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Top 50 EdTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in November 2024

Investor	EdTech Brazil investments
Bossanova Investimentos	10
Canary	8
DOMO.VC	6
Igah Ventures	6
TM3 Capital	4
Invest Tech	4
Valor Capital Group	4
Crescera Investimentos (f/k/a Bozano Investimentos)	3
Owl Ventures	3
West Quad Ventures	3
Astella	3
Positive Ventures	3
Global Founders Capital	3
MAYA Capital	3
Niu Ventures	3
Supera Capital	2
Bolt Ventures	2
Barrah Investimentos	2
Fuse Capital	2
Exor Ventures	2
Gvangels	2
DGF Investimentos	2
Cedro Capital	2
Anjos do Brasil	2
APEX Partners	2
Vox Capital	2
FundersClub	2
Criatec 2	2
Redpoint eventures	2
Scale-Up Ventures	2
Iporanga Ventures	2
VERVE CAPITAL	2
Par Equity	2
NB Capital Partners	2
Norte Ventures	1
BTG Pactual	1
NXTP Ventures	1
CapTable	1
Altitude Ventures	1
FEA Angels	1
Barn Investments	1
FJ Labs	1
Roble Ventures	1
QMS Capital Management	1
X8 Investimentos	1
Triaxis Capital	1
Inter American Development Bank	1
Patria Investimentos	1
BRQ	1
Baraúna Venture Capital	1

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Somos Bossa Invest

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

SenseUp — SenseUp provides IoT, big data, machine learning, and computer vision for the real-time needs of the financial market. It improves the way organizations interact with data by using microintegrations to orchestrate different data sources, consumers, and data flows in support of processes and decision-making.
Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.
Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.

Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.

DOMO.VC is a Brazilian Venture Capital Firm that invests in technology startups across LatAm, particularly focusing on disruptive and innovative founders. We

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Basemaker — Hey, what's up? We are Basemaker, the world's first 1st-party data creator marketplace. Creatively designed by creators, strategically targeted for advertisers.Our platform allows advertisers to accurately achieve their marketing objectives through data provided by the creators. With this, audience hypersegmentation in digital adcampaigns will make your company send the message to the right person much faster and more efficiently!Influencer marketing raised to the square: create campaigns with influencers and boost them using the creator's engaged audience: more reach, more significant results, and highly qualified audiences.We exist to create new paths in the digital universe and invest in digital tools to transmit and share what we believe with more people, creating microcosms of hyper-connected communities.Welcome to the new world of first-party data in advertising!Create your next campaign with us and explore the power of the Creators community worldwide.contato@basemaker.co#creatoreconomy #creators #ads #firstpartydataTranslated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Turbi — Turbi is a digital shared mobility company that makes car rental experience practical, cheaper and unique

Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm that was born from the union of forces of two successful investment platforms (e.bricks ventures and Joa Investimentos). We have a unique and complementary team of partners and an extremely qualified and experienced team.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CRMBonus — CRM & BÔNUS is a CRM consultancy and Giftback platforms.
Liqi Digital Assets — Liqi Digital Assets is an investment model, which transforms assets so that anyone can become an investor.

TM3 Capital is an asset management company that specializes in technology companies. The company specializes in technology investments, and it looks to fund businesses with strong growth prospects and/or scalable hardware and/or software solutions. Its investment vehicles benefit from the synergies and experience that TM3 Capital, a teamwith a long history in the technology industry, brings to the table.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Speedio — Speed IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.
Spotlar — Proptrech; Real Estate
Conducco — With several systems in place for subscription management, B2B companies demand an iPaaS solution that supports an automated and intelligent way to manage the opportunity-to-cash process, and we are laying the infrastructure to make it happen in Latin America

