Upfronts Aditi Maliwal makes 3 bets a year and ignores the hype cycle
News Source : Fortune
News Summary
- Aditi Maliwal is a general partner at Upfront Ventures, a 30-year-old Los Angeles firm investing out of its Eight Fund.
- Her portfolio includes Clair, the earned wage access play she backed at Series A and re-led at Series B in May 2025.
- “You should only be backing ‘n of one’ founders,” she says, “not because they know it all right at the get-go, but because they are so determined that they will figure out a way not just to survive, but to be the greatest”
Aditi Maliwal doesnt want to be another checkbook.Ideas are a dime a dozen, she told Fortune. What Im backing, especially at the earliest stages, is a person. That thesis is part of why she does only [+6463 chars]
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