Upfront Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Santa Monica.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Upfront Ventures, startups are often financed by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, SV Angel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FirstMark, Collaborative Fund, SV Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rincon Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, Andreessen Horowitz.
The fund was created by Steve Lebow, Steven Dietz, Yves Sisteron. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Upfront Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Upfront Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Retail, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dealertrack, Bird Rides, Fair.
Related Funds
Funds with similar focus
Discover 5 more decision makers Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Feno | $6M | 25 Sep 2024 | Culver City, California, United States | ||
Bland AI | $16M | 28 Aug 2024 | - | ||
Daytona | $5M | 25 Jun 2024 | New York, New York, United States | ||
SOOT | $7M | 20 Jun 2024 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Apex Space | $95M | 12 Jun 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
OurSky | $9M | 06 Dec 2023 | Santa Monica, California, United States | ||
Clair | $25M | 06 Jul 2023 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Renew Residential | $8M | 11 Apr 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States | ||
Hathora | $7M | 27 Mar 2023 | - |
– DroneBase, a company providing drones as a service to capture high-resolution aerial photos, announced that it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Euclidean Capital with participation from Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Energy Transition Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.
– The company says that the funds will be put toward expansion in the renewable energy industry and other segments with “high-value” infrastructure, like commercial real estate and insurance.
– Investments in drone startups are growing as the benefits of AI applied to aerial photography become clear. For example, algorithms analyze images from drones to monitor for corrosion, pests, and even livestock health. And insurers like State Farm leverage drones for claims inspections, assessing on-the-ground damage, and emergency resources following a disaster.
– Outer, the fastest growing direct-to-consumer home brand of 2020, announces the close of a $50M Series B investment round.
– The new investment was led by Kathy Xu of Capital Today along with Tribe Capital, C Ventures, TRAC VC, and Upfront Ventures.
– Existing investors, including Sequoia Capital China, Mucker Capital, Mantis VC, Unpopular Ventures, and Reimagined Ventures also participated in the round.
– Outer raised $10.5M in Series A funding in January 2021, bringing the startup’s total funding to $65M.
– Outer was named the fastest growing home brand of 2020 by SimilarWeb and Business Insider, experiencing a 1000%+ increase in sales amid the pandemic.
1. You post comments at your own choice and risk. You bear the whole responsibility,related to their substance, content and the fact of publication. We shall not bear anyliability in respect of such comments.
2. While commenting, you shall use only actual, truthful and confirmed data. In thesame time you shall not use vulgar, abusive or defamatory language as well as expresshatred or call to violence or cruelty.
3. We do not intend to delete any comments on the website unless within our “noticeand take down” procedure.
4. We can moderate comments at any time.
5. While commenting, you are under the rule of our website’s terms of use and privacypolicy.
6. We retain our right to delete any comment or any other content of the website at ourwill in case we know or suppose such content is illegal or breaches any lawful right.
Review
- No reviews are submitted yet.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full teamIndustries heatmapStages heatmapGeorgaphy breakdownCoinvestorsPortfolio analysisPerformance indexesLatest highlights
Unlock all data Latest deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
Feno | $6M | 25 Sep 2024 | Culver City, California, United States | ||
Bland AI | $16M | 28 Aug 2024 | - | ||
Daytona | $5M | 25 Jun 2024 | New York, New York, United States | ||
SOOT | $7M | 20 Jun 2024 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Apex Space | $95M | 12 Jun 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
OurSky | $9M | 06 Dec 2023 | Santa Monica, California, United States | ||
Clair | $25M | 06 Jul 2023 | New York, New York, United States | ||
Renew Residential | $8M | 11 Apr 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States | ||
Hathora | $7M | 27 Mar 2023 | - |
