Firms

Upfront Ventures

Los Angeles, California, US

upfront.com

signal.nfx.com

goldi.ai

Upfront Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 1996 (formerly GRP Partners) that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm invests roughly half its capital in Southern California, with the balance across the US, Europe, India, and Israel.

Founded: —
Type: Venture capital

Funds5

Upfront Growth IV2023-09-142023-09-14—
Vehicle filing indexed2023-09-14; underlyingXML inaccessible in research, secondaryUSD200M offering unverified; no closed amount.
Upfront VIII2023-09-142023-09-14—
Initial notice USD280M offering target, USD0 sold then; not current amount. February2024 NewMexico up-to USD50M LP commitment separately evidenced in government presentation. No finalclose verified.
Upfront Continuation Fund2022-07-292022-07-29—
More than USD175M continuation capital, exact amount undisclosed. Distinct from primary early-stage.
Upfront Growth III2022-07-292022-07-29$200M
Completed fundraising USD200M per transaction counsel. dot.LA USD250M conflicts; no USD650M single fund.
Upfront VII2022-07-292022-07-29$280M
Closed USD280M early-stage commitments. Announcement date distinct from legal close execution.

Team

Investments

team@apexlogos.ai3 hours ago
Investment-fund research reviewed 2026-10-06. Publicly identified funds, dates, amounts and fundraising status are below. Undisclosed commitments remain unknown; this is not a complete register of private SPVs or parallel entities. Fund sizes and status All amounts below are USD. Fund commitments, targets, LP commitments, AUM and investor checks are different measures. | Vehicle / vintage | Amount and status supported | Date and evidence | | --- | --- | --- | | Upfront VII, seventh early-stage fund | $280 million **closed capital commitments** | Counsel Cooley's transaction announcement, 2022-07-29 [1] | | Upfront Growth III | $200 million in the same fundraising announcement | Cooley, 2022-07-29 [1]. The announcement reports the fundraising completed across these vehicles; it does not turn this into a $650 million standalone fund. | | Continuation Fund | More than $175 million | Cooley, 2022-07-29 [1]. Continuation capital is distinct from new early-stage deployment. | | Upfront VIII, L.P., formed 2023 | $280 million **offering target**, $0 sold in the initial notice; first sale yet to occur | SEC Form D signed 2023-09-14, CIK 1992642 [2]. This filing proves launch/target, not eventual close. | | New Mexico SIC commitment to Upfront Ventures VIII | Up to $50 million from this LP; **not total fund size** | February 2024 commitment listed in the government's September 30, 2024 presentation [3]. Confirms later institutional support without determining total commitments or final close. | | Upfront Growth IV | New vehicle filing on 2023-09-14, CIK 1992641 | SEC filing index [4]. The underlying document failed to load in this session; the $200 million offering figure from VCSpine is an unverified secondary lead, not a confirmed close. | The 2022 figures are the latest clearly verified public **closed fundraising announcement** found here, not necessarily the latest funds. VIII is demonstrably newer. Searches for 2024–2026 funds also found secondary vehicles and directory claims about VIII/Growth IV, but no reliable final-close announcement establishing their sizes. Do not overwrite newer vehicles with VII or imply that VIII still has zero commitments based on its initial filing. The government commitment shows why that would be misleading. Conflict: [dot.LA's 2022 report](https://dot.la/upfront-ventures-raises-650-million-2657738817.html) describes Growth III as $250 million whereas transaction counsel reports $200 million [1]. Its component figures also exceed its $650 million headline. Prefer counsel's transaction-specific $200 million, retain the discrepancy for review. Some directories incorrectly associate VIII and $280 million with 2022; the actual VIII filing dates to September 2023 [2]. No current firmwide AUM was independently confirmed; aggregator AUM is not used as fund size. Funds recorded in Adex after this review: | Fund | Disclosed amount | Announcement / filing date | | --- | --- | --- | | Upfront Continuation Fund | Undisclosed / unverified | 2022-07-29 | | Upfront Growth III | USD 200000000 | 2022-07-29 | | Upfront VII | USD 280000000 | 2022-07-29 | | Upfront Growth IV | Undisclosed / unverified | 2023-09-14 | | Upfront VIII | Undisclosed / unverified | 2023-09-14 |
team@apexlogos.ai4 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / UpfrontVentures / sha256:8bfedfff9cb40ad28040a27ce681f0fe404c42f6c13468009647be128dc5b56f / part 2 of 2 Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats. **Bionaut Labs is a verified Upfront investment in brain-directed therapeutic medical technology.