Yves Sisteron

Yves Sisteron is a Founding Partner at Upfront Ventures, a prominent early-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. Since co-founding the firm in 1996, he has helped scale the organization to manage $2 billion in total assets across more than 200 distinct portfolio companies. Prior to establishing Upfront, Sisteron managed United States investments for a corporate division of Carrefour S.A., where he successfully backed major retail chains including Costco and Starbucks. In his current capacity, he targets pre-seed and seed funding rounds with initial check sizes ranging from $500,000 to $5 million, building a strong personal investment track record that features startups like Apeel Sciences and Jiko. Sisteron currently focuses his capital deployment on disruptive early-stage technology companies operating across the global climate sustainability, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and financial technology sectors.