Upstream Events: Meagan Loyst from Lerer Hippeau, Jason Del Rey from Recode, Eric Toda from Facebook, Willa Tellekson-Flash from Public, David Rosenberg from Bitmoji / Snap, Matt Van Horn from Zimride/Lyft/June Oven, Rebecca Danta from Miami Angels, Adam Hadi from Current and more!
Hey everybody-
Happy International Women’s Day! Celebrating our amazing community members, speakers, community admins, employees, investors, mothers, sisters, partners, and daughters — we wouldn’t be here without you!
Trying out a fun new event format this week — Dealflow: Testflights and Companies I’m Seeing. I’ll share the apps I’m beta testing, companies I’m introducing to investors, and everything in between. This week I’ll show off Texts.com, Oasis, and maybe one or two others. Join on Thursday at 7pm ET.
Win of the Week: Has Upstream helped you professionally? Share your Upstream win with Alex/Sarah to get featured (& get a special Upstream gift!)
Celebrating Youngrok Kim’s first digital art purchase! Kicking off our NFT community has been awesome — grateful to have a place for open discussions and questions about an intimidating, not easily understood topic like NFTs.
New Feature Alert: Office Hours Calendar Hold
Even before someone signs up for your office hours, you will receive a hold on your calendar so you don’t schedule over your Office Hours. Once you accept someone to attend your office hours, the calendar hold is replaced with the calendars for the meetings. Working to reduce the amount of double booking in your (and our) lives!
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
Open the links below from your phone or from your computer!
TUESDAY the 9th
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- February Founders Helping Founders — open confessions of a Seed VC — Justin Drees (BIP capital) at 2pm ET
- Fin-Tech Series #3 w/ JP Capello, Partner at PAG Law & Steven Lord, Council Member at GLG at 5pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Pitch Night #13 with GiftPocket at 6pm ET
- Unlock your hidden creative problem solving superpowers with Camila Borda Kaul — Founder of Just a Squiggle and Head of Sales Development and Strategy at Google at 6pm ET
- Investor Series #28 with Meagan Loyst from Lerer Hippeau at 7pm ET
- Jews in Tech Event w/ Guest Speaker David Rosenberg — Head of Strategy for Bitmoji / Snap at 8pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 10th
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- From VC to Product with Edlyn Yuen — Senior Product Manager at Disney Streaming Services at 12pm ET
- Future of Work VC Predictions #5 with Teddy Seem, Partner at Outsiders Fund at 1pm ET
- Fellow Female Founders #13 with Marie Roker-Jones — co-CEO Essteem at 3pm ET
- Startup Best Practices Series #3 w/ Katie Weiss of SingleSprout (Former Director of ff Venture Capital) at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Miami Tech Social #9 with Rebecca Danta — Managing Director at Miami Angels at 5pm ET
- Marketing Mixer #10 with Guest Speaker: Adam Hadi, VP Marketing @ Current at 6pm ET
- LGBTQ+Up in Tech Social #3 with Wasim Ahmad — Chief Crypto Officer at Vault12 at 6pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #22 with Jacob Loewenstein — VP of BD and Strategy at Spatial at 7pm ET
- Female Founder series #4 with Shirin Salemnia — CEO at PlayWerks and WhizGirls Academy at 8pm ET
- Michigan Alumni Speaker Series #1 with Lauren Rosenthal, CEO of Birdie at 8pm ET
THURSDAY the 11th
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- March Israeli Tech Mixer at 12pm ET
- Community Community Lunch #4: Willa Tellekson-Flash from Public at 12pm ET
- Executive Spotlight IV: Eric Toda, Global Head of Social Marketing at Facebook at 1pm ET
- Consumer Investor / Founder Meetup with Anne Lee Skates, Partner at a16z at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 9pm EST
- Curating Impactful Experiences Online — Aashi Vel, Traveling Spoon at 5pm ET
- Origins: June Oven and Zimride (Lyft) with co-founder Matt Van Horn at 6pm ET
- PR Pros Networking XVI at 6:30pm ET
- Dealflow: Testflights and Companies I’m Seeing at 7pm ET
Friday the 12th
Morning: 9am — 12pm EST
