# Alex Lazovsky

> Alex Lazovsky is a Series C investor at Scale-Up Unicorn Fund I backing Mobile and Social. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Scale-Up Unicorn Fund I](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-up-unicorn-fund-i)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-lazovsky/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Alex_Lazovsky
- Website: https://westcoast.partners/team/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexander.lazovsky

Alex Lazovsky is an American-Israeli entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is Managing Partner & Co-founder of Scale-Up, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. He is also a Managing Partner & Co-founder of West Coast Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco.Scale-Up and West CoastEquity Partners are focused on investing in growth-stage companies in Fintech, InsurTech, AI, Online Education, Online Media, PropTech, Cybersecurity, SpaceTech, Digital Transformation, and other areas. Alex and his experienced team of managing and venture partners have invested in nearly 100 technology companies from seed to growth stage, a number of which have since become unicorns and decacorns.At Scale-Up VC and West Coast Equity Partners, Alex has led investments in SpaceX, Trax Technologies, OpenWeb, Verbit.ai, Upgrade, Outschool, PSI Quantum, Cybereason, eToro, SiSense, Silk.us, and other.West Coast Equity Partners made also investments in already renowned unicorns including Robinhood, DataRobot, Coursera, Dataminr, Rubrik, Scopely, Side, Cerebras Systems and many other great companies.Alex holds B.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, which consistently keeps 8th spot in a world ranking of top universities producing entrepreneurs and startup founders. His MBA is from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University consistently ranked in the top 5 business schools in the UShttps://profiles.forbes.com/members/business/profile/Alex-Lazovsky-Managing-Partner-Co-founder-West-Coast-Equity-Parners-Scale-Up-Unicorn-Fund/2748d6eb-21ff-4a15-bafc-58a4db87cdde

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 67% |
| Social | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Wireless | 1 | 33% |
| Publishing | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |
| Series F | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 2 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenWeb | OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures. | $25M | Series C | Nov 29, 2017 |  |
| Siklu | Siklu Wireless Communications delivers carrier-grade milimetric-wave Ethernet radio solutions scalable to Gigabit capacities with paradigm-shifting price performance. | $18M | Series D | Aug 19, 2015 |  |
| Altair Semiconductor | Altair is a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel that is developing state of the art, ultra low power mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets and handheld devices.Altair was founded in May 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives with extensive broadband and wireless silicon experience. Their products are thesmallest, lowest power solutions in the industry, offering superb mobility performance and enabling the migration of WiMAX from a fixed wireless PC technology to a true next generation mobile technology.Altair's management and technology executives were among the founding team of Libit Signal Processing, a fabless chip company acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999 for $365 million. The company's world class scientists, algorithm, VLSI and software engineers have in the past, jointly developed over twenty complex mixed-signal silicon products, spanning six different broadband wired and wireless technologies.Altair is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum and a member of the IEEE802.16e. | $25M | Series F | Jun 06, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amiti Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amiti-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cerca Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cerca-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jerusalem Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerusalem-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerusalem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Scale-Up Unicorn Fund I

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Scale-Up Unicorn Fund I.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Lazovsky | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-lazovsky |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Lazovsky invest in?

Alex Lazovsky invests primarily in Mobile, Social and Internet startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Lazovsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Lazovsky closed in Nov 2017. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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