| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.02.2023 | Uptake Enhances Its Predictive Maintenance Technology through Daimler Truck North America’s Data-as-a-Service Model | DTNA customers will have access to Uptake’s data-driven insights to help reduce unplanned fleet downtime and maintenance costs with increased predictability
Uptake, a leader in predictive analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS), has entered ... |
| 16.11.2022 | How a recession could be a huge opportunity for 'upstream' startups | The end of the boom times for consumer tech funding could spell opportunity for industrial or "upstream" startups. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images
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| 11.01.2022 | Uptake Teams up with Cognizant to Unlock Unified Data Management for Energy & Utilities Industries | CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptake, the leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, announced today its collaboration with Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading professional services company, to enable unified data man... |
| 30.11.2021 | Uptake Joins Oren Marketplace to Support Digital Transformation of Mining Industry | CHICAGO, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptake, the leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, announced today that it has joined Oren, a global B2B digital mining services marketplace developed by Shell and IBM to help mining ... |
| 14.10.2021 | Uptake : Strengthens Executive Team with CTO and CLO | CHICAGO, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Uptake, the leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, announced today the appointments of Mark Botticelli and Matt Miller as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Legal Officer (CLO).... |
| 05.10.2021 | HPA Member Kayne Grau Appointed as CEO at Uptake | Congrats to HPA Member Kayne Gau for being appointed as the CEO at Uptake! |
| 02.06.2021 | Uptake Fusion Cloud Datastore for Ignition by Inductive Automation Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace | |
| 18.05.2021 | Uptake Fusion Cloud Datastore for OSIsoft PI Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace | |
| 24.09.2020 | Uptake launches new Add-In within the Geotab Marketplace | |
| 21.09.2020 | Uptake Appoints Kayne Grau as President | |
| 19.08.2020 | Uptake launches new product, Uptake Scout - The Data Science Studio | |
| 19.12.2018 | Why all data isn’t created equal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 19.12.2018 | Why all data isn’t created equal | Presented by Uptake
Enterprise software systems like ERP and CRM have reached the point of diminishing returns. The data inputs for these systems — human entry and process-based events — have hit natural limits. The value provided is restri... |
| 21.08.2018 | Former Uptake CTO's Stealthy Startup Dais Wants to Revolutionize Insurance | A young Chicago startup that's bringing tech to legacy insurance companies hasn't had problems raising money on its quest to change the insurance game.
Dais, founded by Jason Kolb, the founding CTO of Chicago startup Uptake, has been quietl... |
| 08.07.2018 | Universities and legacy industries are giving rise to the Midwest’s AI startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Even as artificial intelligence promises to trans... |
| 08.07.2018 | Universities and legacy industries are giving rise to the Midwest’s AI startups | Even as artificial intelligence promises to transform many facets of life, the majority of AI companies in the U.S. are still concentrated in traditional tech hubs. According to a Glassdoor analysis from November, 30 percent of open jobs th... |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces
The foundations for today’s marketplace platforms
Success breeds success | As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked about startup trends on a regular basis. Most often the question I’m asked is, “What is the strongest startup sector in Chicago?” |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces like Groupon and OpenTable | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked a... |
| 08.03.2018 | Chicago’s strongest startup sector is online marketplaces like Groupon and OpenTable | As an investment leader in Chicago, I get asked about startup trends on a regular basis. Most often the question I’m asked is, “What is the strongest startup sector in Chicago?”
It’s a hard question because one of Chicago’s core advantages ... |
| 09.01.2018 | Unicorn startup Uptake Technologies laid off 51 employees after a $2 billion valuation | The Chicago-based data-science startup Uptake Technologies has laid off 51 employees Tuesday. The co-founder and CEO Brad Keywell said in a statement. The layoff news story was first reported by the Chicago Tribune. With this layoff, Uptake... |
| 02.01.2018 | 10 startups outside Silicon Valley to watch in 2018 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Earlier this week, I wrote that the two questions... |
| 02.01.2018 | 10 startups outside Silicon Valley to watch in 2018 | Earlier this week, I wrote that the two questions I get most frequently from people who are interested in learning about Heartland Tech are about what cities they should be watching and what startups should be on their radar. I wrote about ... |
| 21.12.2017 | The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?) | It was an exciting year in farm technology involving a few high profile venture capital exits and some of the largest deals on record.