** Its 2022 company announcement identifies Upfront in the Series B syndicate and describes magnetically actuated robots delivering treatment within the CNS, including the midbrain; initial programs included malignant glioma and Dandy-Walker Syndrome [12]. This is neurotechnology under a broad brain-intervention/device definition. It is **not** evidence of a brain-computer interface, EEG recording, neural decoding or electrical neuromodulation. Keep its classification as CNS therapeutic microrobotics explicit; under a narrow neural-interface taxonomy it should be neurotech-adjacent rather than a direct BCI investment. Fortune's February 6, 2024 report, available via Yahoo syndication, independently names Upfront in Bionaut's extension round alongside existing investors and Mayo Clinic; it reports cumulative financing above $70 million but does not disclose the extension amount [13]. Bionaut's indexed newsroom lists the extension item dated February 9, 2024 [14]. These are publication dates for the same event, not two separate rounds. No investor-specific check or latest clinical/regulatory outcome is asserted. No verified **BCI, EEG or neural-stimulation** investment was found in the sources checked. Broader searches for Upfront with brain/neuro/neuroscience/EEG/neurotechnology yielded Bionaut and adjacent care references; no further direct neural-interface deal was established. [Village's May 5, 2026 firm-authored investment note](https://www.publicnow.com/view/332A4706FB7C61C6CD2A643431C54BAFEB9B335C) describes pediatric care for developmental, behavioral and learning differences, not a neural device. Likewise general AI “neural” terminology, brain scans in medical AI, and mental-health services do not automatically establish neurotech investments. No partner's prior-firm or personal deal is attributed to Upfront. ## Conflicts, missing information and later Adex review 1. **Newer fund evidence:** retain VII's verified $280 million close separately from VIII's $280 million 2023 target. Obtain VIII/Growth IV final-close or updated filings before adding closed-size/current-fund claims. Keep the New Mexico up-to-$50 million LP commitment distinct. 2. **NFX amount:** do not import Kevin Zhang's $650 million directory field as a single fund or current AUM. His check range also requires firm confirmation before populating null firmwide checks. 3. **Critical Energy error candidate:** the baseline contains a debt-stage record associated with Upfront and a $3 million amount. Evidence instead supports Upfront's equity seed participation and Silicon Valley Bank's venture debt. Review round decomposition and investor attribution; do not assign the debt to Upfront. 4. **Entity duplication:** baseline has Observable Space and Observable pointing to the same space financing, and inVia/inVia Robotics variants. Verify canonical company identity before merging; ordinary Observable software is a possible namesake risk. Apeel/Apeel Science and multiple Invoca aliases also need record-level review. 5. **Bionaut omission:** Bionaut was not in the extracted snapshot investment-name list despite official indexed portfolio/homepage evidence and direct company/independent deal evidence. Candidate later addition: Bionaut's 2022 Series B and 2024 extension with the classification caveat above. 6. **Team history:** baseline mixes many role entries without start/end dates, including historical personnel. Signal affiliation or a quoted historical partner does not establish the current team. No team corrections proposed without verification. 7. **Scope limits:** not every baseline investment was audited; exact fund legal allocations to each transaction, investor checks, ownership, dry powder and current AUM remain unknown. Company press-release technology claims are not proof of clinical safety or commercial performance. Official base sites can be JavaScript-heavy; Bionaut's legacy release is index-accessible but direct 404. ## Sources and access record All sources accessed/attempted 2026-10-06. Publication dates below are source dates, not inferred investment execution dates. 1. [Cooley — Upfront fundraise transaction announcement](https://www.cooley.com/news/coverage/2022/2022-07-29-upfront-ventures-raises-more-than-650-million-across-three-funds), 2022-07-29; primary transaction counsel evidence. 2. [SEC — Upfront VIII initial Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1992642/000199264223000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml), signed/filed 2023-09-14; directly read. 3. [New Mexico SIC government presentation](https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/STTC%20093024%20Item%208%20State%20Investments%20in%20Technology%20Programs.pdf), 2024-09-30 presentation; February 2024 up-to-$50 million VIII commitment in extracted table. 4. [SEC — Upfront Growth IV filing index](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1992641/0001992642-23-000002-index.htm), 2023-09-14; index read, underlying XML access failed. 5. [Official Upfront indexed homepage via legacy portfolio URL](https://upfront.com/portfolio/seedling/), undated; indexed text names Bionaut and early-investor strategy. URL now surfaces homepage content, not an individual Seedling dossier. 6. [Official Upfront Founder Fellows](https://fellows.upfront.com/), undated current program page; indexed official text read. 7. [Official inVia Series B announcement](https://inviarobotics.com/blog/invia-robotics-raises-20-million-series-b-funding-warehouse-automation-robots/), 2018-08-01; directly read. 8. [inVia-issued PR Newswire announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/invia-robotics-raises-20-million-series-b-funding-for-warehouse-automation-robots-300689862.html), 2018-08-01; indexed full release/date read. 9. [Official Observable Space Series A announcement](https://observable.space/news/observable-space-closes-90-million-series-a-to-scale-manufacturing-and-turnkey-lasercom-platform-announces-94-million-u-s-space-force-contract/), 2026-05-28; directly read. 10. [Axios Pro Rata — Critical Energy seed financing](https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-e2461638-847a-4f8c-8346-cbeab0152cd6), June 2026, exact newsletter date not exposed in retrieved excerpt; indexed syndicate/$19 million evidence. 