Invest Tech is an independent investment firm focused on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The firm’s team has over 20 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions and fund raising transactions and in investing and managing IT and Telecommunication companies. As of September, 2020, the company managed more than R$ 466 million, raised frominstitutional investors from Brazil, Latin America, United States and Europe.The Company was founded in 2004, with a focus on M&A, strategic investment and capitalization transactions for Brazilian IT companies. Its main goal is to create unique solutions that generate value for all stakeholders of the advised companies. Since then, we have concluded more than 30 successful transactions involving major local and international institutions.In 2008, Invest Tech raised its initial investment fund, with a focus to invest in innovative B2B companies in the knowledge based industries. With top-notch local and international investors, CT I invested in 6 companies, having completed 6 exits.In 2014, Invest Tech raised its second investment fund with aggregate commitments of R$209 million (US$110 million at the time). This vehicle invested in 8 high profile companies that operate in unique industries. As of Sept, 2020, it had also sold 2 of those companies. The Manager’s portfolio as of June, 2021 has 13 companies, with an aggregate gross IRR of 23.4% per year since 2008.In 2016, its capital structure was strengthened through a strategic transaction with Tesalia do Brasil, an investment vehicle held by Santiago Valbuena, prior CEO of Telefonica Latam for 3 years and Global CFO of the Telefonica Group for 9 years, and Gilmar Camurra, CFO of Telefonica Vivo for 14 years. Through its partnership, Invest Tech has expanded its approach to international players in the Latin America and European regions.Invest Tech’s work is based on the deep understanding of the companies we invest in and the support for the development of the portfolios, active participation in the creation of the growth strategy, evaluation of opportunities and support to financial planning, combining such actions with fundraising or merger and acquisition transactions. We proud ourselves of the close work and relationship with our invested companies and long term approach to our investment process.Our key strengths are:• Strong local presence • Uniquely qualified and complementary team • Focus and experience in the portfolio sectors’ • Entrepreneurial experience • Financial and M&A capabilities • Strong and active investor base

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Cloud Computing
Private Equity, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Uello — Uello uses technology to solve a very difficult problem that is still old fashioned approached - The Urban Logistics market. We provide guidance and smart logistics decisions to a huge workforce of independent resources.Different from peer-to-peer on demand solutions, we provide drivers with optimized routes and a more attractive compensation,making the last mile cheaper for customers and operationally sustainable.We focus on small & medium size companies whose access to great carriers are limited or non-existent. We want to improve the logistics experience and to empower small companies with a first class logistics service at an affordable price.
Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.
Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
XP Health — XP Health is a health tech startup introducing a new kind of vision benefit for employees leveraging machine learning.Founded in 2019 by Antonio Moraes and James Wong, XP Health is an AI-powered vision benefits platform for employees and their families to get frames from the world’s leading designers like Tom Ford, Ray-Ban, Armani, Gucci, Coach.Its proprietary deep learning model uses facial recognition technology that recommends the best frames based on facial dimensions with 98% accuracy. The company is working with companies like Chegg, Zenefits, and Sequoia Consulting Group.
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Crescera Investimentos is an alternative asset management firm created by the merger of the Bozano Group with three leading and complementary investment firms, BR Investimentos, Mercatto Gestão de Recursos and Trapezus Asset Management, resulting in a unique platform for investors, clients and partners. Structured as a partnership, CresceraInvestimentos is able to attract, retain and develop the best talents in each specialty.Our investment philosophy builds on trust and knowledge. We offer to our clients, investors and investees companies consistent and distinguished returns through diversified financial products and strategies. Founded with approximately R$ 4 billion in AUM, Bozano Investimentos aims to become the most successful alternative investment management firm in Latin America.BR Investimentos` private equity business combines industry knowledge and specialized teams in well-defined circles of competence to successfully invest in privately held Brazilian growth companies. Mercatto Gestão de Recursos has been delivering solid returns through its managed public equities and fixed income portfolios based on strictly fundamental analysis. Lastly, Trapezus Asset Management offers innovative and high alpha quantitative strategies, based on academic research and development.Crescera Investimentos also benefits from the vision of Mr. Julio Bozano - founder of the Bozano Group. Through Banco Bozano, Simonsen, the Bozano Group was recognized as one of the most important investment banking organizations in Brazil for more than 40 years with a very successful track record in long-term proprietary investments. The Group`s expertise in aligning clients` interests with outstanding performance drives the basis of Bozano Investimentos` activities.Our goal is to offer solutions that create long-standing value for our investors, the society at large and the companies we invest in and to perpetuate Bozano Group`s legacy. Crescera Investimentos has a team of over 70 executives, employees, consultants, and senior advisors, including more than 40 partners in offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Private Equity, Funding Round
Brazil, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Vitru — Vitru offers distance learning education group in the postsecondary digital education market in Brazil based on the number of enrolled undergraduate students.
Letrus — Letrus connects linguistic, pedagogical, and digital intelligence, proposing a more effective way of learning and teaching how to write.
Semantix — Semantix is a software platform company that specializes in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. We deliver a one-stop-shop platform to helps customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering provides a Truly unified Data Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering andlines of business to build data products without friction and simply.

Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Authentica Solutions — Authentica Solutions provides innovative solutions and products for education that empower learners, educators, and administrators.

West Quad Ventures invest in startups that aspire to be leaders in their respective category, teams we believe in with an emphasis on what’s good for the world!

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

katch — AI call assistant designed to make your calls purposeful and efficient.
Ding Dong — Ding Dong is an online supermarket. They offer products ranging from fresh fruits and veggies to drinks, and all come in only 10 minutes to your door.
StayTuned — At Staytuned, we specialize in Shopify apps that drive sales and growth for top brands.

Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
Purple Metrics — Purple Metrics é o software de mensuração recorrente de branding para times de marketing visualizarem os resultados da sua marca.
Movens — Movens is a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce brands. We deeply understand the business to support entrepreneurs in their growth journey, solving working capital issues and cash flow fluctuations with affordable, flexible funding and insights with data intelligence.

investimos nas tecnologias do futuro para resolver os maiores desafios da sociedade e planeta no presente.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
Yuna — Yuna develops an AI-driven platform that provides personalized, interactive, and free children's stories.
Pathways Technologies, Inc. — Pathways is a full stack sustainability platform for the construction industry.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
Avra — AI for Credit Intelligence and Risk
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

Niu Ventures is a pre-seed VC that connects early-stage Brazilian startups with the Silicon Valley growth mindset.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Vidia — Vidia is a digital marketplace that allows the purchase of surgeries by individuals without access to health plans.
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.
LogShare — LogShare develops and provides collaboration solutions between shipper and carrier companies. It manages an online platform that tracks asset sharing of companies for a sustainable process. LogShare is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Supera Capital is a Brazilian venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed and seed rounds of tech companies in Latin America.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bolt Ventures is a team of entrepreneurs and investment specialists that offers seed and early stage financing solutions to companies focused on e-commerce, mobile, and subscription-based business models. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gametime — Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada.
Just Women's Sports — Just Women’s Sports Inc. is a digital-first consumer media brand 100% dedicated to covering women’s sports. Through daily content including podcasts, newsletters, online content and social media, Just Women’s Sports brings you everything you need to see and know in the world of women’s sports.
Sportlight Technology — Sportlight Technologies offers hyper-accurate LiDAR and AI technologies deliver unrivalled insights in the areas of load management, performance monitoring, talent development, technical and tactical analysis for teams.

O Barrah nasceu em um family office com forte DNA empreendedor. Somos um fundo de venture capital, somos investidores – empreendedores.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vivadí — Vivadí is an innovative educational organization that aims to deliver a set of experiences to develop student's soft (future) skills. Vivadí is a platform for young people and children to improve their habilities through an disruptive methodology.

Fuse Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage tech opportunities.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

VAAS — VAAS is an AML and Compliance platform that offers on-chain and off-chain data integration for crime and suspicious activity prevention.
Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.

GVAngels is a network of angel investors founded by former students of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Brasil in 2017. The GVAngels network invests in technology startups that aim to solve inefficiencies in large markets.In these 4 years of operation, investments have already been made in 40 startups and checks have averaged from R$800,000 to R$2million. We currently have more than 300 associates with a personal interest in investing in startups and adding knowledge with their expertise and experience through smart money to our investees.GVAngels has its roots in the School of Business Administration at FGV, where most of the associated angel investors graduated. For 11 consecutive years, the university has been considered the best think tank in Latin America and has been ranked among the best institutions in the world since 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Movêu — Movêu is an online custom furniture brand that enables customers to design the furniture of their choice. It utilizes an intuitive 3D customization platform to customize the furniture.
HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.

DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Cedro Capital is an independent asset management firm located in Brasília-DF with a geographical focus in the Central region of Brazil. Cedro Capital is the leading asset manager firm in the Center-West, connecting companies and projects in the region with qualified institutional investors through alternative investment funds. Cedro Capital isformed by professionals with strong track record and proven experience within the Brazilian capital market.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Prosas — Prosas is a digital platform that facilitates the access of entrepreneurs to diverse opportunities of fundraising and projects feasibility. It aims to bring efficiency and transparency in the process and execution of social investment.
trampay — Trampay provides financial services. They deliver products and services that serve both providers and companies. They offer services for doctor's offices, laboratories, restaurants, entertainment, and education.
SolarView — SolarView engages in monitoring services for the production and consumption of electrical energy from photovoltaic systems.

Anjos do Brasil is a angel investor network dedicated to foster angel investment for supporting inovative entrepreneurs in Brazil. It was founded by Cassio Spina, a entrepreneur and a angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry (see more at http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cassio-spina-3) .Receivingsupport of major brazilian institutions related to entrepreneurship and investments, such as Endeavor Brasil, ABVCAP, BM&F BOVESPA, FIESP/CJE, Brazil Innovators, etc., Anjos do Brasil is commited to connect investors with entrepreneurs in order to help growing new business in Brazil.We do also keep relationship with major VC investment funds, in order to exchange investment opportunities between our members and them. Anjos do Brasil is advised by a seasoned board of advisors, that support our strategic actions for promoting our vision.We promote events between our members and some also for entrepreneurs, for both educating the community and connecting people, to empower their relationsIf you wish to contact us, please, visit our site at www.anjosdobrasil.net and leave a message.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Basemaker — Hey, what's up? We are Basemaker, the world's first 1st-party data creator marketplace. Creatively designed by creators, strategically targeted for advertisers.Our platform allows advertisers to accurately achieve their marketing objectives through data provided by the creators. With this, audience hypersegmentation in digital adcampaigns will make your company send the message to the right person much faster and more efficiently!Influencer marketing raised to the square: create campaigns with influencers and boost them using the creator's engaged audience: more reach, more significant results, and highly qualified audiences.We exist to create new paths in the digital universe and invest in digital tools to transmit and share what we believe with more people, creating microcosms of hyper-connected communities.Welcome to the new world of first-party data in advertising!Create your next campaign with us and explore the power of the Creators community worldwide.contato@basemaker.co#creatoreconomy #creators #ads #firstpartydataTranslated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
Juros Baixos — We are a counselor of credit and financing, and we have the mission to make life easier for those who want a loan. On our page the ordinary citizen can simulate loans at various banks, financials and online credit fintechs, even getting loans from partners from our page. We aim to innovate in the financial market by promoting transparency andcompetition in the credit market, as well as showing rich, relevant and free content on credit and finances for our users. We want to uncomplicate the banks. In addition to serving as a tool for comparison and transparency in personal loans, we support financial education initiatives, bringing together good people who want to impact the financial awareness of Brazilians.

APEX Partners is a platform for alternative investments and financial services, specialized in resource management and corporate finance, based on strong values and guided by the objective of developing the financial market in the state of Espírito Santo.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MyDoor — MyDoor is a proptech startup building the practice of co-owning a Vacation Home with full hospitality services.
Bankme — Bankme is a fintech that creates and operates mini banks for companies.
ATW Delivery Brands — A pioneering group, specialized in developing restaurants to work only in our dark kitchens. Over 850 digital restaurants in 160 cities.

