# Uplift AI funding: rounds and investors

> Uplift AI has raised $4.0M across 2 rounds since 2025. Investors include Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/uplift-ai (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United States · [Seed startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *Uplift AI*

2 rounds we have observed, with the 2 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

AI

Raised 10 months ago

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$4.0M** raised across 2 rounds since 2025, from 2 sources

**$500K** Pre-seed **$3.5M** Seed

- **Latest round:** Seed, $3.5M Jan 2026
- **Step-up i:** 7×
- **Investors:** 2

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2026

**$500K** Pre-seed

**$3.5M** Seed

- **First round:** Pre-seed, $500K
- **Biggest round:** $3.5M
- **Between rounds:** 4 months

## The rounds

- **Jan 2026** Seed **$3.5M** *1 new* *1 returning* [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [Pioneer Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/pioneer-fund-2) Source recorded
- **Sept 2025** Pre-seed **$500K** *1 new* [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Source recorded

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Pre-seed** 2025 **Seed** 2026 [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [Pioneer Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/pioneer-fund-2)

## Everyone who backed them

[Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Accelerator **2** rounds

[Pioneer Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/pioneer-fund-2) Private equity **1** round

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## Also claim to have backed them

These 2 firms list Uplift AI as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Conjunction Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/conjunction-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Indus Valley Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/indus-valley-capital) VC firm Per its own site

## Quick answers about Uplift AI

### Who invested in Uplift AI?

Uplift AI's investors include Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund.

### How much has Uplift AI raised?

Uplift AI has raised $4.0M across 2 rounds since 2025.

### When did Uplift AI last raise?

Uplift AI's most recent round was a Seed of $3.5M in Jan 2026.

### What was Uplift AI's biggest round?

Its most recent round, $3.5M in Jan 2026, is also its largest on record.

### Who backed Uplift AI first?

Uplift AI's first round on record, in Sept 2025, was backed by Y Combinator.

### What stage is Uplift AI at?

Uplift AI's latest named round is a Seed, in Jan 2026.

### Where is Uplift AI based?

Uplift AI is based in the United States.

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