UP PARTNERS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC

Thesis

UP.Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm's core mission is to invest in and build technologies that advance multi-dimensional mobility for people and goods across ground, air, sea, and space, with an emphasis on solutions that are cleaner, faster, safer, and lower-cost. They focus on seed and early-stage ventures, particularly companies that integrate hardware and software to create novel capabilities, centering their investment thesis on "intelligent physical systems and their enabling technologies." UP.Partners actively seeks visionary, fearless, and audacious founders tackling complex, "hard" problems. Key focus sectors include Mobility and Transportation, Logistics, Energy Systems, Space Infrastructure, Automation, Design & Manufacturing, AI & Deep Tech, and to a lesser extent, Fintech and Healthcare. The firm primarily acts as a lead investor and has a geographic scope focused on the United States, though with a global perspective. UP.Partners manages approximately $230 million in fund size, with some reports indicating up to $500 million. They target pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, with typical check sizes ranging from $1 million to $5 million, and sometimes between $500,000 and $10 million.

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