Wei Hopeman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Arbor Ventures
Shanghai, China
Wei Hopeman is a seed investor at Arbor Ventures in Shanghai focused on Banking and Financial Services. Wei is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures, Asia's largest FinTech focused venture fund. Prior to Arbor Ventures, Wei was Managing Director and Head of Asia for Citi Ventures, Citigroup's strategic venture investing and innovation arm. She established the group in Asia to invest in financial technologies, payments,digital commerce, big data and security/authentication technologies. Her team also incubated new technology and business models at Citi to accelerate disruption from within.Wei brings with her a unique set of experience and perspective in finance, entrepreneurship and technology spanning the Silicon Valley, China and Asia. Prior to joining Citi, she managed the China private equity practice at Winnington Capital. She also established the China office for Jefferies & Company and was a technology investment banker in the Silicon Valley with Jefferies and Goldman Sachs. Wei has a BA in International Relations from Pomona College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She serves on the board of AngelVest, the largest angel investment group in Greater China. She is also the Vice Chairman of Women in Leadership in China.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Wei Hopeman invests in
Stages Wei Hopeman invests in
Countries Wei Hopeman invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Banking 4 (25%)
- Financial Services 4 (25%)
- FinTech 3 (19%)
- Finance 3 (19%)
- Security 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (25%)
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Series B 3 (19%)
- Series C 2 (13%)
- Convertible Note 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 6 (38%)
- Singapore 2 (13%)
- China 1 (6%)
- Indonesia 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Abra
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Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $55M / Series C / Sep 15, 2021 | |
Markable Creators(Markable AI)
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BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020. | $5.1M / Convertible Note / Dec 21, 2020 | |
LoanStreet
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LoanStreet is a new marketplace that enables the efficient syndication of any sized loan. LoanStreet automates and standardizes syndication from origination to maturity, enabling lenders and investors to buy, sell and manage loans directly on the website. | $5M / Series A / Feb 03, 2020 | |
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Abra
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Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $12M / Series C / Apr 01, 2019 | |
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Abra
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Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $12M / Series B / Mar 14, 2019 | |
Silot
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Silot specializes in using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and knowledge graph technology to work with banks around Southeast Asia, radically transforming these institutions to be smarter and more efficient. Our solutions go beyond task automation or rote processing. We aim to empower banks with unprecedented discovery and decision-makingability using AI that can learn, with the ultimate goal of helping banks transcend into a new era of intelligent banking. | $8M / Series A / Mar 11, 2019 | |
Akulaku Group
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Akulaku is a leading banking and digital finance platform in Southeast Asia that operates in 4 major countries: Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia.Targeting an emerging market with an underserved but creditworthy and fast-growing consumer group, Akulaku currently provides users with digital banking, consumer credit, digital investment andinsurance brokerage services, fulfilling financial needs for a wide range of customers. | $69.5M / Series C / Oct 30, 2018 | |
GlobaliD
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We believe that owning your own identity is a basic human right. Your digital identity isn’t just your key for logging into websites and making social connections online, it’s your economic passport for an increasingly global market. And as a manifestation of who you are, you should own it—along with all the corresponding data that makes up yourdigital ID. Privacy, agency, and security are your rights. At globaliD, we’ve developed a privacy-first, highly secure and encrypted platform—one that allows individuals full control over their unique digital identities. | $6M / Series A / Jul 09, 2018 | |
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Abra
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Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $16M / Series B / Oct 23, 2017 | |
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GlobaliD
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We believe that owning your own identity is a basic human right. Your digital identity isn’t just your key for logging into websites and making social connections online, it’s your economic passport for an increasingly global market. And as a manifestation of who you are, you should own it—along with all the corresponding data that makes up yourdigital ID. Privacy, agency, and security are your rights. At globaliD, we’ve developed a privacy-first, highly secure and encrypted platform—one that allows individuals full control over their unique digital identities. | Seed / Jul 28, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Arbor Ventures
Arbor Ventures invests in companies that leverage advanced technologies to facilitate, broaden or fundamentally change the way financial services are served, consumed, and managed. The firm's partners bring extensive sector and market knowledge, together with vast strategic networks, creating a unique platform to recruit world-class boardmembers, investors, and strategic partners from across the globe. Arbor’s global perspective allows it to accelerate impact and reach globally.
Arbor Ventures Contacts
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Melissa Guzy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Stephanie Zepeda
Principal
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Daisuke Dan Nagayama
Partner & Director of Japan at Arbor Ventures
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Khaled Lababidi
Partner
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Wei Hopeman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Wei Hopeman invest in?
Wei Hopeman invests primarily in Banking, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Wei Hopeman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Wei Hopeman closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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