Governance is an elephant. Inside the room. More often, though, it’s still outside, waiting to be let in. You’d better open the door soon. We need to bring governance inside—into our attention and our conversations.    How startups should play governance and...

VCs continue to prefer funding startups with 2 founders over teams of any other size.   This preference is supported by the history of Arzan VC investments: out of the 47 investments we made in the last 10 years, 49% were startups with two founders.  ...

Does 44 sound like a little? I wanna argue No.   Today I will explore all the Series B rounds of the region that were raised between 2020 and 2024 (inclusive).   5 of them belong to Arzan VC Family 😉    44 startups raised Series B in the last 5...

HAPPY NEW YEAR in advance. Hope you have a wonderful start to 2025.   We prepared our usual Wrapped rollercoaster to look back at the past 12 months... Let’s unwrap.     Here's to new seed deals, non-dilutive capital... and peace in 2025.   Before...

As of today morning, the secret is out.   We’ve been cooking this project for some time and now that there's an office, a website, a legal structure, partners ready to get us into deals and a highly capable team in place… it’s time to let the cat out of the bag....

What’s next?   If you’re a fund manager, your What’s next? sounds like “How can I complete the fund cycle?”.   If you’re a startup founder who has taken his/her startup through a good amount of funding rounds, it sounds more like “If I want my company to go...