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May 16, 2017
The Tesla of Alternative Lending
deBanked, Gerelyn Terzo
September 12, 2017
Upstart, the Brainchild of Google Execs, Is Using Fintech to Make Smarter Loans
Dustin Blitchok, Benzinga
September 14, 2017
CFPB Gives Boost to New Ways of Vetting Customers for Credit
Peter Rudegeair, Wall Street Journal
June 6, 2017
Upstart Consumer Lender Launches First Securitization
Allison Bisbey, Asset Securitization Report (American Banker)
February 13, 2018
Upstart Named to Forbes Fintech 50 2018
Forbes staff, Forbes Magazine
January 12, 2018
How Fintech Is Targeting Millennials Using AI And Machine-Learning
David Semerad, Forbes
October 23, 2017
Upstart’s Top Lawyer Embraces Fintech’s Legal Gray Areas
Chris Bruce, Bloomberg Law
December 20, 2017
BankMobile Deploys AI, Alternative Data to Lend to Thin-File Millennials
Penny Crosman, American Banker
April 24, 2018
Upstart CEO Dave Girouard Talks Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Personal Loans
Andrew Rombach, LendEDU
May 30, 2018
Charge Up Your Financial Life with Upstart: An Interview with Anna Counselman
Laura Pourinski, RewardExpert.com
March 21, 2018
Podcast with Jungwon Byun, Head of Growth at Upstart
Dipika Sen, Wharton Fintech Podcast
November 15, 2017
Upstart Slashes Cost of Funds with Latest Securitization
Sasha Padbidri, Global Capital
April 23, 2014
Upstart Offers 3-Year Loans To Help Recent College Grads
Silicon Beat, Heather Somerville
April 23, 2014
Upstart offers loans for coding boot camps
SF Chronicle, Kathleen Pender
April 23, 2014
A 23 Year Old Backed By Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt, and Peter Thiel Leads Upstart to Take on Lending Club and Prosper
Lend Academy, Jason Jones
April 29, 2014
Upstart keeps innovating lending models to finance the young and ambitious
BetaBoston, Dennis Keohane
May 22, 2014
Betting On Consumer Lending To Millennials
Fox Business, After The Bell
May 9, 2014
The Intrinsic Humanity of the Online Lending Revolution
Lending Memo, Simon Cunningham
April 24, 2014
When Harvard helps: Upstart digs through your ed background before giving you a loan
Venture Beat, Eric Blattberg
May 21, 2014
Future of Student Borrowing: Interview with Upstart's CEO and Founder
About.com, Zac Miller
April 24, 2014
Why Upstart Thinks It’s Cracked the Code on Young People
Slate, Alison Griswold
May 9, 2017
More Than a Quarter of Upstart’s Loans Are Now Fully Automated
Bank Innovation, Diana Asatryan
September 15, 2017
Good News for Fintech Seen in CFPB's No-Action Move
Penny Crosman, American Banker
June 26, 2018
AI Has a Bias Problem: These Companies Are Working to Find a Solution
Chris Joslin, Fortune
September 14, 2017
CFPB Announces First No-Action Letter to Upstart to Gain Input on Alternative Credit, Better Serve Credit-Invisible
Brena Swanson, HousingWire.com
March 7, 2018
How Upstart Is Helping Increase Access to Credit
Bloomberg News
June 25, 2014
Upstart Loans Review – Benefiting Borrowers with Unique Underwriting
(P)eer & Social Lending, Ryan Lichtenwald
June 25, 2014
Your New Loan Officer Is Software
Forbes, Tom Groenfeldt
June 23, 2014
Upstart Makes Changes Today That Benefit Investors
Lend Academy, Peter Renton
June 2, 2014
Would You Rather Use Your Credit Score or Your College GPA to Apply for a Loan?