Vox Capital is a venture capital company investing on innovative businesses delivering positive social impact to the Brazilian low-income population through solutions that help to improve their lives. Vox Capital offers financial and managerial support to startup companies with high potential to scale up and seeking to deliver value for societythrough both attractive financial return and positive social impact.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, France, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Fiibo — Fiibo is the first health and wellness multplatform in Brazil, offering an innovative technological solution that connects all healthcare stakeholders in one place. The platform includes an app that allows employees to choose from a variety of available products and services, as well as a data management and contracting platform for companies andbrokers. This provides greater freedom and flexibility in selecting how to care for one's health.
Lagoped — Lagoped operates as a sustainable outdoor clothing brand.
Nextron Energia — Nextron was born to democratize access to renewable energy and encourage investments in distributed renewable energy assets. We're an “energy-as-a-service” clean-tech platform that simplifies access to renewable energy through a seamless digital experience that unlocks value throughout the entire renewable energy supply chain in Brazil.

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Malibou — Malibou is developing the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for all French startups and SMBs. Malibou is committed to simplifying complex processes so that you can focus on your business.
Talus Bio — Talus Bioscience combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to target hard-to-treat transcription factors driving cancer & beyond.
Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.

The Criatec 2 fund is the second fund from a series of funds sponsored by BNDES, which started in 2006 with the Criatec 1 fund. The Criatec 2 has Bozano Investments as the Nationa Manager and Triaxis Capital as Operational Advisor. The fund management structure also includes six regional managers.Criatec 2 is the largest venture capital fundcurrently in operation in Brazil, in both size and national coverage.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A
Brazil

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Vindi — Vindi (PCI Compliance certification) provides subscription and recurring billing, payment solutions to Saas companies, subscriptions e-commerce, financial services, marketing, gym clubs, education, and all subscription-based companies. Its features (Recurring Billing with plus Financial Services (invoice bills, NFe, reconcile cards), PaymentGateway (with acquirers and sub-acquirers) and Dashboards KPI`s help thousands of different businesses.
Convenia — Convenia is a cloud-based platform offering practical and efficient web-based tools for corporate engagement. It also provides a club of corporate advantages with over 5,500 establishments ready to use for all levels. Convenia is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Confiance Medical S/A — Confiance Medical S/A is a medical device company that manufactures video surgery equipment being sold throughout the country. Recently, Confiance Medical became Brazilian’s largest producer of such type of equipment. With focus on quality and customer services, Confiance Medical is a reference on video-surgery devices in Brazil.

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States, Belgium

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Housi — Housi is an online living-as-a-service on-demand housing platform.
StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.

Scale-Up Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in companies selected by Endeavor Brazil's hyper-growth acceleration programs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Canada

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GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.

Iporanga Ventures is venture capital funds management company, focused on Pre-Seed/Seed stage Brazilian startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Klavi — Klavi specializes in data analytics and open data connectivity that receives data securely, quickly, and scalable through a single API.
Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
Appito — The next generation of amateur sports arenas

Verve Capital is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with founders to fund ideas and accelerate growth. We believe in people with big dreams and the grit to bring them to life. We invest in ideas that challenge the status quo and build a better world through innovation. We partner with companies providing early stage investment,support and advice that help founders reach their vision.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Beekeeper — Frontline business leaders use Beekeeper to connect and engage their whole workforce with our productivity app that teams love to use.
Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

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Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.

NB Capital Partners is a merchant bank affiliated with National Bank of Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, B2B
Series C, Series B, Series A
Canada, United States, Brazil

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Play2sell — How about increasing your sales and preparing your team to better serve the customer? Sales people have no incentive to attend boring and inefficient traditional training. In the real estate market, just like in any other segment, the client has already researched a lot before talking to the realtor. He knows maybe even more than the broker.Play2sell was created in San Francisco – California – in 2017. After co-founding and selling two software companies for the real estate market, economist and serial entrepreneur Felipe dos Santos, went to live in Silicon Valley, looking for inspiration for next businesses. There isn´t a better place to innovate, is it?After graduating from the Founder Institute acceleration program, Play2sell debuted as the fastest funded startup in the program. In addition to Jupter, NB Capital and LAAS, the angels of Resh, a group from ABMI – also participated in this round, whose objective was to validate the product and the market, in addition to reaching the break even point. See the StartSe article.After reaching the objectives set for the first year, the company closed the second round of investments, with the participation of NB Capital and LAAS (follow on), Bossa Nova Investimentos, and a group of angel investors. The goal was to strengthen operations in the real estate market and validate new verticals. See the article from Startupi.Recently, with the Coronavirus crisis, Play2sell created a free game to support the population in preventing the virus, as well as in identifying fake news. See here one of the articles about it, published by Forbes.
Maximum Throughput — Maximum Throughput Inc. is a networked storage developer whose products deliver SAN performance over TCP/IP. The Company's unique solutions provide many times the storage bandwidth of other NAS and SAN products, using software that runs on commodity hardware. Maximum Throughput's products offer unparalleled performance capacitymanagement, and capacity availability, and have the lowest total cost-of-ownership in their class.
Kyberpass Corporation — Kyberpass Corporation provides security software for high-trust applications. It offers TrustPlatform, a business integration solution for businesses of various sizes to connect and perform electronic business with customers and business partners; and Digital Signature Services, a solution to build security infrastructure in the form of a managedservice. The company serves clients in various areas, including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, government, and defense. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Norte is a founder's fund created and invested by entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.

