April 29, 2023

$250-400k soft circled, 2 days left!

Mercury Raise

Mercury is a fintech banking service (virtual "bank" for startups) that runs a competitive fundraising support process. They only accept 1.8% of applicants and they accepted Upshift. Details:

"Hi Ezra,

🎉 Congratulations — you’ve been chosen to participate in Mercury Raise: Seed! We’re thrilled to welcome your company to the Mercury Raise community. As a member of the Spring 23 cohort, you’ll be joining 53 other startups that we’ve selected from over 3,000 applications....

Here’s what you can expect next:

We’ll share your deck with 800+ investors — if an investor is interested, we’ll make a personal introduction.

We’ll celebrate your company on our blog and socials.

We’ll set you up in 1:1s with mentors and fellow founders.

You’ll unlock access to exclusive events, peer pitch review sessions, community network building, founder peer discussion groups, and more."

Wharton Alumni Angels Syndicate: $25-200k soft circled

We are also moving forward on a syndicate with the Wharton Alumni Angels. They also select 5-6 companies to pitch each month out of 100s. We were the top company to pitch in the month of April and now have $25k in commits. We'll need $50k+ to close the syndicate and we could get it up to $150-200k. If you or someone you know is a Wharton Alumnus/a and is an accredited investor, please let me know at [email protected] and I can connect you to the deal lead.

VCs: $100k soft circled

We've expecting another $100k from a VC we pitched a week ago bringing us to $250-400k soft circled for our seed round. We have several lead investors close in, and a number of follow on investors. It's all coming together! Only 2 days left to get in on Wefunder! Hurry this round closes Sunday 4/30. Invest today at www.wefunder.com/upshift

And we're overbooked again for tomorrow...!