11. [ThinkGeoEnergy — Critical Energy financing](https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/critical-energy-raises-22m-seed-funding-for-modular-geothermal-power-plants/), 2026-06-18; trade-reporting corroboration, including debt. 12. [Bionaut-issued Series B announcement](https://bionaut.squarespace.com/press-release/bionaut-labs-closes-43m-in-series-b-led-by-khosla-ventures-to-advance-first-in-class-micro-robotic-technology-and-remove-barriers-to-treat-rare-and-debilitating-diseases), 2022-11-28; substantial indexed release read, direct open returned 404. 13. [Fortune report syndicated by Yahoo — Bionaut extension](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-bionaut-labs-raises-extension-124019380.html), 2024-02-06; independent reporting, indexed text read. 14. [Bionaut legacy newsroom](https://bionaut.squarespace.com/newsroom), extension item dated 2024-02-09; indexed company confirmation. 15. [NFX firm profile](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/upfront-ventures) and [Kevin Zhang profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/kevin-zhang), undated; both directly opened, directory freshness and access caveats above.
team@apexlogos.ai4 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / UpfrontVentures / sha256:8bfedfff9cb40ad28040a27ce681f0fe404c42f6c13468009647be128dc5b56f / part 1 of 2 Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats. # Upfront Ventures - Exact Adex ID: `UpfrontVentures` - Adex webpage: https://adex.page/firms/UpfrontVentures - Official website: https://upfront.com/ - Research date: 2026-10-06 - Status: complete research dossier; findings for review only, no Adex changes made. ## Identity and assessment Upfront is a Los Angeles venture firm established in 1996, formerly GRP Partners. Its counsel confirms the founding year, Los Angeles/San Francisco investment team, and an approximately half Southern California allocation at the time of the July 2022 fund announcement [1]. The former name is retained from the Adex baseline; no attempt is made to revalidate every historical corporate name. Upfront backs early technology companies and can support growth through separate vehicles. Verified relevant investments include warehouse robotics (inVia), optical space infrastructure (Observable Space), geothermal hardware (Critical Energy), and CNS therapeutic microrobotics (Bionaut Labs). Bionaut is strong evidence for brain-directed medical technology, but does not establish a BCI or neural-recording investment mandate. ## Adex and NFX Signal starting evidence The exact-ID snapshot `data/research/_sources/UpfrontVentures.adex.json` was retrieved on 2026-10-06 from read-only Adex MCP Search. It identifies Upfront as founded in 1996, formerly GRP, and early-stage, with approximately half its capital allocated to Southern California. Investor-profile check minimum, maximum and sweet spot are null. Snapshot leads include inVia Robotics, Observable Space, Critical Energy, Apeel, Density, Apex, Anysignal, uBEAM and ordinary software companies. These are not all independently validated by this dossier. The baseline cites the NFX DeepTech pre-seed list and explicitly warns that list affiliations can be historical. The [NFX firm profile](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/upfront-ventures) was directly opened on 2026-10-06. It identifies Los Angeles and aggregates several team locations, including Philadelphia, San Francisco and Santa Monica; the extraction varied between a fuller and a short firm page, so it does not independently establish all office locations or team mandates. The [Kevin Zhang Signal profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/kevin-zhang), directly read, lists Upfront General Partner, $750,000–$5 million investment range, $1 million sweet spot and “current fund size” $650 million. Rankings span seed, Series A and Series B, including AgTech and ClimateTech. These are person-profile directory claims, not a verified firmwide check policy or single fund size. The $650 million figure is consistent with an older multi-vehicle fundraising headline, not the size of the latest early-stage fund [1–3]. ## Fund sizes and status All amounts below are USD. Fund commitments, targets, LP commitments, AUM and investor checks are different measures. | Vehicle / vintage | Amount and status supported | Date and evidence | | --- | --- | --- | | Upfront VII, seventh early-stage fund | $280 million **closed capital commitments** | Counsel Cooley's transaction announcement, 2022-07-29 [1] | | Upfront Growth III | $200 million in the same fundraising announcement | Cooley, 2022-07-29 [1]. The announcement reports the fundraising completed across these vehicles; it does not turn this into a $650 million standalone fund. | | Continuation Fund | More than $175 million | Cooley, 2022-07-29 [1]. Continuation capital is distinct from new early-stage deployment. | | Upfront VIII, L.P., formed 2023 | $280 million **offering target**, $0 sold in the initial notice; first sale yet to occur | SEC Form D signed 2023-09-14, CIK 1992642 [2]. This filing proves launch/target, not eventual close. | | New Mexico SIC commitment to Upfront Ventures VIII | Up to $50 million from this LP; **not total fund size** | February 2024 commitment listed in the government's September 30, 2024 presentation [3]. Confirms later institutional support without determining total commitments or final close. | | Upfront Growth IV | New vehicle filing on 2023-09-14, CIK 1992641 | SEC filing index [4]. The underlying document failed to load in this session; the $200 million offering figure from VCSpine is an unverified secondary lead, not a confirmed close. | The 2022 figures are the latest clearly verified public **closed fundraising announcement** found here, not necessarily the latest funds. VIII is demonstrably newer. Searches for 2024–2026 funds also found secondary vehicles and directory claims about VIII/Growth IV, but no reliable final-close announcement establishing their sizes. Do not overwrite newer vehicles with VII or imply that VIII still has zero commitments based on its initial filing. The government commitment shows why that would be misleading. Conflict: [dot.LA's 2022 report](https://dot.la/upfront-ventures-raises-650-million-2657738817.html) describes Growth III as $250 million whereas transaction counsel reports $200 million [1]. Its component figures also exceed its $650 million headline. Prefer counsel's transaction-specific $200 million, retain the discrepancy for review. Some directories incorrectly associate VIII and $280 million with 2022; the actual VIII filing dates to September 2023 [2]. No current firmwide AUM was independently confirmed; aggregator AUM is not used as fund size. ## Investment stages and strategy Cooley confirms VII is early-stage and describes a separate growth vehicle [1]. The firm's public homepage describes early investing and long-term partnership; extraction of the base URL was largely empty, but an indexed official legacy portfolio URL exposes the homepage copy [5]. Current official Founder Fellows offers $75,000+ on incorporation of a venture-backable company, demonstrating very early founder support; it is a specific program, not the general check range [6]. Together with Signal's seed/A/B rankings and verified seed, Series A and B transactions below, evidence supports pre-seed/seed and early-stage investing plus separate growth support. Historical Series B participation does not mean all initial checks target Series B. The 2022 announcement identifies healthcare/applied biology, defense technology, computer vision, agtech/sustainability, fintech, enterprise software and gaming infrastructure [1]. This is a broad technology mandate with deep-tech activity, not exclusive deep tech or neurotech specialization. ## Named previous deep-tech investments | Company | Technology and attribution | Financing / date | Supporting evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **inVia Robotics** | Autonomous mobile warehouse picking robots plus orchestration software. Physical robotic systems substantiate deep-tech relevance. Upfront named as participating investor, not lead, with partner Greg Bettinelli quoted. | $20 million Series B announced 2018-08-01; Point72 led. Upfront's check undisclosed. | Company release on its website [7], same dated company-issued PR Newswire release [8]. | | **Observable Space** | Optical sensing, telescopes and laser communications connecting terrestrial and orbital infrastructure; substantial optics/hardware engineering. Company names Upfront as co-lead alongside the lead Lux and other co-leads. | $90 million Series A closed, announced 2026-05-28. A separately announced $94 million US Space Force contract is commercial/government business, not VC funding or Upfront's check. | Official company release [9]. | | **Critical Energy / Critical Energy Systems** | Factory-built modular geothermal turbines and power plants. Hardware/thermodynamic engineering, not an AI SaaS inference from data-center customers. Upfront and Susa named as leads. | June 2026: $19 million equity seed funding supported by Axios; reporting also describes $22 million including venture debt. | Axios [10], ThinkGeoEnergy dated 2026-06-18 [11]. Debt-provider attribution is Silicon Valley Bank, not Upfront. Exact Upfront check undisclosed. | | **Bionaut Labs** | Magnetically controlled microscale therapeutic robots reaching brain/CNS disease sites. Medical microrobotics and delivery engineering; also relevant to the broader neurotechnology category explained below. | $43.2 million Series B, 2022-11-28, led by Khosla; Upfront explicitly among existing participating investors. | Company-issued announcement search-index text [12]; direct legacy URL returned 404, so access limit retained. Separate 2024 follow-on corroborates firm attribution [13–14]. | These are supported examples, not an exhaustive portfolio census. No listed whole-round amount is represented as Upfront's individual participation. ## Neurotech evidence and boundary
team@apexlogos.ai22 days ago
MATCH

