Our Mission

To empower clinicians and researchers to become their own publishers — transforming their expertise into impact, recognition, and revenue.

Our Values

Empowerment

We equip clinicians and researchers with all the tools needed to create, manage, and monetize their own peer-reviewed medical journals, giving them full control over their professional content and audience.

Transparency

We believe fairness matters. Our double-blind, unbiased peer review ensures high-quality, credible content, and our transparent analytics make sure every contributor’s impact is clearly measured and fairly recognized.

Community

We foster a global network where medical experts build their subscriber base, collaborate openly, share groundbreaking insights, and collectively drive healthcare innovation forward.

Our Founders

Riley Konara, MD
Triple Board-Certified Physician

Co-Founder & CEO

U.S. Army Veteran
Dhanu Konara, MS
Biomedical Engineer & Developer

Co-Founder & CTO

Our Story

Upstreamed was founded during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr. Riley Konara (U.S. Army physician) and Dhanu Konara (biomedical engineer), after watching traditional journals delay life-saving insights — while keeping 100% of the profits.

Doctors and researchers do the work, take the risk, and generate the insights — but traditional journals take the rights, the revenue, and the credit.

You write the paper. They sell it.

You wait months. They build their brand.

You get… maybe prestige.

That’s not a publishing model. That’s a broken system.

So we built something better.

Upstreamed is a platform where medical professionals control their content, their revenue, and their reputation. You can publish instantly or get peer-reviewed in days. You keep your rights, grow your audience, track your impact — and get paid for your expertise.

It’s upstream medicine for publishing: we fix the problem at the source.

Launch your journal. Share your insights. Get paid.

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