Top 50 Health Care Angel Investors in Brazil in November 2024

Investor	Health Care Brazil investments
David Vélez	4
Kevin Efrusy	3
Kees Koolen	3
Guilherme Bonifacio	3
Sebastian Mejia	2
Mauricio Feldman	2
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	2
Florian Otto	2
Igor Marchesini	2
Vivek Garipalli	2
Simon Borrero	2
Ricardo Bechara	2
Hans Tung	2
Marcos Salama	1
Carlos Boschetti	1
Kristin Farmer	1
Pedro Carvalho	1
José Carlos Semenzato	1
Patrick Sigrist	1
Demetrios Christofidis Jr	1
Alexandre Soncini	1
Daniel Gold	1
Ryan McDonald	1
Eduardo Mufarej	1
Parker Treacy	1
Felipe Lourenço	1
Roger Lee	1
Flávio Rossetto	1
Marcelo Sampaio	1
Gabriel Braga	1
Rodrigo Dantas	1
Robbert Vorhoff	1
Ariel Lambrecht	1
Bruno Soares	1
Romero Rodrigues	1
Michael Seibel	1
Cassio Spina	1
Leonardo Teixeira	1
Sergio Furio	1
Claire Diaz-Ortiz	1
Fabio Igel	1
Thiago Alvarez	1
Fabricio Bloisi	1
Paulo Chapchap	1
Benjamin Gleason	1
Thomaz Srougi	1
Ricardo Coelho Duarte	1
Brian Requarth	1
Joaquim Palhares	1
Romero Rodrigues	1

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
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Florian is Co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform by health systems. Previously, Florian founded a daily deal company in Brazil(ClubeUrbano) that was sold to Groupon. After the acquisition, he became CEO of Groupon Brazil. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds an M.D., D.D.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Angel
Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Guiabolso — Guiabolso is the fintech transforming the Brazilian financial system by pioneering Open Banking, to bring the benefits of open data access and analytics to millions of consumers and a fast-growing number of corporate customers. Launched in 2014, the Guiabolso app has a huge amount of granular financial data about its 6M users, powering consumersolutions of consolidated financial management, an in-app curated product marketplace and instant payment capabilities, while providing product partners access to unique segmenting and scoring capabilities. In addition, Guiabolso is the only company in Brazil with a fully launched and calibrated end-to-end Open Banking solution for B2B clients, going beyond just bank account data aggregation to offer modular value-add solutions such as advanced analytics, a white-label marketplace, and personal financial management features. The company was founded by Thiago Alvarez and Benjamin Gleason, two friends who met at McKinsey and aspired to use innovative technology and a focus on consumer impact to improve the lives of Brazilians and transform the financial system.
Aware — Aware is a mobile app for evaluating health data and for researching chronic diseases.
Pipo Saúde — We are a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits (from your healthcare plan to your fitness benefit).

Igor Marchesini - Global Head of Growth @ SumUp

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Melvi — Melvi is a marketplace that connects patients with clinics so that they can easily find and get same-day appointments, close to where they are, at an affordable price. For patients, Melvi is the go-to place when they need to find a consultation that suits their necessities best. For clinics, Melvi is first and foremost a partner that brings avolume of new patients thus improving their occupancy rate. Founded in 2021 by Mariana Paixão, Marcela Sobrinho and Nino Vashakidze, it is headquartered in São Paulo in Brazil.
Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Rebill — Rebill provides merchants with a unique control panel, and an API (programmatic environment) as well as pre-made payment pages so they can sell online in multiple regions very quickly, integrating with the financial entities and payment gateways they want.All customer's information, including non-sensitive card and subscription information,are stored at Rebill. Who, in turn, manages the recurrence of the collection of subscriptions, monitoring of card expiration and automatic collection retries to avoid delays and securing a predictable revenue model.Rebill is the last mile solution to improve the shopping experience for international stores. Provides flexibility to change providers: banks, or payment gateways, without losing information and in a matter of minutes.From Rebill, businesses can integrate multiple cloud services such as CRM (for customer management), or ERP (for business management), as well as local invoicing systems, among others.

Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
Uplift — Rebuilding mental healthcare to work for everyone
NeuraLight — NeuraLight is a VC-backed venture on a mission to transform the lives of the billions of people impacted by neurological disorders by digitizing evaluation and care.

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.