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Future of Work Creative Recharge #2 at 12:30pm ET
- NFT Community Event #2 at 1pm ET
- Upstream Social #54 with Jason Del Rey — Senior Correspondent, Commerce at Recode at 3pm ET
Notable Upcoming
- Investor Series #29 with Andrea Funsten — Managing Partner at Basecamp Fund on 3/16 at 6pm ET
- Pitch Night #14 with Melier on 3/16 at 7pm ET
- Active Investor #24: Super Angel with Brian Cohen of New York Venture Partners on 3/16 at 7pm ET
- Optimizing Your Zoom Setup with Cliff Sobel — CEO at The Streamcast Network on 3/16 at 7pm ET
- Fellow Female Founders #14 — Megan Ananian, GP at The Helm on 3/17 at 3pm ET
- Sports Business Event #18 with Ishveen Anand — Founder and CEO at OpenSponsorship on 3/17 at 6pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #23 with Reut Masarano — Senior Partnerships Manager at Riot Games on 3/17 at 7pm ET
- Jews In Tech Connect #17 on 3/17 at 8pm ET
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #19 w/Rosie Yakob (Genius Steals) on 3/18 at 12pm ET
- Origins: TheSkimm with co-founders and co-CEOs Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg on 3/18 at 1pm ET
- Why Mental Health (Including Stress Fatigue) is Catching up to Organizations and What to do About it on 3/18 at 1pm ET
- NFT Community Event #3 on 3/19 at 1pm ET
- Upstream Social #55 with Dina Bass — Tech Reporter and Seattle Bureau Chief at Bloomberg on 3/19 at 3pm ET
THIS WEEK’S OFFICE HOURS
Open the links below from your phone (RSVP from Web coming soon!)
We are only going to select a few Office Hours a day. The rest will be found in the Discover tab.
MONDAY the 8th
- Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
- Jocelyn Lee — Investor, HearstLab at Hearst at 1:30pm ET
- Evelina Lavrova — CMO at Waves World at 2pm ET
- Danny Levy — Founder at Ting.io at 4pm ET
- Sean Callanan — CEO at Sports Geek at 5:30pm ET
TUESDAY the 9th
- Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 11am ET
- Sam Markle — Head of Strategic Partnerships at The Feel Good Lab at 12pm ET
- Alon Cohen — Founder at Pika Diapers at 2:30pm ET
- Ilana Broad — Co-CEO & GC at The SHE Mark at 8pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 10th
- Shanna McEachern — Director of Operations at Alpaca Technology at 9am ET
- Harrison Remler — COO at Visionary Music Group at 10am ET
- Alexandria Pugia — Software Developer at Upstream at 11am ET
- Ryan De Souza — Investor at Scrum Ventures at 2pm ET
- Mike Gelb — Founder at The Consumer VC at 2:30pm ET
- Mat Kaliski — Principal at Acronym Venture Capital at 3pm ET
- Shira Goldetsky — CEO at Sapient Search at 3:30pm ET
- Chris Moreno — VP, National Partnerships at Luxer One at 9:30pm ET
THURSDAY the 11th
- Paris Morris — Customer Advocacy Marketing at Salesforce at 11am ET
- Kerry Flynn — Reporter at CNN at 12pm ET
- David Berkowitz — Founder at Serial Marketers at 12:30pm ET
- Matt Jessen-Howard — Partner at Noveus Capital at 2pm ET
- Andrew McCarley — Director at Peabody Aerospace at 3pm ET
- Therese Gedda — Founder / CEO at Reimaginez at 5:30pm ET
- Victor Echevarria — Partner at Jackson Square Ventures at 7pm ET
FRIDAY the 12th
- Bruce Pinchbeck — Co-founder at Letterhead at 11am ET
- Jaimin Desai — Founder at Reconcile at 11am ET
- Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 12pm ET
- Kurt Benson — CEO/Founder at Tidal League at 12pm ET
- Sarah Alister — BD Intern at Upstream at 3:30pm ET
- Michael Kofman — Lead Solutions Architect at Aramark at 4pm ET
- Michael Galluppo — Founder at OLY.AI at 4:30pm ET
SATURDAY the 13th
- Alexander Golding — MBA at George Washington University at 11am ET
- Emily Gess — Account Manager at Titanium Marketing at 12pm ET
- Carey Ransom — President at Operate at 12pm ET
- Abhishek Sharma — Technical Program Manager at Pure Storage at 3pm ET
- Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 5pm ET
- Charles Hudson — Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures at 6pm ET
- Angel Gambino — Angel Investor and Prehype Partner at 7pm ET
SUNDAY the 14th
- Bella Rubin — Founder at No Qode Queen at 11am ET
- Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 7pm 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
