ARBA Seed Investment Arba Seed Investment Contact Dave Follow Dave Dave Pell runs Arba, a family investment group, where hes been helping entrepreneurs build successful startups since the early days of the first Internet boom; back when seed rounds had valuations, offices had cubicles, and term sheets were faxed. Arba (meaning four) is a partnership among Dave and his three sisterswho leave him alone as long as the returns remain astronomical. He operates much like a angel investor, acting quickly, and working with other small funds and individual investors to seed and grow early stage companies. As the managing partner of Arba, Dave focuses on seed stage startups in sectors ranging from consumer facing products to enterprise SaaS offerings. Over the years, Arba has invested in more than sixty startups. Heres a sample of some our recent investments. When Daves not vesting, hes typing. His writing about the tech and the intersection of our real lives and the realtime, interactive, social web has been featured in Time, Wired, NPR, Forbes, Vice, Gizmodo, and elsewhere. He currently writes NextDraft, a look at the days most fascinating news.