Venture capital firm

Arba Seed Investment Group

Family investment group backing early-stage start-ups, run by Dave Pell

Internet
Seattle
Partnership

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TrustList summary

Arba Seed Investment Group is a family investment group run by Dave Pell. He has helped entrepreneurs build start-ups since the first Internet boom. The name Arba means four, because the group is a partnership between Pell and his three sisters.

What Arba Seed Investment Group offers

Seed investment: early money for young companies.
Growth backing: help for early-stage companies as they develop.
Co-investing: work alongside other small funds and individual investors.
Fast decisions: Pell acts much like an angel investor.

Who it works with

Young companies based in the Bay Area, New York, Oregon, Seattle and Chicago, among other places. Past and current portfolio companies named by the group include GrubHub, OpenTable, Marin Software, Hotel Tonight, AppZen and Hello Heart.

Key facts

Run by: Dave Pell
Structure: partnership of Pell and his three sisters
Also: Pell works as the Internet's Managing Editor and is a published author

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Internet
Seattle
Partnership

Rankings

Arba Seed Investment Group is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #12.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Arba Seed Investment Group has no reviews yet and 2 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

#12of 30
Seattle
It is one of 2 here listing internet and one of 4 here listing partnership.
Its profile: “Young companies based in the Bay Area, New York, Oregon, Seattle and Chicago, among other places.”
Of the 30 here, 8 also cover seed stage and 8 also cover partners; 6 also work in Silicon Valley and 5 also work in New York City.
Behind Anthos Capital, ahead of Assurant Ventures.

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