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Hey all -
Hey all -
March is here. Happy Women’s History Month!
So exciting to see all the new communities flourishing. The LQBTQ+Up Community led by Levi Sanders is hosting their second event this Wednesday (RSVP) and The NFT Community hosted by Drew Austin and myself is up and running (RSVP for the kickoff event). If you’ve wanted to launch your Upstream community, there is no better time than now!
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New Feature Alert:
Our amazing designer Zhanna created these social graphics to make it more fun to share Upstream events. When you post a link to an Upstream event on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook, you’ll get an auto-generated graphic highlighting the speaker. Can’t wait to see what you share!
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
Open the links below from your phone or from your computer!
MONDAY the 1st
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
TUESDAY the 2nd
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- Pitch Night #12 with PredictView at 6pm ET
- Investor Series #27 with Jason Shuman — Partner at Primary Ventures at 7pm ET
- Duke Venture Community Networking Event at 8pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 3rd
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Future of Work VC Predictions #4 with Mark Peter Davis, MP of Interplay Ventures at 3pm ET
- Startup Best Practices Series #2 w/ Steven Lord (Burkland, CFO Services) — Topic: Best Finance Practices for an Early Stage Startup at 4pm ET
Evening: 5pm — 8pm EST
- LGBTQ+Up Social #2 with Rob Long — Hollywood Writer and Producer at 6pm ET
- Active Investor #23: Emerging Managers (Deep Tech) Ariana Thacker Conscience VC / Jai Malik Countdown Capital at 7pm ET
- Sports Business Event #17 with Mark J. Burns — Reporter at Sport Business Journal at 7pm ET
THURSDAY the 4th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Fundraising Breakfast #2 /w Tim Ringel, Board Member at Adit Ventures (Investor in Spotify, AirBnB, RobinHood, SoFi and SpaceX) at 10am ET
- Designing a High-Performing Company Culture From the Start with Therése Gedda — Founder/CEO of Reimaginez at 12pm ET
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #18 w/Art Chang (NYC mayoral candidate) at 12pm ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
Evening: 5pm — 9pm EST
Friday the 5th
Morning: 8am — 12pm EST
- Founders Friday // speaker to be updated soon! at 9am ET
- Networking + Connection #1 w. Courtney Duchardt, VP, Digital Account Operations, Global, Warner Music Group at 11am ET
Afternoon: 12pm — 5pm EST
- Future of Work Creative Recharge #1 at 12:30pm ET
- NFT Kickoff Event at 1pm ET
- Wandavision Season Finale Convo at 2pm ET
- Upstream Social #53 with Chris O’Brien from VentureBeat at 3pm ET
- NY Startup Community #2 w/ Jason Rosenbaum & Hailey Swartz, Co-Founders of Actual Veggies (Sustainable Food Startup) at 4pm ET
Notable Upcoming
- Pitch Night #13 with Flox on 3/9 at 6pm ET
- Investor Series #28 with Meagan Loyst from Lerer Hippeau on 3/9 at 7pm ET
- Jews in Tech Event w/ Guest Speaker David Rosenberg — Head of Strategy for Bitmoji / Snap on 3/9 at 8pm ET
- Future of Work VC Predictions #5 with Teddy Seem, Partner at Outsiders Fund on 3/10 at 1pm ET
- Fellow Female Founders #13 with Marie Roker-Jones -Co-CEO of Essteem on 3/10 at 3pm ET
- Miami Tech Social #9 with Rebecca Danta — Managing Director at Miami Angels on 3/10 at 5pm ET
- Marketing Mixer #10 (Guest Speaker: Adam Hadi, VP Marketing @ Current) on 3/10 at 6pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #22 with Jacob Loewenstein — VP of BD and Strategy at Spatial on 3/10 at 7pm ET
- Community Community Lunch #4 on 3/11 at 12pm ET
- Executive Spotlight IV: Eric Toda, Global Head of Social Marketing at Facebook on 3/11 at 1pm ET
- Consumer Investor / Founder Meetup with Anne Lee Skates, Partner at a16z on 3/11 at 4pm ET
- Upstream Social #54 with Jason Del Rey — Senior Correspondent, Commerce at Recode on 3/12 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 1st
- Zach Levin — Founder at Law By Levin at 1pm ET
- Scott Rothstein — VP, Business Development at Mediamint at 1pm ET
- Maxwell Carver — Philosophy & Business Student at Villanova University at 3pm ET
- Danny Levy — Founder at Ting.io at 4pm ET
- Calvin Arterberry — Lead UX Designer at Travelers at 5:30pm ET
TUESDAY the 2nd
- Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 11am ET
- Paul Sethi — Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures at 2pm ET
- Eric Broad — CEO at Bowery Legal at 2pm ET
- Brian Landau — CEO at Vennly at 3pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 3rd
- Eric Friedman — Fractional COO at BuildingTheMachine.com at 9am ET
- Shanna McEachern — Director of Operations at Alpaca Technology at 9am ET
- Harrison Remler — COO at Visionary Music Group at 10am ET
- Ari Greenberg — Strategic Partnerships Leader — ex Spotify, Backmarket at 11am ET
- Alexandria Pugia — Software Developer at Upstream at 11am ET
- Greg Baorth — Social + Viral Consultant at 12pm ET
- Max Zamkow — Partner at Third Act Ventures at 2pm ET
- Ryan De Souza — Investor at Scrum Ventures at 2pm ET
- Sarah Wood — Head of Growth & Community at Upstream at 2pm ET
- Mike Gelb — Founder at The Consumer VC at 2:30pm ET
- Oren Kozlowski — VC Principal at Founder Factory NY at 2:30pm ET
- Mat Kaliski — Principal at Acronym Venture Capital at 3pm ET
- Teddy Seem — Partner at Outsiders Fund at 3:30pm ET
- Shira Goldetsky — CEO at Sapient Search at 3:30pm ET
THURSDAY the 4th
- 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
- Victor Echevarria — Partner at Jackson Square Ventures at 7pm ET
FRIDAY the 5th
- Chelsea Ferrette — Venture Attorney at 10am ET
- Dave Weinberg — Partnerships at Gently Ventures at 11am ET
- 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
- Catalina Kaiyoorawongs — CEO at LoanSense at 5:15pm ET
SATURDAY the 6th
- Alexander Golding — MBA at George Washington University at 11am 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
SUNDAY the 7th
- Bella Rubin — Founder at No Qode Queen at 11am ET
- Nicole Priel — Partner and Managing Director at Ibex Investors at 1pm 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
