# Dave Girouard, Founder & CEO at Upstart

> Dave Girouard, Founder & CEO at Upstart. 1 investment on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/dave-girouard (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

San Francisco, US · Angel

# Dave Girouard

Founder & CEO at [Upstart](https://millionrounds.com/fund/upstart)

Latest rounds

- **Cover Lockscreen** Seed · $1.7M Mar 2013

Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** 1 last Mar 2013
- **Filings:** 3 with regulators
- **Podcasts:** 4 episodes

What this record rests on

- ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them
- ✓ **On filings** 3 filings with a regulator
- ✓ **Linked to a firm** At Upstart
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

Titles come from filings their firm signed.

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## The firm

[**Upstart** Corporate VC · US **0** cheques in 12 months **0** all time **0** led unknown](https://millionrounds.com/fund/upstart)

## Rounds they were named in

- **Rounds:** 1
- **Led:** 0
- **Disclosed:** $1.7M
- **Active:** 2013

2013

- [Cover Lockscreen](https://millionrounds.com/company/cover-lockscreen) *Seed* **$1.7M** Mar 2013 Joined · +7 investors · historical

By stage

- Seed **1**

Alongside

- Alex Franz *1*
- [Charlie Cheever *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/charlie-cheever)
- [First Round Capital *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/first-round-capital)
- [Harrison Metal Capital *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/harrison-metal)
- [Keith Rabois *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/keith-rabois)
- [Max Levchin *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/max-levchin)
- [Scott Banister *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/scott-banister)

Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.

## Companies they are listed as backing

Portfolio

- Cover Lockscreen
- Instamotor Technologies

## Where they are named on record

Filings

- SEC Form D · Company raising **JumpCloud Inc.** Director since 2017
- SEC Form D · Other investment fund **[Upstart](https://millionrounds.com/fund/upstart)** Managing Director of the General Partner of the Issuer on 2 filings · since 2013
- SEC Form D · Company raising **GOODDATA CORP** Director on 2 filings · since 2011

Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.

## Also at Upstart

- [**Grant Schneider** Chief Technology Officer *0 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/grant-schneider)
- [**Paul Gu** Co-Founder & Head of Product *0 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/paul-gu)
- [**Yan Zeng** Team *0 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/yan-zeng)

## Hear them before you pitch them

- [TBPN](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/tbpn) · 13 Aug 2025 · 3h 32m OpenAI Prepares ChatGPT for Ad Driven Era, The AI Paradigm Shift | Keith Rabois, Alfred Lin, Keith Sakata, M.D., Talia Goldberg, Dave Girouard, Kylan Gibbs, Sam Jones, Zach Pogrob With [Alfred Lin](https://millionrounds.com/person/alfred-lin)[Dave Girouard](https://millionrounds.com/person/dave-girouard)[Sam Jones](https://millionrounds.com/person/sam-jones)[Talia Goldberg](https://millionrounds.com/person/talia-goldberg) Mentions [Keith Rabois](https://millionrounds.com/fund/keith-rabois)[Paradigm](https://millionrounds.com/fund/paradigm)[Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments)[Sequoia Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sequoia-capital) About this episode (01:19) - Timeline in Turmoil (09:43) - OpenAI Prepares ChatGPT for Ad Driven Era (32:49) - The AI Paradigm Shift (36:29) - Keith Rabois, an American technology executive and investor, has held significant roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square, and co-founded Opendoor. In the conversation,… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Invest Like the Best](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best) · 30 Sept 2021 · 1h 10m Dave Girouard - Making Better Loans - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 52] With [Dave Girouard](https://millionrounds.com/person/dave-girouard) Mentions [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments) About this episode My guest today is Dave Girouard, co-founder and CEO of Upstart, a lending platform that leverages AI to make loans more accessible and affordable. Dave started in Silicon Valley as a Product Manager at Apple and later spent eight years at Google, where he built their suite of cloud apps. In our… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [In Depth](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/in-depth) · 22 Dec 2020 · 1h 3m Upstart just went public, CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story With [Dave Girouard](https://millionrounds.com/person/dave-girouard) About this episode Today’s episode is with Dave Girouard, the CEO and co-founder of Upstart, an AI-powered lending platform that recently went public. Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business. Here at First Round, we… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Village Global Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/village-global) · 23 Nov 2018 · 51 min The Past and Future of Upstart and Income-Sharing Agreements with Dave Girouard and Tonio DeSorrento With [Dave Girouard](https://millionrounds.com/person/dave-girouard) About this episode Erik is joined in this episode by co-host Tonio DeSorrento (@TonioDeSo), CEO and co-founder of Vemo Education, and Dave Girouard (@davegirouard), CEO and founder of Upstart. They have a lively discussion about the history of income-sharing agreements, the forms in which they exist presently, and… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

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