May 24, 2021
Upstream Events: Anu Duggal from Female Founders Fund, Elizabeth Burstein from Neura Health, David Fraga from Invision, Harry McCracken from Fast Company, Alex Angel from Commsor, & more!
Hey everybody,
Still deep in gratitude from all of your support with last week’s launch. Truly believe this community is the best in the world. See you at an event this week!
6 Things You Can’t Miss:
- Tuesday at 6pm ET: Could not be more excited to chat with Anu Duggal, founder of Female Founders Fund. (RSVP)
- Wednesday at 4pm ET: We can’t wait to talk to David Fraga, President of Invision, (valued at $1.9B and one of the earliest remote-first companies!) about what it takes to stay a remote-first team post-Covid. (RSVP)
- Thursday at 1pm ET: David Rosenberg, Director of Strategy at Snap / Bitmoji, will share about the recent Snap Partner Summit and where the opportunities are with the Snap platform. (RSVP)
- Thursday at 6pm ET: We’ll hear from Elizabeth Burstein, CEO of Neura Health, about what she’s building! (RSVP)
- Friday at 1pm ET: Our NFT Community continues to grow. This week we’re chatting with the Arabian Camels founders. (RSVP)
- Friday at 3pm ET: Join us for a conversation with Harry McCracken, Technology Editor, at Fast Company. (RSVP)
Reminder: You can join from web or mobile!
Bonus:
- IRL Gathering at 6pm ET on 6/3: Miami Tech Social #15 at The Ritz Carlton, South Beach. If you’re planning to be in Miami for the Bitcoin 2021 Conference, come hang with us! RSVP here so we have an accurate headcount. P.S. Our Head of Community, Sarah, will be in attendance and can’t wait to meet you!!
Win of the Week: Has Upstream helped you professionally? Share your Upstream win with Alex/Sarah to get featured (& get a special Upstream gift!)
Can we count the entire last week as a win? On Wednesday, we had our web launch + fundraise announcement.
We were blown away by the community support & press coverage. Here is a round-up of what was written: Our blog, TechCrunch, Axios, Business Insider, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, ReadWrite, and Refresh Miami.
New Feature Alert: New Website
We redid our website — check out upstreamapp.com! You may even find your own testimonial (email us yours if you would like to add one!) We’re super excited to further build out the website with more educational resources, FAQs, and a full list of past speakers & events for browsing.
Another win, if you’ve ever Google searched Upstream in the past, you may have come across several oil & gas companies. With the press from our launch last week, we’ve now jumped the ranks of SEO to be the top search result!
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
Open the links below from your phone or from your computer!
TUESDAY the 25th
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Career Growth Community Networking at 12:30pm ET
- Social Impact #3 with guest speaker Jay Frank — Founder of Symbiotic at 12:30pm ET
- Get Noticed on Linkedin at 1:30pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 9pm EST
- Investor Series #39 with Anu Duggal — Founding Partner at Female Founders Fund at 6pm ET
- Pitch Night #24 with Athleta Ed at 7pm ET
- Michigan Alumni Meet-Up #2 at 7pm ET
- Jews in Tech Meet & Greet with Guest Speaker Barr Yaron at 8pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 26th
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Future of Marketing Operations with guest speaker Elkanah Reed — CEO at WORKOPTI at 12:30pm ET
- LGBTQ+Up Tech #7 With Aaron Cohen — CRO of Butler Hospitality at 1pm ET
- Founders Helping Founders #10- When do you let go of specific job functions as a founder/executive? At 2pm ET
- Fellow Female Founders #17 at 3pm ET
- San Diego Tech Social Mixer Event #5 with Melani Gordon at 3:30pm ET
- Startup Best Practices Series #8 w/ Joshua Siegel, Partner at Rubicon Ventures & Acronym Ventures (Topic: Founders Etiquette) at 4pm ET
- Staying A Remote First Team Post-Covid with David Fraga — President of InVision at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 9pm EST
- Creative Professionals Networking at 7pm ET
- LA Tech Spring social at 7pm ET
- BD Meetup #27 — Networking Only at 7pm ET
THURSDAY the 27th
Morning: 9am — 12pm EST
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Community Community Lunch #6 with Alex Angel from Commsor at 12pm ET
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #25 at 12pm ET
- All Things Snap with David Rosenberg — Director of Strategy at Snap Inc at 1pm ET
- How I Became an Impact Investor with Ben Broad — Principal at Keter Point at 3pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 9pm EST
- What Are You Building? Neura Health with CEO/Co-Founder Elizabeth Burstein at 6pm ET
- Healthcare Community Social — 5.27.21 at 7pm ET
- Active Investor #26 — Deal Flow to Series A investors with Aaron Jacobson — Partner at NEA at 7pm ET
FRIDAY the 28th
Morning: 9am — 12pm EST
- Founders Friday // guest to be announced soon at 9am ET
- skincare for acne + dry skin…to get on miley cyrus + hailey beiber’s skin level at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- NFT Community Event #13 — Arabian Camels Deep Dive with the founders at 1pm ET
- Upstream Social #65 with Harry McCracken — Technology Editor at Fast Company at 3pm ET
- Community Spotlight: Numaan Akram, Founder of Rally (Startup) at 4pm ET
Notable Upcoming
- Career Growth Community Networking on 6/1 at 12:30pm ET
- San Diego Tech Social Mixer Event #6 with Yashar Ahmadpour on 6/1 at 3pm ET
- Conversation with Michael Sayman about his upcoming book App Kid on 6/1 at 5pm ET
- Sustainability Speed Networking Session on 6/1 at 5pm ET
- Future of No Code on 6/2 at 12:30pm ET
- Startup Best Practices Series #9 with Justworks on 6/2 at 4pm ET
- Serial Marketers — First Wednesday in NYC on 6/2 at 5pm ET at Shake Shack in NYC
- Creative Professionals Networking on 6/2 at 7pm ET
- Your Most Impacted Stakeholders: Operationalizing Employee Wellness on 6/3 at 3pm ET
- Consumer Investor / Founder meetup with Jordan Nof from Tusk Ventures on 6/3 at 4pm ET
- Founders Almost-Friday IRL @ Washington Square Park at 5:30pm ET
- PR Pros Networking XVII on 6/4 at 5:30pm ET
- Miami Tech Social #15 IRL June Gathering — Bitcoin 2021 Conference on 6/3 at 6pm ET at The Ritz Carlton, South Beach
- Jews in Tech Meet & Greet on 6/3 at 8pm ET
- NFT Community Event #14 on 6/4 at 1pm ET
- Community Spotlight: Morgan Polotan — Principal of B Capital Group (VC) on 6/4 at 4pm ET
If you have any friends you think might like the events above, share the link with them so they can RSVP and join!
Can’t wait to see you at an event!
Alex
