Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Brazil in December 2024

Investor	Internet Brazil investments
Leonardo Teixeira	8
Romero Rodrigues	6
Ariel Lambrecht	6
Brian Requarth	6
Marcelo Sampaio	5
Mauricio Feldman	4
Florian Otto	4
Renan Constantino	3
Simon Baker	3
Andréa Nogueira, CFA	3
Fabrice Grinda	3
Shaun Di Gregorio	3
Luiz Eduardo Perna	3
Mario Letelier	2
Bernardo de Barros Franco	2
Eduardo Gouveia	2
Romero Rodrigues	2
Paulo Silveira	2
Errol Damelin	2
Kai Schoppen	2
Renato Freitas	2
Américo Pereira Filho	2
Juscelino Martins	2
Julio Vasconcellos	2
Diego Gomes	2
Hans Tung	2
Cassio Jose Krupinsk	2
Guilherme Bonifacio	2
Cassio Spina	2
Greg Waldorf	2
Rodrigo Dantas	2
Wensceslao Casares	2
Ignacio Vilela	2
Adeyemi Ajao	2
Yves Nogueira	2
Rodrigo Borges	2
Vinicius Marchini	2
Anderson de Andrade	2
Andreas Penna	2
Eduardo Casarini	1
Igor Mascarenhas	1
Ricardo Normand	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Sebastian Mejia	1
Nasir Jones	1
Donato Ramos	1
Ian McNish	1
Eduardo Haber	1
Jason Calacanis	1
Jose Inacio Ferreira de Souza	1

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.

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.

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.

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, SaaS, Software
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).

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.

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.

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).

Renan Constantino

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Simon Baker - Executive Chairman @ Property Portal Watch

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management, Internet
Seed, Series B
Brazil, Thailand, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures

Investment focus

Analytics, Advertising, Apps
Seed
Brazil, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SmartMEI — SmartMEI Estamos construindo um novo site | Smart Mei
StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Recognised as a global leader in the online classifieds arena, Founder of Frontier Digital Ventures, Shaun Di Gregorio is a former CEO of ASX listed company, iProperty Group (ASX: IPP), operator of Asia’s #1 network of property portals. During his four and a half year tenure there (2014-2009), Shaun spearheaded the transformation of iProperty Groupfrom a small online business with a market capitalisation of US$15 million into the largest listed Internet company in ASEAN with a market capitalisation of US$600 million.Under Shaun’s leadership, iProperty Group experienced growth in all key metrics, achieving revenue growth by 500 per cent and clientele exceeding more than 25,000 agents. Profitability was also achieved, with the business becoming cash flow positive, while the share price increased by 4000 per cent giving shareholders a 15 times return on investment on the original AU$0.25 price per share. iProperty Group was also added to the ASX300, a list of 300 largest public companies on the Australian Securities Exchange.Prior to this, Shaun spent eight years as General Manager at Australia-based REA Group, a global leader and publisher of as many as 20 real estate websites in 12 countries. As General Manager of the core Australian business and global leader ‘realestate.com.au’, Shaun grew the business alongside a team of eight people with revenue of AU$5million into a company with more than 300 staff and revenues exceeding AU$150 million.Shaun was also appointed General Manager, International Operations, overseeing five businesses and 16 brands that REA had previously acquired. During this period he identified long-term strategic opportunities in Hong Kong and Italy and instituted initiatives that improved operational margins by 30 per cent in France, Germany, Luxemburg and Dubai.Shaun is a non-Executive Director of iCar Asia (ASX:ICQ), Asia’s leading operator of online automotive portals, an advisor to online classifieds businesses around the world, and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

VivaReal — VivaReal is an online real estate marketplace that connects buyers, sellers, and renters with properties in Brazil. It enables its users to sell, buy, rent, or invest in residential and commercial properties, vacation homes, beachfront properties, and investment properties.VivaReal lists approximately 5 million properties on its site and has over15 million visits every month.The company was launched in 2009 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Luiz Eduardo Perna

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Mario Letelier is the General Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Linte — Linte helps companies to lower expenses with lawsuits using document assembly and marketplace tools. Linte offers a cloud-based solution that automates repetitive tasks, quickly, cheaply and safely, with the best practices of usability and design. Users can handle contracts, processes, and documents in an efficient and smart way.Linte was foundedon 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Prontmed — Prontmed organizes and integrates health information with an intuitive Electronic Medical Record. It develops the technologies that facilitates the day-to-day medical and hospital procedures. The main function of electronic medical records is to facilitate and support the care of patients. Therefore, the company focuses on optimizing the time ofdoctors, ensures high availability of the system, and assists in maintaining the quality of care. The features of the product are automatic configuration, security and reliability, simplified navigation, excellence support, and smart prescription.Prontmed is a Brazil-based company that was founded in 1996 by Wang Feng.
Qual Canal — Qual Canal provides social TV analytics for advertisers and TV stations willing to know more about their audiences. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

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.

