Hi all,

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Years Eve. We’re excited about the new year and are looking forward to go heads-down on product.

What happened at Rise

• 🎉 We’ve made our first hire! He will start early February and we’re beyond excited to have Cameron join Rick on the front-end.
• We improved the event syncing reliability between Rise and Google.
• We started using the Google people API that will help us get all the names, photos and e-mail addresses of those you’d like to schedule with.
• We build a new public landingpage that we’ll put live when announcing our funding on Thursday.

What’s next

• 🎙 We are announcing our funding on Thursday. We still have plenty of small stuff to do to get this ready (writing press releases, take a photo of the three of us and do some final touches on the landingpage).
• Willem has a lot of job interviews with candidates this week. Our pipeline on the front-end looks promising. However, on the back-end role we still need to do some more work to find the right candidates.
• We’ll define our strategy for the next couple of months. This will help us get a better insight in all that needs to be done to onboard new teams.

Cheers,

Emiel