AJ Herrera Upfront Ventures, investor	$12M$10M – $15M	San Francisco, California
Nick Kim Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$5M$500K – $15M	Los Angeles, California
Jacques Sisteron Upfront Ventures, Partner	$3M$500K – $10M	Los Angeles / Southern California
Peter Zakin Upfront Ventures, investor	$3M$500K – $10M	Los Angeles, California
Hamet Watt Upfront Ventures, unknown	$1M$100K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Michael Carney Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Kara Nortman Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Kesar Varma Upfront Ventures, partner	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Kevin Zhang Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Kobie Fuller Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Mark Suster Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Spencer Calvert Upfront Ventures, investor	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Yves Sisteron Upfront Ventures, advisor	$1M$750K – $5M	Los Angeles, California
Seksom Suriyapa Upfront Ventures, general_partner	$1M$750K – $5M	San Francisco Bay Area
Aditi Maliwal Upfront Ventures, partner	$1M$1M – $7M	San Francisco, California
Molly O'Shea Upfront Ventures, investor	$1M$750K – $5M	Santa Monica, California
Dana Kibler Upfront Ventures, partner	—— – —	Los Angeles, California
Julian Kelly Upfront Ventures, analyst	—— – —	Santa Monica, California
Kyle Taylor Upfront Ventures, unknown	—— – —	Santa Monica, California
Alex Marley Upfront Ventures, Investment Team	—— – —
Anthony Gin Upfront Ventures, Partner, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer	—— – —
Audrey Lee Upfront Ventures, Controller	—— – —
Benjamin Yasharel Upfront Ventures, Accounting Manager	—— – —
Brenna Minor Upfront Ventures, Executive Assistant	—— – —
Christina Fattore Upfront Ventures, Investment Team	—— – —
Conor Hayward Upfront Ventures, Investment Team, Strategic Initiatives	—— – —
Evan Hamilton Upfront Ventures, Head of Capital Formation	—— – —
Kerry Bennett Upfront Ventures, Partner, Head of Platform	—— – —
Mayu Kataoka Upfront Ventures, Senior Manager, PR & Content	—— – —
Menyee Wu Zheng Upfront Ventures, Tax Director	—— – —
Nancy Davila Upfront Ventures, Senior Executive Assistant	—— – —
Nina Sen Upfront Ventures, Partner & Chief Financial Officer	—— – —
Sarah Bell Upfront Ventures, VP of Talent	—— – —
Stuart Lander Upfront Ventures, General Partner, Growth	—— – —
Taylor Harberd Upfront Ventures, Senior Manager, Events	—— – —