BTG Pactual is a global financial company that operates in the markets of Investment Banking, Corporate Lending, Sales & Trading, Wealth Management, and Asset Management. It offers advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, wealth planning, loans, and financings, as well as investment solutions and market analyses.The company’s globalpresence, based on a dominant fully-fledged Latin America Investment Bank, Global Asset and Wealth Management platform, enables it to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to a global client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments and high net worth individuals. It's the biggest investment bank in Latin America and the Caribbean. Also the 5th biggest bank in Brazil.In 2019, BTG Pactual has already been recognized with more than 10 awards, including "Best Private Bank in Brazil" by the magazine World Finance, "Best Private Bank in Latin America" by Global Finance, and "Best Private Banking Services Overall" by the Euromoney.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Retail
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Loft — Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Systemica — Systemica is a business that designs, creates, and puts into action programmes to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as trade the resulting environmental assets.
Enviva — Enviva Partners is a publicly traded master limited partnership that aggregates a natural resource, wood fiber, and processes.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

Captable is a startup investment platform that operates transactions through crowdfunding. They exist to simplify and make startup investments viable, as well as to connect the entire ecosystem, by leveraging business growth with high return potential for investors who want to contribute to the growth of startups. It makes connections at variouslevels for various agents in the innovation market with the goal of encouraging entrepreneurship through investment in startups. CapTable was founded in 2018 by Guilherme Enck and Paulo Deitos Filho.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Veggi — Veggi is the first vegan delivery platform in Brazil.
CowMed — CowMed is an agricultural service company of technological solutions for health, nutrition, and reproduction for milk cattle. It also develops animal monitoring products for precision livestock, generating value, and ensuring the sustainability of the business.The company was named 2018 - NEOVIA's Future Farm, 2017 - Ideas for Milk andAcceleration Criatec 3, and 2017 & 2016 Tecnova Notice SEBRAE.CowMed was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
E-Comprei — E-Comprei is a company that buys and sells beauty and hygiene products for small shop keeper.

Altitude Ventures aims to maximize value creation through value-added partnerships. AV provides early-stage venture capital financing to healthcare services and technology startups that improve healthcare. Their firm leverages its combined industry expertise, relationships, investment experience, and infrastructure to benefit entrepreneurs,investors, and the healthcare system.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Letrus — Letrus connects linguistic, pedagogical, and digital intelligence, proposing a more effective way of learning and teaching how to write.
Doctivity Health — Doctivity Health is a technology healthcare company that helps company's create new revenue.
Nest Collaborative — Nest Collaborative offers online lactation consults. Virtual appointments are available same-day & are covered in full by most insurance plans.

