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Sep 2025Reuters reported that the Second Circuit vacated the injunction shielding Upsolve's Justice Advocates program, leaving New York's unauthorized-practice-of-law enforcement dispute ongoing.
SourceHelping low-income Americans overcome debt and rebuild credit at…
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Upsolve is a New York-based 501(c)(3) legal-tech nonprofit that helps low-income Americans eliminate debt through free Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing, debt education, and AI-assisted support.
Primary product
Free Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing web app and guided debt-relief support (the 'TurboTax for bankruptcy' workflow, now augmented by Upsolve Assist / AI Paralegal).
Founded
2016
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Sub-industry
Legaltech / bankruptcy filing software
Offices
Chicago, Illinois, United States
New York City, New York, United States
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Business model
grant-funded nonprofit
free-to-user service
program-service revenue
partner referral fees
Funding
Stage
grant-backed nonprofit
Total raised
$4.6M
Latest round
Grant · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$4.2M
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-founder
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Director of Innovation
Director of Growth Marketing
Board Chair; Co-founder
Board Member; Co-founder
Founders
Co-founder; former CMO/COO/CFO/CPO
Investors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Eric Schmidt / Schmidt Futures
Financial Solutions Lab
GitLab Foundation
Guggenheim Investments
Harvard University
Hewlett Foundation
Legal Services Corporation
New Media Ventures
OpenAI Foundation
President's Innovation Challenge
Robin Hood Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Stand Together Foundation
Stand Together Ventures Lab
Y Combinator
Yale Law School
Work & culture
Mission-driven access-to-justice culture with lawyers, engineers, academics, and judges on staff; emphasizes empathy, collaboration, user support, and building trustworthy tools for people in financial distress.
Compensation
Public job postings cite a remote User Advocate role at $60k-$80k/year and other openings as 'competitive salary.' LinkedIn salary estimates in public profile snippets suggest roughly $124k for a software engineer and about $192k for a CTO, but those estimates are not official compensation policy.
Benefits
mission-driven work
remote U.S. roles are publicly posted
collaborative and inclusive culture
fast-paced, innovative environment
Product & market
Pricing
Free to end users; court filing fees and some third-party course fees are paid directly by the user, while Upsolve is funded by grants, philanthropy, and some program-service/referral revenue.
Differentiators
- —100% free to users with no upsells or premium tiers
- —plain-English guided bankruptcy filing flow
- —human support plus AI-assisted in-flow guidance
- —user-controlled data and strong privacy posture
- —mission-driven nonprofit focus on low-income Americans
- —large free education library and learning center
Technology
React
Node.js
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
AWS
OpenAI
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Contentful
Webflow
Airtable
Trello
Slack
Notion
Google Search Console
Ahrefs
Adobe Acrobat
Customers
low-income and working-class Americans with debt
people filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy
users seeking free debt and credit education
legal services organizations and nonprofit partners that use Upsolve to scale support
Competitors
traditional bankruptcy attorneys
legal aid organizations
other bankruptcy preparation software
debt-relief / credit-counseling services
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (LinkedIn estimate; roughly $2.4M annual revenue cited in public profile snippets)
Estimated monthly visits
227.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Signals & risks
Other
Mar 2026A March 2026 court update reported the Upsolve v. James case was dismissed with prejudice, underscoring continuing legal/regulatory risk around non-lawyer legal advice in New York.
SourceLatest news
Forbes · Mar 2026
Forbes profiled Upsolve's AI Paralegal and the organization’s milestone of erasing $1 billion in debt, highlighting how AI helped scale bankruptcy assistance for low-income families.
PRNewswire · Mar 2026
Upsolve announced it had erased more than $1 billion in debt for low-income families and cited support from philanthropies including GitLab Foundation, OpenAI Foundation, and Legal Services Corporation.
Pro Bono Institute · Oct 2025
The Pro Bono Institute summarized the litigation outcome and described the Justice Advocates program and its access-to-justice purpose.
Law.com · Sep 2025
Law.com covered the Second Circuit's decision as a setback for Upsolve's attempt to provide limited legal advice via trained non-lawyer advocates.
Reuters · Sep 2025
Reuters reported that the Second Circuit vacated an earlier ruling that had blocked New York from enforcing unauthorized-practice-of-law rules against Upsolve's Justice Advocates program.
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