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Upside Partnership

Investing early is about investing in people. We recognize them as inevitable Founders — those who can’t help but create their companies. Support is more than a claim, it’s a behavior. We are building Upside Partnership for these Founders and the future they will usher in.

Metrist & Web Services Observability

Metrist & Web Services Observability

I owe my career to web services. Without them, founders would be forced to fund and build out their backend infrastructure before they…
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Kent Goldman
Nov 1, 2022

Smallstep and a Fundamental Tension of Early Stage Venture Capital

In the early spring of 2016, when Mike Malone told me he was ready to start Smallstep, I was thrilled. He was someone I had been tracking…
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Kent Goldman
Apr 28, 2022
Retain & Category Creation

Retain & Category Creation

There’s a trope common to fund raising pitches, “We’re building X for Y” where X is an admired company and Y is a new market or a newly…
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Kent Goldman
Sep 9, 2021
Revisiting Rewatch

Revisiting Rewatch

Last week, Rewatch announced their $20M Series A financing led by Andreesen Horowitz. Upside Partnership is both a proud Seed and Series A…
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Kent Goldman
Jun 3, 2021

Fundraising Commandments

As a pre-seed & seed investor, I see hundreds of pitches every year. I’m also constantly working with a handful of companies looking to…
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Kent Goldman
Nov 11, 2020

Building Our Partnership

I moved to Silicon Valley in 2011 with the intent to learn. My goal was to build a business and I jumped at the chance to immerse myself in…
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Christina Kelly
Feb 14, 2017

A Seed Fund’s Investment Checklist

With seed investments, failure is excusable. But having a poor process for making investment decisions is not. To help ensure that we are…
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Kent Goldman
Nov 20, 2016
The Partnership is Our Portfolio

The Partnership is Our Portfolio

Today, Upside Partnership is going live with a new website to better reflect our culture and values.
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Kent Goldman
Aug 8, 2016

On Upside’s First Anniversary

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Upside Partnership
Jul 9, 2015

Announcing Upside Partnership

I’m thrilled to announce Upside Partnership and the closing of our inaugural fund, Upside I. It is an honor to be supported by…
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Upside Partnership
Jun 22, 2015
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