# Grape Arbor VC

> Grape Arbor VC is a VC fund in New York backing Software and E-Commerce. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Feb 2019
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grapearborvc
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GrapeArborVC
- Website: http://www.grapearborvc.com

Grape Arbor VC is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. Grape Arbor is an angel investor group comprised of friends who spend their professional lives in the technology and start-up space and pool their personal finances to make angel investments. Since its founding in 2006, Grape Arbor LLC (directly or through affiliates) has made one or more investments into more than two dozen companies.Grape Arbor has made investments in advertising/marketing online, web 2.0/social networking, financial services (tech and non-tech), and software/web-enhanced services. While a number of investments have been into companies with products at the pre-beta stage, Grape Arbor has made one initial investment into a company which, at the time, had roughly $15MM of trailing 12 month revenue. In general, however, Grape Arbor targets early stage companies with a little revenue (several hundred thousand to several million in trailing 12 month revenue). All of the companies considered seriously had a clear strategy for attacking a large and rapidly growing addressable market as well as a strong (even if not complete) management team.Grape Arbor has made investments in which co-investors have been: First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Carlyle, Insight Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Vision Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners and others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 11 | 18% |
| Advertising | 9 | 15% |
| Mobile | 7 | 12% |
| Health Care | 7 | 12% |

129 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 43% |
| Series A | 18 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 10% |
| Series B | 3 | 5% |
| Angel | 2 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 53 | 88% |
| France | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Portnoi | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-portnoi |
| Anthony Pergola | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-o-pergola |
| Anthony Pergola | Member & Co-founder; Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-pergola |
| Edward Zimmerman | Co-Founder/Co-Lead (Angel Investor Group) | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-zimmerman |
| John Goldsmith | Team Member | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-goldsmith |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| StayTuned | StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 14, 2019 |  |
| Elucd | Elucd provides cities with a near real-time understanding of how citizens feel about their government. | $1M | Seed | Jan 02, 2018 |  |
| TrueData | TrueData is the gold standard for addressability-as-a-service. Our identity graph connects every notion of a person and household to every digital device, all in a privacy first framework. The largest advertising and data players rely on TrueData to help them enable omni-channel addressability. |  | Series A | May 08, 2017 |  |
| Vetcove | Vetcove is like Kayak.com for veterinary hospitals to order their supplies. We aggregate the catalogs of all veterinary suppliers across the country, resulting in the largest veterinary catalog in the world, spanning more than 200,000 skus and 2,100 manufacturers. Clinics search one unified catalog with rich content, compare pricing and what'sin stock, and order in one place. Manufacturers, compounding pharmacies, and diagnostic laboratories manage their own product listings, receive payments, and offer free samples. For the first time ever, veterinarians and their staff can use collective insights to discover new products, buy smarter, and advance their practice of veterinary medicine. Our goal is to help vet hospitals operate profitably and assist them in providing the best possible products and services to pets and their pet parents. | $3M | Seed | Aug 22, 2016 |  |
| Vetcove | Vetcove is like Kayak.com for veterinary hospitals to order their supplies. We aggregate the catalogs of all veterinary suppliers across the country, resulting in the largest veterinary catalog in the world, spanning more than 200,000 skus and 2,100 manufacturers. Clinics search one unified catalog with rich content, compare pricing and what'sin stock, and order in one place. Manufacturers, compounding pharmacies, and diagnostic laboratories manage their own product listings, receive payments, and offer free samples. For the first time ever, veterinarians and their staff can use collective insights to discover new products, buy smarter, and advance their practice of veterinary medicine. Our goal is to help vet hospitals operate profitably and assist them in providing the best possible products and services to pets and their pet parents. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Aug 22, 2016 |  |
| UpChannel | UpChannel connects carriers and smartphone manufacturers with their customers, enabling recurring relationships and data-driven insight through a native mobile app. UpChannel provides uniquely designed app with brand, logo, and selected features. The app is pre-loaded to help customers get the most out of their devices.Using the UpChanneldashboard, mobile manufacturers an analyze customer data, manage the application, and interact directly with their customers.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. | $100K | Convertible Note | Aug 12, 2016 |  |
| Birchbox | Launched in 2010, Birchbox is the discovery commerce platform redefining the retail process by offering consumers a personalized way to discover, sample, shop, and learn about the best products and brands available. Birchbox members have first-touch experiences with products each month and access to educational content to help them get the mostout of their products. Top brands like Kiehl’s, Benefit, Deborah Lippmann, and Stila have partnered with Birchbox. | $15M | Series C | Aug 02, 2016 |  |
| Band of Vintners | Band of Vintners aims to pool its resources and connections throughout the Napa Valley in order to produce the “best pound-for-pound” Cabernet. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2016 |  |
| Qapital | Launched in 2012, and led by Founder & CEO, George Friedman, Qapital is a new kind of banking experience that empowers people to maximize their happiness by saving, spending, and investing with their goals in mind. By blending behavioral psychology with technology, Qapital provides people with the tools they need to make managing money easyand fun. The Qapital app is designed to help users better understand their saving, spending, and investing habits by highlighting the tradeoffs made when managing money. It allows users to save for their real-life goals with customizable, automated deposits that are linked to their everyday actions, like riding the bus, going to the gym, or buying a coffee. To help users spend more intentionally, Qapital provides an FDIC-insured checking account, Qapital Visa® Debit Card, and Weekly Spending Target tool to track day-to-day spending. And for more long-term goals, Qapital Invest, which is set to launch in Spring 2018, will bring a goal-based and automated approach to the world of investing, offering users an effortless way to grow their money and plan for their future. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 09, 2016 |  |
| Skyfront | Skyfront builds extreme endurance, autonomous aircraft for commercial and public safety applications. The company's drones fly for hours and carry large sensors to monitor, detect, and explore for a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft. Skyfront's mission is to replace manned helicopters for aerial data collection. |  | Seed | Jan 28, 2016 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rothenberg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rothenberg-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Grape Arbor VC invest in?

Grape Arbor VC invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 60 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 Grape Arbor VC's check size?

Grape Arbor VC typically joins rounds of $500k–$3M at Seed and $1.5M–$14M 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 Grape Arbor VC participates in.

### How do I contact Grape Arbor VC?

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### Who are the partners at Grape Arbor VC?

The team at Grape Arbor VC includes Alan Portnoi (Member), Anthony Pergola (Founder) and Anthony Pergola (Member & Co-founder; Founder), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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