UP.Partners
2828 Donald Douglas Loop North, Suite 101, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
Overview
UP Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs building companies that support multi-dimensional mobility.
- Total investments
- 36
- Lead investments
- 19
- Investments · 12mo
- 9
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Aerospace
- Air Transportation
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Drone Management
- Drones
- Logistics
- Mapping Services
- Navigation
Investment portfolio
- Skapion
Participated · Seed · Jul 2026
Skapion develops a mobile, native counter-swarm air-defense platform designed to detect, engage and neutralize drone swarms in communications-limited and contested environments. The company emphasizes scalability and cost-efficiency to address the economics of mass UAV attacks that overwhelm traditional air-defense architectures. Its team includes former senior air-defense leaders and entrepreneurs, and Skapion has grown to several dozen employees with plans to recruit additional engineers and specialists. The startup is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an R&D center in Ramat Gan, Israel. With the new Seed financing, Skapion intends to accelerate engineering development, perform system validation and increase engagement with governments and defense partners. The company positions itself to support maneuvering military forces, fixed installations and critical infrastructure against coordinated drone threats.
- Coram AI
Participated · Series B · Jun 2026
Coram AI offers an AI-native platform that integrates video security, access control, guest management, and emergency workflows to modernize physical security without replacing existing cameras and infrastructure. Since its $13.8 million Series A last year, Coram reports a 4x increase in revenue and a tripling of its customer base, now protecting more than 1,500 sites across the U.S. and Canada including Fortune 500s and large school districts, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and municipalities. The company is introducing capabilities called Deep Investigation that analyze video, access events, and visitor activity across cameras, locations, and time to answer complex security questions with attached evidence. Coram says these autonomous investigation capabilities reduce investigation times from hours or weeks to minutes, enabling smaller teams to handle more incidents. The company plans to use new funding to expand sales capacity and continue investments in AI product development and customer success, and is actively hiring across multiple functions.
- HavocAI
Participated · Series A · May 2026
Havoc develops an all-domain collaborative autonomy stack and a software-defined hardware approach that enables heterogeneous autonomous assets to sense, decide, and act together across sea, air, and land. The company reports more than 25,000 hours of autonomous testing and deployments and has collected over 200 billion data points from operations to iterate its field-tested autonomy stack. Havoc has built and deployed 100+ autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) globally, with 40+ mission-ready today and 30+ vessels delivered to the U.S. Department of Defense. It has made strategic acquisitions (Mavrik and Teleo) to expand into air and land domains and maintains partnerships with defense primes such as Leidos, Lockheed Martin, and SAIC as well as shipbuilders and additive manufacturers. Havoc has grown to over 200 employees, opened new offices in Austin and San Diego, and expanded maritime production in Rhode Island. The company highlights award recognition, SBIR awards, and selection to industry challenges as validation while positioning itself to scale deployments and production to meet defense and commercial demand.
- Reliable Robotics Corporation
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Reliable Robotics develops the Reliable Autonomy System (RAS), an FAA-certifiable autonomy stack designed to enable fully automated aircraft operations and prevent the leading causes of aviation accidents. The company says RAS is built to integrate with certified aircraft and existing aviation infrastructure without changes to the National Airspace System. Reliable has secured commitments for over 200 systems from commercial and military customers, been selected for the Department of Transportation’s eIPP advanced aviation pilot program, and holds a contract to provide automated air cargo operations for the U.S. Air Force. The business has been advancing FAA certification—having had its certification plans and means of compliance accepted—and is delivering required compliance materials under the FAA-agreed plan. Since its last financing the company has nearly tripled its workforce and plans to use the new $160M to expand production facilities, grow headcount, and accelerate deployment toward autonomous cargo operations in 2026. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California and maintains a distributed global workforce.
- PartsPulse
Led · Equity · Mar 2026
PartsPulse is a Las Vegas-based software company that has built an AI-native command center for the parts industry. Its platform ingests large volumes of sales, customer, and inventory data to manage inventory planning, optimize pricing, and surface sales insights for OEMs, dealers, and fleet managers. The company is collaborating with trailer-maker Wabash to refine its initial product suite, using AI to spot data anomalies and identify revenue opportunities. Funds from its latest raise are earmarked for continued product development, team expansion, and customer growth across North America. Although no operating metrics such as revenue or user count were disclosed, management emphasized a focus on scaling the customer base and deepening the platform’s analytical capabilities. CEO and founder Steve Blanco leads the company’s efforts to bring data-driven decision making to the fragmented parts ecosystem.