UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed-stage venture capital firm investing in Israeli founders breaking into the US market. Founded in 2012, it leads pre-seed and seed rounds and provides hands-on support to help portfolio companies scale in the United States.
Deal activity increased 300% year-over-year (4 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (52% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $16.9M (across 42 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
34
Fund Size
$70M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
4
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
42 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Raven | Seed | $20M | Mar 2026 |
 Raven Connected | Seed | $20M | Mar 2026 |
| RRaven | Seed | $20M | Jan 2026 |
 Darwin | Series A | $15M | Oct 2025 |
 Darwin AI | Series A | $15M | Oct 2025 |
 Deeto | Series A | $12.5M | Jul 2025 |
 TrialKit | Seed | $4.3M | Jan 2025 |
 Deeto | Series A | $12.5M | Jan 2025 |
 Zenity | Series A | $16.5M | Sep 2023 |
 PerfectScale | Seed | $7.1M | Jan 2023 |
 Balance | Series B | $56M | Jul 2022 |
 CyCognito | Series C | $100M | Dec 2021 |
 BeeHero | Series A | $15M | Oct 2021 |
| Balance | Series A | $25M | Aug 2021 |
 Imubit | Growth | $30M | Aug 2021 |
 Zone7 | Series A | $8M | Jul 2021 |
| CyCognito | Series B | $30M | Jun 2020 |
 Navmatic | Seed | $4M | Jun 2020 |
| BeeHero | Seed | $4M | May 2020 |
 Simpo | Seed | $4.5M | Jun 2019 |
| Zone7 | Seed | $2.5M | Feb 2019 |
| CyCognito | Series A | $18M | Jan 2019 |
 Codefresh | Unknown | $7M | Sep 2016 |
 uMake | Series A | $5.2M | Dec 2015 |
| QQlika | Seed | $1.7M | Jan 2013 |
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Top Co-Investors
Redseed9 shared
SentinelOne9 shared
Elron Ventures9 shared
Norwest Venture Partners9 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners6 shared
Resolute Ventures6 shared
What If Ventures6 shared
Jibe Ventures5 shared
Accel4 shared
Sorenson Capital4 shared
Insight Partners4 shared
Hillsven4 shared
Tau Ventures3 shared
J-Ventures3 shared
Unusual Ventures3 shared
Tal Ventures2 shared
Jump Capital2 shared
Ribbit Capital2 shared
Stripe2 shared
Avid Ventures2 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026