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Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles
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Upfront Ventures is the largest and longest-serving venture capital fund in Los Angeles having invested more than $1 billion since 1996 in companies such as Maker Studios, TrueCar and Overture. While Upfront is a national investment firm, we invest about 50% of our capital in Southern California-based technology companies from San Diego to Santa Barbara.

Editors
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Kerry Bennett
Head of Marketing, @upfrontvc. Formerly: @DogVacay, @HauteLook. 100% pro-brand.
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Writers
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Kevin Zhang
I eat a lot, spend too much money on games and need to work out to counteract the former two, so esp interested in founders innovating in those areas @upfrontVC
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Greg Bettinelli
Los Angeles via Petaluma. Operator turned investor @UpfrontVC. Advisor @FreemanSpogli. Co-founder @MuckerLab. Former CMO @HauteLook (@Nordstrom), @eBay. #LongLA
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Mark Suster
2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to salesforce.com). Turned VC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs — I’m on Twitter at @msuster
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Michael Carney
Investing @UpfrontVC. Previously, Editor @PandoDaily. Geeking out about entrepreneurship, technology, sports, fitness, & travel.
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Kara Nortman
Partner @ Upfront, Formerly Founder @ Moonfrye, IAC (Urbanspoon, Citysearch, M&A, Tinder), Battery Ventures
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Kobie Fuller
VC @ Upfront / Washed up sprinter / Fashion Lover / Co-creator of Growthverse
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Chang Xu
Partner @Basis Set Ventures. Investing in AI, automation, dev tools, data/ML ops. Former founder and operator. Never still, running towards the next big thing