Ulupreneurs in the news

Sequel
Time Magazine highlighted Sequel’s spiral tampon as one the best inventions of 2025, a huge nod to innovation in women’ s health.

Homelight
Newsweek cited Homelight’s “Top Agents Insight Report” in a story about the surge of homebuyers nationwide getting cold feet and backing out of deals

Ellevest
Business Insider featured a piece by Ellevest founder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck, who shared hard-won lessons from being fired from two Wall Street jobs.

Zum
CNN profiled Zum CEO Ritu Narayan in their series “Champions for Change.” And Zum won a 2025 Electric Innovation Award.

Tomo.
CNBC featured Tomo Credit CEO Kristy Kim, sharing her journey from struggling to access credit as an immigrant to building a company that helps others do the same.

Seven Starling
Forbes featured a video interview with Seven Starling CEO Tina Keshani about the firm’s $8M raise and their mission to provide maternal mental health support.

Sequel
Entrepreneur highlighted Sequel and how two Stanford grads turned a college project into a WNBA partnership.

Palantir
CNBC spotlighted Palantir as one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in 2025. Other CNBC coverage included a story about their $10B Army contract, and a $1B Q2 revenue report. Forbes named co-founder Alex Karp as the richest African American in the U.S.

Palantir
CNBC spotlighted Palantir as one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in 2025. Other CNBC coverage included a story about their $10B Army contract, and a $1B Q2 revenue report. Forbes named co-founder Alex Karp as the richest African American in the U.S.

Palantir
CNBC spotlighted Palantir as one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in 2025. Other CNBC coverage included a story about their $10B Army contract, and a $1B Q2 revenue report. Forbes named co-founder Alex Karp as the richest African American in the U.S.

Journify
Journify was invited by the White House to join the AI Education Workforce alongside top edtech innovators. The firm also won 1st place in the global Tools Competition—beating out more than 1,000 edtech companies worldwide.

Figure
Reuters, and a number of other news outlets, featured Figure’s $7.6B debut on Nasdaq. And Inc. profiled Figure CEO Mike Cagney, who has co-founded two public companies —So-Fi and Figure —worth $45B. Both are Ulu Ventures portfolio firms.

Figure
Reuters, and a number of other news outlets, featured Figure’s $7.6B debut on Nasdaq. And Inc. profiled Figure CEO Mike Cagney, who has co-founded two public companies —So-Fi and Figure —worth $45B. Both are Ulu Ventures portfolio firms


Palantir
CNBC spotlighted Palantir joining the top-10 largest U.S. technology companies by market cap.

FoodHealth
Axios wrote an exclusive about FoodHealth’s $7.5M Series A raise to educate consumers about food labeling and health through the food scoring system.