Investors / United States / UpWest
UpWest
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
UpWest is a venture firm that funds Israeli founders and helps them enter and scale in the US market. It leads pre-seed and seed rounds and works closely with portfolio companies on market immersion and customer development.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsUpWest lists 40 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (38%), Cybersecurity (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (9%). 77% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Insight Partners, Spider Capital and Aloniq.
Counts come from funding rounds that name UpWest, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not UpWest's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 40. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 75% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 77th | 39 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 72th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 38% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 14% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Insight Partners | 4 |
| Spider Capital | 3 |
| Aloniq | 2 |
| Blumberg Capital | 2 |
| CSC Upshot | 2 |
| Elron Ventures | 2 |
| Gefen Capital | 2 |
| Innovation Endeavors | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3690%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company410%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Insight Partners
Compare UpWest head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with UpWest| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Series A | |
| 26 Jan 2021 | Series A |
Round details for UpWest
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in UpWest's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
40 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airobotics develops and operates autonomous drone systems for various industries, including homeland security, military defense, and public safety. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Anyword makes AI content perform better | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Beehero provides pollination services for commercial crop growers using data-driven solutions and managed pollination services. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Boltx develops a handheld physical AI agent for maintenance teams to analyze machines | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Canopy provides enterprise AI solutions for oncology practices | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Codefresh provides continuous delivery solutions for Kubernetes and Argo CD at enterprise scale. | Enterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| CyCognito provides a platform for preemptive exposure management and attack surface management to help companies identify and fix external threats. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Darwin AI provides a platform for state and local government to govern and manage AI tools and workflows | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jan 2021Series A | Page + round | |
| Deeto provides an AI-powered platform for customer orchestration | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Deeto provides an AI-powered platform for customer orchestration | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Ecton provides financial counseling and assistance to patients to help them manage their medical expenses | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Elio builds sensing technology for artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| FirstImpression helps publishers focus on content by freeing them from Ad-Tech and Ad-Operations with one line of code | Media & EntertainmentHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company uses cookies to enhance user experience and evaluate platform performance on its website. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Balance provides financial infrastructure for business-to-business commerce | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Gifted provides a corporate gifting platform for businesses to recognize and reward their employees and clients | E-commerce & MarketplacesHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| HoneyBook provides a client relationship platform for business owners | Space & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Imubit provides Closed-Loop Physical AI for the process industries, mapping gaps between plan and plant, modeling cause and effect, and controlling key decisions in a closed loop. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| InnerPlant creates plants that communicate to help farmers make management decisions with data tied to plant physiology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Intuitive makes robotic systems, including Da Vinci and Ion, for healthcare applications. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- upwest.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Jan 2021
- Companies checked
- 40
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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