Yves Sisteron
Managing Partner and Founding Partner @ Upfront Ventures
Greater Los Angeles Area, United States
Yves Sisteron is a Series A investor at Upfront Ventures in Greater Los Angeles Area focused on Food and Beverage and Health Care. Yves B. Sisteron is based out of Los Angeles, California and is the Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures. Yves previously worked at Fourcar B.V as a U.S. investments manager. Yves B. Sisteron attended the New York University School of Law.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
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Industries Yves Sisteron invests in
Stages Yves Sisteron invests in
Countries Yves Sisteron invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 3 (9%)
- Health Care 2 (6%)
- Machine Learning 2 (6%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (6%)
- B2B 1 (3%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (21%)
- Series B 5 (15%)
- Series C 5 (15%)
- Seed 4 (12%)
- Series D 2 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Jiko is a new type of bank built on US Treasury bills to unlock unprecedented yield, safety, and scale through direct products and an embedded finance API. Jiko removes the limits of traditional banking to create a new paradigm for building financial success at the scale and speed of today’s economy. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices inNYC and Reykjavik, Jiko's vertically integrated financial institution combines its nationally chartered bank and registered broker-dealer to hold cash as T-bills – all in safe custody. Learn more at www.jiko.com. | $29M / Series C / Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| Jiko is a new type of bank built on US Treasury bills to unlock unprecedented yield, safety, and scale through direct products and an embedded finance API. Jiko removes the limits of traditional banking to create a new paradigm for building financial success at the scale and speed of today’s economy. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices inNYC and Reykjavik, Jiko's vertically integrated financial institution combines its nationally chartered bank and registered broker-dealer to hold cash as T-bills – all in safe custody. Learn more at www.jiko.com. | $40M / Series B / Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| Reveleer is a healthcare software and services company that empowers payers in all lines of business to take control of their risk adjustment and quality improvement programs. The platform enables payers to independently execute and manage every aspect of provider outreach, retrieval, coding, abstraction, and reporting – all under one singleplatform. | $65M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 07, 2021 | ||
| GumGum is an artificial intelligence company focusing on computer vision and natural language processing. The company's mission is to unlock the value of images and videos produced everyday across the web, social media, and broadcast television. It teaches machines to solve hard problems across the media industry. The company serves contextualmarketing in line with content users, helps marketers and right holders understand the media value of their sponsorship investments, and introduces the content safety analysis engine that finds what is relevant or what is dangerous.GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $75M / Series E / Apr 13, 2021 | ||
| Jiko is a new type of bank built on US Treasury bills to unlock unprecedented yield, safety, and scale through direct products and an embedded finance API. Jiko removes the limits of traditional banking to create a new paradigm for building financial success at the scale and speed of today’s economy. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices inNYC and Reykjavik, Jiko's vertically integrated financial institution combines its nationally chartered bank and registered broker-dealer to hold cash as T-bills – all in safe custody. Learn more at www.jiko.com. | $40M / Series A / Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| Apeel Sciences produces products including avocados, apples, mangos, cucumbers, and citrus protected by plants. They support the plant’s natural ability to protect against environmental stress by maintaining moisture and reducing oxidation. | $250M / Series D / May 26, 2020 | ||
| GumGum is an artificial intelligence company focusing on computer vision and natural language processing. The company's mission is to unlock the value of images and videos produced everyday across the web, social media, and broadcast television. It teaches machines to solve hard problems across the media industry. The company serves contextualmarketing in line with content users, helps marketers and right holders understand the media value of their sponsorship investments, and introduces the content safety analysis engine that finds what is relevant or what is dangerous.GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $22M / Series D / Feb 13, 2020 | ||
| Reveleer is a healthcare software and services company that empowers payers in all lines of business to take control of their risk adjustment and quality improvement programs. The platform enables payers to independently execute and manage every aspect of provider outreach, retrieval, coding, abstraction, and reporting – all under one singleplatform. | Series C / Jan 21, 2020 | ||
| Reveleer is a healthcare software and services company that empowers payers in all lines of business to take control of their risk adjustment and quality improvement programs. The platform enables payers to independently execute and manage every aspect of provider outreach, retrieval, coding, abstraction, and reporting – all under one singleplatform. | $5.5M / Series C / Nov 01, 2019 | ||
| NuORDER is a B2B platform that powers commerce and discovery. With innovative technology and data-driving processes at its core, the platform creates greater efficiencies and a seamless and more collaborative buying and selling process for the world's leading brands and retailers. NuORDER delivers a global commerce solution offering VirtualShowroom technology, visual assortment, and merchandising tools, payments, and data integration. Connecting more than 3,000 brands and more than 500,000 retailers, the platform has become a global ecosystem driving discovery and marketplace. The platform was engineered with flexibility and scale in mind, processing over $40B in GMV. It empowers businesses of all sizes with enterprise-level technology on a global scale. Founded in 2011 by Heath Wells and Olivia Skuza, NuORDER is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York City, Milan, London, Paris, and Australia. | $15M / Series C / Dec 05, 2018 | ||
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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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Yves Sisteron
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Aditi Maliwal
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Conor Hayward
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What does Yves Sisteron invest in?
Yves Sisteron invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Health Care and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Yves Sisteron closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 33 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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