Introduce yourself!

cpieri
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Introduce yourself!

Welcome to ELEVATE! We are so excited to work with each of you in the coming months! 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
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sararoybonde
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hi all,

It's so interesting to read through your introductions - am I the only one who sees huge potentials for partnerships?:)

 

My name is Sara Roy-Bonde and I am based in Copenhagen, Denmark (the one in Europe:). I am the CEO and Co-founder of miheroo.

 

miheroo is an online platform that connects expatriates and domestic helpers, globally. We have a strong impact profile, and focus on supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular #8 on decent work and economic growth just as we build international standards such as the International Labour Organisation's c189 directly into our platform.

 

The platform is built first to work in emerging markets to help close the digital divide as is a result of miheroo's founders', including my own, many years' expatriation to, and experience in, these countries.

 

While testing in four countries, we have been/are supported by the Danish government. We are now shifting from a primarily paid growth to organic growth model and are preparing for rapid growth.

 

Therefore, we have a lot of hope that ELEVATE can give us great insights on growing our user base more organically and commercialising. This includes getting more from our marketing efforts and improving our sales processes and material among others.

 

Also, I am very interested in hearing from anyone who feels we have even the slightest common ground as I've found that connecting and partnering with other startups has provided me the greatest new ideas and opportunities on this journey.

 

Favourite dessert: Gin/Tonic:)

 

Xx, Sara (sara@miheroo.com and connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sararoybonde/)

JJSalesThoughts
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hi Everyone,

I'm JJ Rohrer (with Co-Founder, Lori) from a bunker in Boston. We're growing Ascendly, which teaches engineering to young kids using, primarily, LEGO bricks. We've been teaching in-person classes for several years, and recently migrated to a nearly pure-online business model.  We currently offering online virtual camps https://www.ascendly.com/online-stem-camps/ and online classes https://www.ascendly.com/online/. We were nervous about moving online, but the classes have been surprisingly well received.

 

We used to market to parent groups, but now need to become good in the b2c world.  Online_Tortoise_Tower1_(c)_AscendlyLlc.png

 

sararoybonde
Participante

Introduce yourself!

As a native Lego-citizen I'm so happy to see this! And what a great idea!

JJSalesThoughts
Participante

Introduce yourself!

It has been pretty neat.  BTW - one of our key innovations for the LEGO based classed was to pull together a custom-kit of bricks with about 150 2x4 bricks, all one color, and 350 2x2 bricks of another color. It keeps the kids focusing on the engineering and structure, instead of hunting for the righ piece, and piece sparsity isn't really an issue.  LEGO Kit - Custom (Asc by JJR).jpg

inthemindofrome
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hello everyone! Man, so many cool people and companies. Excited to be a part ELEVATE with you all!

 

My name is Roman, I am the founder of Bacchus Room. I am located in San Francisco and still spend a considerable amount of time in my hometown of Los Angeles.

 

Bacchus Room started as an underground club of sorts, hosting private wine tasting and dinner parties in hidden secluded locations around Los Angeles. We are now relaunching as a hybrid media lifestyle company. We do have a subscription wine club, however the main focus is to merge art, culture, health, and gluttony together in a very approachable way. We are excited to team up with new brands, ideas, and people who want to create a safe inclusive space for our fans, members, and subscribers. 

 

I hope to meet new and inspiring people here in Elevate. I also hope to pick up a few new things that we can apply to relaunch Bacchus Room with a bang.

 

I am not too into desserts, but have been known to eat a whole pie (apple, pumpkin, chocolate mouse) or cake all to myself. I have a weak spot for donuts, oreos, and a nice bottle of champagne. Maybe I do like desserts.

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b0bbybaldi
Participante

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Hi guys my name is Roberto Baldizon and I am the Founder of Luszol LLC feel free to add me to LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/b0bbybaldi. I am originally from Guatemala but have traveled extensively through my life for which I consider my self a global citizen, and as such I love one of the most classic desserts of modern culture: Vanilla Ice Cream. I am grateful to share this space with you all and hope to gain a better understanding of how to properly apply marketing to our venture to increase revenues and raise awareness, especially of products that might not be our core focus long term but which generate revenues for the meantime, such as solar backpacks, and portable AC solar batteries.

 

Luszol LLC is a Miami (FL) energy solutions company endeavoring in building solutions that leverage technology advancements to make energy systems smart and responsive to the outside environment. We make energy systems (battery systems) smart by adding internet-connected switches that respond to commands from an online platform that listens to weather and utility alerts to adjust automatically to weather and utility alerts, as well as to the client's behavior to achieve greater resiliency, independence, and safety. 

