Fika Ventures
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Fika Ventures is an early-stage, B2B venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2016, Fika focuses on pre-Series A software companies in sectors like vertical SaaS, fintech, commerce enablement, healthcare, and marketplaces.
- Total investments:
- 141
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
- Fund size:
- $2.7M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Fika Ventures invests in
Stages Fika Ventures invests in
Countries Fika Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$10M
- Series A
- $8M–$30M
- Series B
- $20M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 33 (23%)
- SaaS 19 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 15 (11%)
- Financial Services 14 (10%)
- Information Technology 14 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 59 (42%)
- Series A 36 (26%)
- Series B 18 (13%)
- Funding Round 4 (3%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (1%)
Country
- United States 65 (46%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- South Korea 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
James Shecter
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Arteen Arabshahi
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Gabriella Brignardello
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
John Chen
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outmarket AI offers an AI-driven platform to transform commercial insurance operations by enhancing efficiency and productivity. The platform integrates data to provide real-time insights, automate workflows, and streamline processes such as data analysis, submission generation, and market placement. It serves brokers, managing general agents(MGAs), and wholesalers, helping them to boost sales, improve strategic performance, and accelerate growth. Leveraging natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge graphs, it helps brokers and carriers identify cross-selling potential, optimize carrier placements, and maximize profitability. | $34.5M / Series B / Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| SubBase is a centralized technology platform simplifying outdated workflows in construction materials management. Servicing both side of the market, the platform’s user-friendly interface increases efficiency, communication, and organization - saving time and money while streamlining the entire end to end procurement process for commercial tradesand their vendors.Enhance and optimize your procurement workflows by managing complex construction supply chains, effortlessly. SubBase was built by construction folk, who understand the need for personized workflows. | $7M / Series A / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Outmarket AI offers an AI-driven platform to transform commercial insurance operations by enhancing efficiency and productivity. The platform integrates data to provide real-time insights, automate workflows, and streamline processes such as data analysis, submission generation, and market placement. It serves brokers, managing general agents(MGAs), and wholesalers, helping them to boost sales, improve strategic performance, and accelerate growth. Leveraging natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge graphs, it helps brokers and carriers identify cross-selling potential, optimize carrier placements, and maximize profitability. | $17M / Series A / May 13, 2026 | ||
| Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future. | $40M / Series B / May 05, 2026 | ||
| Lumian is built to help Amazon brands run more efficiently through a combined model of specialized AI agents and experienced brand managers. Its system monitors account activity continuously, surfaces issues like stockouts, suppressions, and wasted spend, and supports end-to-end management of Amazon operations. | $3M / Seed / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| A connected company is a powerful company. At Sift, we created the easiest way to unleash the power of your people to propel your organization forward. We make finding the right expert at the right time, or connecting to anyone in your organization on the go simple—allowing you to drive organizational performance while saving you time. Sift helpsyou take your organization into the people-first, digital age with a solution that is as simple as it is powerful. | $42M / Series B / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Sift offers transformative tools for machine creators to innovate at speed and scale. | $42M / Series B / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Chowbus, a leading restaurant technology company based in the U.S, offers an innovative all-in-one cloud-based restaurant point of sale system designed to streamline operations and boost revenue for restaurants. Operating on a user-friendly SaaS model, we ensure continuous software upgrades and the inclusion of the latest features at a reasonablesubscription fee. Our commitment is to support restaurants that are eager to leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance their performance and increase profits. Choose Chowbus for a reliable, advanced restaurant POS system that evolves with your business needs | $81.3M / Series B / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Ivo provides an AI-powered contract intelligence platform that helps legal and business teams review, analyze, and extract insights from agreements. It offers tools for automated redlining and comparison against playbooks, a repository that organizes contract libraries without manual tagging, and an assistant that answers complex contract questionsusing natural language. The platform connects to common workflows like Microsoft Word and enables users to uncover relationships between contract documents and surface risk or deviation patterns. Ivo’s technology aims to reduce the manual effort in contract review and support strategic decision-making across functions that work with agreements. | $55M / Series B / Jan 20, 2026 | ||
| Coverbase is an AI-native procurement orchestration platform that unifies vendor intake, risk assessments, contract analysis, and ongoing supplier monitoring into a single intelligent workflow. Designed for regulated and security-conscious enterprises, it automates due diligence, validates control evidence, and ensures compliance across every stageof the procurement lifecycle. By combining AI-driven risk analysis, document intelligence, and workflow automation, Coverbase helps organizations move faster, reduce manual effort, and make secure, data-backed purchasing decisions. | $16.5M / Series A / Nov 20, 2025 | ||
| See all 141 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Fika Ventures invest in?
Fika Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 141 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 Fika Ventures's check size?
Fika Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $8M–$30M at Series A and $20M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fika Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Fika Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Fika Ventures?
The team at Fika Ventures includes James Shecter (Vice President), (( (( (()) and Arteen Arabshahi (General Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 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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