Aditi Maliwal
General Partner
Upfront Ventures
General Partner at Upfront Ventures investing in early-stage fintech and enterprise software, with a focus that includes vertical SaaS and AI applications and infrastructure.
Bio
Professional summary
Yves Sisteron is the Founding Partner of Upfront Ventures, which he founded in 1996. Upfront’s official profile says he has been a venture investor for more than 30 years and is focused on founders pursuing meaningful industry disruption and transformative social impact. The profile lists climate tech and sustainability as his primary focus. Public investor profiles also associate him with early-stage investing and prior retail-oriented experience, but the official Upfront source is strongest for climate, sustainability, and high-conviction disruption themes.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
SeedSeries AEarly stage
Sector
Climate techSustainabilityConsumer / retail technology
Thesis
Founders pursuing large-scale industry disruptionClimate and sustainability companiesEarly-stage venture investing
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
Ellipse
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with the magnitude of the market transformation and the credible path to both venture-scale returns and meaningful impact. Yves appears best suited for founders with ambitious climate, sustainability, or other large-disruption theses that can be framed as more than incremental efficiency gains.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference his role founding Upfront in 1996 and long-term venture perspective.
- 2Tie the company’s mission to climate, sustainability, or broad industry disruption if accurate.
- 3Emphasize why the company can create both market impact and social impact.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Upfront’s current profile lists Yves as Founding Partner with primary focus on climate tech and sustainability.
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