Ulupreneurs in the news

Financial Times named Zum to its annual list of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies.

The Washington Post featured Zum in an article about how California is expanding its electric bus fleet

VC News Daily reported Vaxess’s $9M raise to support drug delivery patches.

The Sacramento Bee profiled Sparkz CEO Sanjiv Malhotra about plans to grow the battery industry in California.

CNBC interviewed SoFi CEO Anthony Noto about the fintech bank’s plans to bring back crypto investing

The Motley Fool covered SoFi’s $5B loan deal to unlock more growth opportunities.

Axios wrote an exclusive about Irrigreen’s $19M raise to improve AI-guided lawn sprinklers.

Entrepreneur profiled Claire Tompkins, CEO of Future Family, and the company’s recent offering of IVF insurance as well as $400M in financing.

Morningstar highlighted Everlaw as the #1 eDiscovery vendor, as named in the Spring 2025 G2 Grid Report, and its top spot as 2025’s best legal software award winner.

World Bio Market Insights featured the company’s adding of beanless cocoa to their offerings.

Inc. profiled the race to make beanless coffee, highlighting Compound Food’s Minus Coffee.

Fast Company named Zum to their list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for Sustainability, highlighting their launch of the nation’s first 100% electric bus fleet.

Fortune quoted Elise Smith, CEO of Praxis Labs, in an article about how AI might be able to teach humans how to be better managers.

Crunchbase News featured an article authored by LeadSales CEO Roberto Penacastro: “How to Find Funding in Latin America.”

Forbes highlighted Future Family’s new IVF insurance program to help make fertility more accessible.

CNBC profiled Cambium in a story about how the firm is creating a global platform for recycled wood.

Time interviewed Praxis Labs CEO Elise Smith, in which she defends the concept of DEI as good business.

PharmTech and a number of other industry outlets featured Genesis Therapeutics’ collaboration with Incyte to utilize an AI platform to discover small molecule compounds.

MedCity News and a number of other industry outlets published articles about Future Family’s offering of the first nationwide IVF insurance, a money-back guarantee for fertility services.

Forbes named Figure as one their Fintech 50 and highlighted the firm in an article about the future of crypto and blockchain.

TechCrunch (and other outlets) featured Cambium’s$18.5M raise to use AI to help turn waste wood into usable lumber.