Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Brazil in December 2024

Investor	FinTech Brazil investments
Ariel Lambrecht	7
Sergio Furio	6
Guilherme Bonifacio	6
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	6
Sebastian Mejia	6
Rodrigo Dantas	6
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	5
David Vélez	5
Eduardo Kupper	5
Patrick Sigrist	4
Fabio Igel	3
Joao Kepler Braga	3
Daniel Undurraga	3
Kevin Efrusy	3
Sergio Fogel	3
Marcelo Sampaio	3
Matias Woloski	3
Carlos Julio Garcia	3
Kees Koolen	3
Simon Borrero	3
Romero Rodrigues	3
Victor Lazarte	3
Fabrice Grinda	3
Tiago Dalvi	3
Parker Treacy	3
Paulo Silveira	3
Mauricio Feldman	2
Carlos Garcia	2
Arjun Sethi	2
Loreanne Garcia	2
Sebastian Ruales	2
Adalmiro Baptista Junior	2
Tasso Luiz Pereira da Silva	2
Sachin Patel	2
Zachary Perret	2
Lee Fixel	2
Gerry Giacoman Colyer	2
Rodrigo Weigand	2
Cassio Jose Krupinsk	2
Stewart Butterfield	2
Mauricio Pretto	2
Lucas Lameiras	2
Dylan Field	2
Rafael Duton	2
Everson Lopes	2
Arash Ferdowsi	2
Brad Flora	2
Jose Marin	2
Brian Armstrong	2
Romero Rodrigues	2

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce

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.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vaas — Software
Portão 3 — Porta 3 is a travel management platform for businesses that provides reservations for flights, hotels, cars, and insurance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Uberlândia, MG.
Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

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.

17+ years of experience in several industries and sectors, including entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Management consulting and Investment Banking. Founder @ Airborne Ventures, an Early Stage VC fund and Managing partner @ VIPe, a Financial institution focused on offering products and services through payroll for theunderserved/underbanked population. Former Head of VC at Bradesco Venture Capital arm, responsible for 2 funds totaling R$ 800mm of invested capital and R$ 1,7billion AUM. Experienced VC investor with 50+ deals across several stages and industries over the last 6 years. Founded and co-founded several companies including Helpling, Remessa Online, Finpass, and MAR Ventures. Several successful exits including +1bi BRL sale and 1 Nasdaq IPO. Board member at several companies in different sector and stages.Professional with an extensive network and close relationships and co-investments with several VC funds and entrepreneurs. Wharton MBA | The Lauder Institute MA | UPenn Grad Electrical engineer B.eng. | Unicamp - BrazilSpecialties: Finance, General Management, Strategy, capital structuring, Angel Investing, M&A, Fundraising, Business development, Tech start-ups (Healthtech, Marketplaces, Fintech, Edtech, Mobility) Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, FMCG, project management, Private equity, Investment Banking, Career advisory.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Levante — Levante engages in financial investment management services.
Guru — Guru is the new home for young Brazilian investors. We are on a mission to make investing simple, affordable and intuitive.
Vobi — Vobi provides a platform to digitize the civil construction market.

Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth…

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech
Seed, Series C
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Driven Education — Driven Education is an education platform for digital professionals.

Fabio was monashees’ first investor and today oversees the Fund and the Management Company's culture and values. He is the guardian of monashees’ DNA and is co-responsible for its long-term strategies. Fabio believes that people come first, and when doing business, he dedicates time to building relationships.He graduated from HostaUniversity in Leysin, Switzerland, and has been an advisor to Grupo Ultra since 1988. Prior to monashees, Fabio was an angel investor and was a professional skier, representing Brazil at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Payments
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Payssego — Payssego is a new digital experience that  revolutionizes the pay for all Brazilians frontline workers by offering a range of financial wellbeing tools built around pay and earn wage access With Payssego, salaries are available to every employees, in seconds, demystifying global payroll management

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
Vista Fintech — Vista Fintech connect financial planners with clients using technology.

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.
Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.

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.

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

Investment focus

Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Tuvis — Tuvis enables companies to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with business interactions over unofficial channels like WhatsApp and iMessage.
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.

