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Portfolio Spotlight: deeto
We are excited to spotlight our portfolio company deeto, building a disruptive growth-enablement platform. Shortly after US-based deeto was founded, UpWest partnered with Eran, Golan and Yossi by leading the company’s Seed round. In our chat with Eran Baron, CEO & Founder of deeto, we delve into their revelation about the untapped potential of customer trust and credibility, how it inspired them to create a cross-industry solution aimed at shorter and simpler sales cycle, and deeto’s strategic vision to capitalize on generative AI.
Portfolio Spotlight: InnerPlant
We are excited to spotlight our portfolio company InnerPlant, which launched the world’s first biosensor platform enabling crops to “talk” to their growers and signal stresses at the cellular level. Founded in 2018, InnerPlant is a US-based company with a team of 28 people, 70% of them being scientists. The company has raised a total of $24 million with UpWest being part of their first check at the Seed round. We sat down for a chat with Shely Aronov, InnerPlant’s Founder & CEO, to discuss her experience building a customer-driven company and how InnerPlant unlocks the future of AI and autonomy in agriculture.
Portfolio Spotlight: Canopy
We are excited to take you under the hood of our portfolio company Canopy, which launched the first Intelligent Care Platform (ICP) for oncology — a full suite of intelligent, electronic health record-integrated tools to help cancer centers continuously engage with their patients, streamline clinical workflows, and generate new revenue streams for their meaningful work. UpWest was Canopy’s first investor in 2018 and continues to support the company as it grows and reaches new heights.