Arbor Ventures is a visionary VC focused on shaping the way the world transacts by investing in early stage companies at the intersection of financial services, data and digital commerce, through partnering with extraordinary founders and accelerating the growth of next gen FinTech, facilitated by unparalleled strategic networks. Our partners bring extensive venture and entrepreneurial knowledge, together with established strategic networks, creating a unique platform to recruit world-class board members, advisors and investors from across the globe, ensuring collaboration with the right strategic partners. Arbor’s team focuses on bridging the Asian opportunity with a Western approach to accelerate impact and reach globally.

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Hibob raised $150000000 on 2021-10-12 in Series C

Hibob Inc. develops a cloud-based human resources management system. It offers bob, an human resource information system solution that empowers employees, connect them to their company culture and maximize their employee experience. The company’s bob is also used for time management, performance, culture, attendance records, time-off schedules, employees records, and compensation management tools. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; and London, United Kingdom.

Hibob

tabby raised $2000000 on 2019-11-11 in Seed Round

tabby provides consumers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia with the flexibility to pay for their online and in-store purchases either in a deferred single payment or in multiple installments. tabby’s proprietary decision engine allows customers to check out instantly and pay later at no cost to the consumer.

Tabby

Paidy raised $8300000 on 2015-05-14 in Series A

Paidy is a platform for consumers to pay at online stores using only their name and email address. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration.

Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them each month in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases.

Paidy

tabby raised $23000000 on 2020-12-08 in Series A

Abra raised $55000000 on 2021-09-15 in Series C

Abra is the world’s first digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin. Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serial entrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money.

Abra

2C2P raised $52000000 on 2019-11-25 in Series E

2C2P is a global payments platform helping businesses securely accept payments across online, mobile and in-store channels. The company has dual headquarters in Bangkok and Singapore and operates across Southeast Asia, North Asia, Europe and the US. It is the preferred payments platform provider of regional airlines, travel companies and global retailers.

2C2P

Hibob raised $20000000 on 2019-03-13 in Series A

GlobaliD raised $6000000 on 2018-07-09 in Series A

globaliD

Heyday raised $175000000 on 2020-11-18 in Series A

Heyday is a skincare services shop that offers online booking and customized facial treatments. Its customized facial treatment includes a deep cleanse, skin analysis, exfoliation, extractions, mask, hydration, and SPF protection through its chain stores.

Founded by Adam Ross, Jeni Sykes, and Michael Pollak in 2015, Heyday Wellness is based in New York.

Heyday

Grab Financial Group raised $300000000 on 2021-01-07 in Series A

Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. 

Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.

Grab

DemystData raised $5000000 on 2014-05-28 in Series A

At DemystData, we believe that data and analytical technology are essential to innovation within financial services, and key for the advancement of the goal of financial inclusion.

DemystData

TrueAccord raised $7475000 on 2015-12-16 in Venture Round

TrueAccord Corp. provides an automated platform for debt recovery. Its platform uses an automated system, behavioral analytics, and a humanistic approach to help businesses recover outstanding payments, while maintaining a positive relationship with their customer. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

TrueAccord

mai (Markable AI) raised $5000000 on 2021-02-01 in Series A

BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion.
Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices.  Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system.  

At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.

Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

Markable

EverC raised an undisclosed amount on 2018-03-12 in Corporate Round

EverC provides cyber intelligence that enables acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk.

The startup company uses artificial intelligence to look into its client’s portfolios and identify links with potential criminals using its cyber intelligence capabilities. It is engaged in providing a range of solutions that give acquirers and payment service providers with the necessary relevant information to check ongoing and newly boarded merchants while guiding them through the process of managing online risk, detecting transaction launderers, hidden transaction tunnels, and fraud detection. EverC's products include MerchantView for detecting online money laundering and MarketView for keeping marketplaces clean from illegal products.

Founded in 2008 by Ron Teicher, Noam Rabinovich, and Raz Abramov, the firm is headquartered in New York, New York.

