# Robert Stavis

> Robert Stavis is a Series C investor at Bessemer Venture Partners backing Financial Services. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertstavis
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/robstavis
- Website: https://x.com/robstavis

Robert Stavis is a Series C investor at Bessemer Venture Partners in New York focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Robert Michael Stavis is based out of Larchmont, New York and is the Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners. Robert previously worked at NewSchools Venture Fund as a Director. Robert Stavis attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.9M–$38M |
| Series B | $9.3M–$126M |
| Series C | $10M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 20% |
| FinTech | 4 | 11% |
| Finance | 3 | 9% |
| Cannabis | 2 | 6% |
| Software | 2 | 6% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 8 | 23% |
| Series B | 7 | 20% |
| Series A | 5 | 14% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 40% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Atarraya Inc | Atarraya is a fully integrated FoodTech company that focuses on the optimization of every aspect of shrimp farming: Biotech R&D, breeding, production, marketing, even software, and hardware development. Meet Shrimpbox: Atarraya’s proprietary biotechnology designed to decrease the environmental impact and cost of shrimp farming, while allowingfor the production of fresh, sustainable and local shrimp everywhere in the world.It is committed to making shrimp the best animal protein source for the 21st Century. Its current (2020) operation consists of two farms and one hatchery in Mexico. It runs a continuous harvest cycle, every week, and sells its product through the Agua Blanca brand in Mexico and the US. | $3.9M | Series A | Aug 15, 2022 |  |
| Assembly OSM | Assembly OSM delivers architecturally distinctive high-rise buildings through their innovative building systems. Assembly OSM achieve buildings that are both beautiful and innovative — high-quality in performance, high-end in aesthetics, green in materials, and highly cost-effective in componentry, fabrication, delivery, and operating expense.Perhaps most importantly, Assembly buildings entail a significantly reduced time to completion, with vastly improved cost- and schedule-certainty, compared to conventional projects. | $38M | Series A | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Flower Company | FLOWER CO is a cannabis wholesale membership club that saves members 40% on popular brands and products, delivered to your door. They work with small business in each market to get a product to you and they believe that the modern cannabis economy can be an equalizing force that provides high-quality jobs.The company currently delivering torecreational and medicinal users across Alameda country, Vallejo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Marin. Their business model delivers premium products to consumers directly from the old-school supply at wholesale prices.FLOWER CO was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Arcata, California. | $16M | Series A | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Betterment | Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and reviewtheir portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals. | $60M | Series F | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Bespoke Financial | Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans. | $8M | Series A | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Bespoke Financial | Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans. | $8M | Series A | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| HelloRelish | HelloRelish is a relationship wellness app that delivers personalized plan to rebuild your relationships. Relish is backed by a top tier investment firm. It uses micro-learning techniques and machine learning to deliver its services. The Relish customer gets empirically proven advice, backed by a panel of expert advisors that is timely, tailored,and - most importantly - action-orientated.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $5M | Series A | Apr 27, 2020 |  |
| Flower Company | FLOWER CO is a cannabis wholesale membership club that saves members 40% on popular brands and products, delivered to your door. They work with small business in each market to get a product to you and they believe that the modern cannabis economy can be an equalizing force that provides high-quality jobs.The company currently delivering torecreational and medicinal users across Alameda country, Vallejo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Marin. Their business model delivers premium products to consumers directly from the old-school supply at wholesale prices.FLOWER CO was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Arcata, California. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 22, 2019 |  |
| Zopa | Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks that act as middlemen. Zopa provides an app designed to help users manage their loans, credit cards, and savings and monitor their credit scores conveniently. Zopa also mitigates lenders' risk by enforcing monthlydirect debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (e.g., someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across, say, 100 borrowers).The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders.Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan. | $20.4M | Series G | Nov 07, 2018 |  |
| Bread | Bread partners with retailers to offer pay-over-time solutions that make financing easier and more transparent. The company uses technology to advance consumer-friendly credit by improving access, transparency, ease-of-use, and cost. Their products help their merchant partners to grow sales by making their products accessible to more consumers.Bread was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, NY. | $60M |  | Sep 18, 2018 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kinnevik](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-ab-kinnevik) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Bessemer Venture Partners

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. It provides capital to startups and emerging businesses while supporting founders with strategic guidance, operational insight, and network access. The firm participates in multiple fundingstages, from seed investments to later growth rounds, and works closely with portfolio companies on product development, market expansion, and organizational scaling. Its investment activities span software, cloud infrastructure, fintech, biotech, and internet-enabled businesses, aligning capital deployment with long-term company building.

5 contacts available at Bessemer Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aia Sarycheva | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aia-sarycheva |
| Alexandra Sukin | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandra-sukin |
| Anant Vidur Puri | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anant-vidur-puri |
| Andrew Hedin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-hedin |
| Caty Rae | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caty-rae |

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## FAQ

### What does Robert Stavis invest in?

Robert Stavis invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 35 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 Robert Stavis's check size?

Robert Stavis typically joins rounds of $3.9M–$38M at Series A, $9.3M–$126M at Series B and $10M–$32M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Robert Stavis participates in.

### When did Robert Stavis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robert Stavis closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 35 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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