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Arbor Ventures

Founders Melissa Guzy Wei Hopeman

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Total investments 71
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$43M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 6.45
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.51
Exits 1
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Payments
  • Finance
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pagos Solutions

Financial Services
FinTech
$34M31 Jan 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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Billing
Financial Services
Payments
$58M18 Jan 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Proteger

Apps
Consumer
Online Portals
$4M07 Dec 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Ready

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$10M09 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

tabby

Billing
Financial Services
Payments
$54M03 Mar 2022 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

LoanStreet

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
Marketplace
$25M08 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Uni

Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
$70M15 Dec 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nomi Health

Finance
Health Care
Insurance
mHealth
$110M08 Dec 2021 Orem, Utah, United States

VOOM Insurance

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Drones
Enterprise
Insurance
Software
$15M05 Oct 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States
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Dubai-based buy now, pay later platform tabby raises $50M at $300M valuation

– Tabby, a buy now, pay later solution, raised $50m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Global Founders Capital and STV, with participation from Delivery Hero and CCVA.
– Existing investors, including Arbor Ventures, Mubadala Investment Capital and others also participated.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its operations in the region.

Heyday Closes $70M in Series B Funding

– Heyday is a San Francisco CA-based eCommerce brand building company.
– The company raised $70M in Series B funding.
– The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Khosla Ventures and Arbor Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

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Total investments 71
Average round size 43M
Rounds per year 6.45
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.51
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.99

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pagos Solutions

Financial Services
FinTech
$34M31 Jan 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

tabby

Billing
Financial Services
Payments
$58M18 Jan 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Proteger

Apps
Consumer
Online Portals
$4M07 Dec 2022 Tokyo, Kantō, Japan

Ready

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$10M09 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

tabby

Billing
Financial Services
Payments
$54M03 Mar 2022 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

LoanStreet

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
Marketplace
$25M08 Feb 2022 New York, New York, United States

Uni

Credit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
$70M15 Dec 2021 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nomi Health

Finance
Health Care
Insurance
mHealth
$110M08 Dec 2021 Orem, Utah, United States

VOOM Insurance

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Drones
Enterprise
Insurance
Software
$15M05 Oct 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States
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