Investing Profile

Lia Cromwell(867)

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

Connected to David Stark (Ground Up Ventures), Guy Katsovich (Fusion VC), Ed Sim (Boldstart Ventures), and 5 other investors on Signal.

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UpWest Partner
$200K - $3.0M
$1.5M
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$18.4M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Balance
Pre-Seed+SeedJun 2020$5.5M
$440M
Co-investors: Mike Miller (Liquid 2 Ventures), Rex Salisbury (Cambrian Ventures), Ido Vigdor (Viola Ventures), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Nowi Kallen (Salesforce Ventures), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Ben Lang, Ameet Patel
Aspecto
Pre-SeedSep 2019$1
$1
Co-investors: Gil Dibner (Angular Ventures), Ron Pragides
CyCognito
Pre-SeedSep 2017
$150M
Co-investors: John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ashvin Bachireddy (SV Angel), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Ken Elefant (Sorenson Ventures), Shuly Galili (UpWest), Dan Scheinman (Scheinman Angel Fund), Larsen Jensen (Harpoon), William Allen (Harpoon), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures)
Simpo
Pre-SeedN/A
Co-investors: Danny Hadar
Zone7
Pre-SeedN/A
$8M
Co-investors: Bruce Taragin (Blumberg Capital), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures)
Altostra
Pre-SeedN/A
Co-investors: Warren Weiss (WestWave Capital)
Expain
Pre-SeedN/A
BeeHero
Pre-SeedN/A
$4M
Co-investors: Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Boaz Hecht
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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