Upfront Ventures
SelectiveFiled to raiseSanta Monica, CAUtilities, Business Services, BiotechnologyLast fund filed 2023
1 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront Growth IVFiled to raise in 2023, with no closing reported yet. | 2023 | $200M | $0 | 0 |
| Upfront VII PartnersFiled to raise in 2021, with no closing reported yet. | 2021 | $20M | $0 | 0 |
| Upfront Growth IIIFiled to raise in 2019, with no closing reported yet. | 2019 | $250M | $0 | 0 |
| Community Fund I | March 2018 | $5M | $5M | 1 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
2 partners are named across this firm’s filings, 1 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Suster | Selective | Consumer apps & internet, Enterprise software, Aerospace & defense | 9 |
Classified sectors of Upfront Ventures’s own portfolio companies, based on 15 with a verified or cited source.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Bonfire Ventures | 1 | INVOCA |
| RRE Ventures | 1 | UdiSense |
| Valor Siren Ventures | 1 | DroneBase |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Upfront Ventures partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.
| Upfront VI PartnersFiled to raise in 2018, with no closing reported yet. | 2018 | $10M | $0 | 0 |
| Upfront VIFiled to raise in 2017, with no closing reported yet. | 2017 | $380M | $0 | 0 |
| Upfront Opportunity Fund IIFiled to raise in 2017, with no closing reported yet. | 2017 | $120M | $0 | 0 |
| MS2016 Nimbus | March 2016 | $8M | $8M | 5 |
| 2 |
| Steven DietzNot on the current fund | Quiet | Climate & energy, Biotech & pharma, Enterprise software | 8 | 0 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Upfront Ventures’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.