upstart
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The trend spans from Ford Motor, which announced a new battery storage division in May, to Fluence Energy, an upstart battery-maker collaborating with Nvidia.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Trade Desk, founded in 2009, positioned itself as a plucky upstart competitor to Google in the market for helping companies buy online ads across publishers’ websites.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
But a rival motoring group, the upstart American Automobile Association, feared that a race on open roads would tarnish the industry’s already-poor record on safety, and lobbied against it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The financial turmoil marks a stunning turnaround for the once high-flying digital-media upstart.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
Much of it came from poorly paid state functionaries whose livelihoods depended on using police and administrative authority to extract cash from upstart capitalists.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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