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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Brazil

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in Brazil. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Brazil. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Brazil

Investor	EdTech Brazil investments
Leonardo Teixeira	6
Mario Letelier	4
Guilherme Stocco Filho	3
David Vélez	2
Brian Requarth	2
Nicolas Gautier	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Dan Rosensweig	2
Rodrigo Dantas	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
Fabio Dutra	1
Bernardo de Barros Franco	1
Carol Paiffer	1
Finbarr Taylor	1
Patrick Sigrist	1
Vinicius Dornela	1
Joaquim Palhares	1
Armínio Fraga	1
Sergio Furio	1
Rafael Saccol Bagolin	1
Paulo Silveira	1
Marcelo Abritta	1
Paul Bragiel	1
Miguel-Burguer Calderon	1
Diego Barreto	1
Elie Horn	1
Rodrigo Cartacho	1
André Fauri	1
Juliano Dutra	1
Rodrigo Vieira	1
Victor Rocha	1
Rafael Duton	1
Arram Sabeti	1
Mike Mahlkow	1
Paulo Piccini	1
Jonathan Martins	1
André Street	1
Marcelo Coelho Vasconcellos	1
Craig Earnshaw	1
Ben Hamner	1
Rafael Assuncao	1
João Selarim	1
Mathur Shashank	1
Igor Mascarenhas	1
André Boaventura	1
Heliomar Quaresma	1
Ryan Hoover	1
Camila Farani	1
Eduardo Mufarej	1

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I am one of the partners of Iporanga Ventures running our Pre-Seed Stage fund. Prior to That I spent 6 years investing my own money in tech startups as an angel investor.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
Consulta do Bem — Consulta do Bem seeks to promote universal access to health by offering an innovative way to schedule and get consultations online. Using technology and science, the company connects doctors and patients instantaneously, optimizing the health professionals' agenda and allowing them to offer their services at more affordable prices to thepopulation.Consulta do Bem was founded in 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Back4app — Back4app is the cloud platform for building, deploying and scaling applications. Our AI-powered solution, increases developer productivity, eliminates DevOps and accelerates time-to-market.

Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Linte — Linte helps companies to lower expenses with lawsuits using document assembly and marketplace tools. Linte offers a cloud-based solution that automates repetitive tasks, quickly, cheaply and safely, with the best practices of usability and design. Users can handle contracts, processes, and documents in an efficient and smart way.Linte was foundedon 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Prontmed — Prontmed organizes and integrates health information with an intuitive Electronic Medical Record. It develops the technologies that facilitates the day-to-day medical and hospital procedures. The main function of electronic medical records is to facilitate and support the care of patients. Therefore, the company focuses on optimizing the time ofdoctors, ensures high availability of the system, and assists in maintaining the quality of care. The features of the product are automatic configuration, security and reliability, simplified navigation, excellence support, and smart prescription.Prontmed is a Brazil-based company that was founded in 1996 by Wang Feng.
Qual Canal — Qual Canal provides social TV analytics for advertisers and TV stations willing to know more about their audiences. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Guga Stocco has more than 20 years of experience in building up digital business and leading corporate transformation.He is responsible for carrying out successful projects concerning digital banking (Banco Original); startup investments (Domo Invest); mobile and e-commerce (Buscapé); internet platforms (Microsoft); and advertising (TeRespondo).Nowadays, he is a member of the Management Board at Falconi Holdings, Totvs, Vinci Partners and Banco Original. He is also the co-founder of Futurum.Capital and founder of FPass. As a speaker, he delivers talks about Tendencies and Innovation, and spoke in more than 120 events in Brazil, LATAM, Canada, the United States, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. His education background includes a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP (1997); an MBA in Management from Insper (2010); a post-graduation degree in Marketing Management from FAAP (2007); and a Marketing Certificate from Berkeley, University of California (1996).Main contributions: managing digital businesses; innovative viewpoint towards technology; entrepreneurship-driven attitude.

Investment focus

Education, Web Design, Web Development
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

FPass — Solução de plataforma de educação no modelo white label para educação corporativa.

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Nic is the founder of EDUKO and ran the group as CEO from 2015 until late 2018 before becoming group chairman. Nic is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has built and invested in numerous businesses across many sectors and continents. Nic is the father of two young boys.

