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Portfolio Spotlight: Elio
We’re proud to spotlight Elio, our portfolio company redefining how AI sees the physical world with its next-generation optical sensing platform.
We sat down with Nadav to talk about what they’re building, where they’re seeing early momentum, and why the next wave of AI will depend on the systems that connect intelligence to the physical world.
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Looking Ahead to 2026: What Founders Taught Us This Year
2025 was another wild ride — faster, noisier, and more competitive. AI has changed how quickly teams can build, but it has also raised the bar on clarity, conviction, and execution. Across hundreds of founder meetings, events, and conversations this past year at UpWest, a few themes kept coming up. These aren’t predictions, they’re patterns shaped by close work with founders across the portfolio and time spent together in the trenches.
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What We’d Share With Every Founder Ahead of 2025
As we reflected on the past year and looked ahead to 2025, our team kept coming back to three specific insights. If we could sit down with every founder that is starting a new venture in 2025, these are the lessons we’d tell them. And yes, AI made its way into this list…more than once 🙂