# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Brazil in June 2026 ## Ariel Lambrecht - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara ## Sergio Furio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS Sergio Furio is based out of São Paulo, São Paulo, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Sergio previously worked at Juntos Somos Mais as a Board Member. Sergio Furio attended the Esade. Sergio Furio has received the Kaszek Innovation and Leadership Program certificate. ## Patrick Sigrist - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B 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… ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech 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. ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Internet 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. ## Eduardo Kupper - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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. 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 sectors and stages.Professional with an extensive network, 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. ## Rodrigo Dantas - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services 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. ## Claire Diaz-Ortiz - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance 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. ## David Vélez - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University. ## Kevin Efrusy - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech 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. ## Tiago Dalvi - Type: Angel - Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Fruit, Grocery Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist. ## Parker Treacy - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Founder at Cobli. ## Kees Koolen - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Travel, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Sergio Fogel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, CRM, Sales Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery. ## Daniel Undurraga - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop. ## Marcelo Sampaio - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Apps, Software 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. ## Fabio Igel - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Payments 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. ## Victor Lazarte - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Banking, Financial Services, Payments Victor Lazarte is based out of San Mateo, California and he served as General Partner. ## Simon Borrero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Matias Woloski - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires. ## Fabrice Grinda - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet 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. ## Carlos Julio Garcia - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Real Estate, Financial Services, FinTech Carlos Julio Garcia - Founder & CEO @ Kavak ## Joao Kepler Braga - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos. ## Lucas Lameiras - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Gaming, Banking, Software Lucas Lameiras ## Alessio Alionco - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sales Alessio Silva Alionco is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder & CEO of Pipefy. Alessio previously worked at Acessozero as a Founder, CEO. Alessio Silva Alionco attended the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. ## Travis Foxhall - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments Travis Foxhall is based out of New York, New York, and is the Chief Financial Officer of Clara. Travis previously worked at Point72 Ventures as an Investment Vice President. Travis Foxhall attended Yale University. ## Paulo Silveira - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology CEO and founder at Caelum Alura ## Arash Ferdowsi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Philippe Teixeira da Mota - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia. ## Rodrigo Weigand - Type: Angel - Location: Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Software, Financial Services Rodrigo Weigand ## Mauricio Feldman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Sports, Software Co-founder & CEO at Volanty ## Dylan Field - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University. ## Santiago Suarez - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Software Co-founder and CEO ## Alvaro Taiar - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Accounting, Financial Services Alvaro Taiar is an Angel Investor and Startup Mentor at GR8 Ventures. ## Zachary Perret - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Zachary Perret is based out of San Francisco, California and is the CEO & Co-Founder of Plaid. Zachary Perret attended the Duke University. ## Gerry Giacoman Colyer - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial 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. ## Stewart Butterfield - Type: Angel - Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps 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. ## Juan Pablo Ortega - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University. ## Carlos Garcia - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Marketplace Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005. ## Arjun Sethi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland. ## Sachin Patel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: InsurTech, Cyber Security Sachin Patel is a former Associate and Venture and Growth Investor of Y Combinator. ## Mauricio Pretto - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: FinTech, Apps, SaaS 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. ## Sebastian Ruales - Type: Angel - Location: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Jose Marin - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail 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. ## Brian Armstrong - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Payments, Biotechnology, Financial Services 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. ## Minju Lee - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Payments, Software, Financial Services Investor ## Matt Robinson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company. ## Romero Rodrigues - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Health Care 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. ## Assaf Wand - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Insurance, Software, Health Care Assaf Wand is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hippo Insurance. He previously worked at Sabi Sold to Urbio as a Founder and CEO. Assaf Wand attended the University of Chicago. ## Rafael Duton - Type: Angel - Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital 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.