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Upfront Ventures

Investor · Founded 1996 · Santa Monica, United States

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗X / Twitter ↗Dealroom ↗

Early investor and partner to tech founders, backing startups across all sectors with teams in LA and San Francisco

256 portfolio companies Investor · $6.7B invested · 456 investments · Investor rank #423 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 24% 5y
256
Decacorns
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 13% 5y
17
Exits

Upfront Ventures’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Upfront Ventures’s transaction record.

Starbucks
IPO · 1992
Entered Series ANow $143BFood
Dick's Sporting Goods
IPO · 2002
Entered Series ANow $26BSports
GoodRx
$13B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $1.4BHealth
Qualys
$361M IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $5.2BSecurity
DealerTrack
$575M IPO · 2005
Entered Series ANow $4.0BTransportation
IFCO Systems
IPO · 2000
Entered Series B+Now $2.5BFood
Overture Services
$450M IPO · 1999
Entered Series ANow $1.6BMarketing
thredUP
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $856MFashion
Kyriba
$1.2B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series AFintech
Lastminute.com
$1.0B IPO · 2000
Entered Series ANow $32MTravel
ring
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series AReal Estate
Portfolio analysis

Where Upfront Ventures's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 256 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA232
  2. France6
  3. UK5
  4. Finland2
  5. Germany2
  6. Italy2
  7. Australia1
  8. Canada1
  9. Gibraltar1
  10. Japan1
  11. Singapore1
  12. Switzerland1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software58
  2. Marketing33
  3. Fintech30
  4. Health30
  5. Media27
  6. Transportation18
  7. Telecom14
  8. Food13
  9. Gaming9
  10. Security9
  11. Education8
  12. Fashion8
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed132
  2. Series A89
  3. Series B+32
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth106
  2. Breakout Stage99
  3. Late Growth45
  4. Mature6
Portfolio market map

Inside Upfront Ventures's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 256 tracked.

Bird
Transportation
Apex
Space · Unicorn
$2.3B
Apeel Sciences
Food · Unicorn
$2.0B
Goat
Fashion · Unicorn
$3.7B
Fair
Transportation
$19M
Ÿnsect
Food
Zest AI
Fintech
$200M
Writer
Media · Unicorn
$1.9B
R-Zero
Health
$625M
Route
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.4B
thredUP
Fashion
$856M
ring
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.0B
Wheel
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Density
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
Modern Animal
Health
$184M
Invoca
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Reveleer
Health
$260M
Zeitview
Robotics
$240M
MakeSpace
Telecom
$220M
TrueCar
Telecom
$226M
Laurel
Legal
$400M
Kyriba
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.0B
GumGum
Marketing
$300M
Jiko
Fintech
$200M
The Wing
Real Estate
$300M
Nanit
Health
$200M
Path
Health
$352M
HopSkipDrive
Kids
$148M
Bland AI
Telecom
$200M
Factual
Marketing
$168M
Bill Me Later
Fintech
$945M
Adore Me
Fashion
$173M
Observable Space
Space
$360M
InfoSum
Security
$260M
FabFitFun
Wellness Beauty
$320M
Cordial
Marketing
$200M
NuORDER
Enterprise Software
$425M
Wave
Fintech
$120M
Deliv
Telecom
$160M
Believer
Gaming
$220M
Path
Media
$100M
RSE MARKETS
Fintech
$150M
Pinwheel
Fintech
$500M
Luxe
Transportation
$200M
UGO Entertainment
Media
$85M
Cloudvirga
Fintech
$200M
Homestead Technologies
USA
Vailroom
Travel
$22M
DataSift
Enterprise Software
$168M
Clair
Fintech
$93M
BrightAI
Enterprise Software
$204M
Maker Studios
Media
$104M
MiTú
Media
$40M
Outer
Home Living
$200M
ChowNow
Food
$84M
Bionaut Labs
Health
$173M
Openpath
Security
$144M
Navdy
Home Living
$80M
GoodRx
Health · Unicorn
$1.4B
Bevy
Media
$325M
Portfolio founders

Where Upfront Ventures's portfolio founders come from.

137 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States110
  2. France6
  3. Finland3
  4. Israel2
  5. Italy2
  6. Netherlands2
  7. Croatia1
  8. India1
  9. Peru1
  10. United Kingdom1
UniversityCount
  1. Harvard University7
  2. University of California, Berkeley6
  3. University of California, Los Angeles6
  4. Harvard Business School5
  5. Stanford University5
  6. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
  7. Tufts University4
  8. The George Washington University3
  9. University of Oxford3
  10. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania3
Previous companyCount
  1. Lehman Brothers7
  2. Goldman Sachs4
  3. McKinsey & Company4
  4. Riot Games4
  5. Bain & Company3
  6. Mars3
  7. Rounded3
  8. SpaceX | xAI3
  9. Adobe Photoshop2
  10. Alaska Air2
How Upfront Ventures stacks up

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#120 rank 984 companies $3.9T portfolio
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#2 rank 1,187 companies $4.7T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Upfront Ventures.

Yves Sisteron
Yves Sisteron
Founder
 Mark Suster
Mark Suster
General Partner
 Aditi Maliwal
Aditi Maliwal
General Partner
 Nick Kim
Nick Kim
Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.