Guide Startups

Upfront

Winter 2023 · Inactive

A personal assistant for every homeowner

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2023

Team size: 4

About

Upfront is a personal assistant for home projects, powered by AI and partnerships with local businesses. Instead of sifting through reviews and playing phone tag, homeowners text us, and we connect them with a curated set of home service professionals in their neighborhood.

Founders

  • Thomas StephensCo-founder & CEO

    I'm working to make the everyday climate fight more affordable as Co-Founder/CEO of Upfront. We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices. Formerly, I was a Launcher & GM at DoorDash, where I helped DoorDash accelerate into the US suburbs and opened the first markets outside of North America (Australia, Japan). M.S. & B.S. Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

  • Andrew HoskinsFounder

    I'm working to make the everyday climate fight more affordable as Co-Founder/CTO of Upfront. We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices. Formerly, I was an engineer at Affirm where I helped build servicing and payments systems scaling to billions of dollars in GMV.