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Upfront Ventures
Investment firm · Founded 1996 · Active in 2026
Upfront Ventures is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1996. The page below shows 26 Power Law outcomes from Upfront Ventures's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 6 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Marketing · Transportation · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · Finland · Switzerland. Upfront ranks #169 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 26 Upfront Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA21
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Finland1
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Switzerland1
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Japan1
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Germany1
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France1
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Marketing5
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Transportation4
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Other B2B Software3
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eCommerce & Marketplaces3
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Food3
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Fintech2
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Other2
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Space1
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Cybersecurity1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Series B+5
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Series A10
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Seed5
Upfront’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Upfront’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 4 companies where Upfront is a named shareholder, worth about $825M in estimated equity value.
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Goat
9%
$3.7B
$333M
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2
Apeel Sciences
14%
$2.0B
$280M
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3
Density
12%
$1.1B
$126M
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4
Writer
4.5%
$1.9B
$86M
Estimated value = Upfront’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Upfront also appears inside investor groups in Route, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Upfront’s biggest exits.
Upfront portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Upfront's 26 Power Law outcomes.
How does Upfront stack up?
Upfront in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
35 founders across the 26 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Mollie are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Upfront.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Upfront Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Upfront on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Upfront Ventures
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Upfront — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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