Yupp
2024 - 2026, 2 years old
A free, crypto-incentivized playground for chatting with 800-plus AI models that paid users for their preference votes.
Yupp launched out of stealth in June 2024 with a 33 million dollar seed round led by a16z crypto's Chris Dixon, and a pitch built for the moment: let anyone chat with more than 800 AI models for free, and pay users in points for the preference data their votes generated. Founders Pankaj Gupta and Gilad Mishne, both veterans of Twitter and Google, signed up 1.3 million users and collected millions of ratings a month. It was not enough. The company said it never found strong product-market fit, and that the industry's swing toward autonomous agents drained demand for the broad, crowdsourced human feedback Yupp was built to harvest. It told users on March 31, 2026 that it was winding down, and cut off platform access after April 15.
- Founded
- 2024-06
- Shut down
- 2026-04-15
- Funding raised
- $33M
- Years alive
- 2
- Founders
- Pankaj Gupta, Gilad Mishne
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