Investment focus

CRM, SMS, SaaS
Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

u.sit — Gamer sejati baik veteran hingga pemula banyak bermain di Batman138, situs permain online legend di Indonesia, tetap tampil 24 jam menjelang 2025.
Aulalivre — The Aulalivre Project is a preparatory course for entrance exams and Enem, distributed free of charge through the internet. Its objective is to bring to the greatest number of Brazilians the knowledge necessary to reach a university position, giving equal chances to those who do not have the time and / or money to invest in their owneducation.

Eduardo Gouveia

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
Marvin. — marvin. is a company that facilitate the credit and payment flow between suppliers and retailers.

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.

CEO and founder at Caelum Alura

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
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Founder & CEO Infracommerce Internet entrepreneur and business angel in Brazil

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Retail
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vuxx — Vuxx offers a modular one-stop-shop freight solution for industries and retailers: routing, quoting, dispatching, real-time tracking, billing, and analytics on top of a digital marketplace with independent truck drivers.
Printi — Printi is a B2B e-commerce company that aims on breaking the lack of transparency and efficiency in printed products.. Printi is disrupting the inefficient US & Latin American printing market. Utilizing sophisticated technology and the scale of the internet, Printi offers lowest prices, high quality, and a broad product portfolio tocorporations of all sizes.Printi was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Renato Freitas

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Software, Database
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jestor — Jestor helps you automate your tasks and mange your company without the need to increase your team.
FestaLab — FestaLab is an all in one event planning platform that helpers users organize parties, weddings, baby showers and meetups in just a few clicks.
Worc — Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.

Américo Pereira Filho

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Computer
Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kangu — Kangu is a vertically integrated network of drop-off and pick-up points for e-commerce logistics. Kangu solves an important infrastructure problem by connecting small online sellers, e commerce companies, transporters and 3rd party logistics providers, and consumers in an integrated platform to handle the drop-off, return/pick-up, andtransport of packages sold online.
Infleet — Infleet provides transparency and agility through an integrative hub involving the main verticals of logistics and equipment management.
HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.

Juscelino Martins

Investment focus

Retail, Grocery, Delivery
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Shopper — Industry leading NPS, Shopper.com.br is the best replenishment system for Brazilian consumers."Reducing our loss of time and money with repetitive activities" Shopper.com.br is a startup whose mission is to build a more efficient world, where essential products arrive at people's homes as easily as water arrives at the tap. Ourview of "efficiency" is complete: we look at both the waste of resources along the production and distribution chain of products and services (which generate unnecessarily high prices for the final consumer), and the waste of resources and time that end consumers spend to find, buy and enjoy these products and services. Our mission is to build a more efficient world in this direction. A world where people lose less money and time with monotonous, routine, everyday, unnecessary activities. We want to build such a world using innovative technology and business models, always with highly qualified and committed people on the team. Our first challenge is to improve the efficiency of the distribution chain and supply of essential consumer products: cleaning products, personal hygiene and non-perishable food. We do this through our online platform for monthly sales and deliveries of grocery products. Our recurrence model allows us to have no inventory and have high predictability of demand, generating efficiency, which is passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices (~10% cheaper).

Julio Vasconcellos is the Managing Partner of Atlantico. He previously worked at Prefer as a CEO. Julio Vasconcellos attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
Volanty — Volanty is a digital used car marketplace that digital second-hand car mall for pre-owned cars. For the seller, the company simplifies the entire sales process from inspecting and photographing the car to negotiating with potential buyers while reducing bureaucracy. For the buyer, Volanty makes buying used cars safe, convenient and moretransparent by selecting only the best cars and providing thorough information about the vehicle and seller. They use technology to connect sellers and buyers securely and efficiently, eliminating middlemen such as stores and dealers and thus maximizing the selling value of your car. The marketplace goal is to create a new era for those looking to sell or buy their car.Volanty was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro.

Entrepreneur, angel investor and SaaS expert.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deskfy — Deskfy is a brand portal that enables centralize your brand management and get a complete picture of your marketing processes, your entire team and your agency in one place. Is a brand automation platform that enables marketers to work together in the management, distribution, customization and validation of communication materials.
B2B Stack — B2B Stack is the Latam leading marketplace for B2B software buying and selling. The marketplace has a comprehensive database of listed B2B software and services, real user reviews, and comparison features. Through an end-to-end digital workflow, it helps buyers with discovering products, comparing, and managing their purchasing process. It alsohelps vendors with promoting their products, capturing quality traffic, intent data, and demand generation. B2B Stack is bringing the Latam B2B solutions buying experience towards the e-commerce era.The company was founded in 2019, operates remotely (mainly in São Paulo).
SourceLevel — Pull Request Metrics and Automated Code Review - SourceLevel

Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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)

Greg Waldorf is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the former CEO of Invoice2go, the mobile app that helps small businesses manage their cash flow through easy-to-use invoicing, expense tracking and simple reporting tools. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Gregwas affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony for five years from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide.He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
Rubik — Rubik is a data platform for Real Estate investors. We leverage Machine Learning to provide financial data on all single family homes. Real Estate investors use Rubik to instantly find properties that match their investment criteria.
Backflip — With fast analysis, tailored loans, and a smoother funding process, Backflip gives you the confidence and the cash to close your next great property deal.