There are the well-traveled and then there are the travelers. Born in Brazil and raised in France, Marcelo has been jumping between the developing and developed worlds his entire life, which explains his innate understanding of the two. Name a country and it’s likely that Marcelo has been there. He has traveled and worked in over 50 countries likeMozambique, China, Peru, Latvia, and Korea.Marcelo has more than a decade of experience in channel and direct sales for both private and public sectors. He graduated from PUC-Rio in Production Engineering, and discovered his passion for business and technology at Microsoft. From there he transitioned to Oracle where he became head of Sales for Brazil, winning sales awards each year he was there as one of the best global performers in management and execution. He also happened to be Oracle’s youngest sales manager in the world.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Linker — Linker is a digital platform that refers to a variety of payment and financial services as digital banking.
Cloud Humans — Cloud Humans is a platform that connects professionals to employers for outsourcing business.
Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

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.

Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Hospitality
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Wundermart — Wundermart lobby shops are the perfect unmanned addition to the F&B service in hotels. Powered by smart technology and driven by data, our small 24/7 grab, pay and go convenience shops our built to fit any hotel.
Skoon Energy — Rent clean energy from Skoon Energy. Sustainable solutions for construction, events, ports, and more. Clean energy, always.
Jutter Speijs — Wundermart lobby shops are the perfect unmanned addition to the F&B service in hotels. Powered by smart technology and driven by data, our small 24/7 grab, pay and go convenience shops our built to fit any hotel.

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

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.

Victor Lazarte holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from USP and École Centrale de Paris and a degree in Owner/President Management from Harvard Business School. He began his career at JP Morgan London but decided to return to Brazil in 2010 to start Wildlife with his brother Arthur. Victor has an active role in business strategy andorganization building. He currently lives in the U.S.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Payments
Series A, Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.

Investment focus

FinTech, Fruit, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Destaxa — Épico provides a financial services marketplace to brick and mortar retailers.
Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers

Founder at Cobli.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Co-founder & CEO at Volanty

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Sports
Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quansa — Changing the way workers access financial services.
Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
Rough Diamonds — Rough Diamonds is a platform which unites Web3 and the sports universe.

Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005.

Investment focus

B2B, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Spain, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Inventa — Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers and offers them flexible payment terms
Inventa — Inventa is a wholesale marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers across Latin America.

Arjun Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and executive, as well as a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital.Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using artificial intelligence and data science. Some of its noteworthy investments include Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken,Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.Arjun was previously a Partner at Social Capital where he led the Venture Team consisting of six full time GPs with a broad focus on early stage investing in the consumer and enterprise sector. Arjun has a long history of sourcing, winning and leading early stage deals. Arjun’s investments at Social Capital include notable companies such as Front, Carta, Swarm (Sold to SpaceX), Slack, Cloud Kitchens and Relativity Space. Arjun's track record includes being recognized as one of the top 100 angels in Silicon Valley through advisory, direct, and secondary investments across various stages. He has invested in high-profile names such as Frax, Snapchat, Lyft, OpenDoor, and Gusto. Prior to his work in venture, Arjun co-founded and sold two successful companies. After his second company, MessageMe, was acquired by Yahoo, he joined the executive team, where he was instrumental in driving mobile product usage from 100M to 1B monthly uniques and was a Board Observer on Alibaba. Before that, Arjun was the Founder and CEO of LOLapps, a mobile gaming company that grew to 100M monthly users and sold for $240M.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Questbook — Discover Opportunities in Web 3.0 and Earn in Crypto
Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.

Loreanne Garcia is a Co-Founder & Chief People Officer at Kavak. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud

Sebastian is Co-Founder and CEO of Bia.Energy, company aiming to empower LatAm with cheap, sustainable and smart energy, through a consumer centric technology platform.He is founding team member of LatAm´s SuperApp Rappi -YC 16’, Sequoia, SoftBank, DST, T.RowePrice - Where he built from scratch and developed the Monetization model of the company,Business Development and New Businesses. He additionally served as an independent consultant to several StartUps in the region, advising on product and commercial strategy. He is advisor to 8VC, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Opera Ventures, and VP of MatterScale Ventures. He is also Speaker -Including TEDTalks. Prior to tech and VC, he had marketing and commercial strategy roles in the CPG industry, where he worked for L´Oreal, Quala and Johnson & Johnson.Sebastian has an MBA from Tulane University and an EP from Singularity University.

Investment focus

Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Colombia, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
Grupo Central — Grupo Central is a pioneers in Chile in the development of the Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores model.

