Arba Seed Investment Group

Overview

Arba Seed Investment Group is a seed investment group focusing on internet, tech, and other new media sectors. Founded in 1995 and based in San Francisco, California, the firm operates as an angel investor, acting quickly and collaborating with other small funds and individual investors to seed and grow early-stage companies across various U.S. cities, including the Bay Area, New York, Oregon, Seattle, and Chicago. The firm's investment strategy encompasses a wide range of industries, including technology, healthcare, real estate, financial services, media and entertainment, biotechnology, consumer products, computer hardware, IT services, industrial and energy products, networking, retailing and distribution, semiconductors, software, and telecommunications. Arba Seed Investment Group is open to various financing stages, such as seed, early stage, Series A, Series B, growth, late stage, pre-IPO, buyout, turnaround, and distressed investments. Arba Seed Investment Group has a diverse portfolio of past and current investments, including GrubHub, AppZen, Hotel Tonight (Airbnb), Hello Heart, OpenTable, PulseData, Marin Software, Coda, Carmera, Clutter, Recount, Moxie, Zone7, Passport, Epic Magazine (Vox), Sparrow, Automatic (SiriusXM), Airbase, YCharts (acquired), Arrive, AtVenu, and PlantPrefab. The firm is led by Dave Pell, who also serves as the Internet's Managing Editor and is the author of 'Please Scream Inside Your Heart.'

Investment Focus

• Private Company (backed by venture capital firms)
• Private Company (not backed by venture capital firms)
• Public Company

Portfolio Companies