In fact, funding records for this category and the subcategories within were broken more than once during... |
| 01.12.2017 | Chicago Startups Raised $184M in Venture Funding in November | Chicago-area tech and startup companies brought in a significant amount of money in November, making for what should be a strong close to the year. Collectively, area tech and startup companies raised at least $184 million, based on public ... |
| 01.12.2017 | Uptake Raises $117m Series D for Machinery Data Analytics Software | Uptake, a data analytics startups that uses sensor data to optimize machinery including farming equipment, has raised a $117 million Series D round.
Baillie Gifford, one of the UK’s largest independent investment management firms, led the r... |
| 30.11.2017 | U.S. Startup Uptake Valued at $2.3B in New Funding Round | U.S. analytic software firm Uptake Technologies Inc said on Thursday it raised $117 million in venture funding, a deal that gave it a valuation of $2.3 billion.
The series D funding was led by investment firm Baillie Gifford and included pr... |
| 30.11.2017 | Uptake raises $117 million to spot inefficiencies in industrial machinery | Uptake, a predictive analytics software provider based in Chicago, announced today that it has raised a $117 million Series D round. The round was led by Baillie Gifford, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, with participation from Revolution... |
| 30.11.2017 | Uptake raises $117 million to spot inefficiencies in industrial machinery | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Uptake, a predictive analytics software provider ... |
| 30.11.2017 | Uptake Raises $117M in New Series D Funding | Fast-growing predictive analytics startup Uptake just landed a big round of funding to keep its foot on the gas pedal.
Uptake announced Thursday that it has raised a $117 million Series D round led by UK venture fund Baillie Gifford. Uptake... |
| 30.11.2017 | U.S. Startup Uptake Valued at $2.3B in New Funding Round | U.S. analytic software firm Uptake Technologies Inc said on Thursday it raised $117 million in venture funding, a deal that gave it a valuation of $2.3 billion.
The series D funding was led by investment firm Baillie Gifford and included pr... |
| 30.11.2017 | Uptake Technologies Nabs $117M |
CHICAGO, IL, Predictive analytics software provider, Uptake, announced today it has secured $117 million in series D funding.
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| 30.11.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, November 30 | A WILD WEDNESDAY
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| 30.11.2017 | Uptake nabs $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics | A company that is seizing the opportunity to provide predictive analytics to the industrial world — regardless of whether a business has made the (often costly) transition to internet-of-things “smart” systems — is today announcing that it ... |
| 30.11.2017 | Uptake Secures $117M in Series D Funding | Uptake, a Chicago, IL-based predictive analytics software provider, secured $117m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Baillie Gifford, with participation from existing investors Revolution Growth and GreatPoint Ventures.
The company i... |
| 25.09.2017 | Groupon’s billionaire cofounder Eric Lefkofsky just raised $70 million for his new company | Chicago billionaire Eric Lefkofsky has started five companies, none of which would seem to lead him to found a company that’s trying to cure cancer. Yet investors just gave his newest, two-year-old concern, Tempus, $70 million in Series C f... |
| 10.09.2017 | Want better ROI? Come to Chicago | [Updated 9/26 to correct the spelling of Eric Lefkofsky’s name and to correct the number of companies Lightbank has founded (14, not seven).]
Unlike many cities across the country, Chicago has no intention of trying to become the next Silic... |
| 10.09.2017 | Want better ROI? Come to Chicago | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
[Updated 9/26 to correct the spelling of Eric Lef... |
| 17.08.2017 | Here are Chicago Inno’s 10 Coolest Companies Winners for 2017 | Thanks to everyone who came out to Chicago Inno's Chicago Fest last night!
With a great crowd, great music, and Galleria Marchetti's awesome space, this year's Fest was the best yet.
Last night we crowned the 10 Coolest Companies winners. A... |
| 24.05.2017 | The IOT Opportunity: How to Achieve Its Growth Potential
What Is the Internet of Things?
Opportunities in the Space
Which Companies Lead in IOT Innovation?
