Arbor Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Singapore, Singapore

Total investments

71

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

6.45

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.51

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInsurance

Summary

Arbor Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Hong Kong. The main department of described VC is located in the Hong Kong.

Comparing to the other companies, this Arbor Ventures performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Arbor Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by Melissa Guzy, Wei Hopeman. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lu.com, Paidy, Forter. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are FinTech, Fraud Detection.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Arbor Ventures, startups are often financed by Felicis Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, IDG Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 500 Startups, Nyca Partners, Global Founders Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Eight Roads Ventures, Singtel Innov8, Notion.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Fintech
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 193000000
Fund raised date
2022-09-20

Analytics

Total investments
71
Lead investments
12
Exits
1
Rounds per year
6.45
Follow on index
0.51
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (33)
  • FinTech (27)
  • Artificial Intelligence (18)
  • Payments (15)
  • Finance (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (39)
  • China (2)
  • United Arab Emirates (7)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Singapore (4)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.99
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Paidy 30 Jul 2014 Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Finance Early Stage Venture 3M Chiba Prefecture, Tateyama, Japan
Proteger 07 Dec 2022 Consumer, Online Portals, Apps Early Stage Venture 4M Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

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