Top 15 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in November 2024
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Brazil. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Brazil. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in November 2024
Investor | Hospitality Brazil investments |
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Valor Capital Group | 2 |
Canary | 2 |
HIX Capital | 1 |
Plataforma Capital Partners | 1 |
VentureFriends | 1 |
Grão | 1 |
Karlani Capital | 1 |
Bossanova Investimentos | 1 |
Indicator Capital | 1 |
big_bets | 1 |
monashees | 1 |
Unblock Ventures | 1 |
Barn Investments | 1 |
APEX Partners | 1 |
Polaris Investimentos | 1 |
Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital.
It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
- XP Health — XP Health is a health tech startup introducing a new kind of vision benefit for employees leveraging machine learning.Founded in 2019 by Antonio Moraes and James Wong, XP Health is an AI-powered vision benefits platform for employees and their families to get frames from the world’s leading designers like Tom Ford, Ray-Ban, Armani, Gucci, Coach.Its proprietary deep learning model uses facial recognition technology that recommends the best frames based on facial dimensions with 98% accuracy. The company is working with companies like Chegg, Zenefits, and Sequoia Consulting Group.
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Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
Hix Capital is a Public Equities focused investment firm, also investing in private equity and late stage growth capital.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Brazil
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- F360° — F360° provides SaaS solution for SMB Retail and Franchise Management.
- Mola Corban — Mola is an efficient solution that boost banking correspondents
- Omie — Omie is a Brazilian held software house that develops Cloud ERP and CRM for small and medium companies. The software is a platform for integrating companies and accounting firms, so it promotes and sells through an ecosystem where entrepreneurs and accountants are bound by consultants, the enablers. Omie DNA is simple, intuitive and affordable.Omie was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
Based in Brazil, Plataforma Capital is a growth capital firm focused on investments in early-stage companies.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Set you — Set you is an online retailer of vitamins, minerals, herbal medicines, and nutritional supplements.
- EvoBooks — EvoBooks is a mobile and VR interactive learning experiences for schools. EvoBooks offers interactive learning platforms for mobile and VR/AR. Its main focus is in the area of Basic Education, at the levels of Elementary and Middle School, both in private schools and public schools.
- Tupinamba — Tupinamba develops electric charging solutions.
Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
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- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.
- Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!
A venture capital firm, backed by a family office, which invests in early stage startups in Brazil and VC funds from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Lexter.ai — Lexter.ai is the first SaaS platform that helps legal teams in Brazil gain efficiency by automating documents' analysis and revision using AI. Lexter's technology is capable of automatically reviewing contracts based on each client's strategy and is already being used by companies such as Gerdau, Votorantim Cimentos and Suzano.
- Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
- 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.
Karlani Capital is an operating fund started by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We love creating new ideas that change lives for the better, creating wealth for our entrepreneurs and their employees, and creating new products that democratize humanity through better access or simpler ways to do things. And we really love being part of thecommunities we serve. We love life, period. While we take our work very seriously, we don’t take ourselves very seriously. When it really comes down to it, we believe: • Our calling is improving lives by what we do.
• Integrity is in our DNA.
• Opportunity exists everywhere; we just have to find it.
• If it doesn’t sell, we don’t do it.
• Life is better when you’re laughing, through both happiness and sadness. We’re looking for like-minded people who want to go on this journey with us, with plenty of joy, laughter and occasional tears along the way, enriching humanity through what we do.Value PropositionKarlani Capital has one main objective: to enable the growth and success of ideas that are original, interesting and useful to people. At the core, Karlani is an operating fund lead by a group of master operators with the expertise to help grow companies from 1 to 1,000+ employees, as well as from $1 to over a billion dollars in valuation, and even assist you into taking your company into the public markets. As your partner, our goal is to add exceptional value with every investment we make. But that’s not all. We want you enjoy the sheer exhilaration of being an entrepreneur. As seasoned entrepreneurs, we know how emotionally and mentally draining building your business can be. Chances are that the pain points you are experiencing in your start up are things we’ve already been through; and we’re happy to advise you through them. Our vast, combined expertise (which includes, though is not limited to, entrepreneurship, technology, finance, adtech, enterprise software, sales execution, HR, operations, product development, eCommerce, digital marketing, branding, mobile tech, and retail) can help you attain the true potential of your idea or product. We will support your growth by helping you define your business’ strategy and future direction for successful growth. Our singular objective is to help you execute; not to add reporting requirements. Our portfolio companies have told us they love the discipline we help bring, and that we enable them to thrive both financially and as a workplace of choice. We have a strong value system that aims to enrich humanity through what we do, which is reflected in our portfolio of partner companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- Spren — Spren powers digital health, wellness, and fitness experiences with unique, heart rate variability based biomarker insights.
- Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
- Optimity — We apply behavioral science through gamification, incentives, and the power of communities to nudge consumers in making better, healthier choices.As a B2B platform, our large health community becomes a cost-effective lead-gen funnel. Our first set of clients are life insurance companies: Acquisition economics in life insurance are painfullywasteful: 70% of their total cost is spent on acquiring new policyholders. Our products help them acquire high-quality leads at the lowest cost, dramatically improving their acquisition economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- SenseUp — SenseUp provides IoT, big data, machine learning, and computer vision for the real-time needs of the financial market. It improves the way organizations interact with data by using microintegrations to orchestrate different data sources, consumers, and data flows in support of processes and decision-making.
- Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.
- Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.
Founded in 2014, Indicator Capital is a Brazilian venture capital firm operating in Sao Paulo and the Silicon Valley. The partnership formed by Derek Lundgren Bittar, Fabio Iunis de Paula, and Thomas Lundgren Bittar, promotes the convergence between the dream of the entrepreneur and the financial return for the investor, tropicalizing American bestpractices to national startups. With more than R$ 270MM under management, Indicator Capital is the largest early-stage venture capital firm in Latin America specialized in Internet of Things (IoT). In their investments, the partners apply value-adding, proprietary methodology Building Value Together®, besides acting as Investors for Good, a concept reinforced by the firm`s certification as a B System™ company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States
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- Neowrk — Neowrk is an application that manages the employee's journey in the various workspaces of corporate offices.
- CTA Smart — CTA Plus is a company that specializes in the production and sale of measuring instruments. Their product range includes measurement instruments, indicators, solenoid valves, and robotics. They also offer a solution for internal supply automation for fleets, which can potentially save companies up to 20% on fuel costs. Their products, such as theShaft Type Rotary Torque Transducer, utilize strain gauge technology and offer digital display, analogue, and relay output functions. These products can be used with various types of sensors, including load and torque sensors.
- umgrauemeio — We developed a methodology to tackle wildfires in their early stages by providing specific and proper technology to assist the main 5 operational pillars of wildfire combat and turned it into a tangible cycle that monitors and provides real-time solutions to act on prevention, detection, communication, mobilization, and fire combat planning.
Big_bets is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate business development.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Poland, Uruguay
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- Porfin — Fintech, AI
- Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
- UME Financial Services — Ume is a credit platform capable of reaching competitive prices and creating an economic environment to make credit simple and democratic.
monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. With a human-values-first approach, monashees helps founders challenge the statusquo and improve people’s lives through technology. The monashees community includes over 150 companies and 300+ founders.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
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- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
- 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.
Unblock Ventures is a corporate token venture fund that invests in blockchain businesses via tokens. The company was based in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- Finance, Payments, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States
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- Mimic — BIRU4D adalah platform judi online yang menawarkan berbagai jenis permainan taruhan, termasuk togel (toto gelap) dan permainan kasino. Para pengguna dapat memasang taruhan pada berbagai jenis pasaran togel dari berbagai negara, serta menikmati permainan kasino seperti slot, blackjack, roulette, dan banyak lagi.
- Otto Tech — Otto will guide you how to get your finances up to date, make more dreams and share your budget with your family! You do not need to be a financial expert to have a balanced financial life.
- ToGarantido — Omnichannel platform for microinsurance selling focused on low income populations. Performs as online broker.
Barn Investments is a Venture Capital firm dedicated to early stage, seed and Series A investments in the Brazilian and Latin American Market.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, Israel, Argentina
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- Rúmina — Rúmina engages in providing digital solutions for dairy and beef farmers. Its multi-product platform is designed to promote efficiency gains across the production process. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
- Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
- Nextron Energia — Nextron was born to democratize access to renewable energy and encourage investments in distributed renewable energy assets. We're an “energy-as-a-service” clean-tech platform that simplifies access to renewable energy through a seamless digital experience that unlocks value throughout the entire renewable energy supply chain in Brazil.
APEX Partners is a platform for alternative investments and financial services, specialized in resource management and corporate finance, based on strong values and guided by the objective of developing the financial market in the state of Espírito Santo.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Delivery
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil
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- MyDoor — MyDoor is a proptech startup building the practice of co-owning a Vacation Home with full hospitality services.
- Bankme — Bankme is a fintech that creates and operates mini banks for companies.
- ATW Delivery Brands — A pioneering group, specialized in developing restaurants to work only in our dark kitchens. Over 850 digital restaurants in 160 cities.
Polaris is a venture capital investment fund, operating only with its own resources, without third party funding. It is headquartered in Brasília, but operates throughout Brazil, seeking investment opportunities in new companies or in operation within several areas.More than just providing financial capital, Polaris seeks to value the companiesin which it invests, through an active partnership. It intends to always be the minority partner, committed to long-term partnership projects.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
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- Automni — Automni develops products and solutions for industrial automation such as autonomous industrial vehicles. It was founded in 2014.
- Incentiv — Incentiv.me is a tax innovation taxtech that offers products and services to the ecosystem of incentive laws.
- Agenzia Mkt — marketing digital, inteligência artificial, data science, machine learning
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