Investing Profile

Lia Cromwell(731)

VC
Writing pre-seed & seed checks for founders innovating at the US-Israel tech junction
upwest.vcTel Aviv, Israel
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6 Investors

Connected to David Stark (Ground Up Ventures), Guy Katsovich (Fusion VC), Gil Dibner (Angular Ventures), and 3 other investors on Signal.

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UpWest Principal
$200K - $3.0M
$1.5M
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$18.4M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Balance
Pre-Seed+SeedJun 2020$5.5M
$440M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Mike Miller (Liquid 2 Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Rex Salisbury (Cambrian Ventures), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Ido Vigdor (Viola Ventures), Ben Lang
Aspecto
Pre-SeedSep 2019$1
$1
Co-investors: Gil Dibner (Angular Ventures), Ron Pragides
CyCognito
Pre-SeedSep 2017
$150M
Co-investors: Eric Wolford (Accel), Ashvin Bachireddy (SV Angel), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Shuly Galili (UpWest), Ken Elefant (Sorenson Ventures), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Larsen Jensen (Harpoon), William Allen (Harpoon), Dan Scheinman (Scheinman Angel Fund), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures)
Altostra
Pre-SeedN/A
Co-investors: Warren Weiss (WestWave Capital)
BeeHero
Pre-SeedN/A
$46M
Co-investors: Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Oded Hermoni, Boaz Hecht
Lynx.md
Pre-SeedN/A
Co-investors: Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Netalie Nadivi
Simpo
Pre-SeedN/A
$5M
Co-investors: Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Elad Gil, Danny Hadar
Zone7
Pre-SeedN/A
$11M
Co-investors: Bruce Taragin (Blumberg Capital), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Dave Pell
We are first check investors in Israeli founders building for the US market. We are most interested in backing teams with at least 1 Israeli founder who have (or plan to have) the CEO based in the US -- this is because we are big believers in being next to your customers and leading your GTM from your target market starting at the earliest stages.
We invest in pre-seed and seed stage Israeli founders looking to establish their operational HQ in the US from day one, with the CEO physically present in the US. For us, that means businesses targeting other geographies are not a fit.
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