# Top 45 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Brazil in June 2026 ## Milton Seligman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series D - Focus: SaaS, Grocery, Big Data Milton Seligman ## Patrick Sigrist - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth… ## Fersen Lambranho - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Video Chairman of GP Investments ## Carlos Pacheco - Type: Angel - Location: Curityba, Parana, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Energy, Blockchain, Renewable Energy Angel Investor IBGC - Certified Board Member ## Pedro Mariani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Government Pedro Mariani ## Alessio Alionco - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sales Alessio Silva Alionco is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder & CEO of Pipefy. Alessio previously worked at Acessozero as a Founder, CEO. Alessio Silva Alionco attended the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. ## Hugo Barra - Type: Angel - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Hugo Barra is the Co-Founder of /dev/agents. He previously worked at Detect as a CEO. Hugo Barra attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ## Caio Maia - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Government Caio Maia ## Mario Augusto Sá - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 26 years old entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO of CASH. We are building a future where every Gen Z has control over their financial life at NG.CASH. | Forbes Under 30Previously:- Co-Founded Trampolin, a Banking-as-a-Service startup. Exit to a NASDAQ-listed firm;- Co-Founded Neagle, one of Brazil’s Top 100 YouTube Channels (+8MM subscribers);- Co-Founded FanStar, a Talent Agency company focused on Gen Z digital influencers.I’m also an early Crypto-adopter and active Angel Investor.Made in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ## Travis Foxhall - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments Travis Foxhall is based out of New York, New York, and is the Chief Financial Officer of Clara. Travis previously worked at Point72 Ventures as an Investment Vice President. Travis Foxhall attended Yale University. ## Konrad Dantas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Art, Music, Analytics Konrad Dantas, 36, is the founder of KONDZILLA, a production company and music label. Nominated for the International EMMY and twice for the Latin GRAMMY. Creator of the largest YOUTUBE channel in Latin America, with 67 million subscribers and over 38 billion views. He studied at HARVARD Business School - Business of Entertainment, Media, andSports.He is the creator, producer, and director of the hit SINTONIA, the most-watched non-English series in the world on NETFLIX, with 5 seasons and winner of the Grande Prêmio de Cinema Brasileiro.He has been awarded 3 times at the CANNES LIONS Festival, 5 times at the CLIO Awards, and also won the CABORÉ Award for Best Advertising Production Company. Recognized as Under 30 by FORBES, International Power Player by BILLBOARD, Man of the Year by GQ magazine, and one of the 100 most influential Afro-descendants in the world by MIPAD at the UN. ## Meyer Malka - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses. ## Eduardo Pontes - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, Database, Real Estate Eduardo Pontes is a Founder and CEO at SaltPay. ## Salomão Teixeira Filho - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Marketing Automation, Software, Marketing Salomão Teixeira Filho ## Mauro Levi D'Ancona - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Mauro Levi D'Ancona - CEO @ 180 Seguros ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University. ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain. ## Christian Friedland - Type: Angel - Location: San Juan, NA - Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Jewelry Christian Friedland is an Entrepreneur / Investor, the original founder of Build.com, Inc. Founded originally as a graduate school project, Build.com grew into the nations leading online home improvement retailer without a store operation.Friedland received his BA in Political Science and completed the core graduate studies in ComputerScience at California State University, in Chico, CA. ## Joao Kepler Braga - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos. ## Daniel Martins - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Credit, FinTech Daniel Martins - Founding Partner @ GEO Capital ## Dennis Wang - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace Dennis Wang is a patner at Igah Ventures, venture capital firm investing in Seed, Series A and Series B in Latam. Previously, Dennis has served Easy Taxi as co-CEO and worked with Nubank as VP of operations. Dennis studied BA in public administration at Fundacao Getulio Vargas. ## Cileneu jose peres nunes - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: PaaS, SaaS, Software Cileneu jose peres nunes ## Florian Otto - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Health Care Florian is Co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform by health systems. Previously, Florian founded a daily deal company in Brazil(ClubeUrbano) that was sold to Groupon. After the acquisition, he became CEO of Groupon Brazil. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds an M.D., D.D.