Upstart Capital

Upstart Capital is a financial organization based in Palo Alto, California, that operates as a venture capital firm. While specific details about its operations and investment focus remain largely undisclosed, it is recognized within the venture capital landscape for its role in funding and supporting emerging businesses.

Michael Spindler

Managing Partner

6 past transactions

Sera Prognostics

Series A in 2011
Sera Prognostics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on developing diagnostic tests that assess a woman's individual risk of premature birth, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, stillbirth, and other pregnancy-related complications. Founded in 2008, Sera aims to improve maternal and neonatal health while addressing the significant economic and healthcare burdens associated with premature birth. The company's proprietary proteomics and bioinformatics platform underpins its pipeline of innovative diagnostic tests, including the PreTRM® Test, which provides physicians with critical information to identify women at higher risk for spontaneous premature delivery. By enabling earlier proactive interventions, Sera seeks to enhance pregnancy care and reduce healthcare delivery costs.

Sera Prognostics

Series A in 2011
Sera Prognostics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on developing diagnostic tests that assess a woman's individual risk of premature birth, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, stillbirth, and other pregnancy-related complications. Founded in 2008, Sera aims to improve maternal and neonatal health while addressing the significant economic and healthcare burdens associated with premature birth. The company's proprietary proteomics and bioinformatics platform underpins its pipeline of innovative diagnostic tests, including the PreTRM® Test, which provides physicians with critical information to identify women at higher risk for spontaneous premature delivery. By enabling earlier proactive interventions, Sera seeks to enhance pregnancy care and reduce healthcare delivery costs.

OpenTable

Series C in 2000
OpenTable is an online restaurant booking service founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers a platform that allows guests to discover and reserve tables at restaurants, facilitating connections between diners and eateries. OpenTable operates multiple websites and mobile applications, enabling users to find restaurants and make reservations easily. Its services are available internationally, and the company continues to expand its presence through various teams and offices worldwide, enhancing the dining experience for users and supporting restaurants in reaching their communities.

SAN Valley Systems

Series B in 2000
SAN Valley is a privately held Silicon Valley company whose mission is to deliver high reliability, cost effective, next generation storage infrastructure solutions to enterprise and service providers worldwide. SAN Valley is developing high performance end-to-end optical edge access products to address the multi-billion dollar market opportunity for delivering value-added storage connectivity into enterprise, service provider and carrier networks.

ZMarket.com

Series A in 2000
ZMarket.com is the complete channel management solution for product suppliers, optimizing their relationships with resellers. To alleviate the margin squeeze and channel conflicts forced upon suppliers in recent times, ZMarket.com delivers a powerful e-commerce platform and value-added services. The platform consists of a hosted technology foundation to manage multi-channel and customer relationships and create specific pricing, promotions and discount programs with resellers. The platform includes flexible, seamless integration with all trading partners and is deployed with unparalleled speed. The company`s value-added services include optimized logistics and multi-mode fulfillment, dynamic merchandising, real-time content creation and distribution and proactive sales and marketing.

Netactive

Series B in 2000
NetActive is an independent privately held company with offices in the United States and Canada. NetActive positions itself as a digital rights management company. Based in Ottawa, Canada, NetActive develops digital rights management technology that provides protection and management of a host of valuable digital content.
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