Shuly Galili

Founding Partner, UpWest VC

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
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Board Member
Jun 2023
Salespeak is an AI-driven platform that fully revolutionizes your B2B sales process. By directly aligning selling with buyers’ journeys, it puts an end to the intrusive, inefficient, and spammy methods that companies have been inflicting on customers for far too long. Designed to fit specific goals, KPIs, and costs, it enables users to achieve so much more with so much less. Powered by our proprietary “AI brain,” Salespeak mimics the intelligence and empathy of your best domain expert and offers personalized, efficient, nuanced customer interactions, at any time. Beyond just answering queries or pushing prospects, your AI buddy leads meaningful conversations, qualifies leads, and sets up successful interactions. This pioneering platform is the product of intensive development from a team that has seen firsthand just how broken the “standard” B2B sales process is. We’re a group of sales, marketing, tech, and AI leaders who have dedicated ourselves to solving the ever-difficult and pressing problem of how to drive sales growth without friction in the most cost-efficient way. The result is a platform that directly aligns the sales process with the buying journey. It’s not just about selling better. It’s about radically rewriting the sales narrative to prioritize delightful buyer experiences over quotas. A new era in B2B sales is here.
Board Member
May 2022
Deeto is the AI-native platform that helps companies continuously capture and activate authentic customer voice, turning everyday input into intelligence and action that drives real business impact. Deeto keeps customer voice fresh and connected, then surfaces the right insight at the right moment to build trust, align teams, and accelerate growth. Headquartered in New York City, Deeto powers fast-growing companies like Atlassian, Dropbox, Klaviyo, Bloomreach, and 6Sense with activating customer voices around the world.
Board Member
Nov 2021
Zenity is the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents - spanning SaaS, home grown platforms (Cloud), and end-user devices (Endpoint). Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, Zenity helps security teams confidently adopt AI by delivering defense in depth with full-lifecycle coverage: from agent discovery and posture management to real-time detection, prevention, and response. As enterprises adopt Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, and developer tools like GitHub Copilot, Zenity eliminates blind spots and enforces consistent policy across environments so organizations can innovate with AI, without compromising security. Learn more at www.zenity.io.
Investor
Jan 2016
See Exactly What Attackers See. Take full control over your attack surface by uncovering and eliminating critical security risks – the ones you didnt know existed. Our botnet and discovery engine use graph data modeling to map and classify the assets across your attack surface.
Investor
Jan 2013
SentinelOne is the worlds leading AI-powered cybersecurity platform. The SentinelOne Singularity platform, built on the first unified Data Lake, is revolutionizing security operations, with AI, solving use cases across Endpoint Protection, SIEM, Cloud Security, Identity Threat Detection and 24x7 Managed Threat Services. SentinelOne empowers the world to run securely by creating intelligent, data-driven systems that think for themselves, stay ahead of complexity and risk, and evolve on their own. Leading organizations—including Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and Global 2000 companies, as well as prominent governments – trust SentinelOne to Secure Tomorrow™. Learn more at sentinelone.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are recognized in leading 3rd party forums such as; - Gartner Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant as a Leader 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 - Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Endpoint Protection - Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Managed Detection & Response - Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) - G2 #1 Ranked Cloud Workload Protection Platform - Mitre ATT&CK 100% Detections, No Delays 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 - Mitre Managed Services 100% Major Step Detections - Fortune Fifty 2024 - Deloitte Fast 500; 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 - CRN Cloud & Security 100 - CRN Most Influential CEOs - CRN Top 10 Coolest GenAI Products, PurpleAI To learn more about our products and services, please visit our website at sentinelone.com to schedule a demo
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2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
Salespeak is an AI-driven platform that fully revolutionizes your B2B sales process. By directly aligning selling with buyers’ journeys, it puts an end to the intrusive, inefficient, and spammy methods that companies have been inflicting on customers for far too long. Designed to fit specific goals, KPIs, and costs, it enables users to achieve so much more with so much less. Powered by our proprietary “AI brain,” Salespeak mimics the intelligence and empathy of your best domain expert and offers personalized, efficient, nuanced customer interactions, at any time. Beyond just answering queries or pushing prospects, your AI buddy leads meaningful conversations, qualifies leads, and sets up successful interactions. This pioneering platform is the product of intensive development from a team that has seen firsthand just how broken the “standard” B2B sales process is. We’re a group of sales, marketing, tech, and AI leaders who have dedicated ourselves to solving the ever-difficult and pressing problem of how to drive sales growth without friction in the most cost-efficient way. The result is a platform that directly aligns the sales process with the buying journey. It’s not just about selling better. It’s about radically rewriting the sales narrative to prioritize delightful buyer experiences over quotas. A new era in B2B sales is here.
2022
Board Member
May 2022
Deeto is the AI-native platform that helps companies continuously capture and activate authentic customer voice, turning everyday input into intelligence and action that drives real business impact. Deeto keeps customer voice fresh and connected, then surfaces the right insight at the right moment to build trust, align teams, and accelerate growth. Headquartered in New York City, Deeto powers fast-growing companies like Atlassian, Dropbox, Klaviyo, Bloomreach, and 6Sense with activating customer voices around the world.
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
Zenity is the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents - spanning SaaS, home grown platforms (Cloud), and end-user devices (Endpoint). Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, Zenity helps security teams confidently adopt AI by delivering defense in depth with full-lifecycle coverage: from agent discovery and posture management to real-time detection, prevention, and response. As enterprises adopt Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock, and developer tools like GitHub Copilot, Zenity eliminates blind spots and enforces consistent policy across environments so organizations can innovate with AI, without compromising security. Learn more at www.zenity.io.
2016
Investor
Jan 2016
See Exactly What Attackers See. Take full control over your attack surface by uncovering and eliminating critical security risks – the ones you didnt know existed. Our botnet and discovery engine use graph data modeling to map and classify the assets across your attack surface.
2013
Investor
Jan 2013
SentinelOne is the worlds leading AI-powered cybersecurity platform. The SentinelOne Singularity platform, built on the first unified Data Lake, is revolutionizing security operations, with AI, solving use cases across Endpoint Protection, SIEM, Cloud Security, Identity Threat Detection and 24x7 Managed Threat Services. SentinelOne empowers the world to run securely by creating intelligent, data-driven systems that think for themselves, stay ahead of complexity and risk, and evolve on their own. Leading organizations—including Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and Global 2000 companies, as well as prominent governments – trust SentinelOne to Secure Tomorrow™. Learn more at sentinelone.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are recognized in leading 3rd party forums such as; - Gartner Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant as a Leader 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 - Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Endpoint Protection - Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Managed Detection & Response - Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) - G2 #1 Ranked Cloud Workload Protection Platform - Mitre ATT&CK 100% Detections, No Delays 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 - Mitre Managed Services 100% Major Step Detections - Fortune Fifty 2024 - Deloitte Fast 500; 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 - CRN Cloud & Security 100 - CRN Most Influential CEOs - CRN Top 10 Coolest GenAI Products, PurpleAI To learn more about our products and services, please visit our website at sentinelone.com to schedule a demo
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