 

Aarabi
Miembro

Introduce yourself!

Hi,

 

I am Aarabi Balasubramanian, Founder & CEO of EmTech Care Labs. We provide tech-based daily care management solutions for independent living and aging-in-place. We are an early stage, eldercare startup located in Cambridge, MA.

 

I am looking to learn more about:

  • gaining user traction/customer acquisition at a beta-testing stage
  • developing partnerships for piloting/MVP
  • tactical strategies for product-market fit validation
  • building online user communities and ongoing engagement
  • balancing marketing/social media outreach efforts - B2B2C & D2C
  • developing specific marketing goals and metrics for the next 3mos/6mos/1yr period

Excited to be part of this community.

 

Cheers,

Aarabi

 

Sfuman
Miembro

Introduce yourself!

Hi everyone,

 

My name is Bart Leslie. I'm based in New York and I'm the CEO and Co-founder of Sfumato. This is my second startup after successfully exiting my first.

 

My company pre-screens startups for venture investors (ie. VCs, PE, Family Offices, Angel Networks/Investors and Accelerators). We use AI and ML to produce better cleaner data to help them make better investment decisions. We also work with startups to get you funded quicker and by the right investors.

 

I'm interested in learning more about SEO and inbound marketing strategies to accelerate our growth and engagement with startups and venture investors.

 

As an Aussie my favourite dessert is pavlova! 

 

DR16
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hello everyone!

 

Looking forward to the journey! Loving the first session and resources so far - all very applicable to our legal tech startup.

 

Favorite dessert? Just one? Got to go with the classic Cheesecake!

 

Great to be here and big thanks to HubSpot for putting this program together.

 

From the Windy City

Dorothy

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paramoed
Miembro

Introduce yourself!

Hi all!

 

I'm Katia Paramonova (LinkedIn), Founder & CEO of Centrly based in San Diego, CA. We help tech scouting companies quickly identify hundreds (if not thousands) of options and narrow them down to a dozen of the best. We use mind-map visuals to help our customers quickly get a lay of the market landscape and qualify leads by seeing the context around what companies & organizations they work with. 

 

My background is in engineering & management, so sales is a foreign land for me. I'm looking to learn the basics of online sales at volume, in particular for data-heavy B2B SaaS. Look forward to contributing & learning from y'all!

 

Dessert... hmmm... creme brulee 🙂

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raybrena
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hi! I'm Ray Brena head of the startup Avalinguo. Both me and Avalinguo were born in Mexico.

 

Avalinguo is the first smartphone app for learning to talk in foreign languages where users appear represented as avatars in a virtual room, using just the cellphone or a VR headset.

 

I hope ELEVATE will help us out with our launch and initial customer acquisition (they acquire us, not the other way around, I got it).

 

Oddly enough, I prefer salty food to desserts. A foccacia out of the oven, yummy...

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AndrewParkes
Miembro | Partner nivel Gold
Miembro | Partner nivel Gold

Introduce yourself!

Hi Everyone,

 

I am Andrew Parkes located in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

 

I'm the Director of Growth for a US based startup called Leverage

We are a tech enabled growth agency. We help our clients with digital marketing projects and business efficiency (automation, process optimization, software systems, optimization, etc.)

I hope to get ideas and inspiration from other startups.

My favourite dessert is Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. 

Talk soon!

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Tisha
Miembro

Introduce yourself!

Stratford Festival! One of my favorites, I am from Buffalo, we used to go every year. Is The Old Prune still around?

 

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stephenspiegel
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hi!  Stephen here from Crewhu out of South Florida.  Crew (your peeps) hu (Human).

 

We are a client and employee engagement  SaaS solution for small to medium-sized businesses.  Typically our customer first comes to us because they are concerned with client retention or they are frustrated because they feel stuck due to low growth.

 

We help with this by making it easy to collect actionable customer feedback and celebrating the small wins with their team daily.  We create a strong customer experience culture for our clients!

 

The new norm has wiped out our most successful marketing channel, conferences.  We have pivoted since then and we are focusing on email marketing, webinars, and virtual events (we just finished one which is why I am late to the party).  We have had some success but I know there is so much more we can do and learn. I hope to learn how to attract many more new leads and bring down my cost of acquisition.

 

My favorite dessert is a batch of warm homemade chocolate chip cookies with a cold glass of milk.

 

In Gratitude,

 

Stephen

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itoo22
Miembro

Introduce yourself!

