UpHonest Capital

Palo Alto early-stage VC with 400+ portfolio companies including 16 unicorns like Hims&Hers and Rippling

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Updated: Dec 3, 2025 ·

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Palo Alto early-stage VC with 400+ portfolio companies including 16 unicorns like Hims&Hers and Rippling

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Nov 1, 2025	The EVERY Company	$55.0M Series D	—	Gabriel Ruimy, Brkfst Club, Main Sequence Ventures, Mayfield, McWin Capital Partners, NEO, SOSV, Vamos Ventures, Gary Hirshberg, Hadi Partovi, Scott Banister
Oct 1, 2025	SiC Systems	$3.0M Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Peak State Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Oct 1, 2025	Weave	$20.0M Series A	—	A Capital, Album VC, Craft Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Gradient Ventures, Hack VC, Innovation Endeavors, Liquid 2 Ventures, Magnetic Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pelion Venture Partners, TSVC Capital, Matt Garratt, U.S. Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ronny Conway
Sep 1, 2025	Valence	$50.0M Series B	—	8VC, Autotech Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Floodgate, Y Combinator
Sep 1, 2025	Price.com	$12.0M Venture Round	—	01 Advisors, Kevin Hartz, AIX Ventures, Animal Capital, Aurora Forge, Hoxton Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Practical Venture Capital, REMUS Capital, Social Starts, Vera Equity, Visionaire Ventures, Baron Davis, Bryce Hall, Griffin Johnson
Sep 1, 2025	Luminal	$500K Seed	—	A Capital, Album VC, Craft Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Gradient Ventures, Hack VC, Innovation Endeavors, Liquid 2 Ventures, Magnetic Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pelion Venture Partners, TSVC Capital, Matt Garratt, Y Combinator, Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ronny Conway
Sep 1, 2025	Evolve Platform	$1.0M Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Peak State Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Sep 1, 2025	M.AI Unbound, Inc	$25.0M Seed	—	Canaan Partners, Digital Currency Group, Kleiner Perkins, Andrew Berman, Vinay Hiremath
Sep 1, 2025	Nuance Labs	$10.0M Seed	—	Accel, Y Combinator, Tom Blomfield
Aug 1, 2025	Eight Sleep	$100.0M Series D	—	8090 Industries, Afore Capital, Array Ventures, AV8 Ventures, C2 Investment, Felicis Ventures, FirstHand Alliance, Founders Fund, Greycroft, Harrison Metal, Investo, Lux Capital, M12, Marlinspike, NFX, Plug & Play Ventures, RX3 Growth Partners, True Ventures, VZVC, Xfund, Y Combinator, Eric Futoran, Patrick S. Chung, Ron Pragides, Steve Norall
Aug 1, 2025	FORT Robotics	$19.0M Series B	—	1435 Capital Management, Aglae Ventures, Somesh Surapureddi, DFJ, E1 Ventures, Family Office, Future Ventures, Gigafund, GoAhead Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Lakeside Capital, Litquidity Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Malex Enterprises, Mana Ventures, Outliers Fund, Partners Resolute, Social Capital, Space Capital, Starbridge Venture Capital, TCV, Tiger Global Management, Upfront Ventures, Adeel Hussain, Fanny Surjana, Ishani Patel, Louis Beryl, Mark Cuban, Mattia Astori, Priyank Chandra, Rashaun Williams, Richard Cooperstein, Scott Banister, Shane Neman, Siddharth Singhal, Tim Ringel, Vikas Sabnani
Jul 1, 2025	Helical Fusion	$16.0M Series A	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Peak State Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Jul 1, 2025	Substack	$100.0M Series C	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Polychain Capital, Mike Kerns, TCG (The Chernin Group), The Hit Forge, VU Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Audrey Gelman, Conor Bronsdon, Emmett Shear, Hari Lakshmanan, Kenji Niwa, Mark Pincus, Rich Miner
Jul 1, 2025	Replit	$250.0M Series C	—	Afore Capital, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Bora&Sons, BoxOne Ventures, Craft Ventures, Founders Fund, Gaingels, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Harpoon, Hitachi Ventures, McCarthy Capital, Aaron Jacobson, Polychain Capital, Softbank Group, Streamlined Ventures, SV Angel, Mike Kerns, The Hit Forge, Trajectory Ventures, VU Venture Partners, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Y Combinator, Audrey Gelman, Conor Bronsdon, Emmett Shear, Hari Lakshmanan, Jeff Bezos, Joshua Webster, Kenji Niwa, Madhu Chamarty, Mark Pincus, Mattia Astori, Matt Mazzeo, Paul Graham, Richard Branson, Sam Altman, Sathvik Bilakanti, Sue Xu, Vinay Hiremath
Jul 1, 2025	Professional Triathletes Organisation	$40.0M Series C	—	American Express Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Celesta, Electric Capital, Greylock, Helium-3 Ventures, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, KAAN Ventures, Lightbank, LombardStreet Ventures, Prime Movers Lab, Saga, Alexander Gerko, Louis Beryl, Matt Bellamy, Mattia Astori, Paul Graham, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman
Jul 1, 2025	Tavrn	$15.0M Series A	—	Craft Ventures, Four Rivers Group, Friále, HOF Capital, Hummingbird Ventures, LombardStreet Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Unruly Capital