Investment focus

MOOC, EdTech, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Brazil, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Veduca — Veduca is a Brazilian online education platform that believes that people's lives can be transformed through high quality content, produced and distributed in a sustainable and collaborative way. The company was founded in March 2012 by Carlos Souza, Eduardo Zancul, Marcelo Mejlachowicz and Andre Tachian. Over the last 5 years Veduca has grownto be one of the most relevant educational portals in Brazil. The platform was fully relaunched in December 2016. Since then we have 500k new students that can have access to content for free and can chose to apply for a certificate by paying R$49,00. Veduca is a social business, with the commitment to re-invest profits into better platform and new content. Over these 5 years, Veduca has been profiled by many of the main media vehicles in Brazil, such as TV Globo, SBT, TV Band, Veja, Valor Econômico, Brasil Econômico, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, Galileu, among others, and thousands of websites. Abroad, Veduca has also been highlighted as one of the key players in the ed-tech world by the Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo Finance, The Chronicle of Higher Education, El Universal (Mexico), and others.
easyOwn.it — easyOwn is the Personal Shopping Basket (independent from single webshops) where you can highlight, comment and share products. You can put items on a wish list, select and buy them later, where you have your online shopping history irrespective where and from whom you have selected/chosen/bought the product and independently of theunderlaying webshop.easyOwn is a revolutionary eCommerce Cloud Web-Service with magnificent advantages for Merchants, Consumer & Manufacturer...easyOwn is not only streamlining the checkout process by adopting the easiness of buying a chocolate bar at a kiosk. No, it also expands the shopping reach for each associated Online Merchant to make their offers/products purchasable through Ads, eMail Campaigns, … Thus merchants are able to place and sell there products where their target customers are with a unique one-stop-shopping experience. With the easyOwn-shopping basket functionality for the first time merchants will get direct orders from multiple virtual chainstores into their inventory systems. directly back-channels oby providing direct back channels to make products additional sales channels offering alternative sales.

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Dan Rosensweig is the Executive Chairman of Chegg. He previously worked at Yahoo! as a Chief Operating Officer. Dan Rosensweig attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.

Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zazos — Allow companies to create their own people management tools and offer a unique experience to their employees.
Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
Cardeal.app — Cardeal, a proptech that aims to unleash the potential of distressed real estate assets, managing all the complexities and simplifying access to ownership, whether for investment or residential purposes.

Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Fabio Dutra

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klavi — Klavi specializes in data analytics and open data connectivity that receives data securely, quickly, and scalable through a single API.
Mobilitee — Mobilitee is a corporate platform for managing and optimizing expenses with taxi and private services.Mobilitee is an early stage startup based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, focused on smart urban mobility. It is a B2B SaaS solution that comprises a mobile app for company employees, which works as a kind of "Trivago" of taxis and ride-hailingcorporte services, and a web dashboard for the company managers.
CarambolaTech — Platform of technological solutions and team training using agile methodology, inclusion and diversity.

Bernardo de Barros Franco is a Serial entrepreneur and angel investor on the IT sector. Bernardo previously worked at u.sit as a Co-founder and CEO. He attended Harvard Business School. Ibmec, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

Investment focus

CRM, SMS, SaaS
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

u.sit — U.sit is a digital intelligence system that operates as an interface between bars, restaurants, and their customers. The system has four modules: a waitlist management system module that manages the restaurant’s waitlist and notifies customers through SMS when their table is ready, a reservation management module that allows restaurants to controltheir reservations and notify customers of pending reservations, an analytics module that provides detailed information on the restaurant’s wait and reservation operation, and a CRM module that delivers collected customer information.U.sit is based in Brazil.
Aulalivre — The Aulalivre Project is a preparatory course for entrance exams and Enem, distributed free of charge through the internet. Its objective is to bring to the greatest number of Brazilians the knowledge necessary to reach a university position, giving equal chances to those who do not have the time and / or money to invest in their owneducation.

Carol Paiffer

Investment focus

Training, Education, E-Commerce
Angel, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bits Academy — Bits Academy is a digital transformation school that provides training and consulting services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in São Paulo.
Hub Home Box — Hub Home Box is an online subscription club that helps to compare, boost and increase sales of products.

Finbarr Taylor - Cofounder, CEO @ Shogun

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Depict — Depict.ai is building a product recommendation engine to help bring “Amazon-quality” product recommendation for any e-commerce store.
Canvas — Canvas is a collaborative data exploration tool that helps modern business teams make decisions without SQL.
DEX Screener — DEX Screener is a real-time blockchain analytics app used by 1.5M+ crypto traders every month.

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…

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech
Seed, Series C
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Mobees — Mobees is creating a disruptive and wide-scaling digital out-of-home advertising platform. With IoT embedded smart screens on top of ride-hailing cars, the startup allows advertisers to digitally push brands into the real world - at the same it provides extra money to drivers. Mobees goal is to be as valuable for brands as Facebook and Google areonline, but on the streets.
Driven Education — Driven Education is an education platform for digital professionals.

Entrepreneur and Tech addicted. Co-founder and COO at ApontaOfertas, Regrupe and Cuponomia.

