Upstart, a US-based crowdfunding platform to invest in graduates’ future careeer-earning potential, has raised $1.75m in a seed round including search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit.
Alongside Google Ventures in the seed round were venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and angel investor Mark Cuban.
Former Google president for the enterprise business Dave Girouard (pictured) founded Upstart last year.