Adalmiro Baptista Junior

Investment focus

B2B, Credit, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Loopa — Loopa is an integrated financial management platform designed to track business transactions. Loopa helps small and medium entrepreneurs in their relationship with credit card machines, auditing each transaction, optimizing fees, and recovering amounts due. The company's goal is to simplify clients' day-to-day lives with transparency andconfidence, so they can focus on their own business.The platform does all the work for clients. No more Excel spreadsheets, no bureaucracy or doubts. Loopa is automatic, practical, safe, and free.

Tasso Luiz Pereira da Silva

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

insped — We were born with the following objectives: Helping companies make data-driven decisions and institutions offer products and services with greater added value for SMEs and Individuals.Through a process automation platform using robots, interfaces (APIs) for receiving/distributing information and applying science of data/machine learningwe are making simple a process that today it is extremely complex and with unreliable data sources.

Sachin Patel is a former Associate and Venture and Growth Investor of Y Combinator.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.

Zachary Perret is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Plaid. He previously worked at Bain as a Consultant. Zachary Perret attended Duke University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

UserHub — The quickest way to add Billing & Seat Management features to your SaaS product. A User Based Billing Platform compatible with Stripe Billing, Auth0, Google Firebase, and more.
Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.

Lee Fixel is the Investor of Addition. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
Holey Grail Donuts — Holey Grail Donuts is a producer of taro donuts fried in coconut oil, hand-harvested, and crafted. Its services also include catering, orders for groups or parties, outdoor seating, takeaway, and walk-in services.

Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Mexico, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

Rodrigo Weigand

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

insped — We were born with the following objectives: Helping companies make data-driven decisions and institutions offer products and services with greater added value for SMEs and Individuals.Through a process automation platform using robots, interfaces (APIs) for receiving/distributing information and applying science of data/machine learningwe are making simple a process that today it is extremely complex and with unreliable data sources.

Cassio J. Krupinsk is the Founder and CEO of Blockbr Digital Assets. Cassio J. Krupinsk attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Corporate Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

BLOCKBR Digital Assets — BLOCKBR Asset Tokenization Improves your Company's Fund Raising with Structured and Super Structured Tokens!
Web Invest Group - WI Group — We are experts in Social Network enable Marketplaces
Camargo Corrêa Desenvolvimento Imobiliário S / A. — Camargo Corrêa Desenvolvimento Imobiliário is a real estate firm that mainly deals in commercial real estate & property management services.

Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams onmillions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C's XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Noded Ai — Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Noded brings them all together using your notes history and gives you exactly what you needed , when you need it. So you’re always prepared and one step ahead.
ModernLoop — ModernLoop creates software that organizes and manages business interviews. The company offers a software that schedules interviews, sends day-off reminders, and resolves meeting conflicts. ModernLoop was founded in 2020 by Christopher Triolo and Lydia Han.
Venue — Venue is a video conferencing platform that increases engagement and strengthens culture at large team-wide events.

Mauricio Pretto, a visionary entrepreneur, angel investor, writer, traveler, explorer, and restless spirit, is affectionately referred to by his clients and friends as the Sales Jedi.Pretto has a 25-year trajectory in the market, marked by a solid reputation for delivering exceptional results in highly competitive markets. He possesses a uniquecombination of strategic thinking, operational excellence, and people leadership skills that enable him to build and lead high-performance teams that consistently exceed goals. Pretto has a unique ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve their objectives.Recognized as a Top Voice on LinkedIn on the subject of commercial management, he regularly writes on his profile on the network, where he shares valuable content on topics such as sales strategies, leadership, artificial intelligence, and business growth. His approaches are always with a vision of leadership focused on results and collaborative approach.He is the author of the innovative book in the Brazilian market, "Nobody Wants to Buy from You, Now What?", which introduces for the first time a methodology and a sales framework focused on high-impact growth in the Brazilian market. After 25 years of many "nos", Pretto shared his journey and knowledge so that others can achieve results like his, which today has already sold over 1 billion dollars.Pretto is curious, adventurous, and passionate. He has visited the 7 continents of our mother planet, explored more than 100 countries where he seeks to capture moments through his passion for photography and understand how human relations in different places in the world can impact personal and professional relationships. On his travels, he is always accompanied by his wife, Cira Helena, and whenever possible, by his dogs, Pretta and Bartô.