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.

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
Chile, Brazil, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Tril — Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).
Pago Rural —

Ignacio Vilela - Partner @ Junipero Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Cyber Security
Secondary Market, Seed, Series A
United States, Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
Authy — Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional layer of protection beyond passwords. Download our free app today and follow our easy to use guides to protect your accounts and personal information.
SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Dropbox DocSend — Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.
StockGro — Learn stock market trading and investing from industry experts. Use our platform to build your social trading circle and understand the stock market.
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Yves Nogueira

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Infleet — Infleet provides transparency and agility through an integrative hub involving the main verticals of logistics and equipment management.
HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.

Rodrigo Borges is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at DOMO Invest.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
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.
BovControl — BovControl started providing cloud-based data collection app for cattle management and livestock ranchers. Its apps provides reports, graphics, and analysis of cattle production, through multiple perspectives: processors, brands, ranchers, employees of the farms and technical consultants.Danilo Leao founded BovControl on July 1, 2013. It has itsheadquarters in Silicon Valley and Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Netshow.me — Netshow.me is an internet startup that offers an online stage where entertainers, including musicians and comedians are able to earn money by broadcasting their live performances. It also enables fans to interact with their favorite artists.Many artists, including Fresno, Wanessa Camargo, Luiza Possi, Eduardo Sterblitch, PC Siqueira, and ConeCrew Diretoria have performed on Netshow.me.Netshow.me was launched in October 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Vinicius Marchini - CEO / Co-Founder @ Brilia

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Search Engine
Angel, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kekanto — Kekanto is a social network that can be used to exchange reviews and recommendations on places and services. It consists of a community of people, who enjoys exploring the city, sharing opinions, and meeting new people. Kekanto was founded in 2010 by Bruno Yoshimura, Fernando Okumura, and Allan Panossian. It is based in São Paulo.

Anderson de Andrade is a Partner at Bzplan.

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate, Online Portals
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Imóveis-SC — Imóveis-SC is a service center for online audience, digital marketing and technology for real estate business.

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bonsai — Bridging content and commerce. Bonsai brings together products people love and the content they can't get enough of.
Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.

Eduardo Casarini is Founder at Flores Online

Investment focus

Internet, Automotive, Marketplace
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Canal da Peça S.A. — Canal da Peça S.A. is a cloud-based platform which connects different stakeholders from the auto parts aftermarket by associating industry technical information with distribution chain inventories and enabling professionals and vehicle owners to access this information through multiple front-ends, as marketplaces, B2B and B2C e-commerce, and custommade webpages. The company's mission is to combine brands, retailers, and auto parts distributors and publish efficiently on online media platforms, helping people find parts and allowing companies large or small offer technical products to professionals.Canal da Peça S.A. was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Igor Mascarenhas

Investment focus

Education, InsurTech, E-Learning
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
Scaleup — Scaleup offers e-learning experience that aid schools and other educators to deliver educational content through its platform.

Ricardo Normand - CEO @ FCJ Venture Builder

Investment focus

Internet, Home Decor
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hometeka — Hometeka connects brands of architecture and decoration to an ever-growing community of thousands of consumers across Brazil. A product portal, inspiration and technical content with everything you need to build or decorate your home.

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

Donato Ramos

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Private Equity
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

B4A — B4A is redefining the beauty industry in Brazil, the world's 4th largest beauty market. We operate several business units, both B2C and B2B, such as Glambox, the largest beauty subscription service of LATAM, and Men's Market, the largest male-focused beauty e-commerce of Brazil.
Anna Pegova — Anna Pegova is a specialist in treating skins and the balance and stability of the concentrated and high-performance assets ensure immediate and prolonged action, which makes a reference in dermo-cosmetics with results in the country. They provide products for skin care, skin types, face, eyes, lips, and more.

Ian McNish - Mentor @ StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)

Investment focus

Software, CAD, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
Savitude — Savitude, a SaaS B2B company, offers brands and retailers a design-focused, consumer centric computer vision and analytics platform for best fit and assortment optimization to improve margins, reduce returns and increase consumer retention.
Ginkgo Bioworks — Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Eduardo Haber is Founder and CIO of Nomad. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Wedding
Seed
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Balko — We are a Brazilian fintech with the mission to democratize alternative investments for all. We work to diversify your investment portfolio offering legal claims that have no correlation with the stock market. Everything is digital and safe, with specialized legal teams ready to help multiply your assets.
Joy — Experience wedding planning the way it should be, from beautiful wedding websites and invitations, to registries and online RSVP.
Compass — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
CyberFilm AI — Bring your story to life!

Jose Inacio Ferreira de Souza is the CEO of ADAPTA BANK.

Investment focus

Elderly, Online Portals, Professional Services
Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vida60mais — Vida60mais offers professional services and online marketplace services for individuals of age above 60 years.