$19M2026-06-17	Critical Energy	Upfront Ventures
$—2026-05-28	Kubera Health	Upfront Ventures
$90M2026-05-28	Observable Space	Upfront Ventures, Lux Capital, Shahin Farshchi, Nick Kim
$—2026-05-21	CVRD Health	Upfront Ventures
$23M2026-03-10	Sandbar	Kindred Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Kanyi Maqubela
$24M2026-02-05	Daytona	Upfront Ventures, Nikita Shamgunov
$—2026	Kubera Health	Upfront Ventures
$90M2026	Observable Space	Lux Capital, Upfront Ventures
$10M2025-12-23	222	Upfront Ventures, General Catalyst, Offline Ventures, Bobby Goodlatte, Greg Isenberg, Brian O'Malley, Arash Ferdowsi, Scott Heiferman, Best Nights VC, Scrum Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, Bryan Rosenblatt, Tyler Strand, Peter Tseng, Anish Agrawal, Gautam Shah, Sergei Chestakov, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund
$—2025-12-09	Anysignal	Upfront Ventures
$100M2025-11-11	Majestic Labs	Lux Capital, Upfront Ventures
$—2025-10-14	Renew	Upfront Ventures
$46M2025-09-16	Modern Animal	Founders Fund, Scott Nolan, Upfront Ventures, True Ventures, Addition, Mark Suster
$9M2025-09-12	Sophont	Kindred Ventures, Upfront Ventures
$40M2025-06-26	Certify	General Catalyst, Transformation Capital, Upfront Ventures, Hustle Fund, SemperVirens Venture Capital
$4M2025-03-25	Arlo	General Catalyst, 8VC, Upfront Ventures, Sebastian Caliri
$5M2025-01-22	1Up	Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller
$—2025	Agenda Hero	Upfront Ventures
$—2025	Sandbar	Upfront Ventures
$—2025	Keragon	Upfront Ventures, Afore Capital
$15M2024-11-19	BrightAI	Upfront Ventures
$7M2024-06-20	Soot	Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller
$95M2024-06-12	Apex	8VC, CRV, Upfront Ventures
$95M2024-06-11	Apex	8VC, CRV, Upfront Ventures, Michelle Volz, Brittany Walker, Katherine Boyle, David Ulevitch
$—2024-02-06	Bionaut Labs	Upfront Ventures
$—2024	Sandbar	Upfront Ventures
$—2024	Keragon	Afore Capital, Upfront Ventures
$—2023-12-06	Oursky	Upfront Ventures
$—2023-07-06	Clair	Upfront Ventures
$7M2023-06-05	Hathora	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, Lunar Ventures, Stonks
$—2023-04-11	Renew	Upfront Ventures
$55M2023-03-07	Believer Entertainment	Lightspeed, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Riot Games, Cleveland Avenue, The Tornante Company, 1Up Ventures, Statkraft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, BITKRAFT Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Next Play Ventures
$—2023	Oursky	Upfront Ventures
$43M2022-11-28	Bionaut Labs	Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla, Dolby Family Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, What If Ventures, OurCrowd, Gaingels, Upfront Ventures, Compound
$40M2022-10-06	Jiko	Upfront Ventures, Yves Sisteron
$14M2022-09-07	Certify OS	General Catalyst, Max Ventures, Arkitekt Ventures, Upfront Ventures
$50M2022-07-26	Cordial	Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller
$—2022-07-25	DSCVR	Upfront Ventures
$—2022-07-22	Parfait	Upfront Ventures
$—2022-07-14	Canvas Medical	Upfront Ventures
$—2022-07-12	The Cool Down	Upfront Ventures
$—2022-06-14	Tellie	Upfront Ventures
$—2022-05-26	Solv	Benchmark, Upfront Ventures
$30M2022-02-08	End Game	Unusual Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Kara Nortman, Sandhya Hegde
$50M2022-01-18	Pinwheel	First Round, Upfront Ventures, Josh Kopelman
$2M2022-01-11	Arcade	Sequoia, Upfront Ventures, BOND, Angeles Investors
$125M2021-11-10	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Altimeter Capital Management, LP, 01A, Upfront Ventures
$125M2021-11-10	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Upfront Ventures, Altimeter Capital Management, LP, 01A
$3M2021-11-02	Martie	Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller
$50M2021-09-16	Outer	Sequoia, Mantis VC, Upfront Ventures, Mucker Capital, Tribe Capital, Imaginary Ventures
$40M2021-07-30	Modern Animal	Founders Fund, Scott Nolan, Upfront Ventures, True Ventures, Addition
$6M2021-07-21	ADWAY	Upfront Ventures, Inflection
$5M2021-07-13	End Game	Upfront Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Kara Nortman, Joe Morrissey, Sandhya Hegde
$20M2021-06-02	Pinwheel	First Round, Primary Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Josh Kopelman
$10M2021-05-19	Britive	Upfront Ventures, Kara Nortman
$30M2021-05-17	Rally	Y Combinator, Accel, Upfront Ventures, Social Leverage
$—2021-04-20	Pragma	Upfront Ventures
$25M2021-04-13	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, LPC Ventures, Slow Ventures, 01A, Upfront Ventures
$25M2021-04-13	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Upfront Ventures, LPC Ventures, Slow Ventures, 01A