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany. ## Roberto Nascimento - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Information Technology, FinTech Serial Entrepreneur with more than 20 years on Proptech and fintech business with 3 successful exits: Zap Imoveis(Globo and Estado Acquisition 2000 ), Suahouse (VivaReal Acquisition 2015) and Kzas (Creditas Acquisition 2021). ## André Zimmermann - Type: Angel - Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Video, Sports André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group). ## Andres Bilbao - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Andres Bilbao ## Igor Cruz - Type: Angel - Location: Goiânia, Goias, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: CRM, Software, Machine Learning Angel investor with experience in the retail, finance, and technology fields. ## Joao Pontes - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Training, Education Joao Pontes ## Nayarah Ribeiro - Type: Angel - Location: Araguaína, Tocantins, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: CRM, Software, Machine Learning Advogada e Angel em empresas de Early Stage. ## Gabriel Benarros - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Database, Software, Advertising Gabriel Benarros is a Brazilian entrepreneur. He attended Stanford University, where he studied Economics and Psychology. Gabriel started a Masters in Management Science & Engineering, but took a leave of absence after receiving the initial investment for Ingresse. Ingresse is Brazil's first social ticketing company. ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America. ## John C. Morris - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Hans Morris is the Founder and Managing Partner of Nyca Partners, a venture capital and advisory firm focusing on financial technology. He is director of portfolio companies Lending Club and Cardworks, as well as a director of KCG, XP Investimentos, and Oak Hill Advisors, which are portfolio companies of General Atlantic. He was a managingdirector at General Atlantic from 2010 to 2014 and continues as a special advisor.John Morris served as President of Visa Inc. from 2007-2009, joining Visa as it undertook a reorganization which merged several separate businesses into a new company. In March of 2008, Visa completed an offering of 51% of the company for $19.7 billion. John Morris' primary responsibilities included managing all of the markets in which Visa did business, and all sales and marketing.John Morris previously spent 27 years at Citigroup and its predecessor companies in several operating and management roles. In his final position, he was CFO and head of finance, technology and operations for Citi Markets and Banking, the global institutional and capital markets businesses of Citigroup. From 2000 until 2002, he was Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Client Management of the Investment Banking Division at Salomon Smith Barney, and for more than 10 years he was the head of the financial institutions group within the investment bank.John Morris graduated from Dartmouth College and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, and a Trustee of Jacobs Pillow. ## Juliano Dutra - Type: Angel - Location: Campinas, Goias, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Human Resources Juliano Dutra is the Partner & Head of Technology at bake startup studio and Co-Founder & Board Member at Gringo. ## Laura Mello de Andrea Constantini - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce Laura Mello de Andrea Costantini is a partner at Astella Investimentos. ## Henrique Dubugras - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, SaaS Henrique Dubugras is the co-founder and Chairman of Brex. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in the volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique sold Pagar.me and enrolled at StanfordUniversity. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn. ## Pedro Fiuza - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Pedro Fiuza is the Managing Partner of Servtec Energia. ## Martin Escobari - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Martín Escobari is the Co-President of General Atlantic. Martín previously worked at Advent International as a Managing Director. Martín attended the Harvard Business School. ## Juvenilton Bezerra - Type: Angel - Location: Goiânia, Goias, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: CRM, Software, Machine Learning Juvenilton Bezerra ## José Marcello Mascarenhas - Type: Angel - Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, Artificial Intelligence José Marcello Mascarenhas ## José Augusto Schincariol - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Audio, Video José Augusto Schincariol ## MARCELO BARATELLA - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: B2B, Big Data, Internet MENTOR ## William Hockey - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services William Hockey is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-CEO of Column and also Member Board of Directors of Scale. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University. ## Mateus Paiva Lambranho - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Mateus Paiva Lambranho is the Partner and CFO/COO of HYPR. ## Ariel Lambrecht - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara ## Ralf Wenzel - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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