- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"topic": "Pre-2014 seed funding total", "conflict": "StartUp Beat (Apr 2014) states two earlier seed rounds totaling 'just north of $2 million' before the $2.3M round; TechCrunch (Feb 2013) reports only $650K raised so far at that date.", "source_urls": ["https://www.startupbeat.com/upverter-qa-id3741/11802/", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/20/with-650k-in-seed-funding-yc-backed-upverter-chases-the-dream-of-a-hardware-startup-revolution/"]}, {"topic": "User count over time", "conflict": "Reported users vary: 10K (Feb 2013), 30K engineers (Apr 2014), 20K+ users (Aug 2014) — different metrics/dates, not directly comparable.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/20/with-650k-in-seed-funding-yc-backed-upverter-chases-the-dream-of-a-hardware-startup-revolution/", "https://www.startupbeat.com/upverter-qa-id3741/11802/", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/startups/startup-takes-hardware-design-out-of-dark-ages-with-collaborative-browser-based-app/article20189121/"]}, {"topic": "Founders listed on YC page", "conflict": "Y Combinator company page lists only Stephen Hamer as founder (duplicated entry); other co-founders Zak Homuth and Michael Woodworth are documented elsewhere but omitted on YC page.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/upverter", "https://versionone.vc/new-investment-upverter/"]}, {"topic": "Exact incorporation date", "gap": "Only founding year 2010 is consistently reported; exact legal incorporation date not found in reviewed sources.", "source_urls": ["https://atlastechgroup.com/atlas-advises-altium-acquisition-upverter/", "https://versionone.vc/new-investment-upverter/"]}, {"topic": "YC W11 investment amount", "gap": "Upverter-specific YC/2011 cash investment amount not disclosed in reviewed primary sources; W11 batch-wide Start Fund offered $150K convertible notes to each company (optional), separate from YC's standard ~$17K for 7% at that time.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-every-new-y-combinator-startup-150k/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-new-deal"]}, {"topic": "Acquisition consideration timing", "conflict": "Acquisition announced 2017-08-28 and closed 2017-08-25 with CAD 7M total consideration; additional Altium shares (138,256) issued 2020-08-25 as deferred purchase-price component per ASX/financial filings.", "source_urls": ["https://www.renesas.com/en/document/rep/altium-annual-report-2017", "https://www.openbriefing.com/AsxDownload.aspx?pdfUrl=Report%2FComNews%2F20200825%2F02271277.pdf", "https://cdn.files.altium.com/sites/default/files/2022-08/2022%20Annual%20Report.pdf"]}, {"topic": "Employee count", "conflict": "Headcount snapshots range from ~8 at acquisition (founder blog) to 11 (YC), 12–15 at various 2014–2026 third-party sources.", "source_urls": ["https://blog.upverter.com/2017/08/28/upverter-joins-altium/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/upverter", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/startups/startup-takes-hardware-design-out-of-dark-ages-with-collaborative-browser-based-app/article20189121/", "https://builtintoronto.com/company/upverter"]}, {"topic": "Michael Woodworth timeline wording", "conflict": "Personal site lists 'Acquired 2011–2018' while public acquisition announcement and Altium filings are August 2017.", "source_urls": ["https://mwoodworth.com/", "https://atlastechgroup.com/atlas-advises-altium-acquisition-upverter/"]}, {"topic": "Primary source availability", "gap": "Founder acquisition blog post (blog.upverter.com) returned 404 during research; content partially recovered via search cache snippets.", "source_urls": ["https://blog.upverter.com/2017/08/28/upverter-joins-altium/"]}]]
- source urls
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