Evercompliant

Planck raised $20000000 on 2021-05-12 in Venture Round

Planck Resolution LTD develops artificial intelligence based insurance data software that enables insurance companies analyze and perform risk assessment of businesses to create customized insurance policies. The company’s products include commercial lines data platform and underwriters data dashboard that enables users to access social and public data insights through artificial intelligence. It also develops an artificial intelligence based web game under the name slippery floor. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with an additional office in New York, New York.

Planck Resolution LTD

LoanStreet raised $25000000 on 2022-02-08 in Series B

LoanStreet Inc. operates an integrated, online platform that streamlines the process of sharing, managing, and originating loans for credit unions, banks, and direct lenders. It offers LoanStreet that provides access to a nationwide network of lenders and investors, track the performance of their loan portfolio, and more grow and diversify their balance sheet. The company’s LoanStreet provides real-time reporting, standardized agreements, balance sheet management, and automated reporting. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

LoanStreet Inc.

Stockpile raised $30000000 on 2017-09-28 in Series B

Stockpile is a stealth mode company and operates in the financial services industry. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in the United States.

Stockpile

QuanCheng raised $30000000 on 2016-01-07 in Series B

Founded  in  November  2013,  QuanCheng  is  a  SaaS  corporate  expense management  startup,  specializing in corporate  expense management  and  vendor  management.  

Zhenghecixi  Capital  (正和磁系资本),a  venture capital  founded  by  top-tier Chinese  entrepreneurs  was an early investor. QuanCheng’s business covers 50 tierone and tier two Chinese cities.

With its headquarters in Shanghai, the company has offices in 17  Chinese cities including
Beijing, Guangzhou,Shenzhen, and Wuhan.

QuanCheng

tabby raised $54000000 on 2022-03-03 in Series B

DemystData raised an undisclosed amount on 2012-08-28 in Seed Round

Stockpile raised $15000000 on 2015-10-13 in Series A

VOOM Insurance raised $5000000 on 2019-05-22 in Seed Round

VOOM is the world’s first on-demand, telematics-based InsurTech platform for Specialized Mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly, or sail. 
The company’s first product, SkyWatch.AI, leverages the power of machine learning to assess and mitigate risks and provide on-demand insurance for thousands of drone pilots operating across the US. 
VOOM’s data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats, and small planes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Palo Alto, CA, VOOM is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 US states.

SkyWatch.ai

Paidy raised $15000000 on 2016-08-02 in Series B

TravelersBox raised $10000000 on 2016-01-21 in Series A

TravelersBox LTD. operates automatic kiosks to convert leftover foreign currency coins and bills in international airports in Turkey, England, Georgia, Italy, and internationally. It enables users to deposit their leftover foreign currency and choose in return from its offers and gift cards, as well as make donations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

TravelersBox LTD.

Pipapai raised $1500000 on 2014-05-06 in Seed Round

Pipapai develops a cloud based platform to connect applicants with human resource personnels of a company. The platform helps in recruiting new staff members, allowing companies to build a harmonious relationship with its employees and broaden ideas to help in the recruitment process of the companies.

Pipapai was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Nanjing, China.

Hr.Pipapai

Skyline AI raised $22000000 on 2018-07-31 in Series A

Skyline AI Ltd develops an artificial intelligence based forecasting platform for the commercial real estate market. Its platform mines, synthesizes, and utilizes live data and helps in predicting future rent and disposition prices, identifying market trends, identifying properties with ideal risk-reward ratios, locating and exploiting market anomalies, and capturing arbitrage between asking price and market price. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Skyline AI Ltd

Ralali raised $10858561 on 2022-02-16 in Series D

Ralali is an e-commerce company operating B2B online marketplace for local trade connecting suppliers and buyers, starting with Industrial and MRO categories then expand to Office supplies, Automotive, Medical, Agriculture, Home & Building, Hotel & Restaurant Equipment, and many more.

The company was established in 2013 and is based in Tangerang, Indonesia.

Ralali

InCountry raised $15000000 on 2019-07-18 in Series A

InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business. The platform securely stores, processes, and regulates profile data in its country of origin, helping multinationals scale by providing easy integration in under ten minutes.

