Arash Ferdowsi
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Arash Ferdowsi is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
- Total investments:
- 111
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
Last updated:
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Industries Arash Ferdowsi invests in
Stages Arash Ferdowsi invests in
Countries Arash Ferdowsi invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $930k–$3.6M
- Series A
- $13M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 38 (34%)
- Artificial Intelligence 32 (29%)
- Information Technology 17 (15%)
- FinTech 14 (13%)
- Financial Services 14 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 69 (62%)
- Series A 24 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (7%)
- Series B 3 (3%)
- Funding Round 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 64 (58%)
- India 5 (5%)
- Brazil 4 (4%)
- Canada 3 (3%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| n of 1 mrna cancer vaccines | $4M / Seed / Aug 23, 2026 | ||
| Meticulous is a tool for detecting bugs in web applications. The company was founded in 2021. | $15M / Series A / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $60M / Series B / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Crafting Platform provides a holistic Dev Infra as a Service product to top software engineering teams, including Cloud-based Dev Environments, Integration Testing, Kubernetes Debugging, Local-Cloud Hybrid Development, Dev Data Management, Third Party API Integration, Preview Environments. Crafting helps take care of the infra layer for dev innerloop so that dev platform teams in top tech companies can 10x their capabilities, reduce management burden, and cut dev resource cost. | $5.5M / Seed / Mar 09, 2026 | ||
| Artie is an open source solution that provides real-time database replication. Artie leverages change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to sync databases and data warehouses in real-time. We are open source and offer a managed version of our solution! Check out our GitHub at https://github.com/artie-labs/transfer | $15.1M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| 222 is a consumer marketplace facilitating chance social experiences at hyperlocal venues. | $10.1M / Series A / Dec 24, 2025 | ||
| Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets. | $10.5M / Seed / Dec 23, 2025 | ||
| Wild Moose assists on-call developers in determining the source of production incidents more quickly. Wild Moose accomplish this by providing a conversational AI that has been trained on their environment. LLM-based AI is specifically designed to answer questions about production data such as logs and metrics. | $7M / Seed / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Vulcan builds AI tools that map U.S. laws and regulations, helping users draft, review, and stay compliant with legal documents. | $10.9M / Seed / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Scalable manual cybersecurity testing as a service provided by vetted expert penetration testers. | $33M / Series A / Oct 02, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does Arash Ferdowsi invest in?
Arash Ferdowsi invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 111 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Arash Ferdowsi invest in?
Arash Ferdowsi typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $930k–$3.6M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Arash Ferdowsi's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Arash Ferdowsi took part in.
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When did Arash Ferdowsi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Arash Ferdowsi closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 111 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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