What Will It Take to See IoT Become Wide... | This post was contributed by HPA Member Hardik Bhatt, who has spent the last decade in the Internet of Things (IOT) space, previously heading up Cisco’s global business development for IOT for the public sector and currently serving as the ... |
| 16.05.2017 | AOL Co-Founder Steve Case Predicts This Industry Is Poised for Major Disruption | Steve Case, co-founder and former CEO of AOL, is feeling pretty optimistic about the state of entrepreneurship in the United States.
Case, who is now the CEO and chairman of investment firm Revolution, is gearing up to go on his sixth Rise ... |
| 18.04.2017 | How will maintenance change with the autonomous vehicle? | All machines eventually break down. Self-driving vehicles are no exception.
Autonomous vehicles pose two problems for the future of vehicles. The removal of the driver means there is no person providing feedback on how the vehicle performs ... |
| 01.03.2017 | The Top Chicago Startup Fundings in February | This is our feature where we recap the funding deals that went down last month. Want daily startup funding news, as well as personnel moves, new startup stories and more Chicago tech analysis? Sign up for our daily newsletter The Beat.
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| 02.02.2017 | Uptake Technologies Raises $40M in Funding | Uptake Technologies, a Chicago, IL-based provider of data-driven solutions and predictive analytics for companies in major industries, raised $40m in funding.
Revolution Growth made the investment. In conjunction with the funding, Ted Leons... |
| 01.02.2017 | Revolution Growth Leads $40M Round in Data Startup Uptake | One of Chicago's fastest growing startups just got a $40 million boost from Steve Case and Ted Leonsis' VC firm Revolution Growth.
Uptake, a predictive analytics startup founded by Groupon founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, announced... |
| 01.02.2017 | Revolution Growth Invests $40M in Chicago Analytics Startup Uptake | One of Chicago's fastest growing startups just got a $40 million boost from Steve Case and Ted Leonsis' VC firm Revolution Growth.
Uptake, a predictive analytics startup founded by Groupon founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, announced... |
| 01.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 1 | BLURRED LINES, TRANSITIONS, ACCELERATORS
Oh SNAP: For the rest of the week, the tech press will be hitting refresh on the SEC’s website waiting for the Snap S-1. Today I’ll be doing so from the company’s hometown of Los Angeles, in a room o... |
| 01.02.2017 | Uptake Raises $40M |
CHICAGO, IL, Uptake has raised $40M.
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According to the Chicago Tribune, Uptake, a provid... |
| 06.05.2016 | 10 Chicago Internet of Things Startups to Watch | The midwest is quietly becoming a hub for the Internet of Things.
The Illinois Technology Association recently catalogued 75 IoT companies in Chicago and the Midwest, highlighting the vast amount of work and research currently being done in... |
| 11.04.2016 | Is it time to invest in IoT? | Tim Chou Contributor
Tim Chou is the former president of Oracle On Demand, a computer science lecturer at Stanford and chair of the IoT Track of the Alchemist Accelerator.
I published my first book, The End of Software, in 2004. At the time... |
| 27.10.2015 | With $45M Raise, Uptake is the Third Unicorn in Illinois | Chicago is currently in a mini freak out over the city's tech ecosystem. The Chicago Tribune wrote a deep dive into why startups have fled the Midwest (which in turn managed to irk the Engineering Department at the University of Illinois). ... |
| 27.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Chicago-based startup Uptake raises $45M, reaches ‘unicorn’ valuation
Data analytics startup Uptake announced today that it ... |
| 27.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 11.10.2015 | You’re Not In The Valley Anymore | Rick Zullo Contributor
Rick Zullo is vice president of LightBank.
My friend and fellow investor Jon Lehr of Work-Bench recently wrote a piece entitled “7 Lessons Learned in My First 2 Years as a VC.” Jon and I have known each other since be... |
| 25.03.2012 | Is Groupon Out to Change How Small Businesses Do Business – For the Better? | Groupon has been on quite the acquisition spree this year. In February, they purchased travel site Uptake, which lets you use your social networks to research travel destinations, adding to their Groupon Getaways department. Prior to that, ... |
| 28.02.2012 | Groupon Acqhires Uptake To Build Out Palo Alto Office | Groupon is acquiring travel startup Uptake.
