Upside Partnership is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded by Kent Goldman in San Francisco. The firm takes a founder-first approach, often serving as the first institutional investor, and reserves 70% of its fund for follow-on investments in later rounds.
Average disclosed round size is $13.2M (across 37 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
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Top Stage
Series A
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Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
39 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Stackpack | Seed | $6.3M | May 2025 |
| DDragonFruit | Bridge | — | Jan 2025 |
 Actuate AI | Series A | $11.5M | Aug 2024 |
 Actuate | Unknown | $11.5M | Aug 2024 |
 Smallstep | Seed | $26M | Jan 2024 |
 Haus Analytics | Series A | $17M | Aug 2023 |
 AlphaFlow | Series A | $10M | Sep 2022 |
 Forma | Series B | $40M | Mar 2022 |
| Smallstep | Series A | $19M | Jan 2022 |
| TTwic | Series B | $40M | Jan 2022 |
 LOBUS | Unknown | $6M | Apr 2021 |
 Ease | Series C | — | Mar 2021 |
| NNewness | Seed | $3.5M | Feb 2021 |
 Quilt | Seed | $3.5M | Feb 2021 |
| RRetain.ai | Series A | $23M | Jan 2021 |
 Fursure | Seed | $3M | Jan 2021 |
 Command E | Seed | $4.3M | May 2020 |
 Aegis AI | Seed | $2.2M | Jul 2019 |
| Forma | Unknown | $2.5M | Jan 2019 |
 Turvo | Series B | $60M | Nov 2018 |
 SFOX | Series A | $22.7M | Aug 2018 |
| AlphaFlow | Seed | $4.1M | Sep 2017 |
 Textio | Series B | $20M | Jun 2017 |
| EEaseCentral | Series A | $6.5M | Jun 2017 |
| Turvo | Series A | $25M | Mar 2017 |
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Top Co-Investors
Baseline Ventures6 shared
Emergence Capital6 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners5 shared
Y Combinator5 shared
Freestyle Capital5 shared
Cowboy Ventures5 shared
Scale Venture Partners4 shared
Bain Capital Ventures4 shared
Bling Capital3 shared
Tensility Venture Partners3 shared
Social Capital3 shared
Haystack3 shared
Insight Partners3 shared
Slow Ventures3 shared
GV3 shared
Bloomberg Beta3 shared
Stripe3 shared
Accel3 shared
Tribeca Venture Partners2 shared
SV Angel2 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026