# Top 45 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Brazil in June 2026

## Dan Rumennik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

## Juscelino Martins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery

Juscelino Martins

## Sebastian Mejia
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

## Simon Borrero
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Ricardo Bechara
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Nutrition, Health Care

Ricardo Bechara

## Matias Muchnick
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Sustainability, B2C

Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo.

## Daniel Alvarez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Consulting

Daniel Alvarez

## Miquéias Barros da Silva
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Consulting

Miquéias Barros da Silva

## Diego Libanio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery

Diego Libanio - Founder & CEO @ Mercê do Bairro

## Nathalia Paulino
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods

Nathalia Paulino is the Co-Founder of NAU Capital. She previously worked at BTG Pactual as a Wealth Management Banker. Nathalia Paulino attended Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa.

## Patrick Sigrist
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech

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…

## Bernardo de Barros Franco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: CRM, SMS, SaaS

Bernardo de Barros Franco is a Serial entrepreneur and angel investor on the IT sector. Bernardo previously worked at u.sit as a Co-founder and CEO. He attended Harvard Business School. Ibmec, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

## Alexandre Badolato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Snack Food, Subscription Service

Alexandre Badolato

## Tiago Dalvi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Fruit, Grocery

Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.

## Hamish Shephard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Fruit, FinTech, Finance

Hamish Shephard is the Co-Founder of HelloFresh and Bridebook.

## Ricardo Natale
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Sales, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Ricardo Natale

## Marcos Salama
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Nutrition, Health Care, Real Estate

Marcos Salama is the Founder and CEO of Inventa. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Gabriel Cherubini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery

Gabriel Cherubini

## Patricia Moraes
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Mobile, Internet

Patricia Moraes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Unbox Capital. She attended Columbia Business School.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Marcello Gonçalves
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Marcello Gonçalves is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at DOMO Invest.

## Fernando Meirelles
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery

Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.

## Flavia Buchmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Restaurants, Food Delivery

Flavia Buchmann is the CMO at NotCo.

## Luis Vital
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Snack Food, Subscription Service

Luis Vital

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Pedro Carvalho
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Nutrition, Health Care

Pedro Carvalho is the Co-Founder at Cayena.

## Ryan McDonald
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Organic Food, Service Industry

Ryan Aurelio McDonald is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Principal of Summit Partners L.P.  Ryan previously worked at Norwest Venture Partners. Ryan Aurelio McDonald attended the Babson College.

## Rafael Duton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Patrice Etlin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Restaurants

Patrice Etlin joined Advent International in 1997 and started the firm’s investment activities in Brazil. He has 19 years of private equity experience. From 1994 to 1997, Patrice was a partner at International Venture Partners in São Paulo, where he was responsible for the overall operation of a media and communications fund focused on Brazil.Previously, he spent five years with Matra Marconi Space, initially as a systems engineer on a project to develop a European military observation satellite. In 1990, he was promoted to general representative for Brazil, in charge of setting up a private telecommunications satellite system providing services to Mercosul countries.Patrice is also Chairman of the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA).

## Gregory Reider
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery

Gregory Reider is the Managing Partner at Volpe Capital.

## Andres Bilbao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Andres Bilbao

## Carlos Moura
- Type: Angel
- Location: Campinas, Goias, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Sales, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Angel investor and entrepreneur.

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Ralf Wenzel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery

Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University.

## Jonathan Neman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion

Jonathan Neman is based out of Los Angeles, California, and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. Jonathan Neman attended Georgetown University.

## Cristian Keleti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Snack Food, Subscription Service

Cristian Keleti

## Abhi Ramesh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fruit, Grocery, Food Delivery

Abhi Ramesh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Misfits Market.

## Di Ferrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods

Di Ferrero is a singer who also became a brand ambassador for Sunrize.

## Ronaldo Lemos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Ronaldo Lemos is the founder of the Institute of Technology and Society.

## Rodrigo Dantas
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Renato Freitas
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet of Things, Database

Renato Freitas

## Renato Breia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods

Renato Breia, CFP, is the founding partner at Nord Wealth.

## André Mortari
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Credit, Finance

André Mortari is member of the Brazilian Board and responsible for all eBusinesses for MetLife’s Latin America operation with also an important role in Digital Transformation for the company in the region.With international and multicultural experience in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile and other countries in LatAm and extensive experience inDigital and deep knowledge in Marketing, André was the Head of Marketing & Performance for Netshoes, a Brazilian fashion and sports e-retailer, former founder of Carrefour e-commerce and member of the company's strategic transformation committees. He also had worked at Walmart.com and for many advertising agencies with a relevant role.Besides his executive career, André also has an entrepreneur background as a co-founder of many companies and nowadays acting as an Angel Investor & Advisor for few startups in different industries.André is graduated in Social Communication from Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) with a MBA in Business Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) both in São Paulo. In addition to his studies in Brazil, André completed an Executive Education in Disruptive Strategy at Harvard Business School.He is a great enthusiast about Digital Transformation, People & Culture, Innovation, Technology and Sharing Economy, having developed many relevant skills to act on these challenges.

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