upstart
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The two firms were the lead investors in a February round for MatX, an upstart AI chip maker, and are investing in a new round for Fluidstack, a provider of AI cloud computing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Chase, Spain’s BBVA, the Netherlands’ ING and upstart players such as N26 are all targeting the same group of German depositors, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The trend spans from Ford Motor, which announced a new battery storage division in May, to Fluence Energy, an upstart battery-maker collaborating with Nvidia.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The company, founded in 2021 by a breakaway faction from OpenAI, was viewed as an upstart that tailored its chatbots to the needs of businesses and developers, rather than consumers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Some dictionaries now accept the upstart “to the manor born” as meaning privileged since birth. tongue in cheek.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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