Kobie Fuller
General Partner @ Upfront Ventures
Los Angeles, United States
Kobie Fuller is a seed investor at Upfront Ventures in Los Angeles focused on SaaS and Software. Kobie has been a General Partner at Upfront since 2016, with a core investing focus on AI, enterprise SaaS and immersive XR platforms. With over two decades of experience in venture capital, Kobie has held key positions at leading firms, including Accel, OpenView Venture Partners, and Insight Venture Partners, where he made early investments incompanies such as Exact Target (which was sold to Salesforce for $2.5B), Usertesting (which had a $1.3B exit), and Oculus (which was sold to Facebook for $2B). His current notable Upfront investments include Cordial, Invoca, Wave, Bevy, Soot and Endgame.Kobie's experience extends beyond investing. As the former Chief Marketing Officer at REVOLVE, he played a pivotal role in driving the company's explosive growth. He leveraged his expertise in marketing technology, along with his relationship management skills, to help architect their influencer growth machine from the ground floor up.Kobie is a graduate of Harvard College, where he captained the track team and won numerous Ivy League sprint titles.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 61%
Last updated:
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Industries Kobie Fuller invests in
Stages Kobie Fuller invests in
Countries Kobie Fuller invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 4 (22%)
- Software 4 (22%)
- Retail 2 (11%)
- Marketing Automation 2 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (22%)
- Series C 4 (22%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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1up
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1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before. | $5.3M / Seed / Jan 22, 2025 | |
SOOT
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Soot is the creator of a visual filesystem used to organize content for creative activities. | $7.2M / Seed / Jun 20, 2024 | |
Cordial
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Creating engaging, tailored customers experiences is difficult with rigid legacy architecture and fragmented data. Cordial enables you to collect, normalize, and activate real-time data from anywhere in your technology stack to create and deliver tailored messages that flex and adapt to changing customer signals. Over 200 brands, including 1-800Contacts, La Quinta and Revolve, use Cordial to consolidate redundant technology, eliminate data silos, remove internal friction, and create brand experiences that drive bottom-line impact. | $50M / Series C / Jul 26, 2022 | |
Invoca
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Invoca is the recognized leader in conversation intelligence AI that enables marketing, e-commerce, and contact center teams to drive efficient and profitable revenue growth by unlocking actionable insights from customer conversations. Through deep integrations with leading technology platforms, teams can turn conversation data into automatedaction to enhance every digital touchpoint and human interaction, leading to better experiences, more conversions, and higher revenue. With Invoca, top consumer brands, including AutoNation, DIRECTV, Mayo Clinic, Mutual of Omaha, and Verizon, experience unbelievable results powered by undeniable data. Invoca has raised $184M from leading venture capitalists, including Upfront Ventures, Accel, Silver Lake Waterman, H.I.G. Growth Partners, and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit www.invoca.com. | $83M / Series F / Jun 14, 2022 | |
Hairtelligence
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Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists.Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion. | $5M / Seed / Apr 28, 2022 | |
Martie
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Martie diverts perfectly good surplus pantry staples from going to landfills and delivers them directly to customers' doorsteps, making foods more accessible for everyone and decreasing food waste. | $3M / Seed / Nov 02, 2021 | |
Bevy
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Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events SaaS platform. It incorporates a variety of tools to plan, promote, and execute virtual conferences and community events. The platform is a flexible software solution that can be used to manage and host thousands of different types of virtual events. Built with enterprise-levelanalytics, integrations, and data security, the Bevy platform is used by a range of enterprise, consumer and education teams who want to host virtual events and turn them into thriving global communities. Featuring a deep permissions system and webcasting capabilities, community and field marketing teams can empower local brand advocates all over the world to build small local communities that collectively provide reach and scale.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $40M / Series C / Mar 24, 2021 | |
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Bevy
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Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events SaaS platform. It incorporates a variety of tools to plan, promote, and execute virtual conferences and community events. The platform is a flexible software solution that can be used to manage and host thousands of different types of virtual events. Built with enterprise-levelanalytics, integrations, and data security, the Bevy platform is used by a range of enterprise, consumer and education teams who want to host virtual events and turn them into thriving global communities. Featuring a deep permissions system and webcasting capabilities, community and field marketing teams can empower local brand advocates all over the world to build small local communities that collectively provide reach and scale.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $15M / Series B / May 19, 2020 | |
SureSale
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SureSale’s Certification as a Service platform and marketplace allow dealers and private sellers to certify and market used vehicles. | $7M / Series A / Feb 06, 2020 | |
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Invoca
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Invoca is the recognized leader in conversation intelligence AI that enables marketing, e-commerce, and contact center teams to drive efficient and profitable revenue growth by unlocking actionable insights from customer conversations. Through deep integrations with leading technology platforms, teams can turn conversation data into automatedaction to enhance every digital touchpoint and human interaction, leading to better experiences, more conversions, and higher revenue. With Invoca, top consumer brands, including AutoNation, DIRECTV, Mayo Clinic, Mutual of Omaha, and Verizon, experience unbelievable results powered by undeniable data. Invoca has raised $184M from leading venture capitalists, including Upfront Ventures, Accel, Silver Lake Waterman, H.I.G. Growth Partners, and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit www.invoca.com. | $56M / Series E / Oct 17, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Upfront Ventures
Upfront Ventures is proud to be an early investor and long-term partner to the most exciting founders and startups. Founded in 1996 in Los Angeles with investing professionals based in LA, San Francisco, and Paris, Upfront has backed standout teams across all technology sectors, including Ring (acq. by Amazon), TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Bird, MakerStudios (acq by Disney), GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba (acq by Bridgepoint). We invest about half of our capital in the fast-growing Southern California ecosystem, with the balance across the country as well as investments in Europe and Israel.Upfront Ventures is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.
Upfront Ventures Contacts
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Kobie Fuller
General Partner
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Seksom Suriyapa
Partner
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Yves Sisteron
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Aditi Maliwal
Partner
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Conor Hayward
Analyst
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FAQ
What does Kobie Fuller invest in?
Kobie Fuller invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Kobie Fuller last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kobie Fuller closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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