Founding Partner & Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures · Joined 1996
View Live Interactive Profile →Yves Sisteron is a Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures, the Los Angeles firm that operated as GRP Partners until it rebranded in 2013. Ulta's 2011 proxy statement described him as a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of GRP Partners since 2000, noting that he had previously been a managing director at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette where he oversaw Global Retail Partners, which he co-founded in 1996, and that from 1989 to 1996 he managed U.S. investments for Fourcar B.V., a Carrefour division. He served on Ulta's board from 1993 until 2011 and on Envestnet's board until May 2016, and the same proxy listed him as a director of HealthDataInsights, Kyriba, Qualys and Actimagine. A May 2026 SEC Form D names him as a managing member of the general partner of Commodity Capital Fund II, LP.