# Rob Frohwein

> Rob Frohwein is a seed investor at Kabbage (Atlanta) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kabbage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kabbage)
- Location: Atlanta, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frohwein/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/KabbageRob
- Website: https://x.com/KabbageRob

Rob Frohwein is a seed investor at Kabbage in Atlanta focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Rob Frohwein is the co-founder & chief keeper of Keep Financial Technologies. Rob Frohwein attended Dickinson College.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 50% |
| Credit | 1 | 25% |
| Banking | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 2 | 50% |
| Israel | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Filo | Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US | $22.7M | Series A | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Wove | Wove provides AI infrastructure for global trade operations. Our platform automates document processing, tariff calculations, and cargo risk scoring for freight forwarders, customs brokers, and logistics platforms—turning unstructured trade documents into structured, actionable intelligence. |  | Angel | Feb 27, 2022 |  |
| TenureX | Tenure is a pioneering technology and enablement service provider for correspondent banking services. It sets out to bring banks and financial institutions together in a collaborative, technology-based, business-oriented fashion. | $5M | Seed | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Velocity | Velocity is India’s leading financial solution provider for digitally native businesses. It aims to build the future of banking and financial services for new-age businesses in India. The company was founded by Abhiroop Medhekar, Atul Khichariya, and Saurav Swaroop in 2020. | $10.3M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Valar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valar-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anthos Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthos-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FINTOP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintop-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GE32 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ge32-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kabbage

VC Fund · Atlanta, United States

Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waitingweeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000.Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle.The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014.In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones.Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available.Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers.In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain.In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a rowIn August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015.In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.

5 contacts available at Kabbage.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kathryn Petralia | Co-Founder & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathryn-petralia |
| Amy Zimmerman | Head of People Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-zimmerman |
| Jon Hoffmann | EVP of Credit Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-hoffmann |
| Kevin Phillips | Head of Corporate Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-phillips |
| Pete Steger | Head of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pete-steger |

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## FAQ

### What does Rob Frohwein invest in?

Rob Frohwein invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Credit startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rob Frohwein's check size?

Rob Frohwein typically joins rounds of $5M–$10M 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 Rob Frohwein participates in.

### When did Rob Frohwein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rob Frohwein closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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