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# startup

noun

«startup» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

92 uses in 48 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 92 of 92. By the class of the article: company 20, city 8, agglomeration 7, country 6. Most often with: «company», «acquire», «technology», «base», «tech».

### Examples

- On January 23, 2014, AOL acquired Gravity, a software startup that tracked users' online behavior and tailored ads and content based on their interests, for $83 million. — [AOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), sentence 166 («wiki:AOL:166»)
- ASML received the first CoSta Award for the most successful and impactful innovative partnership between a corporate company and a startup. — [ASML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML), sentence 119 («wiki:ASML:119»)
- In November 2017, Alphabet Inc. led a Series A round of $71 million along with Andreessen Horowitz and 20th Century Studios in music startup UnitedMasters, founded by Steve Stoute. — [Alphabet Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), sentence 121 («wiki:Alphabet\_Inc.:121»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«AOL»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«ASML»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Alphabet Inc.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.