Ricardo Bechara

Investment focus

Nutrition, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ximkart — Everything you need to import raw materials. minus the headache! For manufacturers and businesses of every scale. With Ximkart, cross border trade is as easy as buying from your local supplier. We are currently dealing with Metals, Minerals, Chemicals with having a large list of QC tested products like Silicon, Titanium, Calcium Carbonate, Styrene, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Ingots, Magnesium, Mixed Xylene, Butyl Acetate, Scrap, Alloy Wheel, MTO, GTO, Pine Oil, Rutile, 2196+, KMML, Doguide, RJ916, CPCL, BPCL, HPCL, 553, 441, 3303, DBM and many more.
Fazz — Fazz offers an online business account to help your company grow faster, by providing access to credit, payment, corporate cards, savings and more.
Prisms VR — The new paradigm for math education. Learn math through movement, experience, and meaningful discovery.

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

Investment focus

Nutrition, Health Care, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
TROOP — TROOP es la primera plataforma en Colombia que te permite adquirir participaciones en inmuebles comerciales arrendados a partir de bajos montos.

Carlos Boschetti

Investment focus

Rental, Health Care, Outsourcing
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Allugg — Allugg is an equipment outsourcing company that offers IT, health care, and industrial equipment for rent.

Kristin Farmer

Investment focus

Health Care
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.

Pedro Carvalho is the Co-Founder at Cayena.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Health Care
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health

José Carlos Semenzato is the Founder of SMZTO. He attended Faculdades Salesiano.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyon Equipamentos — Cyon Equipamentos are into dental care business.

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.

Demetrios Christofidis is the Regional General Manager of Lime.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Incentiv — Incentiv.me is a tax innovation taxtech that offers products and services to the ecosystem of incentive laws.
Snackpass — Snackpass is a social food app that makes ordering food more convenient, affordable and social. It focuses on mobile order pickup at local restaurants. The platform allows users to unlock discounts with friends, send gifts, and collect points. Snackpass was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
outloud.ai — Outloud.ai: New AI standard for drive-thrus

Alexandre Soncini

Investment focus

Medical, Hospital, Health Care
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Neomed — Neomed is a marketplace that simplify the relationship among hospital, laboratories and physicians about medical records.

Daniel Gold

Investment focus

Genetics, Life Science, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Ryan McDonald is a Principal and Healthcare Investor at Norwest Venture Partners, an Investor at Elligo Health Research and Petabyte Technology, and a Board Member at Mindful Health Solutions and Kyo. Ryan attended Babson College.

Investment focus

Pet, Finance, Payments
Angel, Series C
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alecrim — Founded in 2015, Alecrim is an application platform that brings together the chefs in São Paulo to deliver healthy meals right on its client's doorstep.
Scratch — Scratchpay provides simple and friendly, payment plans for medical financing. High approvals, no hidden fees, no surprises.

Eduardo Mufarej built his career in private equity and education as an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of Tarpon Investimentos, one of Brazil’s largest independent investment managers. He served on several boards and was Chairman of Somos Educação and Omega Energia Renovável. From 2014 until 2018 Eduardo led the largest k-12company in Latin America, Abril Educação, which he managed until the sale of the company to Kroton Educacional in October 2018. After the sale, Eduardo created Renova, a project focused on selecting and training a new generation of leaders in Brazilian politics. Since its creation, the program has supported and trained over 2000 individuals in Brazil, helping to elect 176 of its students. This effort awarded Eduardo the prize Brazilian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. In early 2020, Eduardo co-founded Galena, a company that supports and trains individuals for their first jobs. Eduardo is a member of the advisory board of the Wilson Institute, in Washington, DC, of the Yale University SOM Council of Global Advisors and a fellow at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. He is the author of the book Jornada Improvável (Unlikely Journey, 2021).

Investment focus

EdTech, Genetics, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
Alicerce — Alicerce is a social impact platform designed to support middle-class education. It offers an educational solution, focused on what is most important and promotes the social ascension of Brazilian families.The company is driven by a mission to provide a successful opportunity for all young Brazilians through quality education.Alicerce wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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

Felipe Lourenço

Investment focus

Health Care
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Salu — Salu provides complete management in occupational health in a digitalized and centralized way.

Roger Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Human Interest, a modern, paperless 401(k) provider with automated investment advice built in. Businesses of any size can set up a 401(k) plan entirely online in a matter of minutes, and ongoing administration is completely automated.Previously, Roger was the co-founder and president of Thunder, a startupthat automates and scales online advertising across devices, formats, and volume. Thunder works with over 100 media companies and agencies and has been used to design over 100,000 ads to date. The company was named one of the Forbes' 100 Most Promising Companies in America and was described as "An Ad Engine to Put Mad Men Out of Business" by the New York Times.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Asset Management
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Salsa — We sell Payroll infrastructure to SaaS businesses that want to embed multi-country Payroll in their products, through APIs and UI components.

