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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

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #1126

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

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High Signal interpretation

Upgraded 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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SmartphonesSubscriberstabletslaptopsUpgradedresidual value managementcarriersretailerscustomersdevices
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Upgraded

Developer tools · 6 peers

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.

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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 74

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shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: subscription, smartphone, laptop, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Markaz Technologies

match 66

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shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: these, customer, great, do; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vanta

match 64

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shared extracted concept terms: customer; shared product terms: sell, management, know, do; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Tryum

match 53

Tryum 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 10

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shared affiliation: Y Combinator; shared cohort: Summer 2016; nearby official-directory cohort