Investment focus

Education, Information Technology
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Dinâmica Group — We are a school focused on complementary education that seeks to delivery what isn't learned in traditional institutions

Joaquim Palhares is the Founder at Stealth Startup. Joaquim is an entrepreneur and investor. He is also a Limited Partner at EquityRio, a venture capital seed fund based in Rio de Janeiro and backed by some of the best investors in Brazil. He is serial founder, active angel investor and advisor to startups. Joaquim graduated from the ESPM with abachelor's degree in Management and Marketing.

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Curseria — Curseria is an online learning platform that offers courses taught by experts in various fields. The company's education and inspiration platform aim to make distance learning more accessible to everyone. The company's platform works with celebrities and renowned professionals in each field as teachers, allowing students to learn in a funformat through their idols.
Central da Visão — Central da Visão is a social impact healthtech. We connect people without health insurance to partner clinics that provide more affordable eye surgery.

Armínio Fraga

Investment focus

Recruiting, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com
Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam

Lawyer by training. An entrepreneur by vocation. Passionate about the business world and used my technical knowledge and professional experience to found Jusfy.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.
Sinapse Finance — Sinapse is the first CFO as a Network, providing complete financial management solutions for SMBs through proprietary technology and outstanding services provided by our network marketplace.

Marcelo Abritta - Co-Founder & CEO @ Buser

Investment focus

Education, Information Technology
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arado — Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions.
Dinâmica Group — We are a school focused on complementary education that seeks to delivery what isn't learned in traditional institutions

Paul Bragiel is the Managing Partner of Bragiel Brothers. He previously worked at the United Republic of Tanzania as an Advisor. Paul Bragiel attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Coodesh — Hiring coders is a pain in the ass for traditional HR. Save time and money by tracking the best coders with a complete Tech Recruitment Platform that evaluates coders to connect with your company. We provide on the platform a set of tools for talent acquisition, interview priority algorithm, behavioral mapping, and different ways to techchallenges.
inSTREAMLY — inSTREAMLY is an automated streamer management platform which brings brands and streamers together. Using micro-sponsorships, streamers are able to monetise their content lowkey, while giving brands an opportunity to connect with Generation Z in an innovative way. It's SaaS branch: Streamcoi is aimed for esports organizations, MCN's,agencies and tournament organizers.
Condofy — Condofy is ready to serve you from essential and recurring services to other types of specific services, should the need arise. Being that all services are guaranteed by our team and always supported by our own platform and processes of excellence in service. Services included: Collection, Collection, Payments, Calculation and collection of taxes,Accounting, Payroll, Legal, Virtual Assembly and Face-to-face, among others.

Miguel-Burguer Calderon

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.
Anyone AI — We invest in talent from Latam.

CFO & VP of Strategy at iFood and Mentor at Endeavor & 500 Startups

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

Elie Horn

Investment focus

Children, Education, Publishing
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Estante Mágica — Estante Mágica is a children's book provider that aims to develop the full capacity of reading and writing among children and enable them to explore their talents. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Nova Friburgo, Brazil.

Rodrigo Cartacho is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sympla.

Investment focus

Education, Higher Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sirius Education — Sirius Education is an training institute that provide training on developing softs skills.

CEO & Founder at beepbeep mobilidade - Founder at LAIOB - Angel investor of startups in Brazil and Silicon Valley - Mentor startups such as Biomimetic Solutions and Brazillab. Finance extensive career in multinationals Graduated in Economics and Accounting

Investment focus

B2B, Internet, Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Wall Jobs — Wall Jobs is a social networking site for students that helps them search and share jobs opportunities such as apprenticeship positions. The companies that uses the site are Adobe, AREZZO, DANONE, GROUPON, kanui, Claro, and EASY TAXI. It creates innovative products in order to improve human development. The values of the company are transparency,winning attitude, persistence, and proactive. The company offers businesses with training contracts, jobs, internship programs and trainees, and attraction projects and employer branding.Wall Jobs is a Brazil-based company was founded in 2015.

Juliano Dutra is the Partner & Head of Technology at bake startup studio and Co-Founder & Board Member at Gringo.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Human Resources
Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Devpass — Transform your team's coding patterns into lifelike practical experiences and bridge the knowledge gap.
bud — The world is changing faster than ever, so is work and life. However, management, company practices, and workplaces are falling behind. We believe that people can design and build a better experience and organizations for themselves. They just need space, data, and the right tools. That's why we are putting all our experience and energy totransform the work experience, together.

Rodrigo Vieira is the partner at Caravela Capital. He attended Northeastern University

Investment focus

Pet, Retail, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
Amigo Edu — Amigo Edu offers digital fundraising and scholarships by facilitating digital examinations to eligible merits for higher education.

Victor rocha is the founder of BiUP Seja Mais.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

BiUP Seja Mais — BiUP Seja Mais is a education and training technology company for adults for development.

