UpWest
121
6M
83
11.00
2
0.31
14
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
UpWest Labs is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The venture was found in North America in United States.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the UpWest Labs, startups are often financed by Hillsven Capital, Shruti Gandhi, Kima Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Spider Capital, Noam Bardin, Horizons Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Granite Hill Capital Partners, Data Collective DCVC, OurCrowd.
The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this UpWest Labs performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight HoneyBook, Airobotics, Backand. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Cyber Security, Analytics.
This organization was formed by Gil Ben-Artzy, Shuly Galili. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 121
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 11.00
- Follow on index
- 0.31
- Investments by industry
- Software (36)
- Mobile (21)
- Artificial Intelligence (20)
- Enterprise Software (15)
- Information Technology (15) Show 163 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (98)
- Israel (18)
- Canada (1)
- Brazil (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 73M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.59
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.65
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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