FEA Angels is a venture capital and private equity firm and its acts as a bridge between investors and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

bnyou — bnyou offers beauty services like home care. They serve massage, hair, beard, manicure, makeup, waxing, skin cleaning, and others. They provide beauty delivery services via the app. Scheduling is done through their app in a few clicks. Their purpose is to provide autonomy, freedom, and acknowledgment to beauty professionals while providing comfort,convenience, and quality services to clients.
Kultua — Somos a Kultua, uma startup B2B focada em Gestão de Pessoas, Cultura & People Analytics.Nossa missão é transformar as relações e experiências de trabalho, potencializando culturas que aproximem colaboradores e empresas, promovendo um ambiente corporativo integrado, colaborativo e focado em resultados.Desde então, temos modelado, testado,validado e aprimorado nossa solução, uma plataforma de engajamento de colaboradores e reforço à cultura meta da empresa. Estamos nos sendo lançados pelo Founder Institute, em nov/20.
Tindin Educação Financeira — The Tindin platform is a digital educational electronic allowance portfolio that enables parents and caregivers to set up assignments and assignments to reward children in a child-friendly environment. Within the platform the child is presented on a continuous basis to the good practices of personal and family financial management, developing theirfinancial proficiency.

Barn Investments is a Venture Capital firm dedicated to early stage, seed and Series A investments in the Brazilian and Latin American Market.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, Israel, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Rúmina — Rúmina engages in providing digital solutions for dairy and beef farmers. Its multi-product platform is designed to promote efficiency gains across the production process. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
Nextron Energia — Nextron was born to democratize access to renewable energy and encourage investments in distributed renewable energy assets. We're an “energy-as-a-service” clean-tech platform that simplifies access to renewable energy through a seamless digital experience that unlocks value throughout the entire renewable energy supply chain in Brazil.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Incognia — Prevent account takeover and protect against mobile fraud with Incognia's frictionless mobile identity authentication and multi-factor authentication.
Birdwatch — Birdwatch helps busy homeowners save time, money and energy by taking care of the issues that arise in and around your home. From repairs and installations, to preventative maintenance and renovation advising, we bring the convenience of renting to owning. Our team of mission-driven entrepreneurs are passionate about helping you feel safe, cozyand cared for. Birdwatch is a public benefit corporation that promotes equal access to safe, dignified homeownership and the benefits of building intergenerational wealth.
Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.

Thematic early-stage venture capital & seed fund investing in human enablement technologies including remote work cloud SAAS, edtech and jobtech.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Peru, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Kinjo — Kinjo changes the way we approach education and screen time, harnessing the power of kid-favorite platforms (like Roblox!) to help them learn and grow.
UBITS — UBITS is an online learning platform for skilling employees in Latin America. Through education we empower every person and every organization in Latin America
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

QMS Capital Management LP is an alternative investment management firm applying sophisticated quantitative methods to investing in global financial markets. The firm blends comprehensive academic research, extensive asset management experience, and state of the art technology to best meet the needs of its clients. QMS Capital is a CFTC-registeredCommodity Trading Advisor and Commodity Pool Operator.

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Corporate Training
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ada — Ada is a tech-enabled education company in Brazil. The platform is addressing the skills shortage in technology by offering talent sourcing, people development, and skill mapping for businesses. It is cost-free for students and effective for companies, with a 96% completion rate.

Pioneer in middle market growth capital in Brazil, with a focus on Social and Environmental Impact.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Manufacturing
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vida Veg — Vida Veg is a plant-based food tech company that believes in food as a way to care for one's health and contribute to a better world. It aims to make the world a better place by making delicious and healthy plant-based foods more accessible. It offers plant-based foods, allowing for healthier food for people and more sustainable food for theplanet.
Tera — Tera is a digital platform used for studying. They allow users to practise with real digital products, balancing theory and practise. They provide courses such as digital product leadership, discovery, product design, data science and machine learning, full stack development, and data analytics.