Nerd Wallet, Lindsay Konsko
June 8, 2014
Investing in people with potential — with Upstart’s Dave Girouard
Tradestreaming, Zack Miller
July 1, 2014
Google Data Analysis Sheds New Light On Consumer Lending Process
Fierce Fiance, Renee Caruthers
July 8, 2014
An Alternative Lender Whose Credit Reviews Are Academic
American Banker, Sarah Todd
July 10, 2014
Exclusive Q&A with Upstart Founder and CEO, Dave Girouard
Payment Weekly, Kevin Xu
July 16, 2014
How Upstart Gives Loans To Young Adults Without Credit Scores
Money Under 30, Lou Carlozo
July 30, 2014
The Recession Generation: How Millennials Are Changing Money Management Forever
Forbes, Samantha Sharf
August 15, 2014
Upstart’s P2P Lending Platform Aims at Young Borrowers
Techonomy, Adam Ludwig
October 16, 2014
Upstart: An Elegant Lending Platform for a More Civilized Age
Wall Street Cheat Sheet, Dan Ritter
October 22, 2014
Bloomberg Radio
The Bloomberg Advantage, Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn
October 29, 2014
P2P Lending
Wharton FinTech blog, Sasha Dobrolioubov
October 29, 2014
Get Out of Credit Card Debt -- With a Little Help From Your Peers
Huffington Post, Shindy Chen
March 9, 2016
Upstart Review
Merchant Maverick, Bianca Crouse
November 18, 2014
Risk Analysis: Is It Based On The Big Data Picture?
Dataversity, Jennifer Zaino
November 25, 2014
Getting a Loan from Upstart vs. Your Bank: Which is Better for Young Borrowers?
My Bank Tracker, Rebecca Lake
December 11, 2014
Strapped for college cash? New ways to borrow
CNBC, Kelli B. Grant
December 17, 2014
Your Next Loan Shouldn’t Be From a Bank
Money Talks News, Maryalene LaPonsie
December 24, 2014
Upstart’s CEO Sees Boom and Shakeout in Online Lending in 2015
Xconomy, Bernadette Tansey
January 21, 2015
A Piece of the Action
Forbes, Laura Shin
January 21, 2015
Young, Broke and Creditworthy
Forbes, Laura Shin
January 22, 2015
Catching the Online Lending Wave, Ryan Randall, CFO, Upstart
CFO Thought Leader
January 26, 2015
Trading College for Credit: Interview with Paul Gu of Upstart
Under 30 CEO, Michael Luchies
March 3, 2015
The Millennial Generation Will Redefine and Drive the Future of Financial Services
Lend Academy, Ryan Lictenwald
April 1, 2015
What do rising rates mean for online lenders?
CNBC, Ari Levy
April 6, 2015
VPC hikes up Upstart investment to $500 mln
PE HUB, Iris Dorbian
April 13, 2015
Paul Gu Tackles the Issue of Student Loans With Upstart
Millennial Magazine
May 27, 2015
Emerging Online Lending Leaders
LendIt USA 2015
June 9, 2015
Upstart Demo
LendIt Conference 2015
June 12, 2015
Four Non-Tradition Money Lenders For Millennials
The Christian Science Monitor, Brittany Lyte
June 10, 2015
Moving Beyond The Traditional Credit Model
PYMNTS
June 17, 2015
Peer to Peer Lending Sites Review
The Lending Mag, Warren Lee
June 26, 2015
Q&A with Dave Girouard, Founder and CEO of Upstart
The Native Square
July 15, 2015
Upstart Raises $35 Million
Business Insider, Eugene Kim
July 16, 2015
Online lender Upstart raises $35M in Series C funding
Silicon Valley Business Journal, Gina Hall
July 16, 2015
Upstart Ex-Googlers Raise $35 Million To Get Millennials More Access To Loans
Forbes, Alex Konrad
July 16, 2015
After Tweaking its Business, Upstart Raises $35M to Make Loans
Dow Jones, Deborah Gage
July 16, 2015
Upstart Closes a $35M Funding Round Led by Third Point Ventures
Lend Academy, Peter Renton
July 16, 2015
Lending Platform Upstart Grabs $35M
peHub, Iris Dorbian
July 16, 2015
Upstart adds $35 million to continue its millennial-focused, data driven loan platform