Jun 1, 2025	Castle	$1.0M Seed	—	500 Global, Archetype, Basis Set Ventures, Boost VC, Citi Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Cyberstarts VC, Founders Fund, F-Prime Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, The General Partnership, Trajectory Ventures, Valar Ventures, Venture Guides, Winklevoss Capital, Work-Bench, Y Combinator, Amos Elliston, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Charlie Songhurst, David Bettner, Jeff Arnold, Johan Lorenzen, John Collison, Mo El-Bibany, Nitay Joffe, Othman Laraki, Roger Ehrenberg
Jun 1, 2025	Netic	$20.0M Seed	—	10100, 1confirmation, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, AngelList, Bling Capital, Brainchild, C2 Investment, Kevin Ding, Divergence Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Goat Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Greylock, Hanabi Capital, Helium-3 Ventures, Jigsaw VC, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Longtail Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Ann Bordetsky, New Form Capital, Polychain Capital, Primitive Ventures, Quiet Capital, Robot Ventures, Saga, Sound Ventures, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, Diego Berdakin, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Mark Pincus, Matt Bellamy, Mike Vernal, Sahin Boydas, Samvit Ramadurgam, Sohail Prasad, Stani Kulechov, Sue Xu, Vitalik Buterin
May 1, 2025	Recraft	$30.0M Series B	—	Accel, Array Ventures, AV8 Ventures, C2 Investment, FirstHand Alliance, Greycroft, Harrison Metal, Investo, Khosla Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Plug & Play Ventures, True Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Xfund, Y Combinator, Akshay Kothari, Amit Gudka, Dharmesh Shah, Elad Gil, Hanno Renner, Nico Rosberg, Patrick S. Chung, Steve Norall
May 1, 2025	EnduroSat	$49.0M Series B	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Bora&Sons, Founders Fund, Gaingels, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hitachi Ventures, Humba Ventures, Softbank Group, Streamlined Ventures, SV Angel, Trajectory Ventures, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Y Combinator, Adrian Aoun, Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, Richard Branson, Sam Altman
May 1, 2025	Realta Fusion	$36.0M Series A	—	Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Bascom Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Ali Tamaseb, Divergence Ventures, Founder Collective, Future Ventures, Greylock, Helium-3 Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Quiet Capital, Rivet Ventures, Scale Asia Ventures, Solana Ventures, The Venture Reality Fund, TitletownTech, Unruly Capital, Y Combinator, YLEM, Arash Ferdowsi, Aston Motes, Augusto Marietti, Dylan Field, Eden Chen, Howie Liu, Immad Akhund, Jack Smith, James Gwertzman, Matt Bellamy, Nate Mitchell, Paul McKellar, Sumon Sadhu
May 1, 2025	Ravio	$12.0M Series A	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Bora&Sons, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, Gaingels, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Jett Fein, Hitachi Ventures, Softbank Group, Spark Capital, Streamlined Ventures, SV Angel, Tenaya Capital, Trajectory Ventures, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Richard Branson, Sam Altman
Apr 1, 2025	Persona	$200.0M Series D	—	Abstract Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Balderton Capital, Bling Capital, C2 Investment, Chemistry VC, Contrary Capital, Kevin Ding, Emil Capital Partners, Founders Fund, Greenoaks Capital, Helium-3 Ventures, Jigsaw VC, Kleiner Perkins, Motier Ventures, Origins, Outcast Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Quiet Capital, Ribbit Capital, Saga, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, Curtis Lee, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Kaushik Subramanian, Matt Bellamy, Mike Vernal, Samvit Ramadurgam, Scott Belsky, Sohail Prasad, Sue Xu, Tony Xu, William Hockey
Apr 1, 2025	Exowatt	$35.0M Series A	—	8VC, Abstract Ventures, Afore Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomic, Bora&Sons, Caffeinated Capital, Cubit Capital, Felicis Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Founders Fund, Gaingels, General Catalyst, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hitachi Ventures, iNovia Capital, Maniv Mobility, NightDragon, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Softbank Group, Streamlined Ventures, SV Angel, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, Toyota Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Uncork Capital, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Y Combinator, Austin Ogilvie, Chris Bennett, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Jacob Kerzner, Jeff Bezos, Justin Mateen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Graham, Prescott Watson, Richard Branson, Sam Altman, Thomas Tull
Mar 1, 2025	Momentic	$4.0M Seed	—	Accel, AirAngels, Alt Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, C2 Investment, Caffeinated Capital, CP Ventures, FJ Labs, Global Founders Capital, Oyster Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Sarona Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, The Hit Forge, Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo, Amjad Masad, Azeem Azhar, Claire Hughes Johnson, Felipe Navio, Kyle Vogt, Larry Summers, Mark Gillespie, Tom Blomfield

