# West

> West is a VC fund in San Francisco backing SaaS and Fitness. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last fund: Aug 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/west-venture-studio
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/west_studios_?lang=en
- Website: http://www.west.ventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/westventuresLLC/

West is a venture studio that specializes in the end-to-end process of designing, building, and launching purpose-driven brands. It enables companies to define and defend their market opportunity with a brand people love. The company's brand studio creates work to deliver results for startups for a combination of fees and equity and itsventure fund selectively invests in our studio clients.West Ventures was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for West. Shizune tracks 7 team members at West. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/west-sf-ny?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.2M |
| Series A | $8M–$18M |
| Series B | $30M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 19% |
| Fitness | 3 | 19% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| Analytics | 3 | 19% |
| Health Care | 3 | 19% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 38% |
| Series A | 5 | 31% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 88% |
| Malta | 1 | 6% |
| Ireland | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allison Light | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-light |
| Arthur Gallanter | Principal + Talent | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-gallanter |
| Jeremy Lind | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-lind-2a68 |
| Joanna Rees | Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joanna-rees |
| Matt Hirst | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-hirst |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gym+Coffee | Gym+Coffee is an Irish-owned and Irish-designed athleisure clothing company. It aims to create a brand that inspires people to Make Life Richer, as well as a community centered on this passion. It aspires to be a brand that represents this movement, creates new opportunities for people to socialize and exercise, and further promotes this way oflife. | $17.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| Altro (fka Perch) | Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round. | $18M | Series A | May 12, 2022 |  |
| Cor | COR helps you implement globally-proven healthy lifestyle practices, then shows you a totally new type of data about how your body responds. Optimize your lifestyle and discover the impact of different daily customs with precise, science-based self-knowledge. | $12M | Series A | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Statespace | StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the productsbring much needed standardized performance analytics to train.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $50M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| VergeSense | VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform trusted by enterprises across the globe. Businesses use VergeSense to transform their static office into a dynamic workplace that matches today's employee needs and expectations. Its AI-driven platform includes intelligent sensors that measure how space is used in real-time. That data isanalyzed in a workplace analytics dashboard and integrated into essential hybrid work software applications, like room and desk booking, room availability, employee mobile apps, IWMS and BMS tools and more. Companies use VergeSense to reduce or reinvest real estate, improve building operations, and create spaces where employees can thrive. The impact is reduced costs, higher productivity, improved culture and employee retention, and better sustainability. | $9M | Series A | May 21, 2020 |  |
| Proxy | Proxy designs and builds privacy-first, human-led identity technologies. Proxy provides a smartphone-enabled digital identity that enables the user to authenticate and interact with all devices. Products include Proxy ID, Proxy Health, and Proxy Access in addition to a suite of next generation hardware that enable credentialed access to be secure,private, and contactless. Proxy is on a mission to empower every person on the planet with a unique identity signal they own and control. The signal, emitted from a smartphone, allows people to securely authenticate to any device or service, similar to a universal single-sign-on for the physical world. Today, large enterprises like Vornado, Cloudflare and the Empire State Realty Trust enable their employees, contractors, visitors, and tenants to use their Proxy for frictionless access through secured doors, elevators, and turnstiles, and to create personalized experiences throughout the workplace. With Proxy, users own their identity and have complete control over their privacy and personal data.Proxy has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2020, Forbes' The Next Billion Dollar Start-up, and CNBC's Upstart 100 list in 2019.Denis Mars is the CEO of Proxy, which he co-founded with CTO Simon Ratner. Mars and Ratner believe that technology should empower humans, rather than make humans beholden to it. They believe that technology should be used to make our everyday experiences in the physical world frictionless.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $42M | Series B | Mar 16, 2020 |  |
| Remrise | Remrise is a health, wellness, and fitness company that specializes in manufacturing plant-powered sleep formulas and tools to help its clients improve their sleep. It provides an online marketplace that allows people to purchase organic sleeping supplements online. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $8.2M | Seed | Nov 21, 2019 |  |
| Copia | Every day in America, they waste 3X more food than there are mouths to feed. It is not a lack of food that is the issue, but rather an ineffective distribution of that food. Hunger is not a scarcity problem, it's a logistics problem. For the first time ever, they can effectively donate prepared and highly perishable food to those who need itwhen they need it most. Copia is a for-profit company that has built technology allowing food donors (e.g., food management companies like corporate cafeterias, universities, hospitals, grocers, caterers etc.) to easily request pickups of their surplus food, have it matched, and safely delivered to non-profits in need. With Copia, partnering businesses can now seamlessly access significant tax savings, dramatically reduce food waste through data and analytics on surplus, and remove CO2 from the atmosphere, all while feeding the neediest in their community.We have saved nearly 5M pounds of edible food from ending up in the landfills and provided savings of over $14M for the businesses and nonprofits we serve. We operate nationwide and are on our way to feeding over 4 million people with great food that would have otherwise been wasted! | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 15, 2019 |  |
| Kopa | Kopa is a marketplace for furnished rentals and compatible housemates to foster community and enhance personal and professional connections. We believe that exploration and community make people whole. Kopa exists to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live fuller lives. |  | Seed | May 09, 2019 |  |
| Torch | Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level.Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build highgrowth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes. | $12.4M | Series A | Apr 03, 2019 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [June Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/june-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pendulum Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pendulum-opportunities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does West invest in?

West invests primarily in SaaS, Fitness and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is West's check size?

West typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.2M at Seed, $8M–$18M at Series A and $30M–$42M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds West participates in.

### How do I contact West?

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### Who are the partners at West?

The team at West includes Allison Light (Managing Director), Arthur Gallanter (Principal + Talent) and Jeremy Lind (Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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