The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in 65 countries. InCountry is s backed by Accenture, Caffeinated Capital, Arbor Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Felicis Ventures, Mubadala, and Charles River Ventures.

InCountry, Inc.

Ready raised $4000000 on 2021-05-31 in Seed Round

Ready.net develops software for business and operations tools for internet service providers (ISP). It develops Back Office Secret Sauce (BOSS), which allows the subscribers of ISPs to self-manage their network, upgrade plans, select added services, pay bills online, get help from chatbot, etc. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ready.net

Accounting SaaS Japan raised $2632160 on 2016-12-06 in Series C

Accouting SaaS Japan Co.,LTD. develops cloud-based accounting and tax applications software. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Accounting SaaS Japan

Planck raised $16000000 on 2020-06-10 in Series B

Abra raised $11980000 on 2019-03-14 in Series B

Winzo Cards raised $70000000 on 2021-12-15 in Series A

Uni provides new-age credit cards for the digital generation.  Uni aims to bridge the gap in the credit card market by making them more accessible to consumers across different regions.

Quottly raised an undisclosed amount on 2015-11-15 in Venture Round

Quottly is a college course search optimizer. Students can browse through all the courses available at other institutions that count for credit at their own school. It searches through nearby and online schools to find the cheapest courses possible, saving students their credit hours and the cost for their entire degree. It allows its users to save on their tuitions, flexible scheduling, and better courses.

Quottly

VOOM Insurance raised $15000000 on 2021-10-05 in Series B

Skyline AI raised $3000000 on 2018-05-17 in Seed Round

TrueAccord raised $22000000 on 2017-11-14 in Series B

Nomi Health raised $110000000 on 2021-12-08 in Series A

Nomi Health

VOOM Insurance raised $5000000 on 2019-05-22 in Series A

Abra raised $18500000 on 2017-10-23 in Series B

DNEG raised $400000000 on 2022-02-06 in Private Equity Round

Double Negative is a visual effects, animation and stereo conversion companies for feature film and television, with studios.

Double Negative

Trumid raised $60000000 on 2018-09-18 in Series D

Trumid Financial LLC designs and develops solutions for electronic trading. The company operates Trumid Market Center, an electronic credit trading network and market intelligence platform for corporate bonds; and Trumid Bond Stream, a tool that streams TRACE pricing data on trader’s watch list. In addition, it operates Trumid Labs that uses data science to manage the network and offer bond price lookup services. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. Trumid Financial LLC operates as a subsidiary of Trumid Holdings LLC.

Trumid Financial

tabby raised $7000000 on 2020-06-08 in Seed Round

Accounting SaaS Japan raised $8500000 on 2014-11-25 in Series B

Forter raised $32000000 on 2016-04-21 in Series C

Forter is an NYC-based company that delivers real-time, completely automated, fraud prevention solutions for online merchants. It creates a completely fraud-free environment for the retailers through which they have the ability to make decisions that are solely based on what is good for their business. The company’s system is designed to be consumer-centric, blocking fraud with accuracy, and at the same time enabling growth by increasing approvals and ensuring a better customer experience.

Forter

Lu.com raised $485000000 on 2015-04-16 in Series A

Shanghai Lujiazui International Financial Asset Exchange (“Lufax”) is an online marketplace for the origination and trading of financial assets. Lufax was incorporated in September, 2011 in Shanghai with the support of Shanghai’s Municipal Government, and has grown into China’s largest internet finance company in less than four years. The company is an associate of China Ping An Group, the largest and most innovative non-SOE financial institution in China.

Lufax’s number of registered users surpassed 7 million by February 2015, while the volume of online transactions grew more than 8 times year-on-year. Close to 50% of Lufax transactions are now handled via mobile.

As a constant innovator and pioneer in the internet finance industry, Lufax has developed China’s most open, safe and convenient investment and financing platform. Investors come to Lufax for its broad product offering, diverse liquidity avenues and superior user experience. Asset owners look to Lufax to help them structure, price and place complex assets to investors in a credible and transparent manner.