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Leadership Team

Key people at UpHonest Capital.

Leadership Team

Key people at UpHonest Capital.

Deep Dive

UpHonest Capital is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco. It is sector-agnostic, investing primarily in Seed, Pre-Series A, and Series A rounds across technology-driven industries such as AI, IoT, cloud computing, biotech, fintech, health, and consumer goods. The firm has built a portfolio of over 400 companies, including more than 30 unicorns like Hims&Hers and Rippling, supporting startups that leverage disruptive technologies to scale rapidly. UpHonest Capital’s mission centers on catalyzing innovation and value creation by bridging entrepreneurial ecosystems between the U.S. and China, while fostering global talent through initiatives like UpHonest Scouts and Beta University[1][3][5].

Founded by Wei Guo, a recognized early-stage investor on the Forbes Midas Seed List, UpHonest Capital has evolved to become a key player in early-stage venture investing with a strong track record and deep global networks. The firm actively co-invests with top-tier VCs such as Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, enhancing its ability to support startups from inception through growth. Its ecosystem programs and international accelerator platforms further amplify its impact on the startup ecosystem by nurturing young professionals and cross-border innovation[1][3][5].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Sector-agnostic early-stage focus with emphasis on Seed to Series A rounds, enabling broad exposure to emerging technologies.
Network Strength: Deep connections in Silicon Valley and Asia, leveraging partnerships with leading global VCs and a large scout network from top tech companies.
Track Record: Portfolio of 400+ companies including 30+ unicorns such as Hims&Hers, Rippling, Instacart, Boom Supersonic, and Lime.
Operating Support: Provides ecosystem programs like UpHonest Scouts and Beta University to cultivate entrepreneurial talent and accelerate startup growth.
Cross-Border Expertise: Bridges U.S. and Chinese markets, facilitating cross-border investment and innovation collaboration.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

UpHonest Capital rides the wave of rapid technological innovation across AI, cloud computing, biotech, fintech, and consumer tech, sectors experiencing explosive growth and disruption. Its timing is critical as early-stage startups increasingly require not only capital but also global networks and operational support to scale internationally. The firm’s focus on cross-border ecosystems aligns with growing globalization in tech entrepreneurship, especially between the U.S. and China. By fostering talent and supporting startups in emerging sectors, UpHonest Capital influences the broader ecosystem by accelerating innovation diffusion and enabling startups to become market leaders[1][3][5].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, UpHonest Capital is poised to deepen its influence by expanding its portfolio in frontier technologies and continuing to build its global innovation ecosystem. Trends such as AI democratization, biotech breakthroughs, and fintech evolution will shape its investment focus. The firm’s commitment to nurturing young professionals and cross-border startups suggests it will remain a vital conduit for innovation between major tech hubs. Its ability to co-invest with top-tier funds and support startups beyond capital positions it well for sustained impact in the evolving venture capital landscape[1][3][5].

In summary, UpHonest Capital exemplifies a modern, globally connected early-stage VC that combines broad sector expertise, a strong network, and ecosystem-building initiatives to back transformative startups like Hims&Hers and Rippling.

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Sector-agnostic early-stage focus with emphasis on Seed to Series A rounds, enabling broad exposure to emerging technologies.
Network Strength: Deep connections in Silicon Valley and Asia, leveraging partnerships with leading global VCs and a large scout network from top tech companies.
Track Record: Portfolio of 400+ companies including 30+ unicorns such as Hims&Hers, Rippling, Instacart, Boom Supersonic, and Lime.
Operating Support: Provides ecosystem programs like UpHonest Scouts and Beta University to cultivate entrepreneurial talent and accelerate startup growth.
Cross-Border Expertise: Bridges U.S. and Chinese markets, facilitating cross-border investment and innovation collaboration.

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