Upgraded
Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. Subscribers pay monthly and can upgrade anytime. Smartphones, laptops, tablets and more. Creating and managing these programs involves lender integrations, residual value management and building great software — resellers don’t know how to do this. Upgraded provides the infrastructure to launch immediately, keep customers loyal and cut replacement cycles in half. Device financing is a $541B market globally. US carrier financing
Y Combinator
yc-company-directory #1126Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. Subscribers pay monthly and can upgrade anytime. Smartphones, laptops, tablets and more. Creating and managing these programs involves lender integrations, residual value management and building great software — resellers don’t know how to do this. Upgraded provides the infrastructure to launch immediately, keep customers loyal and cut replacement cycles in half. Device financing is a $541B market globally. US carrier financing
sourceUpgraded is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.
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Companies similar to Upgraded
A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.
fluke
match 88Brazilians hate the experience of using the traditional mobile carriers. They force you to pay for data packages you don’t need and make it impossible to switch your plans. Fluke offers a better customer experience and that’s why we have a CAC that is 50% lower and an LTV that’s 30% higher than traditional carriers. What’s smart about our approach is we rent infrastructure from these incumbents and build a better customer experience on top of it. This keeps our costs lows and lets us focus on wh
shared extracted concept terms: carrier; shared product terms: carrier, pay, don, customer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Circular
match 74Circular is accelerating the adoption of the circular economy by making subscriptions the best way to access and experience tech: from smartphones, laptops, and headphones to gaming, VR and wearables. Our customers get their hands on the best tech through low-cost, convenient subscriptions. They can pay monthly, keep it as long as they want, and if they love it, buy it. If they return it, we carefully refurbish it and pass it on to the next loving owner - radically extending its useful life.
shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: subscription, smartphone, laptop, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Markaz Technologies
match 66We enable WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram-based micro-entrepreneurs to source wholesale products from across Pakistan. Our marketplace enables these micro-entrepreneurs to start their business without any investment while we facilitate them by offering their customers a great experience. We do this by taking care of their delivery operations, payments, and customer services. Pakistan is one of the youngest populations globally and is expected to become the 7th largest consumer market by 2030.
shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: these, customer, great, do; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Vanta
match 64About Vanta Vanta (YC W18) is the leading automated compliance and trust management platform designed to simplify and centralize compliance and security workflows for organizations of all sizes. Why YC Startups Need Vanta As a YC company, proving your security compliance is crucial for hitting new milestones—from finding product market fit, to selling to bigger customers. We would know, we’ve been there—and we’ve helped over 10,000 customers do just that! Vanta's all-in-one solution, combined wi
shared extracted concept terms: customer; shared product terms: sell, management, know, do; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Tryum
match 53Tryum is an end to end customer engagement platform that helps retailers know who their customers are and what they love
shared extracted concepts: retailers, customers; shared product terms: customer, retailer, know; shared product theme: sales and marketing
Vote.org
match 10Other company.
shared affiliation: Y Combinator; shared cohort: Summer 2016; nearby official-directory cohort