With $1.5M In Fresh Funding, Social Calendar App UpTo Now Lets Any Group Create & Publish Its Own Event Stream

UpTo Stream PublishingFounded in 2011, Detroit-based startup UpTo set out on an important mission: Turn your daily calendar into a social network. Sure, social calender-ing may not reach out and grab you, but, when the startup launched its iPhone app last March, it seemed worthy of another chance. Event-sharing apps are hardly new (see Facebook, Eventbrite, etc. etc.), but UpTo is taking an approach that many can empathize with when it comes to the social experience around events.

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Sunrise Brilliantly Redefines Calendar Apps On iOS

SunriseMeet Sunrise, the calendar app that will replace every calendar app that you’ve tried so far. It’s the best calendar you’ll ever use. Behind its apparent simplicity, there’s a server component (like Mailbox), making it significantly smarter with data from Google Calendar, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. The app was made by ex-Foursquare designers who believe they may have finally figured out how to make the calendar a powerful tool.

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