Lufax takes full advantage of the latest big data and IT technologies, and leverages the most advanced risk assessment models and risk control systems. Combined with its value proposition to customers, Lufax has a competitive edge which it believes cannot be replicated.

Lufax Holding Ltd

Planck raised $12000000 on 2018-07-04 in Series A

Heyday raised $70000000 on 2021-05-20 in Series B

EverC raised $9500000 on 2016-12-14 in Series A

Ralali raised $13000000 on 2019-07-26 in Series C

Paidy raised $3300000 on 2014-07-29 in Series A

Mikatus raised $8495227 on 2014-11-19 in Venture Round

Mikatus Inc. provides planning, development and sales of cloud services for tax accountants. The company provides software of mobile and computers for tax accountants . Mikatus Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mikatus

Silot raised $8000000 on 2019-03-11 in Series A

Silot specializes in using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and knowledge graph technology to work with banks around Southeast Asia, radically transforming these institutions to be smarter and more efficient. Our solutions go beyond task automation or rote processing. We aim to empower banks with unprecedented discovery and decision-making ability using AI that can learn, with the ultimate goal of helping banks transcend into a new era of intelligent banking.

Silot

Deep Labs raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-03-01 in Seed Round

Deep Labs is an AI startup that creates patented persona-based, context-aware decisions, and risk systems. Its unique persona-based artificial intelligence enables businesses to solve complex problems and continuously assess risk in real-time. The result is reduced fraud and identity theft, optimized customer experience, and better business decisions leading to revenue growth, reduced cost, and more intelligent predictive decisions for the customers.

Deep Labs, Inc.

Akulaku raised $11000000 on 2017-02-15 in Series A

Akulaku is Southeast Asia's consumer finance platform, committed to providing world-class financial services, including shopping in installments on an independently managed online marketplace platform and various other marketplace platforms as well as flexible cash loans. Akulaku aims to improve the quality of life for partners and consumers by presenting a complete and reliable financial ecosystem.

Akulaku

Hibob raised $70000000 on 2020-12-10 in Series B

Abra raised $12000000 on 2019-04-01 in Series C

mai (Markable AI) raised $5050000 on 2020-12-21 in Convertible Note

Hibob raised $17500000 on 2017-04-25 in Series A

Akulaku raised $70000000 on 2018-10-30 in Series C

Mikatus raised $2909799 on 2016-11-04 in Series C

NS8 raised $7500000 on 2017-11-20 in Seed Round

NS8 is a comprehensive fraud prevention platform that combines behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and global monitoring to help online businesses minimize risk. Its patented scoring technology provides actionable data about the type, quality, and trustworthiness of transactions, which businesses leverage to automate fraud management workflows to suit their individual needs.

NS8 Inc.

GlobaliD raised an undisclosed amount on 2017-07-28 in Seed Round

We believe that owning your own identity is a basic human right. Your digital identity isn’t just your key for logging into websites and making social connections online, it’s your economic passport for an increasingly global market. And as a manifestation of who you are, you should own it—along with all the corresponding data that makes up your digital ID. Privacy, agency, and security are your rights. At globaliD, we’ve developed a privacy-first, highly secure and encrypted platform—one that allows individuals full control over their unique digital identities.

Karmic Labs raised $17200000 on 2017-07-19 in Series B

Karmic (http://www.karmic.com), a leader in the convergence of payment cards and mobile software, has developed a robust, integrated payment and expense management solution that gives businesses the power to save time and money. Karmic is committed to developing reliable platform solutions that power simple and state-of-the-art financial applications. Offering ease of enrollment, payments and expense management along with a real-time mobile experience, "Powered by Karmic" solutions help anyone manage their expenses.

Karmic Labs, Inc.

InCountry raised $18000000 on 2020-09-01 in Series A

Paidy raised $1715304 on 2017-08-07 in Venture Round

Silot raised $2870000 on 2018-04-16 in Seed Round

EverC raised $35000000 on 2020-09-10 in Series B