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Arbor Ventures

Singapore · Invests in Asia; MENA; US · Website

SeedSeries ASeries BB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechInsuranceLegal TechFintech & PaymentsSecurity & CybersecurityEnterprise Software

Thesis

Arbor Ventures is a fintech-only fund partnering with entrepreneurs globally to shape a smarter financial future. They invest across payments, cyber, insurance, regtech, AI/ML, marketplaces, capital markets, and blockchain — taking an expansive view of fintech across geographies with no place considered too far.

Likely not a fit for

No pure B2B SaaS without financial services applicability, no consumer internet/social without a financial angle, no hardware outside fintech, no late-stage pre-IPO deals.

How they invest

Lead or follow
Leads or follows
Typical decision
~2 months
Warm intro
Not required
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$193M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

10 contacts on file

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Melissa Cannon Guzy

General PartnerCo-Founder and Managing Partner · Primary contact

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m•••@ar•••.com

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Lawrence Lin

AssociateSenior Associate

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Wei Hopeman

General PartnerCo-Founder and Managing Partner

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Khaled Lababidi

PartnerPartner

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Philippe Schenk

PartnerPartner - Capital Formation

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Daisuke Dan Nagayama

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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Marwan Hassanien

AssociateAssociate

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Shourya Seth

AssociateAnalyst

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Greg Abbott

Platform & OpsChief Financial Officer

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Kristin Keranen

Platform & OpsGeneral Counsel

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Portfolio

TabbyFintech Payments

Tabby is a buy now, pay later service that allows consumers to split their purchases into interest-free payments, enhancing the shopping experience and increasing conversion rates for businesses.

ForterSecurity Cyber

Forter provides identity intelligence solutions to prevent fraud and optimize digital commerce experiences. Their platform includes fraud management, payment optimization, dispute management, account protection, and abuse prevention.

HiBobHr Tech Work

HiBob is an all-in-one HR platform that simplifies complex HR processes, automates tasks, and provides real-time analytics to enhance employee engagement and streamline payroll management.

FundboxFintech Payments

Fundbox provides fast, flexible access to capital for small businesses, helping them manage cash flow and unlock growth through business loans and lines of credit.

EverCSecurity Cyber

EverC provides AI-powered risk intelligence solutions for merchants and marketplaces, focusing on fraud detection, counterfeit detection, and marketplace monitoring.

DemystEnterprise Software

Demyst is an external data management platform that helps organizations harness the value of external data by providing a comprehensive product and managed service for data governance and analytics.

LeanFintech Payments

Lean is the leading Open Banking provider in the MENA region, enabling the next generation of fintech with tools for data aggregation, integrated payments, and payment operations.

PagosFintech Payments

Pagos helps businesses optimize payments operations through AI-powered intelligence and deep data aggregation. With Pagos, you can boost conversion rates, reduce costs, and better understand your customers, all without changing your current payments stack.

TrueMLFintech Payments

TrueML is a fintech company specializing in AI-driven financial technology solutions, particularly in debt collection automation. It focuses on customer experience and operates with a remote-first work culture.

TrumidEnterprise Software

Trumid is a trading platform that provides innovative solutions for fixed income trading, focusing on enhancing market efficiency through technology.

AkulakuFintech Payments

Akulaku is a leading e-commerce platform and credit provider in Southeast Asia, offering easy shopping features with Buy Now Pay Later and cash loan products.

RadixInsurance

Radix Insurance Linked Strategies (ILS) provides investment opportunities in reinsurance risk returns, leveraging technology-driven underwriting and specialist market knowledge.

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Arbor Ventures Research Investment Thesis Arbor Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm exclusively focused on fintech, founded in 2013 by Melissa Cannon Guzy and Wei Hopeman. Their mission is "creating the future of Fintech" by partnering with entrepreneurs to make that future a reality. The firm takes a broad and expansive view of fintech, investing across payments, cybersecurity, ins

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