VCWoman Achieve 2025 Mentee Spotlight – Christine Scarlett & Lauren Weaver

Name: Christine Scarlett & Lauren Weaver | Co-founders, upSKILLery
Please share a little about your background, personally and/or professionally.
Please share about your business, where it’s located, and what led you to starting it.
What goals do you hope to achieve for your business during your time in VCWoman Achieve?
While we are experts in patient care, culture and marketing, we are LEARNING how to be entrepreneurs and business owners ourselves. We believe that wise people lean on other experts in their areas of weakness, so we are excited to learn from women who have successfully grown a start-up into a large-scale business or national brand.
What drew you to being part of a mentorship group specifically curated for non-men? How has being a woman or non-binary individual impacted your journey as an entrepreneur?
We believe that this is a new era for women: that women don’t have to work like men to be successful. That actually, if we lean into our unique essence that is woman, it’s our superpower.
What are three things you enjoy doing outside of work?
What is your favorite part about being an entrepreneur?
That we’re creating something completely unique to us, in our own way, that we were meant to do. Building success for ourselves not someone else.