Pando, Dennis Keohane
July 17, 2015
Upstart Scores $35M To Bring Millennials Affordable Loans
PYMNTS
July 21, 2015
Speed As A Habit
First Round Review
July 26, 2015
Using Algorithms to Determine Character
New York Times, Quentin Hardy
July 31, 2015
Female founders who broke through the VC glass ceiling
CNBC
August 5, 2015
New Idea To Determine Credit Score
CNBC, Power Lunch
February 7, 2018
Big Data vs. the Credit Gap
Colin Wilhelm, Politico Magazine
August 10, 2015
A former Google exec on how to make tough decisions quickly
QZ, Dave Girouard
August 17, 2015
Whom To Trust
The Economist
August 10, 2015
How To Make Decisions More Efficiently
Fast Company, Dave Girouard
September 28, 2015
Upstart Ready To Transform Underwriting
Bankless Times, Tony Zerucha
September 28, 2015
How Upstart Empowers a Team of Initiators
33Voices, Jenna Abdou
October 8, 2015
At Online Lender Upstart, Academic Achievement Helps Millennials Land Loans
International Business Times, Maria Gallucci
November 17, 2015
How Upstart's Data Can Give You an Affordable Loan
Bloomberg
October 21, 2015
The Millennial Opportunity: Dave Girouard Talks About Upstart Lending
Crowdfunding Insider, Midori Yoshimura
November 20, 2015
Recent College Grads Now Get Loans When The Bank Says No
Matthew Lesko
November 23, 2015
Online Lender Upstart Taps Uber Marketing Executive Mike Osborn for CMO Job
re/code, Noah Kulwin
December 3, 2015
How Does Your Leadership Team Rate?
First Round Review
December 8, 2015
Online Lenders Woo Students and Homebuyers
Huffington Post, Shindy Chen
December 22, 2015
Upstart Personal Loan Review: Your Credit Score Isn’t Everything
NerdWallet, Amrita Jayakumar
January 8, 2016
How FinTech Is Changing Business (and Bank Accounts)
Business.com, Ryne Landers
February 1, 2016
10 Questions with Anna Counselman
Women of Silicon Valley
May 10, 2016
Loans Based on a Borrower’s Potential
badcredit.org, Lauren Keys
March 2, 2017
Millennial lender Upstart just raised $32.5 million to license its tech to other companies
TechCrunch, Connie Loizos
March 2, 2017
LendIt Conference 2017: Upstart's CEO Dave Girouard Talks Millennial Loans Market
Forbes, Omri Barzilay
March 3, 2017
Online Lender Upstart Raises $32.5 Million as Googler Joins as CFO
Crowdfund Insider, JD Alois
April 26, 2019
Exclusive: Silicon Valley firm to bring 100 jobs to Short North tower
Tristan Navera, Columbus Business First
May 16, 2019
This Ex-Googler Raised $160 Million After Pivoting His Business Model
Alejandro Cremades, Forbes
June 10, 2019
How to Stop Fearing AI
Dave Girouard, CEO and Co-Founder, Upstart
July 2, 2019
Women Leading The AI Industry: “It’s okay to be a non-STEM woman in a STEM field.” with Anna Counselman
Tyler Gallagher, ThriveGlobal
July 8, 2019
The pros and cons of taking out so-called 'Wedding Loans'
Rachel Cruze, Good Morning America
June 19, 2019
Married to debt: Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings
Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post
October 21, 2019
The banks warming to AI-based lending
Penny Crosman, American Banker
November 18, 2018
Tech-driven loan firm Upstart to open local office
Tim Feran, The Columbus Dispatch
December 10, 2018
Upstart Riding Automation and Bank Partnerships to Profitability
Peter Renton, LendIt Fintech News
February 25, 2019
Ex-Googlers' AI lending startup opens Columbus office, aims for 250 jobs
Carrie Ghose, Columbus Business First
April 8, 2019
