# Arjun Dev Arora

> Arjun Dev Arora is a seed investor at Format One (San Francisco) backing Software and FinTech. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Format One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/format-one)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjundevarora
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ArjunDArora
- Website: https://x.com/ArjunDArora
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arjundevarora

Arjun Dev Arora is a seed investor at Format One in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Arjun Dev Arora is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Advisor at Format One.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $329k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |
| Health Care | 2 | 13% |
| Social Media | 2 | 13% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 73% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 87% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cimphony | Cimphony is revolutionizing the legal landscape for businesses! Our cutting-edge Gen AI technology platform, combined with our legal expert providers, offers fixed price or à la carte legal solutions that are up to 10x faster, more affordable, and predictably priced than traditional law firms. Our mission? To supercharge your business'sgrowth by delivering full-stack legal support for every stage of your journey - from incorporation and launch to commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. With Cimphony, you can ditch the tedious legal legwork and laser-focus on what matters most: building your dream company. Cimphony is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Sep 28, 2024 |  |
| Motion | Motion creates platform that combines visual content with performance metrics to help growth teams improve their creative strategy. |  | Seed | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Upshift | Upshift is a personalized car membership experience: On-demand, hassle-free access to your car on your terms for a fraction of the cost of overall ownership. Choose your plan, and our concierge service will do the rest. Reserve a car whenever you need it. And never worry when you don’t. | $721.9K | Equity Crowdfunding | Jan 23, 2021 |  |
| Portal to Bitcoin | Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2019 |  |
| IRL | IRL is the place for Social Messaging! Follow your friends, join groups you relate to, and chat! IRL super-charges your social life! IRL is one of the top Social Apps, and it’s accessible through all your devices.Friends - Follow all your friends on IRL! Chat with them and see the events they are interested in. Use it to discover what you mighthave missed and plan something to do!Groups - Create groups around your interests and discover people that have the same interests as you. Make new friends, or get closer with someone you know already. Groups can be public or private, you decide who joins.Events - Events you create and join get added to your IRL Calendar so you can manage your busy days. Create events and invite your groups, make it easy to plan for clubs and activities! Birthday parties on IRL are always more fun.Chat - Chat on groups and events, create polls, and send gifs! Chat with your clubs, friends, school groups, or family. Have a chat with 2, or be a part of a worldwide chat! Chat more together.Find out why Apple named us "Our Favorite" in Social and upgrade your life today ;)The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| SV Academy | SV Academy is the non-coding way to make it in America. Founded in 2017, SV Academy supports 400+ SaaS employers with a highly-connected community of rigorously trained and high-performing Sales and Customer Success talent from underrepresented backgrounds. The company's platform provides skill-building, mentorship, job placement assistance,and post-hire support, such as alumni networking events and coaching, with 60% of its graduates promoted in the first year. SV Academy was named the #2 Most Innovative Education Program by Fast Company, and is backed by OWL Ventures, Uprising, Bloomberg Beta, Kapor Capital, ReThink Education, as well as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures. To learn more, visit sv.academy. | $2M | Seed | Aug 22, 2017 |  |
| Zentist | Zentist is a dental insurance billing platform for dental practices that delivers improved practice financial performance and patient affordability.The company offers end to end insurance claims processing powered by high tech machine learning algorithms. It also provides easy management and weekly reporting for ultimate transparency and tailoreddata-driven recommendations to help maximize the insurance claim reimbursements. | $2.9M | Seed | Mar 05, 2017 |  |
| Ethic | Ethic is a developer of a data-driven technology platform designed to offer simplified financial planning services and portfolios. Their platform leverages investment consulting technology that creates sustainable portfolios that are optimized to reduce tracking error for the underlying passive index against well-established benchmarks, enablingfamily offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to provide customized sustainability insights and optimized passive portfolio construction for their clients. |  | Pre-Seed | May 13, 2016 |  |
| Qualio | Qualio helps life sciences companies become quality-driven and accelerate growth. It unites their quality team, tools, and data - helping teams building life-saving products get to market quickly and scale successfully. Qualio cuts through complexity to optimize and automate critical quality processes.It was founded in 2012 and is headquarteredin San Francisco, California. | $329K | Seed | Apr 24, 2016 |  |
| Talk Local | Talk Local connects your business to consumers who are looking for your services! The consumer fills out a service request that includes a brief description, desired appointment time, and where they are located. Talk Local then broadcasts the consumer’s service request to you for free. | $1.3M | Series A | Nov 01, 2011 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fortify Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortify-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acurio-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Format One

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Format One provides operational assistance, fundraising support and executive coaching.

1 contacts available at Format One.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arjun Dev Arora | Founder, Managing Partner, and Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arjun-dev-arora |

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## FAQ

### What does Arjun Dev Arora invest in?

Arjun Dev Arora invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Arjun Dev Arora's check size?

Arjun Dev Arora typically joins rounds of $329k–$3M 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 Arjun Dev Arora participates in.

### When did Arjun Dev Arora last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arjun Dev Arora closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 15 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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