Hello!

 

My name is Ivy Too. I'm located in CT and NYC but for now, mainly CT. My startup is Urbinite which is an app helping newcomers to the city explore their interests and make meaningful connections at the same time. Out of Elevate, I hope to get a larger community of people who are building startups and who I can talk to about entrepreneurship. I'm also hoping to learn more about Hubspot!  My all-time favorite desserts are german chocolate cake and gelato. 

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ChrisBisson
Miembro

Introduce yourself!

Hi everyone - look forward to meeting you at some point during the course!

 

  • I'm Christopher Bisson - please call me Chris
  • Located in Waterloo, Ontario
  • Our start-up, Value Connect, is a RegTech company that helps mortgage lenders make more money. We do this by automating property appraisal quality control so they can spend more time selling and processing deals.
  • A sales enablement playbook
  • Crepes - for breakfast. Fresh fruit for desert!
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Unigamer
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hey Everybody,

Its great to be here.

 

That's me

My name is Francieli, and I am the CMO and Co-Founder here at Unigamer.com.  I am originally from Brazil, but based here in our Dublin (Home) office 🙂

What is Unigamer?
Unigamer is a social media platform that connects gamers and games. Imagine it like a TripAdvisor meets Facebook, just for games. We currently list +10,000 Games across the 4 main platforms, namely PS4, XBOX, SWITCH and PC. 

 

Why is Unigamer? 
Well, our vision is to connect gamers from all voer the world. We believe that community and social interactions are the key element to drive towards a better society. And we believe that Gaming has proven the potential to connect people in a compeltely new way.

 

Why Elevate?
The reason why I have signed up was primarely to learn and leverage on modules that would be beneficial to enrich my modest knowledge in Marketing. I beleive that learning is everything, and that drive will enable me to get the most out of this programme. I also hope to meet and connect with peers from across the world. 

What's my Favourite Desert?
That depends on the day, mood, and occasion 😄 But truth to be told, I believe "Tiramisu'" deserves the pole position right now!

Looking forward to get started 

LydiaOTG
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hey eveyone!

 

My name is Lydia and I'm the founder of Off The Ground. A small startup which consults other startups on their brand and marketing challenges. 

My background is digital strategy and most recently I spent the last 3 years growing a creative tech startup. 

I'm out in East London, near Canary Wharf but the less shiny area of the docklands. 

Hoping to get from ELEVATE a better insight of the some of the funding, structural and strategic challenges which my potential clients face and how to help them overcome these. 

Fave desert... Eton mess 😍

 

Feel free to hit me up on LinkedIn in to say hi. 

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Sinna
Miembro

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HI I am Sinna.I am from Singapore. I have run large and small companie sin hopitality engineering ,and have been an education entreprenuer past 15 years...I have mor ethat 30 year sof work experience....I ran atutoring franchise as amaster franchisee...now I have starte dmy own tutoring frnachise with evidence based  diagnostics and curriculum powered by AI and technology but in ablended setting so that a tutor cna teach with data .

 

I am here to learn how reach not Bto C but B to B to C...How do I reach a home tutor who will buy my franchise and then find his own students... Hope ot learn the digitla marketing and customer outreachtechniques and also how ot prepar ethe company for next fund raising round ina fe wmonths when my core platform is completed

 

Hope to network and learn all of you...Hope I am not the oldest at 61 🙂

Cheers

Sinna

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CallVD
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hi, I'm Victoria Duben, from Moscow, Russia.
I'm the founder at Viewst - applied machine learning company that aims to transform graphic content production. Viewst enables users who have no design experience, create professionally designed ads of any kind from scratch.
We are a young company and are eager to learn how to build brand awareness, how to market early-stage startup, how to set up marketing goals, and what are the key metrics at this stage. Personally, I'm always happy to meet new people, the same passionate and open-minded entrepreneurs. I highly value the power of communities and always open to changing ideas and expertise in both directions. 
I wouldn't mind of a blueberries tart )))
Happy to join the Elevate program!

DanielX
Participante

Introduce yourself!

Hi,

My name is Daniel Tabacaru, and I am architect & engineer, working with sustainable buildings.

I am based in Oslo, Norway

My start-up is called AGAIN. It aims to provide sustainability KPI´s for the existing real estate assets, by using aggregated data with AI and HUE (Human Understanding and Experience).

Knowledge, network and new tools/methods to develop my startup and growing it into an Unicorn (that is what I hear all around me that it should be the aim:)

Can I have a separate list for it? (I just love desserts made by me or others:)

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