |
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