# Arash Ferdowsi

> Arash Ferdowsi is a seed investor at Dropbox backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 110 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dropbox](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dropbox)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 110
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 1%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arashferdowsi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/arashf
- Website: https://www.arash.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arash

Arash Ferdowsi is a seed investor at Dropbox 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $930k–$3.6M |
| Series A | $13M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 38 | 35% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 32 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 17 | 15% |
| FinTech | 14 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 14 | 13% |

110 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 68 | 62% |
| Series A | 24 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 7% |
| Series B | 3 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 57% |
| India | 5 | 5% |
| Brazil | 4 | 4% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meticulous | Meticulous is a tool for detecting bugs in web applications. The company was founded in 2021. | $15M | Series A | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Warp | 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 | 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 | 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 | 222 is a consumer marketplace facilitating chance social experiences at hyperlocal venues. | $10.1M | Series A | Dec 24, 2025 |  |
| Lemon Slice | Lemonslice provides translation and localization services for businesses to adapt content across multiple languages and markets. | $10.5M | Seed | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| Wild Moose | 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 | 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 |  |
| Oneleet | Scalable manual cybersecurity testing as a service provided by vetted expert penetration testers. | $33M | Series A | Oct 02, 2025 |  |
| DianaHR | DianaHR is an AI-Powered HR Person | $3.7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2025 |  |

10 of 110 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 51 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Rebel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebel-fund) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

## About Dropbox

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It aims to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. 500 million registered users around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go.Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropboxis headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, Hamburg, Washington DC, and Tokyo.

5 contacts available at Dropbox.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Drew Houston | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-houston |
| Arash Ferdowsi | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arash-ferdowsi |
| Daniel Liem | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-liem |
| Hiten Shah | Product & Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiten-shah |
| Jamie Perlman | VP Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-perlman |

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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 110 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Arash Ferdowsi's check size?

Arash Ferdowsi typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $930k–$3.6M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arash Ferdowsi participates in.

### When did Arash Ferdowsi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arash Ferdowsi closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 110 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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