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Upfront Ventures stages, portfolio and investment profile

Los Angeles' largest early-stage venture firm, founded in 1996, backing founders across sectors nationwide from seed through Series B with a West Coast-rooted, operator-friendly partnership model.

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Stage-based planning range

$1M–$10M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

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Investment stages

Leads: Seed, Series A

Participates: Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sector focus

Generalist Technology

Geography

Los Angeles, CA

Founded 1996

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

General Translation

Seed · ~$2.74M · 2025

Rounds they lead

Seed Series A

Rounds they invest

Seed Series A Series B+

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Upfront Ventures as an investor (7 total).

FAQs about Upfront Ventures

Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.

Upfront leads seed and Series A rounds and participates through Series B+. Our directory lists Seed, Series A, and Series B+ coverage; the firm is among the most active early-stage investors in the Los Angeles ecosystem.

Upfront does not publicly disclose a standard check-size range. Directory estimate based on stage: seed and Series A checks typical of a multi-decade early-stage generalist — exact amounts are not stated on upfront.com.

Upfront is headquartered in Los Angeles and describes itself as LA's largest early-stage VC firm, but invests nationwide across the U.S. Portfolio companies are not limited to Southern California.

Upfront is a generalist early-stage investor spanning consumer, enterprise SaaS, healthcare, and frontier tech. Our directory tags generalist-tech. Historic bets include companies like Apeel Sciences and Walker & Company.

Upfront routinely leads seed and Series A rounds in companies it backs. The firm has been investing since 1996 and is known for hands-on partnership with founders from first institutional check.

Directory startups listing Upfront include Apeel Sciences, Walker and Company Brands, Factual, and Apex Space — see /startup/apeel-sciences, /startup/walker-and-company-brands, /startup/factual, and /startup/apex-space.

Review upfront.com for partner focus areas and portfolio context. Warm introductions from portfolio founders, angels, or LA ecosystem operators are standard. Upfront does not promote a public cold-pitch email.

See 2026-la-8-85b-aerospace-defense-2025-recap for Upfront's positioning among the most active LA VCs alongside Greycroft, March Capital, and Crosscut Ventures.

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