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UVR Media, LLC (formerly UploadVR, Inc. and Upload, Inc.) is an American media company that operates UploadVR, a virtual reality-focused trade publication website. The company was founded as UploadVR in 2014 by Taylor Freeman, Will Mason, and Nick St. Pierre as a coworking company based in San Francisco. It later expanded to organize events, provide business incubation, and operate the UploadVR website. After rebranding to Upload and relocating to Marina del Rey in 2017, the company was sued over alleged gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination. The lawsuit was settled in September 2017 and Upload subsequently hired chief operating officer Anne Ahola Ward, who instituted mandatory anti-harassment training before leaving the company in October that year. Lacking financing, Upload shut down its offices and coworking spaces in March 2018, while the UploadVR website remained operational under UVR Media, which was incorporated as a new entity. History Upload was founded as UploadVR in 2014 by Taylor Freeman, William "Will" Mason, and Nicholas "Nick" St. Pierre in San Francisco. St. Pierre dropped out of the company in early 2016. while Freeman and Mason acted as chief executive officer and president, respectively. Later that year, Mason began writing about virtual reality via the company's website. Initial contributors for this trade publication included Ryan Damm, Matthew Terndrup, Tony Davidson, and Ian Hamilton. In December 2015, the company received in seed funding from Shanda. In January 2016, UploadVR announced the formation of Upload Collective, an incubation and coworking space. The collective grew to host over startups where multiple events were hosted every week. In 2016, Upload partnered with Udacity, Google, HTC and Unity to develop the VR Nanodegree. They then partnered with Make School to create the UploadVR Academy, a 10-week boot camp for advanced developers to learn how to build desktop and mobile VR games using Unity.