Sharingan

Upwind · growth studio for startups

Take your startup further, one tested idea at a time

A senior team that plans, runs and measures your growth experiments, from the first hundred users to the first million.

Why Upwind

Why founders pick us

A small senior team, one plan across every channel, and numbers you can check every Monday.

    • Maya, lifecycle lead
    • Kofi, paid media
    • Priya, product analytics
    • Jonas, SEO

    40

    growth specialists

    Paid, lifecycle, product and SEO, all in one room.

  • A smiling man in a white t-shirt resting his chin on his handWeekly calls
  • 1,001

    experiments run

  • 82%

    of clients grow within a quarter

  • One plan, every channel

    Ads, emails and onboarding pull the same way, with one owner for each number.

  • A smiling woman with long brown hair, her hand at her chin
  • Live

    A dashboard you can read

    Every test, its cost and what it brought in, updated each morning.

  • $4.2M

    raised by clients last year

How we work

Every week we pick one number Priya, product analytics with you, run the smallest test that could move it Tom, experiments , and keep only what works Maya, lifecycle lead . No decks, no retainers for ideas: experiments, and what they taught us.

Our method

The team

Meet the growth team

Fourteen specialists who have scaled products from the first hundred users to the first million.

  • Daniel Okafor, founder
  • Maya Lindqvist, lifecycle lead
  • Kofi Mensah, paid media
  • Lena Brandt, brand and content
  • Ravi Desai, data
  • Priya Nair, product analytics
  • Jonas Weber, SEO
  • Mei Tan, onboarding
  • Tom Ellis, experiments
  • Ana Ruiz, design
  • Sam Novak, engineering
  • Alex Moreau, research
  • 15+ years of growth
  • 120+ startups
  • 3 exits
  • Remote · 9 countries

Case studies

Explore our case studies

From a two-person app to a public company: what we tried, what failed, and what moved the number.

All case studies

Contact

Contact us

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