Bio

Anna Counselman is co-founder and head of people and operations at Upstart, a leading AI lending startup with more than $160M in venture capital funding. Anna co-founded Upstart in 2012, after a career at Google leading operations. She helped scale Upstart from zero to 200+ employees and originate more than $6B in loans. At Google, Anna led Gmail Consumer Operations for 5 years as it scaled from 150 million to 450 million users and launched the global Enterprise Customer Programs team. She also held a variety of operations roles at McMaster Carr and several other startups. Anna graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston University with a BA in Finance and Entrepreneurship. Anna received a White House Champion of Change award and was recognized as one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 under 40.