$—2021-04-08	Canvas Medical	Upfront Ventures
$40M2021-03-24	Bevy	Accel, Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller, Hamet Watt
$—2021-02-22	Nanit	Upfront Ventures
$—2021	Loupe	Upfront Ventures
$—2021	Bevy	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2020-12-11	In&Motion	Upfront Ventures
$—2020-10-06	Ynsect	Upfront Ventures
$51M2020-07-28	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Upfront Ventures
$51M2020-07-28	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Upfront Ventures, Mark Suster
$—2020-05-26	Apeel	Upfront Ventures
$45M2020-05-21	MakeSpace	8VC, Upfront Ventures, Kimmy Scotti, Mark Suster
$15M2020-05-19	Bevy	Accel, Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller
$—2020-05-12	Nanit	Upfront Ventures
$—2020-03-11	Pragma	Upfront Ventures
$22M2020-02-13	GumGum	Upfront Ventures, Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster
$51M2020	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, LPC Ventures, Upfront Ventures, LAUNCH
$51M2020	Density	Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Upfront Ventures, LPC Ventures, LAUNCH
$—2019-12-17	Pepper	Upfront Ventures
$—2019-11-05	Valence	Upfront Ventures
$—2019-10-10	Nexkey	Upfront Ventures
$3M2019-10-01	Knowable	First Round, Upfront Ventures
$—2019-09-21	Landline	Upfront Ventures
$—2019-08-21	ThredUp	Upfront Ventures
$30M2019-04-08	Fleetsmith	Upfront Ventures, Kara Nortman
$—2019-01-30	FabFitFun	Upfront Ventures
$—2019	Aircam	Upfront Ventures
$—2019	Fair	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-12	Nexkey	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-10-31	Imbellus	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-10-26	Pathmatics	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-09-27	Rally	Upfront Ventures
$20M2018-08-01	inVia Robotics	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-08-01	Apeel	Upfront Ventures
$300M2018-06-28	Bird	Sequoia, CRV, B Capital, Accel, Upfront Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners
$30M2018-06-27	Parachute Home	Upfront Ventures, Kara Nortman
$15M2018-06-27	Cordial	Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller
$—2018-06-25	Tact Ai	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2018-04-19	Wave	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-03-27	Canvas Medical	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-02-08	GOAT	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2018-02-05	Fair	Upfront Ventures
$—2018-01-01	Projector	Upfront Ventures
$100M2018	Bird	Y Combinator, Upfront Ventures, Craft Ventures, Index Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Tusk Venture Partners
$—2017-11-16	Inboard Technology	Upfront Ventures
$—2017-08-14	Silversheet	Upfront Ventures
$10M2017-08-01	Ritual	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners
$10M2017-08	Ritual	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, Insight Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners
$7M2017-05-08	Territory Foods	Upfront Ventures, Kara Nortman
$—2017-04-25	Sense360	BoxGroup, Upfront Ventures
$30M2017-04-21	MakeSpace	Founders Fund, 8VC, Upfront Ventures, Harmony Partners
$30M2017-04-20	MakeSpace	8VC, Upfront Ventures, Kimmy Scotti, Mark Suster
$—2017-02-21	Skurt	Upfront Ventures
$—2017-02-07	GOAT	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2016-10-19	Ritual	Upfront Ventures
$—2016-08-29	GOAT	Upfront Ventures
$—2016-06-02	Boxes	Upfront Ventures
$—2016-05-22	Nima	Upfront Ventures
$—2016-03-03	Comparably	Upfront Ventures
$28M2016-02-24	Taubman Centers	UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Upfront Ventures, RPM Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, General Growth Properties, Macerich, Westfield Corporation
$—2016-01-26	HopSkipDrive	Upfront Ventures
$—2016-01-13	mitú	Upfront Ventures
$—2016	Apeel	Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures
$4M2016	Density	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures
$4M2016	Density	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures
$—2015-10-13	FabFitFun	Upfront Ventures
$24M2015-09-28	Walker and Company	Felicis, Upfront Ventures
$24M2015-09-28	Walker & Company	Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Upfront Ventures
$—2015-09-16	HelloTech	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2015-09-10	Unified	Upfront Ventures
$—2015-07-14	HopSkipDrive	Upfront Ventures
$26M2015-05-28	GumGum	First Round, Upfront Ventures, Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster
$—2015-04-26	uBEAM	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, Slow Ventures, Tuesday Capital