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile. Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hash — Hash allows B2B companies to provide financial, payments, and banking solutions to their merchant partners. With a fully customizable product, its platform enables clients to absorb financial transaction flows from all their buyers.The company was certified by the Great Place to Work and is on PEGN Magazine's "100 Startups toWatch" list. Earlier this year, it also made the “Top Fintech Companies in Brazil 2021” list, by the British magazine Daily Finance. Recently, Hash was selected by StartupCity magazine for the "Top Startups in Brazil 2021" list, and also made it to “The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Companies Of 2021”, by CB Insights.João Miranda founded the company in 2017.
JurisHand — Top 1 Legal Vade Mecum App in Brazil.
180° Insurance — Uma nova forma de distribuir e consumir seguros no Brasil.

Arram Sabeti is the founder of ZeroCater, a startup that makes it easy for companies to feed their employees. Arram became obsessed with tech startups when he was 20 years old and as an experiment, he decided to totally commit to the goal of building a successful technology company.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.
Atrium LTS — Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes within law firms, and help firms identify and attract new clients. Its technology provides a better experience for legal clients than they previously thought possible, increasing communication and speed of service.The company collaborates withforward-thinking lawyers to help determine the direction and decisions for these products.
Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

Mike Mahlkow

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.

Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Jonathan Martins - Full Stack Web Developer @ Getmo Brazil

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

André Street

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Recruiting
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

Marcelo Coelho Vasconcellos is a co-founder at Buser and he was an investment fund manager at Sonar Serviços de Investimento Ltda.

Investment focus

Education, Advertising, Information Technology
Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
Dinâmica Group — We are a school focused on complementary education that seeks to delivery what isn't learned in traditional institutions

Craig Earnshaw - Board of Directors @ Screenie

Investment focus

News, EdTech, Sports
Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nivati — Employee mental health programs for stress management. Increase morale, engagement, and wellbeing through on-demand therapy, massage, yoga, and more.
Torcedores.com — Torcedores.com is a EdTech platform focused on producing high-quality digital sports content to millions of fans. The site was founded in Brazil, early 2014 and today has over 21,000 contributor writers, a 30 person team in Sao Paulo and reaches an audience of more than 30 million people multiplatform each month.

Ben leads Kaggle's data science and development teams. Ben is the principal architect of many of Kaggle's most advanced machine learning projects including current work in Eagle Ford and GE's flight arrival prediction and optimization modeling.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.
Coiled — Coiled is a modern solution for seamlessly scaling data science, machine learning, and AI in Python.
Predibase — The fastest and easiest way to fine tune and serve any open-source large language model on state-of-the-art-infrastructure hosted within your private cloud.

Rafael Assuncao

Investment focus

Education, Higher Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sirius Education — Sirius Education is an training institute that provide training on developing softs skills.

João Selarim is CEO of TotalVoice, a Brazilian PaaS created in 2016 and today has more than 900 clients. He has been working with technology for 11 years, mostly in the commercial area with B2B sales.

Investment focus

Education, Higher Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sirius Education — Sirius Education is an training institute that provide training on developing softs skills.

Mathur Shashank

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.

Igor Mascarenhas

Investment focus

Education, InsurTech, E-Learning
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

André Boaventura

Investment focus

Training, Education, Customer Service
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

How Bootcamps — How Bootcamps provides training and coaching to build career and new skills through live , practical and short -term bootcamps.

Heliomar Quaresma

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

Ryan Hoover is the founder of As a writer, Hoover has contributed to Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by features for Hoover graduated from

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.

Camila Farani

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Education
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
Um Bom App — Um Bom App is a technology solution providing company that helps to reduce wastage of food.
Sirius Education — Sirius Education is an training institute that provide training on developing softs skills.

Eduardo Mufarej built his career in private equity and education as an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of Tarpon Investimentos, one of Brazil’s largest independent investment managers. He served on several boards and was Chairman of Somos Educação and Omega Energia Renovável. From 2014 until 2018 Eduardo led the largest k-12company in Latin America, Abril Educação, which he managed until the sale of the company to Kroton Educacional in October 2018. After the sale, Eduardo created Renova, a project focused on selecting and training a new generation of leaders in Brazilian politics. Since its creation, the program has supported and trained over 2000 individuals in Brazil, helping to elect 176 of its students. This effort awarded Eduardo the prize Brazilian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. In early 2020, Eduardo co-founded Galena, a company that supports and trains individuals for their first jobs. Eduardo is a member of the advisory board of the Wilson Institute, in Washington, DC, of the Yale University SOM Council of Global Advisors and a fellow at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author of the book Jornada Improvável (Unlikely Journey, 2021).

Investment focus

EdTech, Genetics, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Alicerce — Alicerce is a social impact platform designed to support middle-class education. It offers an educational solution, focused on what is most important and promotes the social ascension of Brazilian families.The company is driven by a mission to provide a successful opportunity for all young Brazilians through quality education.Alicerce wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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