Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Brazil in December 2024

Investor	Education Brazil investments
Bossa Invest	10
Canary	8
DOMO.VC	6
Igah Ventures	6
Leonardo Teixeira	6
Mario Letelier	4
Invest Tech	4
Valor Capital Group	4
TM3 Capital	4
MAYA Capital	3
Reach Capital	3
Guilherme Stocco Filho	3
Crescera Investimentos (f/k/a Bozano Investimentos)	3
Astella	3
West Quad Ventures	3
Niu Ventures	3
Positive Ventures	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Owl Ventures	3
Barrah Investimentos	2
Anjos do Brasil	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Bolt Ventures	2
Fuse Capital	2
David Vélez	2
Supera Capital	2
Dan Rosensweig	2
Criatec 2	2
Exor Ventures	2
Brian Requarth	2
Rodrigo Dantas	2
FundersClub	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Par Equity	2
DGF Investimentos	2
VERVE CAPITAL	2
APEX Partners	2
Scale-Up Ventures	2
Cedro Capital	2
Redpoint eventures	2
Vox Capital	2
Gvangels	2
Iporanga Ventures	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Roble Ventures	2
Nicolas Gautier	2
NB Capital Partners	2
Yunus Investimentos Brasil	1
Arco Educacao	1

Somos Bossa Invest

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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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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

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

Lerian — Lerian is a next-gen core banking platform built on top of an open source ledger.
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.
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.

Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Apoia — Apoia is a platform providing free, expert-led personalized courses for accessible and impactful learning.
Cometa — Cometa provides technological and financial tools to increase access to quality education in Mexico and Latin America. Take off with the most recent developments in school administration. Maintain complete control over your reconciliation, billing, and operations.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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

Investment focus

Education, Web Design, Web Development
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

Traive — Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers.
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.

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.

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.

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.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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

Smalt — Smalt recruits and trains young tradespeople in our innovative hybrid academies. Our B2B customers can also take advantage of our world-class, digitised installation services. Our highly skilled staff are outfitted with cutting-edge technology to provide high-quality installations for our partners.
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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
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.

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

Lerian — Lerian is a next-gen core banking platform built on top of an open source ledger.
Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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

Investment focus

Recruiting, 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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, 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).

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Never bet against humanity | Roble Ventures is a thematic venture capital firm investing in seed-stage startups transforming the future of work.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rising Team — Plug and play team sessions that lead to deeper connection, personal growth, and team effectiveness
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Hyperbound — Scale sales training by simulating AI role-plays for cold calls, warm calls, discovery calls, & more. Customize AI buyers for your ICP. Close your skill gaps.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Yunus Investimentos Brasil is a investment fund and accelerator for social business.

Investment focus

Training, Corporate Training, Mechanical Engineering
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Escola do Mecânico — Escola do Mecânico is a mechanical school that provides practical teaching in field of automotive mechanics, repair,heavy line and forklift.

Arco Educação is an educational software company that offers technology, services, and content from kindergarten to high school. The company vision is to transform the way students learn by delivering education at scale through technology to private primary and secondary, or K-12, schools. Arco Educação provides a complete pedagogical system withtechnology-enabled features to deliver educational content to private schools in Brazil. Our turnkey curriculum solutions provide educational content in both printed and digital formats delivered through our platform to improve the learning process.Arco Educação is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.