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Upfront

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A personal assistant for every homeowner

Winter 2023Founded 20234 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

Upfront is a personal assistant for home projects, powered by AI and partnerships with local businesses. Instead of sifting through reviews and playing phone tag, homeowners text us, and we connect them with a curated set of home service professionals in their neighborhood.

Founders ยท 2

Thomas Stephens
Thomas StephensCo-founder & CEO
Stanford๐ŸŽ“ Stanford University

I'm working to make the everyday climate fight more affordable as Co-Founder/CEO of Upfront. We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices. Formerly, I was a Launcher & GM at DoorDash, where I helped DoorDash accelerate into the US suburbs and opened the first markets outside of North America (Australia, Japan). M.S. & B.S. Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Andrew Hoskins
Andrew HoskinsFounder

I'm working to make the everyday climate fight more affordable as Co-Founder/CTO of Upfront. We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices. Formerly, I was an engineer at Affirm where I helped build servicing and payments systems scaling to billions of dollars in GMV.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator ยท Feb 2023
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We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices at checkout

Upfront enables retailers selling clean energy products to instantly apply government and utility rebates at checkout, converting rebates into lower prices for customers and streamlining rebate settlement afterward. The initial focus is EV chargers, targeting merchants that offer rebates to boost sales and accelerate rebate deployment.

From the original launch (Feb 2023) โ€” may be outdated.

ConsumerHome and PersonalMarketplaceConsumerHome ServicesAI Assistant

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