Flávio Rossetto is an indiidual investor.

Investment focus

Health Care, Personal Health, Health Insurance
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

PsycoAI — PsycoAI provides empathetic and personalized emotional support, enhancing the customer experience. Identify the individual needs of each user, personalize support plans, and offer proactive assistance, leading to improved well-being outcomes.

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.

Gabriel Braga - Co-founder and CEO @ QuintoAndar

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

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.

Robbert Vorhoff is a Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic’s Healthcare sector. He also serves on the firm’s Management and Investment Committees. Before joining the firm in 2003, Robb worked at Greenhill & Co., first in the mergers and acquisitions and restructuring advisory group, then in the private equity group, GreenhillCapital Partners.Robb currently serves on the board of directors for Alignment Healthcare, Author Health, Equality Health, Included Health, Marathon Health, NationsBenefits, and WelbeHealth. He is a board observer for Biofourmis, Stellar Health, and Vida Health. Robb graduated from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce with a B.S. in Finance. He also serves as a board member for The Idea Village and the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Hospital
Private Equity, Series D, Seed
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.
Vida Health — Find out why so many organizations are using Vida to treat physical and mental conditions in one platform.
Author Health — Author Health is a platform that provides comprehensive care and treatment for Medicare Advantage recipients with substance use disorders and severe mental illnesses. The company offers a team-based approach to care, grouping specialized physicians, therapists, nurses, and community health workers to give a mix of in-person and virtual care forpatients who are often disconnected from the traditional healthcare system. Author Health launched from stealth in 2023 with $115 million in funding led by General Atlantic and Flare Capital Partners.

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.

Bruno Soares is a Brazilian Tennis player and owns fund MadFish.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ease Labs International — Site Institucional da Ease Labs Group

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.

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Cassio Spina is an entrepreneur and an angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry.He founded and started-up his first business when he was 19 years-old which was a data communications software development company and after successful growth of his business, after completing his graduation in Electronics Engineering, he startedhis second business, Trellis, a computer networking hardware manufacturer.He developed Trellis as a major player in Brazil in computer networking industry, acquiring and merging other companies and receiving investment from VCs. After 18 years, he completed this entrepreneur cycle selling it and started-up investing in new companies as angel investor and founded Anjos do Brasil (www.anjosdobrasil.net), an angel network focused on fostering angel investment for supporting innovative entrepreneurs.Cassio is also the co-founder and responsible for the strategy of ZoeMob, the global mobile family assistant service with a cloud-based platform back-end for providing protection, interaction, and organization for/between parents, kids and care givers.He is also the author of the book "Investidor-Anjo - Guia Prático para Empreendedores e Investidores" (transl. "Angel-Investor - Pratical Guide for Entrepreneur and Investors").

Investment focus

iOS, Software, Location Based Services
Seed, Angel
Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Startupi — Startupi is a knowledge base on the Brazilian innovation, business, entrepreneurship and technology market. Founded in December 2008, it collaborated to build the Brazilian startups ecosystem, informing and educating the market about what these startups were and how they would become so important. Over the years, Startupi has collaborated with themost diverse initiatives and programs to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in Brazil, as well as aggregate key knowledge and inspire everyone with an innovative spirit. In March / 15 it was acquired by BEATS Brasil and will continue to be an independent and important channel for information, relationships and business generation between Startups-Investors-Customers-Government-Media-Market. We reinforce our commitment to transparency, collaboration. We want to raise the name of STARTUPI to a new level - the best communication vehicle in the country for the Startups ecosystem. Count on us because we count on you, let's go!
Sling Hub — Startup ecosystem data
ZoeMob — ZoeMob provides a mobile family safety service based on tablets and smartphones designed for parents who wish to ensure their children and family members are protected and safe anytime, anywhere, and personal users looking for a reliable mobile device service for protect their personal data and privacy.ZoeMob was founded by Daniel Avizu and HelioFreitas. They are two experienced Internet software enginner and Internet business professional who met at AOL Latin America joint venture and later they have worked in other big technology and media companies for more than 10 years.ZoeMob main features: - Symbian, Android, IOS and Blackberry* compatibiliy - Full localization and tracking monitor - Driving safety features (alerts and actions) - Geo fence (alerts and actions) - Callback - Full Remote control - Direct Message broadcasting - Facebook integration - Device content monitoring - Security features (lock, wipe, alarm, panic buttom)

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.

