Top 50 Education Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Education Angel Investors in LATAM in December 2024
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.
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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 — Harness the power of a low-code cloud platform to rapidly launch apps and seamlessly scale to millions of users. Unlock AI-powered tools and out-of-the-box components for blazing-fast development.
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.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, SaaS, Software
- 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).
Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.
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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.
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.
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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
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
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.
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Investment focus
- Education, Web Design, Web Development
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- FPass — Solução de plataforma de educação no modelo white label para educação corporativa.
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.
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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.
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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.
Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.
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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.
Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- RxDiet — We engage the most vulnerable patients with medically tailored, fresh ingredient delivery and behavioral & dietary guidance. Cost-Controlled. Distributed Anywhere.
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- Splash — Splash is doing this again in the pool care market, and I understand what it takes to establish a successful, category-defining business in this space. We'd love to join you on this trip.
Patricio Jutard is a Co-founder of MURAL, based in Buenos Aires. He is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with deep experience in software design, architecture, and development as well as team leadership and project management. Previously, he co-founded the video game studio Three Melons with Mariano Suarez-Battan and served as its CTO before it wasacquired in 2010 by Playdom/Disney. Patricio also runs the angel fund Inspirit Angels, which has invested in over 20 startups based primarily in Latin America but targeting global markets. In 2015, he was honored with the Innovators under 35 Award by MIT Technology Review.
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Investment focus
- Retail Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Argentina, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Wimet — Wimet is the platform that helps companies manage workspaces in a flexible way, allowing people to work from anywhere. - Booking desks and rooms in the office. - Access to workspaces on-demand - Data insights and reports. Easy. Simple. Flexible!
- HENRY — Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.
- Intuitivo — Infrastructure for the future of Retail
Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, EdTech, Software
- 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.
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
- Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
- Num Finance — Mint fully backed tokenized Real World Assets on-chain. Explore Stocks, Commodities and Fixed Income, with the highest security and compliance standards.
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).
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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.
Pablo is a serial entrepreneur and an active entrepreneurial investor who has been involved in VC since 1994 as a GP. Based in Uruguay, he invests mainly throughout Latam. He has been an active participant in Aconcagua Ventures since 2007, Tokai Ventures since 2009, NXTPLabs since 2012, Harvard Angels Alumni of Brazil since 2014, Alianza delPacífico since 2015 and other local AI Clubs. He has ample experience working in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, among other markets, where he also has investments in the Entertainment Industry. Pablo used to work in Import-Export trading with Far and Near East. He has been a judge at Harvard B School and Google Cloud Challenge Competitions as well as a speaker at various events such as ACA Summit in DC, BS at Technion, Israel; Harvard Business School Alumni, Pablo is also a Board Member at Endeavor, the Amcham, and Founder of Fundación Dar a Luz.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, B2B
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Argentina, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
- Wisboo — Our mission is to become the platform of choice for Content Creators & Education SMBs that want to grow, empowering them to teach millions at scale while monetizing their knowledge.We provide an out-of-the-box software stack for easily creating digital courses and start selling them on their own websites, while handling payments &back-office operations: i. Professionally designed templates, ready to go. White-labeled & 100% customizable ii. Content digitization & course creation made simple, using DIY Tools iii. Multi-Device Course Delivery, with the modern experience users expect. iv. Payment processing, Reporting & fully-hosted Back-office.We enable Content Creators & Education SMBs reuse their existing contents and add a digital distribution channel for their business, therefore allowing them to reach more customers and generate new revenue streams, which results in maximized business margins thanks to the minimum investment required.
- Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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.
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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.
Brazilian business developer professional with strong track record of managing e-commerce projects, leading teams, and developing long-term relationships in different countries. Solid experience in e-commerce market. Deep knowledge of organizational and human behavior complementing a technical background in Marketing and Sales.As a CountryManager, is responsible for MercadoLivre.com, the brazilian operation of MercadoLibre Inc (Nasdaq: MeLi).