$—2015-04-23	Ferris	Upfront Ventures
$9M2015-04-21	MyTime	Khosla Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, Daher Capital
$—2015-04-07	Kyriba	Upfront Ventures
$5M2015	AlphaDraft	Freestyle Capital, Upfront Ventures
$9M2015	MyTime	Khosla Ventures, Upfront Ventures
$—2014-10-16	OSMO	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2014-07-29	ThredUp	Upfront Ventures
$8M2014-05-01	MakeSpace	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, Collaborative Fund, INDIE, Primary Venture Partners
$22M2014-01-13	Invoca	Accel, Upfront Ventures, Kobie Fuller, Mark Suster
$—2014	Epoxy	Upfront Ventures
$—2013-09-26	MakeSpace	Upfront Ventures
$—2013-07-09	Adore Me	Upfront Ventures
$—2013-04-02	Dailylook	Upfront Ventures
$—2012-02-18	HealthiNation	Founders Fund, Upfront Ventures, SV Angel, LRMR Ventures, HighlandX
$—2011-09-07	TrueCar	Upfront Ventures
$—2010	Burstly	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Open Raven	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Open Raven	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Observable	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Ayble	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Creator Now	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Mealogic	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Teforia	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Heroic Story	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Feno	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Epoxy	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Fortastra	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Itera	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Vemba	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Tern	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Village	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	mitú	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Renew Financial	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Glassflow	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Seriously	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Metaimpact	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Silversheet	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	inVia Robotics	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Route	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Strive Talent	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	ThredUp	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Infosum	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Pathmatics	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Parachute Home	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Happy Returns	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Jiko	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Remento	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Eventual	Y Combinator, Upfront Ventures, Essence VC
$2MUnknown date	222	General Catalyst, 1517 Fund, Upfront Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Best Nights VC
$40MUnknown date	Taubman Centers	General Catalyst, GV, Upfront Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, UPS Ventures, PivotNorth Capital
$10MUnknown date	Ritual	Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Insight Partners, Norwest Venture Partners
$—Unknown date	uBEAM	Founders Fund, Slow Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Tuesday Capital
$—Unknown date	Soot	Compound, Village Global, Upfront Ventures
$—2022	Apeel Science	Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures
$—2021-06-15	DroneBase	Upfront Ventures
$—2019-10-17	Invoca Com	Accel, Upfront Ventures
$—2018-02-15	DroneBase	Upfront Ventures
$10M2017-08-01	Ritual Vitamins	Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners
$—2016-06-02	Loot Crate	Upfront Ventures
$24M2015-09-28	Walker & Company Brands	Felicis, Upfront Ventures, Jeff Jordan
$3M2015-04-07	Vidme	First Round, Upfront Ventures
$6M2014	navdy	ENIAC Ventures, Upfront Ventures
$—2014	Walker & Co	Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures
$26M2013-09-12	Maker Studios	Lakestar, Upfront Ventures
$—2012-05-30	Grubwithus	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	navdy	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	UdiSense, Inc.	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	UdiSense, Inc.	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Invoca Com	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	inVia	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Inboard	Upfront Ventures
$—Unknown date	Deliv	Upfront Ventures

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