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What does The Westly Group invest in?
The Westly Group invests most often at Series B and Series A (49% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Solar, Smartgrid and Photovoltaic.
The Westly Group highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 49% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 3 rounds, median $1.9M
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3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Backing founders transforming how the world is built, powered, and moved - since 2007.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- $3.0M – $7.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- SolarSmartgridPhotovoltaic
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first67 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Jul
- 2025
1 round
- Feb
- 2019
4 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- Feb
- 2018
3 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Jun
- 2017
5 rounds
- Oct
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Jan
- 2016
1 round
- May
- 2015
4 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Jun
- Apr
- 2014
9 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- 2013
11 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Jan
- 2012
7 rounds
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
DCDanny CotterManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
DCDavid Coveney CoglizerMemberiForm ADV
GDGary DillaboughMemberiForm ADV
SWSteve WestlyManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SPSteven Paul WestlyMemberiForm ADV
TWTim WangManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 25 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$502Mgross assets of its funds, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Westly Capital Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 161882
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
26 of 42 we have independently watched raise
Antora EnergyAttoTudeAwairCirculorCondoitCycognitoData RobotDiagonEnpalExit AquicoreFictivGecko RoboticsGeneralistGiga EnergyIPO LuminarIPO ViewMagenticNetwork PerceptionNoetiveOptimal DynamicsRapidSOSSkyloSquintTenet SecurityVia ScienceWeaveGridAmpcontrolClevercitiClutchCurrenceEthosExit ComfyExit Simple EnergyExit WatersmartIPO CregIPO Planet LabsIPO ProcoreIPO Sentinel OneIPO ShotspotterIPO TeslaLP PortalMatter
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
Tesla MotorsListed$1.0BJul 2010
Eka SystemsBought by Cooper IndustriesUndisclosedApr 2010
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.