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Wealth Management
- Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Poupa Certo — Poupa Certo is a mobile application that provides solutions for more savings of their pocket for financial health. It also facilitates and manages low-income users to improve their life through smart technologies, financial education, and behavioral theory.The application specializing in payments, virtual mobile wallet, credit risk assessment,savings, machine learning, financial literacy, and wealth management.Poupa Certo was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
- GoPublic — GoPublic is an ecosystem of B2B financial solutions such as credit as service and debt as service.
Miguel-Burguer Calderon
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Elie Horn
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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.
Diego Stevens
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, B2C
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- LarnU — LarnU is a mobile app that makes coding learning easy, fun, and accessible to all by enabling a gamified and bite-sized learning experience of 5-minutes a day. Within days, you'll be able to see improvements in your coding skills.
- Wallstate — WallState is a diverse portfolio of tokenized properties investing platform that allows users to withdraw anytime they want with no minimums or fine print. Their goal is to make the real estate market more accessible to newcomers. They allow their users to invest in properties from all around the world using tokenized properties as a foundation.
- Watermelon — Highlight a piece of code to see its historical context. Go beyond Git blame to understand your code better. Watermelon makes the experience of developing software as a team easier.
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.
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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.
Santiago Schettini - Co-Founder @ Future Leaders World
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- EdTech, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round
- Argentina, Chile
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- Workana — Workana is a digital space to connect professionals with small businesses to enterprises, and organizations. They believe in the talent and ideas of the region, this is why they created Workana, an online platform to connect the best freelancers with the most interesting projects in Latin America.Every day, new ideas are turned into projectsthat provide great opportunities for freelancers in the region. Hundreds of small businesses and organizations are growing through Workana, the freelancer community in Latin America. Entrepreneurs and creative freelancers, idealists, dreamers, and visionaries, all connected through Workana with something in common by believing in and forging the future of the region.Workana was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- TinyBytes Games — Best iOS & Android Action Mobile Game Developer and Publisher.
- Wormhole — They are the creators of the first "Live Learning" platform in the market, focused on increasing and improving interaction between people to create the most effective virtual environments for distance learning.They firmly believe that online education is much more that simply looking at static content on a website, that is why theyprovide the best products to manage educational programs, create virtual campuses and improve the teacher-student relation through live online classes, from any computer or mobile device. Their team works with passion, because they love technology and they believe that they can use it to change the world.Nowadays thousands of companies, academic institutions and professional associations in over 10 countries use their platform to improve their education and training programs, saving time and money while increasing their reach. They currently have presence in the USA, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia from where they lead their international expansion and work everyday with the mission to revolutionize the way in which people teach, learn and collaborate online.
Marcelo Abritta - Co-Founder & CEO @ Buser
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- Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil
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- 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
Heliomar Quaresma
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- 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.
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Juanjo Mostazo
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- Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Spain, Colombia
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- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- Mas Leads — Mas Leads Technologies, through its SaaS (Software as a Service), assists B2B firms' Marketing and Sales Departments in obtaining the best real-time data on new potential clients in national and international marketplaces, thereby automating the lead creation process.
Carol Paiffer
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- Training, Education, E-Commerce
- Angel, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Yapuana — Yapuana merges olfactory tech and sustainability, delivering calm on demand with an app-controlled censer.
- 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.
Jonathan Martins - Full Stack Web Developer @ Getmo Brazil
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- Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
- Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
André Boaventura
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- Training, Education, Customer Service
- Angel
- Brazil
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- How Bootcamps — How Bootcamps provides training and coaching to build career and new skills through live , practical and short -term bootcamps.
Pierpaolo is founder and CEO at Ualá and Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm and senior associate at the Applied History Center of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was also Chief Strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pierpaolo studied atHarvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude and his senior honors thesis was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 prize. He was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His first book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published by Harvard University Press in the USA and UK, Penguin Random House in Spain and Latin America, Mondadori in Italy, and Citic in China. Pierpaolo’s journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN, and the New Republic. He used to write regularly for El País. Before Greenmantle, Pierpaolo worked for Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, and Bridgewater Associates.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
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- Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
- Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
- Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
Eduardo della Maggiora is the Founder & CEO of Betterfly.
