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we help people show up to court & other mandatory appointments, eliminating technical violations, helping people stay out of jail & saving local governments $$$
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$3.3M
Founded date
2017
Funding Rounds 2
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| Mar 3, 2020 | Funding round | $1.3M |
Mentions in press and media 8
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| May 18, 2021 | Uptrust Closes $2M Seed Financing Round to Expand Technology That Will Help Lower Incarceration Rates, Achieve Better Outcomes for Individuals and Communities | |
| May 18, 2021 | Uptrust raises $2M to fight the billions of dollars wasted on useless mass incarceration | A technical violation is one of those Orwellian terms used by the U.S. government to occlude the absurd morass of process and procedure that is the modern criminal justice system in this country. After an offender has served their sentence,... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | How can the private sector be harnessed to reform the criminal justice system? | The U.S. criminal justice system directly impacts 6.6 million people costing more than $80 billion per year. This profoundly broken system is marred by racial disparities, extractive business practices and misaligned incentives. Around 4,00... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | Uptrust raises new money to fight mass incarceration with technology | While most technology companies are building up a surveillance state to serve political powers and private profiteering, Uptrust is using some of those same tools to make it easier to move people out of the criminal justice system. And the ... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Uptrust Raises $1.3 Million To Fight Mass Incarceration | Uptrust, a San Francisco-based technology company fighting mass incarceration, announced it raised $1.3 million Uptrust is a San Francisco-based technology company fighting mass incarceration, which announced it raised $1.3 million in fundi... |
| Mar 3, 2020 | Uptrust Raises Over $1.3M In Funding | Uptrust, a San Francisco- and Northampton, MA-based technology company fighting mass incarceration, completed a $1.3m funding round. Uptrust is a public benefit corporation supported by the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, RFK Human Right... |
| May 20, 2018 | Bail reform’s complex relationship with tech | On any given day in the United States, more than 450,000 people are behind bars awaiting their constitutionally mandated fair trial. None of them have been convicted of a crime — they’ve been accused of committing a crime, but no formal rul... |
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FAQ about Uptrust
When was Uptrust founded?
Uptrust was founded in 2017.
How much funding has Uptrust raised?
Uptrust has raised $3.3M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Uptrust raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Uptrust, among them a funding round of $1.3M on Mar 3, 2020.
What has the press written about Uptrust?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Uptrust, among them “Uptrust Closes $2M Seed Financing Round to Expand Technology That Will Help Lower Incarceration Rates, Achieve Better Outcomes for Individuals and Communities” (May 18, 2021) and “Uptrust raises $2M to fight the billions of dollars wasted on useless mass incarceration” (May 18, 2021).
Is Uptrust still active?
Yes, Uptrust is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 1, 2021.