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

Founder and Co-CEO of GuiaBolso.com - personal finance website which acts as a virtual financial advisor for the Brazilian middle class, using advanced algorithms to help users restructure their debt and spending.Prior to GuiaBolso, was a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company with extensive experience developing growth, business andcorporate strategies in multiple industries in Brazil. Developed distinctive knowledge on financial services (especially insurance, payments and consumer loan). Also enjoyed a leadership position at UNESCO/Alfabetização Solidária and worked at Accenture.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Legal Tech
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.
Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform — Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform helps originators find funding and helps investors find great high yield investments

Movile's Founder & CEO, Fabricio Bloisi turned Movile from a startup in a garage in Brazil into a global player in mobile marketplaces. Currently, Movile has over 1600 employees, 15 offices – based in 6 different countries – and serves monthly more than 150 million mobile customers worldwide. Bloisi majored in Computer Science at theState University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and concluded a Master degree in Business Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP) – his thesis gathers High-Growth startups, Innovations and Strategy. Bloisi has also concluded the Executive Program for Growing Companies, Strategy, Finance, Leadership for companies in the growth phase at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His dream is to create a company that make's 1 billion lives better through Movile’s mobile businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
Brazil, Colombia, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
BioLinker — BioLinker is a production of synthetic biology, protein synthesis kits, and protein.
Mercadoni — Mercadoni operates an online shopping platform that allows customers to purchase from stores and supermarkets from their homes. It sells groceries, alcoholic beverages, and more. Antonio Nunes, Pedro Freire, Margarita Freitas, Francesco Lanzi and Nicolas Fernández Talice founded Mercadoni in 2015. It has its headquarters in Bogota in Colombia.

Paulo Chapchap is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Health Care, Personal Health, Health Insurance
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

PsycoAI — PsycoAI provides empathetic and personalized emotional support, enhancing the customer experience. Identify the individual needs of each user, personalize support plans, and offer proactive assistance, leading to improved well-being outcomes.

Benjamin Gleason is the Founder and Angel Investor of Beta Ventures. He previously worked at Groupon Brasil as a Managing Director and CFO. Benjamin Gleason attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.
Beacon Founders — Beacon is the exclusive private banking service designed for tech founders in LATAM. Our services include Equity Pool, Wealth Management, and Digital Family Office. Request an invitation today.
Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling

Founder of dr. consulta

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Productivity Tools
Seed, Series A
Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Examedi — Examedi is a healthcare startup that provides nurse and lab technician services directly at patients' homes for appointments. Examedi connects the availabilities of healthcare providers with patients.
Genial Care — Genial Care is an education and support space for those who care for children with autism.

Was involved in Mergers and Acquisitions market over the past few years.During the period from 2010 to 2013 participated in several transactions in different segments of the economy in the IGC Partners, a leading boutique M & A in Brazil. From 2012 to 2013, was responsible for the opening of the regional office of the IGC in Recife, withthe responsibility of developing the market of northeastern Brazil.He also worked at Finvest, structured transaction fund/special situations for the Brazilian market.He holds a degree in Economics from Insper (former Ibmec SP).

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, FinTech
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Salu — Salu provides complete management in occupational health in a digitalized and centralized way.
Dolado — Dolado allows SMBs to have access to the technologies that are only available to more sophisticated players. By doing this, it empowers small companies to bring more efficiency on the way they sell, buy and manage their business. To improve the way merchants sells, Dolado provides a digital catalog that allows the setup of a digital storefront inless than 3 minutes. On the buying side, it offers a B2B Marketplace that connects merchants to top wholesalers and give them access to the best deals. Dolado also offers a Digital Bookkeeping application that serves as a digital ledger to help business owners easily record sales, expenses, and cash transactions in one place.

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

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Joaquim Palhares is the Founder at Stealth Startup. Joaquim is an entrepreneur and investor. He is also a Limited Partner at EquityRio, a venture capital seed fund based in Rio de Janeiro and backed by some of the best investors in Brazil. He is serial founder, active angel investor and advisor to startups. Joaquim graduated from the ESPM with abachelor's degree in Management and Marketing.

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Curseria — Curseria is an online learning platform that offers courses taught by experts in various fields. The company's education and inspiration platform aim to make distance learning more accessible to everyone. The company's platform works with celebrities and renowned professionals in each field as teachers, allowing students to learn in a funformat through their idols.
Central da Visão — Central da Visão is a social impact healthtech. We connect people without health insurance to partner clinics that provide more affordable eye surgery.

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.