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- EdTech, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Pre-Seed
- Chile, Argentina
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- Legria — Legria offers property maintenance, repairs, bill payment, and even cleaning. Their platform allows clients to own their dream homes for a fraction of the price. The company is in charge of searching for properties in vacation destinations, acquiring them, and then taking care of the entire legal process. This allows fractions to be sold, enablingclients to become owners of their second homes.
- Galgo — Immigrant fintech for latam
- HENRY — Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.
Manuel Vila is an individual investor.
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- EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
Lawyer by training. An entrepreneur by vocation. Passionate about the business world and used my technical knowledge and professional experience to found Jusfy.
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- Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
- Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
Juliano Dutra is the Partner & Head of Technology at bake startup studio and Co-Founder & Board Member at Gringo.
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- Software, Education, Human Resources
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
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- 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.
Fernando Reis is the Co-Founder of Gênica.
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- AgTech, Farming, Education
- Seed
- Brazil
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- 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.
Javier Lopez is an angel investor.
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- EdTech, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Angel
- Colombia
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- Nuela — Nuela utilizes AI to automate the creation of schedules and management of substitutions in educational centers.
Marcos Galperin is a co-founder of Mercadolibre, Inc. and has served as its chairman, president and chief executive officer since October 1999. Marcos is a board member of Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit organization that is leading the global movement to catalyze long term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the besthigh impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Marcos received a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Marcos is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his comprehensive knowledge and experience in the technology industry and experience serving as a director of other companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Chile
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- Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
- SenseiNode — We drive the decentralization of the blockchain ecosystem in Latin America with a simple, scalable and secure node management platform.
- NotCo — We are reinventing the foods we love to eat! Same great flavor, but made from plants. Meet the future of food. Why not?
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.
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- CRM, SMS, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil
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- u.sit — Gamer sejati baik veteran hingga pemula banyak bermain di Batman138, situs permain online legend di Indonesia, tetap tampil 24 jam menjelang 2025.
- 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.
Jose Calderon
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- E-Learning
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Mexico
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- Academlo — Academlo is an online programming school offering courses without down payment. Students only pay a percentage of their salary when they get a job.
- Waraire Boswell Industries —
Antonio Jorge Miranda is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cuponomia. He is a former Business Intelligence Director at Groupon and Co-founder and CEO at ApontaOfertas and Regrupe.
Mr. Miranda graduated from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics - ITA with a bachelor of science in Mechanical-Aeronautic Engineering.
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- Education, Information Technology
- Angel
- Brazil
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- Dinâmica Group — We are a school focused on complementary education that seeks to delivery what isn't learned in traditional institutions
Igor Mascarenhas
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- Education, InsurTech, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- 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.
Mathur Shashank
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- Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
- Angel
- Brazil
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- 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.
Malay website serving the people of Malaysia and all other nations with a need for live filem and Malay dramas that people love and react to with emotion, ready to push all boundaries.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Dassana — Introducing the industry's first consumption-based security data lake. Dirt cheap. SQL over JSON. Index-free.
- Poolit — Poolit unlocks access to exclusive alternative investments with top private equity and venture capital funds. Invest for as little as $1 - a first for private markets.
- Basetwo AI — Building digital twins for manufacturing just got easier
CFO & VP of Strategy at iFood and Mentor at Endeavor & 500 Startups
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- Education, E-Learning, Online Portals
- Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.
André Street
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- EdTech, Education, Recruiting
- Series A
- Brazil
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- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Matheus Detzel Bernert
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- Training, Education, Customer Service
- Angel
- Brazil
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- How Bootcamps — How Bootcamps provides training and coaching to build career and new skills through live , practical and short -term bootcamps.
Mike Mahlkow
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- Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
- Angel
- Brazil
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- 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.
Entrepreneur and Tech addicted. Co-founder and COO at ApontaOfertas, Regrupe and Cuponomia.
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- Education, Information Technology
- Angel
- Brazil
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- Dinâmica Group — We are a school focused on complementary education that seeks to delivery what isn't learned in traditional institutions
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