Online lender Upstart eyes expansion after latest funding round
Nathan DiCamillo, American Banker
April 8, 2019
Upstart raises $50 million and partners with banks to expand its AI lending business
Peter Renton, LendIt Fintech News
April 8, 2019
Upstart uses bank partnerships for its next leg of lending growth
Zack Miller, Tearsheet
April 8, 2019
Upstart raises $50 million and partners with banks to expand its AI lending business
Manish Singh, VentureBeat
April 16, 2019
Why AI Risk Tech And Banks Could Be A Match Made In Heaven
Eileen Goode, PYMNTS
February 18, 2019
The future of lending: intuition is out, intelligence is in
Zack Miller, Tearsheet
June 19, 2019
Silicon Valley CEO sees big growth in firm's 'second home' in Columbus
Tristan Navera, Columbus Business First
July 25, 2019
Fintech CEO Suggests Sandbox For Nontraditional Data Use
Philip Rosenstein, Law360
July 26, 2019
Upstart CEO Girouard: ‘FICO is extremely limited and backward-looking’
Rick Morgan, Bank Innovation
August 8, 2019
Where You Went to College May Matter on Your Loan Application
Yuka Hayashi, Wall Street Journal
August 10, 2019
This woman paid off $10,000 in credit-card debt with a personal loan, but her first attempt landed her in the red again
Jacob Passy, MarketWatch
August 6, 2019
Fintech’s results bolster case for alternative data, CFPB says
Kate Berry, American Banker
August 7, 2019
Alternative credit data boosts loan approval 27%, Upstart shows in CFPB test
Dan Ennis, Banking Dive
September 6, 2019
Alternative data gets a thumbs up: Update on the CFPB’s first no-action letter
Michael DeLeon, Tearsheet
September 13, 2019
Upstart CEO Dave Girouard on the future of lending and what he learned from Google about company culture
Jennifer Fabiano, The Ladders
September 17, 2019
AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies
Jillian D'Onfro, Forbes
September 29, 2019
Wedding Loans Are In Vogue; Should You Say Yes To One?
Kelly Anne Smith, Forbes
October 15, 2019
This financial planner racked up $12,000 in credit-card debt
Andrew Keshner, MarketWatch
October 15, 2019
Fintech grabs office space in Bay Meadows in San Mateo
Blanca Torres, San Francisco Business Times
October 18, 2019
Upstart: An AI-Powered Lending Platform That Moves Beyond Credit Scores
Matt Walker, BadCredit.org
November 1, 2019
Could AI work at your community bank?
Karen Epper Hoffman, Independent Banker
November 11, 2019
First National Bank of Omaha Launches Personal Loans Powered by Upstart
News Desk, AIThority
November 4, 2019
The Rise Of Instant Payments In The Lending Industry
PYMNTS
December 9, 2019
Inside First National Bank of Omaha’s launch of a digital consumer loan
Zack Miller, Tearsheet
December 2, 2019
Online Lending Platform Refines the Science of Underwriting
David McCann, CFO Magazine
December 4, 2019
CBF Cool Offices: Upstart's Columbus HQ2 could grow bigger than Silicon Valley home base
Carrie Ghose, Columbus Business First
December 26, 2019
You may have to give more personal data to get personal loan
Annie Millerbernd, Associated Press
December 11, 2019
Upstart to help banks pay off customers' credit card bills
Penny Crosman, American Banker
January 8, 2020
How Innovative Banks Scale Consumer Loans
Amber Buker, Bank Director
January 16, 2020
How Upstart and Cross River Bank are automating credit card payments
Rick Morgan, Bank Innovation
January 25, 2020
A College Degree Can Now Help You Get A Loan
Derek Newton, Forbes
February 12, 2020
The Future Of Personal Finance: Fintech 50 2020
Kelly Anne Smith, Forbes