Does anyone have a crazier life than Jensen? In one week you're the guest of honor of two kings: of England, and -- more importantly -- of agentic AI CRM 👑 📸: Getty Images

What separates the software companies pulling ahead from the ones falling behind? @alexrkonrad dug into our latest research and put it plainly. His piece highlights some of the key signals we identified in our report: faster paths to $100M ARR, sustained new-logo growth, aggressive investment, and improving burn at scale. Download our annual Topline Growth and Operational Efficiency Report: @UpstartsMediaCo Disclaimer:

EXCLUSIVE: Is your startup a high-flyer or wannabe? New data from @ICONIQCapital across 100+ software companies tracks the ARR, headcount growth, OpEx spend and burn currently expected among tech's new elite. You probably need more net new logos, anon.

EXCLUSIVE: Is your startup a high-flyer or wannabe? New data from @ICONIQCapital across 100+ software companies tracks the ARR, headcount growth, OpEx spend and burn currently expected among tech's new elite. You probably need more net new logos, anon.

It's actually worse than I thought -- this account *looks* like a real @business reporter, with a blue-check, shared Bloomberg articles and comments in their feed, and legit tech CEOs following them like @BrendanFoody. But they don't have a LinkedIn, and Google search results return their own phishing tweets pretending to be reporter inquiries. Look out and report accounts like @misterbosquez, everyone 😨 cc @Support

A word to the wise for any startup folks out there: ▪️real pitches from journalists will be more specific than this extremely general, LLM-sounding story topic ▪️legit journalists do not have time to write an essay about a random call ▪️they also do not have teams who schedule prep calls for the main call lol ▪️if you get outreach like this, even from a real-seeming account, DO NOT CLICK A SCHEDULING LINK Fs in the chat for the reporter who got hacked and whose account sent me these DMs ⚰️

Just got my first scan at Neko Health's first NYC location and it felt like stepping into the future 🤯 I am someone who dreads doctor visits, blood draws, the whole nine yards. But Neko feels more like a sci-fi spa than a clinic. 6K images analyze your skin, then a bunch of scans and (relatively painless) bloodwork get turned around in time for an onsite doctor to walk you through a full-body view of your health in the room next door. In one hour, I probably learned more about my body's makeup than the rest of my life combined. My big takeaways: keep lifting weights, consume less sodium, and pretend to drink less coffee 😂 I am not an influencer and have no skin in the game here, but a big thanks to U.S. patient No. 3 @N_Sportelli and the Neko team @sarahmcbride and @shak for giving me an early look at no cost. I already shelled out my $499 via random HSA card for a 2nd scan in 6 months. Well done, @HNilsonne -- let's talk about it more on The Upstarts Podcast soon 👀

EXCLUSIVE: stealth startup Accomplish reported vulnerabilities in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor this summer. One wasn't fixed for 50 days 👀 Founders @AmitAvner and @_orcaman warn about wider sandbox security issues with coding tools from the AI labs.

"Building software is not the hard part, it's maintaining the software and running it." @TrustVanta CEO @christinacaci isn’t worried about AI taking her job. Vanta has an advantage no one else has. Private Tokens. This season is brought to you by @Rippling.

And... all hacked 🦇 Thanks @alexrkonrad for covering some of our work: Following fixes shipped from all labs, we will be posting a series of more technical posts, depicting the details of the sandbox escapes, starting with 🥁 Beltdown: an RCE made possible due to a Claude Code Sandbox escape:

EXCLUSIVE: stealth startup Accomplish reported vulnerabilities in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor this summer. One wasn't fixed for 50 days 👀 Founders @AmitAvner and @_orcaman warn about wider sandbox security issues with coding tools from the AI labs.

Exclusive: Clair, which offers early wage access to U.S. workers, has reached a $100M run rate in less than 2 years. I spoke to CEO @nicosimko about why he believes his fintech, which partners with Gusto and TriNet, is the "fairest" option in market.

“Evals are really the operating system for every single AI company.” — @ShivdevRao Abridge CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Shiv Rao joined @UpstartsMediaCo’s @alexrkonrad to talk about how AI evaluations help Abridge deliver a better product.

Wow @getclair is at $100M revenue run rate (in <2 yrs) up 10x from just over a year ago, according to a new @UpstartsMediaCo profile Clair offers embedded earned wage access, distributed through payroll + workforce platforms like Gusto, QuickBooks & TriNet rather than a standalone consumer app Some stats on the biz: - $2B annualized wage advance volume - Live at 300K+ businesses (5%+ of all US businesses) - ~600K monthly active users - Reached positive cash flow this year Founded in ‘19 - the original product was a consumer neobank: free wage advances as the wedge to get workers banking with Clair and then monetized on interchange. They killed the consumer accounts in early ‘25 & relaunched as pure embedded EWA infra inside payroll platforms, monetizing instant transfer fees $69M total raised, most recently a $23.2M Series B led by @upfrontvc in May ’25