Liz Gannes at AllThingsD broke the news. We spoke to a source with knowledge of the deal who confirmed the details of the AllThingsD report. The purchase price was apparently between $10 and $20 m... |
| 09.11.2011 | Need travel advice? Uptake connects you to Facebook friends who know best | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Planning a getaway? Uptake, a social travel site ... |
| 09.11.2011 | Need travel advice? Uptake connects you to Facebook friends who know best | Planning a getaway? Uptake, a social travel site for the inquisitive trip planner, can now pass your pressing travel inquiries on to Facebook friends who may have the answers.
The three year-old startup, which houses vacation experiences fo... |
| 04.11.2010 | UpTake Networks Buys Social Hotel Recommendation Engine RealTravel.com | UpTake Networks announced today that it acquired RealTravel.com, a social hotel recommendation site. With the purchase, terms of which were not disclosed, UpTake aims to “accelerate their investment in the online travel research experience ... |
| 08.07.2010 | Amazon’s Vision for Biology in the Cloud, Uptake Nabs $17.5M, CMC Icos Mounts Comeback, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This being a short holiday week, the Seattle biotech roundup is short and sweet.
—Seattle-based online retail giant Amazon has been pushing hard for a few years to become the ... |
| 20.05.2009 | Uptake Medical Secures $3M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Uptake Medical, the Seattle-based company developing minimally invasive technology to treat emphysema, has raised $3.1 million in a debt financing, according to a regulatory f... |
| 16.03.2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
Wize Deep Web
A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 02.12.2008 | Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008 | In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of 2008.
This is the first in a series of posts we’ll publish over December, listing our choices for the top web prod... |
| 20.11.2008 | 10 More Semantic Apps to Watch | In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well – a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are stil... |
| 17.11.2008 | TravelMuse launches new widget, scores $600K | It’s a good week for trip planning website TravelMuse. It launched its first application, the TravelMuse Plan-It!, which allows users to collect travel information from a range of sites in one centralized location — and then share it with t... |
| 17.09.2008 | UpTake, the travel search engine that gets its traffic from Google, takes in $10M | UpTake , the travel search engine formerly known as Kango, has raised over $10 million in a second round of financing.
Unlike many content-focused travel sites, which seem to proliferate daily (see TripWolf, IgoUgo, TripSay), UpTake has no ... |
| 17.09.2008 | UpTake Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding | UpTake, a travel search engine that specializes in helping users find travel ideas by taking a semantic approach to indexing destination descriptions and user comments across the Web, announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series... |
| 15.07.2008 | Mobissimo Launches Travel Social Network MobiFriends | When traveling to a new city, what do you usually do first to find cool places to go to? Usually, you ask your friends.
Mobissimo, a travel search engine, launches their social network MobiFriends today as an on-site widget. Mobissimo searc... |
| 14.05.2008 | Travel Search Site UpTake (Formerly Kango) Launches In Public Beta | If you are looking for ideas for a family vacation, a pet-friendly hotel, or the perfect place for a romantic weekend, try travel search engine UpTake. It is geared only for travel and looks for keywords in destination descriptions and user... |
| 13.05.2008 | Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches | According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It’s not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it’s just that there is so much information out ther... |
| 06.05.2008 | Travel startup UpTake set to launch opinions super-site | With so many online travel sites crowding the market, you’d think we were nearing a Web 2.0 travel bubble. But according to travel information search engine UpTake, which is launching May 14, there’s still an untapped niche in the market: a... |
| 27.04.2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008 | This week was a hectic one, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft’s Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and d... |
| 14.04.2008 | TripSay Lets You Discover The World With A Little Help From Your Friends (Beta Invites) | When I was in Amsterdam a week ago, a startup founder from Finland named Leo Koivulehto showed me his travel site TripSay, which is in closed private beta. The first 200 readers to send an e-mail to info [at] tripsay [dot] com with “TechCru... |
| 18.12.2007 | Kango Announces $4 Million Round From Shasta Ventures | Kango, a semantic search engine for travel, announced that it raised $4 million from Shasta Ventures earlier this year. The terms previously were not disclosed. Kango looks at travel reviews and other information across the Web and automati... |
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