# Arie Abecassis

> Arie Abecassis is a seed investor at Dreamit Ventures (New York) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dreamit Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dreamit-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arie-abecassis-5b81018

Arie Abecassis is a seed investor at Dreamit Ventures in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. Arie Abecassis is the Co-Founder at ICONYC labs.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| Pet | 1 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Events | 1 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Israel | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bark Social | Bark Social is a pet retail space that includes an off-leash dog park, a beer garden, and a coffee house. It offers self-serve dog baths, a full dog treat menu, and a curated selection of dog products. The venue provides a social environment for dogs and their owners to interact. | $2M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Balloon | Balloon removes bias from group work and decision-making - across teams, both internal and external. Its platform levels the playing field and makes it possible to anonymously surface and prioritize information, feedback, and insights that companies can't get any other way. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 11, 2019 |  |
| Seamless.AI | Seamless.ai provides a sales automation software intended to organize contacts and make them universally accessible and useful. Artificial intelligence that finds perfect email addresses, phone numbers and insights for all professionals powers its sales automation software, enabling users to automate their process of list building, contactresearch, data entry, and other forms of busy work that is necessary for sales. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2017 |  |
| Myndlift | Myndlift combines neurotechnology, behavioral psychology and human care to offer a better mental care solution. Used by 10's of thousands of individuals through hundreds of mental health providers, it has positioned itself as the leading solution combining EEG brain metrics and behavioral health. | $880K | Seed | May 01, 2015 |  |
| Bring Me That | BringMeThat is a website and technology platform that allowsconsumers to order food online from ANY delivery restaurant across theUS – even ones that do not have an online ordering option. Online fooddelivery is a $14 billion industry but over 100,000 US deliveryrestaurants still do not offer online ordering. Only BringMeThat has atechnology solution to make these all accessible to consumers. Theycurrently enable online ordering from over 40,000 restaurants acrossall 50 states – and will cover nearly 100k by the end of 2015. | $400K | Seed | Jul 01, 2014 |  |
| SeatGeek | SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals.The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a setof similar events.SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences.SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States. | $550K | Series A | Oct 13, 2010 |  |
| SeatGeek | SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals.The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a setof similar events.SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences.SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States. | $550K | Seed | Jan 08, 2010 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Brainchild Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trisiras-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Upstage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upstage-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Early Light Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/early-light-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ICONYC labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iconyc-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Dreamit Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Dreamit is a venture fund focused on startups with revenue or pilots that are ready to scale. Dreamit specializes in startups building transformative companies in Securetech. Founders meet with dozens of potential customers and partners on Customer Sprints® and pitch leading venture firms during Investor Sprints®. Since its founding in 2008,Dreamit has partnered and helped grow over 320 startups, including LevelUp (acquired by GrubHub), Trendkite (acquired by Cision), SeatGeek, HouseParty (acquired by Epic Games), Elevate, Adaptly (acquired by Accenture), Wellth, Biomeme, Tissue Analytics (acquired by Net Health), Redox, Eko Devices, NestEgg, Cherre, Cylera, RaySecur, SpecTrust, Tidal Cyber, TestifySec, Nirmata, and Accuknox.

5 contacts available at Dreamit Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stephen Gray | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-gray-f8e9 |
| Adam Dakin | Managing Director, HealthTech | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-dakin |
| Arie Abecassis | Venture Partner & Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arie-abecassis |
| Avi Savar | Partner & Board Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avi-savar |
| David Bookspan | Founder and Board Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-bookspan |

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## FAQ

### What does Arie Abecassis invest in?

Arie Abecassis invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Pet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Arie Abecassis's check size?

Arie Abecassis typically joins rounds of $400k–$2.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arie Abecassis participates in.

### When did Arie Abecassis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arie Abecassis closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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