# Top 10 Enterprise Software Angel Investors in Brazil in June 2026

## Diego Gomes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Entrepreneur, angel investor and SaaS expert.

## Arash Ferdowsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

## Steffen Ehrhardt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

Steffen Ehrhardt - VP Investor Community, Partnerships and Sustainability @ SICTIC

## Bob Young
- Type: Angel
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this companyhas earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition.Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena.In 2003, Young purchased the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league's vice chairman.In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

## Thiago Bacchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Billing

20+ years of experience in digital marketing and performance, one of the pioneers in SEO and Paid Search in Brazil. Led digital projects in companies such as Samsung, Vivo, L'Oréal, Smiles, Renner Stores, Insper, among others. In 2009 he was the president of the SEM Committee of IAB Brasil. Bachelor's degree in Business Administrationfrom PUCRS and MBA in Retail from FIA.
Professor of ESPM in the Digital Marketing MBA since 2012.
Selected the professional of Digital Marketing in 2015 by Abcomm, and one of the top 5 Marketing & Sales professionals for the 2011 and 2014 E-commerce Brasil Award.

## José Augusto Schincariol
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Audio, Video

José Augusto Schincariol

## Cileneu jose peres nunes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, SaaS, Software

Cileneu jose peres nunes

## Leonardo Teixeira
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech

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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