Uptake (business)

Uptake Technologies
Private
Founded 2014
Founders Brad Keywell, Eric Lefkofsky
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois
Area served
 Worldwide
Services Predictive analytics
Number of employees
 800[1]
Website uptake.com

Uptake is an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) software company that aims to help companies digitally transform with open, purpose-built software. Built around a foundation of data science and machine learning, Uptake’s core products include an Asset Performance Management application and a fully managed platform.

Uptake’s industry-specific content, including its Asset Strategy Library (ASL)[2], provides access to deep domain knowledge and guidance on failure prevention. The ASL is the largest in the market today with approximately 800 equipment types, over 58,000 failure modes and over 180,000 reportable conditions.

Uptake was co-founded by Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky in Chicago, Illinois in 2014[3].

Business

Uptake was incorporated in 2014 and is located in Chicago, with offices in San Francisco, Houston, Albuquerque, Riyadh, and Mississauga.

In March 2015, Caterpillar announced its minority investment in Uptake, with the aim of the joint development of systems to monitor and improve use of the nearly 3 million pieces of Caterpillar equipment in the field.[4] Caterpillar’s core business offerings were completed in mid 2016.[5] On September 21, 2016, Progress Rail formed a strategic partnership, launching EMD Uptime, with Uptake for condition monitoring.[6] On March 2, 2017, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy, an $84 billion portfolio of companies primarily in the renewables space, announced a deal with Uptake.[7] Two of BHE's subsidiaries, BHE Renewables and MidAmerican Energy Company, will use Uptake's software to connect and track their fleet of wind turbines.

In June 2018, Uptake announced the U.S. Army would be using its software to improve the readiness of a few-dozen of its Bradley Fighting Vehicles.[8]

In February 2018, Uptake announced the hire of Ganesh Bell, former chief digital officer at General Electric Co (GE.N), as President.[9]

Financing

On October 27, 2015, Uptake announced that it had raised $45 Million in venture capital led by GreatPoint Ventures and existing investors which included New Enterprise Associates and Caterpillar.[10] Uptake estimated to be valued at $1 billion, making it the third unicorn in the state of Illinois.[11] On February 1, 2017 investor Revolution Growth, a firm started by Steve Case, Donn Davis and Ted Leonsis, announced that they would be backing Uptake with $40 million as part of the Series C round.[12] Uptake has been valued at $2 billion.[13] In November 2017, Uptake closed a Series D round of $117 million at a post-money valuation of $2.3 billion.[14] This brings Uptake's total to over $250 million.[15]

Awards

Uptake is the recipient of the 2015 Moxie Award for Best New Startup in Chicago.[16]

Uptake was named Forbes Hottest New Startup in 2015.[17][18]

On February 9, 2017 Pitchbook named Uptake the Fastest US Startup to reach a $2B Valuation.[19]

CNBC has ranked Uptake on their Disruptor 50 list for two consecutive years, in 2017[17] and 2018[20] respectively.

Uptake was recognized as a 2017 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum on June 14, 2017.[21]

Uptake was ranked #22 on the 2017 Forbes 100 List of Best Private Cloud Companies in the World.[22]

Uptake was ranked #12 on Fortune’s 2018 Best Places to Work in Chicago.[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Uptake is growing fast. See how their office keeps up". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  2. ↑ DiChristopher, Tom (2018-04-16). "Tech start-up Uptake makes 'big' acquisition in race to digitize the industrial industry". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  3. ↑ "Caterpillar Inc. Invests in Internet-of-Things Startup Uptake, and What It Means for Us - Steel, Aluminum, Copper, Stainless, Rare Earth, Metal Prices, Forecasting | MetalMiner". Steel, Aluminum, Copper, Stainless, Rare Earth, Metal Prices, Forecasting | MetalMiner. 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  4. ↑ "Caterpillar partners with Chicago startup Uptake to build data tools - Chicago Business Journal". Chicago Business Journal.
  5. ↑ "Uptake Named as Hottest Startup of 2015 by Forbes Magazine". www.caterpillar.com. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  6. ↑ Briginshaw, David. "Progress Rail launches condition-based locomotive analytics". Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  7. ↑ "Exclusive: Berkshire Hathaway Energy Inks Deal With Startup Uptake Technologies". Fortune. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  8. ↑ "Army to use artificial intelligence to predict which vehicles will break down". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  9. ↑ Scott, Alwyn. "General Electric digital executive jumps to analytics firm Uptake". U.S. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  10. ↑ "Midwest Start-up Achieves Rare $1 Billion Valuation." New York Times. October 27, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Chicago-Based Uptake Raises $45 Million, Reportedly Hits Unicorn Status." Chicago Tribune. October 27, 2015.
  12. ↑ Chernova, Yuliya (2017-02-01). "Revolution Backs IoT Startup Uptake at $2 Billion Valuation". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  13. ↑ Chernova, Yuliya (2017-02-01). "Revolution Backs IoT Startup Uptake at $2 Billion Valuation". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  14. ↑ Scott, Alwyn. "U.S. startup Uptake valued at $2.3 billion in new funding round". U.S. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  15. ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "Uptake nabs $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  16. ↑ "2015 Winners" Moxie Awards. June 2015.
  17. ↑ "How Uptake Beat Slack, Uber To Become 2015's Hottest Startup". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-12-30.
  18. ↑ "The Hottest Startups Of 2015". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-12-30.
  19. ↑ "Uptake Is the Fastest US Startup to a $2B Valuation". Chicago Inno. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  20. ↑ staff, CNBC.com (2018-05-22). "Meet the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  21. ↑ "Meet the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2017". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  22. ↑ Communications, Forbes Corporate. "Forbes Releases 2017 Cloud 100 List of the Best Private Cloud Companies in the World". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  23. ↑ "The Best Companies to Work for in Chicago". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
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