Startup Name: Rise
Tagline: Accelerating growth with independent, flexible jobs.
Elevator Pitch: Rise is the first forward-looking career platform to help people make moves fearlessly. Powered by technology, our modern work ecosystem brings together future-focused jobs, on-demand benefits, and a supportive community. We use high-skilled, work-from-anywhere roles to accelerate a woman’s career. Companies seeking to fill internal skills gaps, staff part-time leadership roles, or complete time-sensitive projects can use the platform as a new avenue for recruitment.
Target Market: The high-skilled segment of the gig economy
How will you make money?: 1. Recruiting fees + services: We charge companies for recruiting-related activities to discover, hire, and engage with our talent community.
2. Benefits: We capture referral fee as well as ongoing service-related revenue from our benefits
an ecosystem such as health insurance, financial services, etc.
3. Community + event: We charge sponsorship fees, speaker fees, but also sells tickets for our
events and workshops
How much capital have you raised?: 100-250k
Founder(s) Name: Vivian Chen
Website: https://www.joinrise.co/
Twitter: @join_rise
City/Country: New York/USA
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