Investment focus

FinTech, Apps, SaaS
Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Setfin — Setfin specializes in offering financial solutions for micro and small entrepreneurs.
Volters — At Volters, our primary commitment is to democratize access to clean energy. We've devised a simple concept where anyone can participate as a generator, consumer, or investor in clean energy, contributing to a sustainable transition. Our scalable approach aims to positively impact the energy landscape, expanding opportunities for all.Interms of our business model, Volters introduces an innovative and scalable approach, bringing everyone into the clean energy arena. We champion the democratization of clean energy, leveraging state-of-the-art cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning infrastructure. This places our product at the forefront of technological advancement.To simplify our financial operations, consumers' payments are directed to generators, who may also be investors. Upon receiving funds, these generators or investors are automatically presented with another opportunity to invest in sustainability. This cycle ensures that profits consistently drive green initiatives. Essentially, Volters is not just a bank; it's a fintech wholly dedicated to impact investments and committed to sustainability.In summary, Volters is on a mission to make clean energy accessible and inclusive. Our innovative business model, coupled with cutting-edge technology, positions us as a pioneering force in the clean energy transition. The simplicity of our financial operations ensures a continuous cycle of investment in sustainability, solidifying our commitment to a greener future for all.
Fluence — Close sales faster with personalized outreach & targeted messaging powered by AI. Fluence helps you resonate with customers and convert leads quicker. Tailored sales communication for maximum impact.

Lucas Lameiras

Investment focus

Gaming, Banking, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
Tipspace — Tipspace allows to any gamer monetize their matches and create new game modes on competitive games.
MagnaPlay — Redefining game localization, MagnaPlay harnesses advanced tech and AI to deliver swift, quality translations.

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

HeyGen — HeyGen is an innovative video platform that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline your video creation process. Unleash your creativity with HeyGen - the future of video production.
Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Everson Lopes (Jan 19, 1983) is a Brazilian Entrepreneur and Technology Investor.He's Partner and MD of The Hive Brazil an investment firm focused in Big Data companies with presence in Brazil, India and Hq's in Silicon Valley, and Partner of Valor Capital Group, an NY based firm specialized in growth equity deals. Mr EversonLopes is also Chairman of the Board of Moip Pagamentos S.A – Leading Digital Payments company in Brazil; Board Member of TecTotal S.A; Board Member of Snips SAS; Board Member of Automatos S.A; Investor and Advisor in several private technology companies.Mr. Everson Lopes is also former Chairman of the board of Ciashop S.A (Acquired by Totvs S.A); Board Member of iMusica S.A (Aquired by America Movil); Board Member of Bolsa de Mulher S.A (Aquired by Batanga Media, Inc); Hands Mobile (Aquired by PontoMobi); Managing Director of Ideiasnet S.A (IDNT3 Bovespa); Corporate Development of Buscape.com (Acquired by Naspers $375M) and Co-founder of BlueOak Resources - formerly Biomine (Invested by KPCB).Holds interest in different areas of technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Larning, Blockchain, Management Software, Financial Tech, Marketplaces, Payments, Mobile. Mr Everson Lopes studied Architecture and Urbanism - University of Cuiaba, Business Administration - ESPM and Graduates Students Programs in Singularity Universty at NASA Ames Research Park, CA.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Billing
Funding Round, Seed
Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
Snips — Snips is an artificial intelligence voice platform that runs on the edge, without sending any voice data to the cloud. Their embedded voice AI technology offers enterprises and developers offline and private-by-design conversational interfaces to animate interactions with products. With enterprise-grade performance and cloud-level accuracy across awide range of hardware integrations on a low-power footprint, the Snips voice assistant simplifies human interactions with connected devices.Founded in 2013 by 3 PhDs, Snips operates in Paris, New York, and Tokyo, leveraging the ability to create custom voice commands and natural language interfaces to lead the embedded voice revolution.
CloudWalk — Our vision is to create the best payment network worldwide

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
CodeCrafters — Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.

Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Wallets Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Brian Armstrong is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coinbase. He previously worked at Airbnb.com as a Technical Product Manager. Brian Armstrong attended Rice University.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
Orchid — Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders. Orchid’s preconception system analyzes both partners’ genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to common diseases, including heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Orchid results are developed withworld-class experts in reproductive medicine and genetics to give its clients the most accurate results.Orchid offers a “Couple Report” that utilizes an at-home saliva test to analyze each person’s genomes to detect the probability of genetic risks, then models how their DNA together will combine in a future child. If elevated risk is detected, Orchid provides insights to help couples monitor biomarkers, adapt their diet or elect for procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. It was founded by Noor Siddiqui in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.