Triaxis Capital is a brazilian independent venture capital firm focused in technology-based companies with high growth potential.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cliever — Cliever is a 3D printer manufacturer with accessories and software's available for purchase. The company believes that 3D printing will transform all industries and the production processes, generating time, saving costs, and optimizing the innovative process. The company is passionate about 3D printing and so it is dedicated in offering thequality products to companies.Cliever is based in Minas Gerais, Brazil and was founded on 2012.
Pinmypet — Pinmypet allows users to monitor the daily behaviors of their pet, like location and physical activity, bringing them a feeling of safety and the comfort of a healthy pet.Pinmypet Care is a compact hardware device that works with software analytics to track pet activity and location data in real time, anytime, anywhere, allowing the visualizationof data through web and mobile devices.
Dot Legend — Dot Legend is a mobile application development company for mobile shopping segment with a focus on market networks solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Established in 1959, Inter-American Development Bank is the source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, with a strong commitment to achieving measurable results, increased integrity, transparency, and accountability. Inter-American Development Bank has an evolving reform agenda that seeks to increase its development impactin the region. While Inter-American Development Bank is a regular bank in many ways, they are also unique in some key respects. Besides loans, they also provide grants, technical assistance and do research. Their shareholders are 48 member countries, including 26 Latin American and Caribbean borrowing members, who have majority ownership of the IDB. Their Fund for Special Operations (FSO) provides concessional financing to their most vulnerable member countries.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Marketplace, Transportation
Debt Financing, Seed, Series C
Brazil, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

The Brazilian Development Bank(BNDES) — BNDES is the main financing agent for development in Brazil
Pesquera Exalmar — Pesquera Exalmar is a business that sells and exports hydro-biological goods for consumption, including fishmeal and fish oil. Additionally, it imports supplies for its operations and the retail and wholesale sale of these goods.
Demerara Distillers — Demerara Distillers is a distillery and winery company.

Pátria is one of Brazil’s leading investment management and corporate advisory firms, with a more than 20 years successful presence in the Brazilian financial market. They have one of the most diversified alternative investment portfolios in the country, with over US$ 6 billion in assets under management. Their partners pioneered the private equityindustry in Brazil in the early 1990s. Over time, Pátria has expanded to include a broad spectrum of businesses such as corporate advisory, capital management, infrastructure, and real estate. In 2010 we entered into a formal partnership with Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment and advisory firms, which purchased a 40% interest in Pátria.

Investment focus

Farming, Finance, Fitness
Private Equity, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

StartSe — StartSe connects a growing community of 120k entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, established corporations, and other key players to do business together, help each other, network, collaborate, and build the Brazil of tomorrow.
Bio Ritmo — Bio Ritmo operates in the fitness market ensuring quality service and high-value to its customers. It provides complete grid classes, specialized monitoring, and modern equipment. Bio Ritmo is based in São Paulo.
DanicaZipco Sistemas Construtivos — DanicaZipco Sistemas Construtivos specialises in the production and assembly of steel frames for the Brazilian civil construction industry.

BRQ is an IT services company that focus on transforming businesses with technology. BRQ develops applications as well as digital products and channels. It also executes a complete range of technology solutions and manages applications, infrastructure, and processes for its customers. It has 3,500 professionals distributed in the branches of SãoPaulo, Alphaville, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador, Brasilia, Christmas, and New York.With agility and flexibility, BRQ seeks to exceed the expectations of its customers. It was awarded by IAOP - World Association of Outsourcing Professionals. BRQ was founded on 1993 and is headquartered in

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Certdox — Certdox is a developer and provider of document management software designed for handling information, documents electronically.
InvestPlay — Investplay is a financial education game that delivers gamified learning experiences for financial institutions and helps them better understand their customers' habits, behaviors, and financial needs in order to better satisfy those customers. They provide financial institutions with the ideal corporate solution. They are The main objectiveis to help participants change their financial habits so they can live a healthier financial life. Moreover, they also generate metrics for the company.
Easy Carros — Easy Carros offers services such as washing, waxing, and internal hygiene for cars without the owners leaving home or work.Easy Carros is a technology provider and car service marketplace, connecting companies to automotive service providers. The services offered by the company are external and internal dry cleaning, waxing, polishing, leathermoisturizing, air conditioning cleaning, engine technical cleaning, lubricating oil exchange, and glass crystallization.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Baraúna VC is a venture capital firm based in Brazil that specializes in investing in startups that are transforming the agricultural (agtech), food (foodtech), and green (greentech) industries. We do that by helping founders and entrepeneurs to develop amazing businesses.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

AgroAdvance — AgroAdvance offers solutions in education and experimentation for the agriculture business. They provide services ranging from onboarding training for entry-level employees to management training through hands-on training. They collect data and analyze the metrics for faithful monitoring of the project.

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