ELEVATE 2021: Introduce Yourself!

[cpieri]

Welcome to ELEVATE! We are so excited to work with each of you this June! Let's get started by introducing ourselves. Feel free to tell us whatever you'd like but here are a few ideas to get started:

• Your name
• Where you are located
• What your startup is
• What you hope to get out of ELEVATE
• Your favorite dessert

[SuperWuff92]

That's awesome to hear!

Mostly classroom materials, individual sets. I'm working on putting together a few units because that seems to sell well.

[EnriqueCalvo]

👋Hey, this is Enrique Calvo from https://frameright.io 📸
📍We are a Finnish start-up located in Berlin.
💓We are building an Image Display Control solution to empower the content creators to decide how their images will be displayed in any digital environment.
👩‍🏫At ELEVATE I hope to learn to improve our marketing and sales strategies.
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

[CPresley]

Catalina Presley-USA- Our startup benefit corporation, Wellness Workers Wellbeing, is working to provide a subscription-based, physician burnout reduction program to healthcare facilities. Goal: secure quality healthcare and healthcare providers for future generations to come by fighting physician burnout now. 

Hoping to cultivate necessary skills and learn useful tactics for breaking into the virtually impenetrable industry of healthcare.

Peach Cobbler 😋

[SuperWuff92]

Hi Enrique,

that sounds fascinating - why would this be necessary? I must admit, I thought all images displayed the same?

[EnriqueCalvo]

for example, HubSpot could use Frameright to easily allow you to choose your avatar.... I mean look at this screenshot! 😄

[SuperWuff92]

Oooh I see!

[EnriqueCalvo]

Because of this:

The image gets cut by the different containers. You need to create a different version of the same image for each of the different size containers. It's impossible to know what part of your image will be cut out.

[mayursontakke]

Hello community,

This is Mayur. At NomadGao (www.nomadgao.com), we are building a network of coworking-coliving spaces in rural India for digital nomads and remote teams. The goal is to help professionals live happy, healthy, productive lives 🙂

We are based in a tropical paradise called Goa. Through ELEVATE, we are looking to learn to automate processes to help us scale faster. 

Favourite dessert: Tiramisu! 

Looking forward to seeing you all!

[danjamescrosby]

Hi I'm Dan, I work for Event Store.

We are based in the UK (I'm near Bath), but our team is now global with people in US, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Mauritius, France, Belgium...

Our core product, EventStoreDB, is an open-source database technology for Event Sourcing that helps developers build event-sourced systems.  We also offer B2B support and consulting services as well as a SaaS offering for cloud-hosted managed EventStoreDB servers.

We are really interested in learning about some of the exciting things other startups are doing with Hubspot, how they are using it to maximum effect, and take away some tips we can look to improve our use of it.

Favourite dessert is sticky toffee pudding!

Looking forward to the event 😀

[GingerLily]

Hi, my name Lily from FlasHOLR. My team are based in US and we make platform that connects people who need hauling with drivers with cargo vehicles. With ELEVATE program, we want to learn how to achieve brand awareness, increase revenue, grow and scale up business.

Favorite dessert is Pistachio Ice Cream from Haagen-Dasz but sadly it's discontinued. Looking forward to meet y'all!!

[leilazoom]

Haagen-Dasz Pistacio was amazing, Lily! So sad it's gone. 😭

[GingerLily]

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[evan_aboard]

Hello community, looking forward to these sessions later this month!

• Name: Evan Hallward
• Location: Toronto, Canada
• Startup: Aboard, a platform that customizes and delivers better employee onboarding & engagement.
• Hoping to learn: SEO, product positioning, good sales practices/metrics
• Favourite dessert: carrot cake!

[MSamorodin]

Interested in your product, can it also work for the digital media tech industry? My business and interests are around Virtual Reality, VFX, Animation, and video games development. Creating a VR application for youth on the Autism spectrum. 

Misha

[HayroLrnkey]

• Hello, I am Hayro from Canada, Alberta. 
• I am the founder of Lrnkey.com. A global marketplace that easily connects you to online instructors who can teach you various things. Like uber for learning.
• We are excited to be part of Elevate and hope to make connections and friends to share our journey. We are trying to scale and grow now...
• and I love Tiramisu with espresso:)

[MSamorodin]

I would be interested in creating courses myself and I am from Canada too!

Misha S. Feel free to ask me about my business too witch is a VR application currently in early stage development to help Autistic and Neurodiverse Youth with dealing with emtions and socializing. 

[SuperWuff92]

Hi Hayro,

is it like masterclass?

[LocalLaundry]

Hi There,

We're Local Laundry, Canadian-made garments for social good. Our garments make people feel good with our three Cs, Comfort, Conscious and Charitable.

We're located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

We're an e-commerce company that is also in the space for creating custom Canadian-made garments for organizations or companies looking to tell a story rather than just print a logo. Companies that want to source more responsibly and create garments that their team, customers and employees actually WANT to wear rather than garments that end up in people's pajama piles.

We're hoping to learn as much as we can about focusing more on the B2B space as opposed to the D2C space we've been playing in for so long.

Favourite dessert is strawberry rhubarb pie. Delicious.

Feel free to reach out anytime at info@locallaundry.ca

🙂

Connor

[KJones1]

Hello Everyone, I am very happy to be a part of ELEVATE! My name is Kiara from Free Money Meister. We are U.S. based company combatting the Student Loan Debt Crisis in America through our innovative free money platform. Our platform has a scholarship application accelerator dashboard that prioritizes scholarships that students should pursue and has tools to speed up the application process. In addition, students have access to virtual one-on-one scholarship coaches and access to quick courses to teach students about free money (scholarship, grants, fellowships, and student loan paydowns). 

Through this accelerator, we hope to learn more about improving our marketing and overall "attract" and "engage" strategy.

Favorite Dessert: Pineapple Upside Down Cake🤗

[KKostreva]

Do you have a program for military veterans? While there are many resources via the VA, it is a difficult to access bureaucracy. And despite higher ed institutions accepting Post 9/11 GI Benefits for schooling, many, if not most, do NOT have a liaison at the school to help the veterans navigate properly. As a result, veterans may not have their benefits come in time, and are forced to take additional loans they shouldn't have had to take in the first place. Also, financial planning is not a strong suit for many veterans.

[SuperWuff92]

I know a few people struggling with student loans, this is amazing!

What on earth is a pineapple upside down cake??