Arafura Ventures

Arafura Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 2011 and located in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in investing across various sectors, including vertical software as a service (SaaS) industries, enterprise cloud solutions, mobile technologies, and financial services and marketplaces. Arafura Ventures primarily targets opportunities within the internet software, information technology, internet, mobile, and e-commerce sectors, aiming to support innovative companies that align with these themes.

Joe Kennedy

Managing Partner

Marc Philips

Managing Director

Marc Phillips

Managing Director

8 past transactions

Pattern Group LLC.

Seed Round in 2018
Pattern Group is a management consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses develop growth strategies and enhance operational planning. The firm offers a range of services, including business model testing, marketing automation, analytics, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, and channel development. It serves clients across various sectors, including technology, community banking, telecommunications, and healthcare. In addition to its consulting services, Pattern Group also engages in the development of software solutions aimed at B2B markets, focusing on startup launch and product development.

PacketZoom

Series A in 2017
PacketZoom provides cloud services and a content delivery network solution that accelerates mobile application performance by analyzing, detecting, and resolving networking issues in real time without changing app code. It helps mobile apps deliver content faster and more reliably by optimizing large dynamic content, such as video and game data, and supports a range of apps including mobile games, shopping, travel, and news. The company focuses on improving mobile reliability and performance for developers and publishers.

Qvivr

Debt Financing in 2015
Qvivr's first product is SWYP, an ultra-thin metal card and smartphone app that combines all of a user's credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards, creating the easiest way to pay and organize money.

Transifex

Seed Round in 2015
Transifex is a cloud-based localization automation platform that enables organizations to launch digital content in multiple languages. The SaaS platform supports continuous localization through an API and a Git-like command-line client, ensuring new content is translated and delivered with each release. It provides content hosting, team collaboration, and analytics, and supports localization for software, web and mobile apps, websites, games, subtitles, and help centers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with operations in Greece, Transifex serves customers globally from startups to large enterprises and localizes content into more than 100 languages.

Transifex

Seed Round in 2014
Transifex is a cloud-based localization automation platform that enables organizations to launch digital content in multiple languages. The SaaS platform supports continuous localization through an API and a Git-like command-line client, ensuring new content is translated and delivered with each release. It provides content hosting, team collaboration, and analytics, and supports localization for software, web and mobile apps, websites, games, subtitles, and help centers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with operations in Greece, Transifex serves customers globally from startups to large enterprises and localizes content into more than 100 languages.

Cloudstaff

Seed Round in 2013
Cloudstaff is a technology and outsourcing company that provides offshore and onshore outsourcing, software development, business process outsourcing, software quality assurance testing, infrastructure and first-level support services for clients worldwide. It uses a cloud-based workforce model to supply high-quality staff and manages recruitment, human resources and payroll tasks to reduce administrative burdens. With about 2,500 employees serving a global client base and operations across Australia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and China, Cloudstaff has grown into an international outsourcing provider since its start in 2003.

Gridium

Series A in 2013
Gridium Inc. is a software company based in Menlo Park, California, established in 2011. It specializes in developing building operations and energy management solutions tailored for the commercial and industrial sectors. The company’s software focuses on optimizing energy consumption by providing comprehensive data analysis and tracking features. This enables energy users to lower their energy costs, enhance maintenance operations, and efficiently coordinate with vendors. By analyzing data from smart meters, Gridium's solutions streamline maintenance collaboration and improve overall building performance while ensuring occupant satisfaction.

Connectem

Venture Round in 2012
Connectem is a provider of network management and software-defined networking services, specializing in the evolving mobile data landscape. With the unprecedented growth in data traffic driven by innovations in devices and applications, Connectem offers a virtualized architecture designed to address capacity challenges in both data and signaling. The company's early adoption of software-defined networking principles enables it to effectively respond to the increasing demands of mobile networks. By transforming mobile infrastructure into a cloud-based ecosystem, Connectem not only ensures reliable connectivity but also facilitates collaboration with applications that process information from connected devices.
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