Europe’s top product & tech professionals on demand.
We enable companies and top product & tech freelancers to work together successfully in a future-proof, mutually trusted setup.
We believe that the future of work is mainly freelance and remote, enabled by technology, new methodologies, and accumulated experience, amongst other things.
Our goal is to help shape and guide it to become the best version of itself, enabling the people and companies to engage one other and get the best work done.
Furthermore, we want to put an end to “hostage projects” with hidden and unfairly high margins, as well as projects with unaligned interests.
We enable companies and top product & tech freelancers to work together successfully in a future-proof, mutually trusted setup.
We believe that the future of work is mainly freelance and remote, enabled by technology, new methodologies, and accumulated experience, amongst other things.
Our goal is to help shape and guide it to become the best version of itself, enabling the people and companies to engage one other and get the best work done.
Furthermore, we want to put an end to “hostage projects” with hidden and unfairly high margins, as well as projects with unaligned interests.
Location: Germany, Berlin
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2019
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | another.vc | anothervc.... |
| 22.09.2020 | Cavalry Ve... | cavalry.vc |
| - | VujaDe Ven... | vujade.dec... |
| - | another.vc | another.vc |
Mentions in press and media 4
| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.07.2023 | Spearheading Change in Recruitment: Germany’s 15 Game-Changing Startups | Table of Contents show 1 1. HiPeople: Streamlining Talent Acquisition 2 2. UPPER: Creating Trusted Workspaces for Freelancers and Companies 3 3. 1648 Factory: Engineering Ventures and Investing in Innovation 4 4. talent360: Speeding Up ... |
| 21.09.2020 | Insider #86 – Superspreader – AnyDesk – Dr.Smile – Exporo – TradeLink – Outfittery – Zerolens – PreSize.ai – PeopleFlow – Kianava – Finiata | Im ds-Insider-Podcast liefern OMR-Podcast-Legende Sven Schmidt und ds-Chefredakteur Alexander Hüsing regelmäßig spannende Insider-Infos aus der deutschen Startup-Szene. In jeder Ausgabe gibt es exklusive Neuigkeiten, die bisher zuvor nirgen... |
| 04.09.2020 | Startup UPPER sets out to fix tech freelancing for good | The shortage of top tech professionals is anything but news. However, if mixed with the more recent trend where tech talent is going freelance with a clear preference for remote work (100x due to COVID-19), a future emerges that looks both ... |
| 03.09.2020 | Berlin-based UPPER gets seed funding to develop curated freelancer marketplace for European tech | The newest freelancer marketplace on the block, Berlin-based UPPER has raised an undisclosed seed round, with a lead investment from Cavalry Ventures and backing from another.vc and business angels. Founded earlier this year (doesn’t even h... |