Upstream Reports

Upstream Reports is an environmental health technology company based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The company's consumer-facing product, Upstream Reports, is a web-based application that pulls environmental Reports for any location in the United States.
Background
Advertising executive Scott Bedbury, his son Nicholas Bedbury and serial entrepreneur John Ballantine started the company in July of 2015 on Bainbridge Island, Washington under the name of Upstream Health Systems . The small team's initial product, Upstream Navigator, was unveiled at the HIMSS 2016 health conference in Las Vegas as a "member of the Esri startup program." The name shifted from Upstream Health Systems to Upstream Research around the same time.
Upstream Reports
According to their website, the company's main product is Upstream Reports, a web-application that users can input any address and receive an environmental Report of that location in seconds. According to a Geekwire article in December of 2016, "Upstream will use the data to fuel two products: the Upstream Navigator, an application that presents all of Upstream’s data, which will be made available to nonprofits and academics; and Upstream Reports, condensed summaries of data specific to one address which can be ordered by anyone" . A PSFK article in the same month of last year expanded on the concept further, citing its CEO, Nick Bedbury: "“We can change the way we look at the environment by making it more local and relating it to your health and your family’s health,” says Nick Bedbury, Upstream Research’s CEO. “At the same time we can also change the way we think about public health and the crossover of healthcare at large, and how you keep the community healthy.” To their knowledge, Upstream Research is the first platform to leverage both environmental and health data" .
The company's media coverage expanded nationally with a USA Today Green Living Magazine piece called "Neighborhood Knowledge" mentioned Upstream's data comes from a "variety of sources - public and private" and puts them into a readable format so consumers can "learn about such dangers as the arsenic level in your drinking water, the toxicity of your air or types of cancer or other environmentally linked diseases in your ZIP code" .

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