Brad Holland

Brad Holland

UX Designer & Founder @Uplyft

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UX designer, dad, and solo founder. I work full time as a UX/UI Designer and Strategist at Xero while building Uplyft on nights and weekends. 18 months in. No co-founder, no funding, no technical background. Just a designer who figured it out one tool at a time. I built Uplyft because I kept texting my kids "good luck" before games and knowing I could say something better. My goal is to help parents show up for their kids in the moments that matter most, and to take care of themselves along the way. Building in public. Sharing the whole story at uplyft.beehiiv.com

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Vapi Raises $50M Series B

Today we're announcing our $50M Series B, led by Peak XV, with participation from YC, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Kleiner Perkins, and our earlier investors. It brings our total funding to $72M. The round closed on the back of a year in which our enterprise revenue grew 10x, and our agents crossed 1,000,000,000 calls handled.

Read their announcement.

Brad Holland

2mo ago

Built a family wellness app solo. No experience. Here's where I am.

UX/UI designer by day. App founder by night.

I built Uplyft, a motivational messaging app for parents and families. No co-founder, no backend experience, no real plan. Just Claude and a birthday launch date in July.

Got rejected from a pitch competition in 24 hours this week. Walked away with a one-pager.

Check it out at app.uplyftlife.com. Honest feedback welcome.

Pitch your product. Win $1M+

Update: The Deel Leaderboard will no longer be going ahead today for the Paris event.

We re teaming up with The Pitch by @Deel, a global startup competition where up to 100 winners will receive $50k in funding and up to 10 winners will receive $1M+.

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