startup

American  

[stahrt-uhp] / ˈstɑrtˌʌp /

Or start-up

noun

1. the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.

2. a new business venture, or a new commercial or industrial project.

   a small, 5-month-old internet startup.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the beginning of such a venture or project, especially to an investment made to initiate it.

   high start-up costs for construction of a new facility.

Etymology

Origin of startup

First recorded in 1550–60; noun use of verb phrase start up

Example Sentences

Digit, made by Oregon-based startup Agility, has a growing number of competitors, including humanoids made by Boston Dynamics, Apptronik, Figure and Tesla.

From The Wall Street Journal

The startup “was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,” Musk said Thursday on X, a social-media platform owned by xAI.

From MarketWatch

Amazon Web Services plans to deploy processors designed by Cerebras inside its data centers, the latest vote of confidence in the startup, which specializes in chips that power artificial-intelligence models.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among them is Anduril Industries, a Costa Mesa startup that builds drone and other autonomous weapons and last year received a $2.5-billion funding round.

From Los Angeles Times

The startup seeks to buck an EV downturn with a $57,990 SUV that can drive up to 330 miles on a single charge.

From The Wall Street Journal