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Top 10 Life Science Startup Investors in Brazil (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Brazil Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Brazil Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
SP Ventures
VC Fund
2 Brazil, United States, Argentina Series A, Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Software $344k–$14M
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Roivant Sciences
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma $13M–$86M
CVENTURES
VC Fund
1 Brazil Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $181k–$3M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$5M
Bold Capital
VC Fund
1 Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology $191k–$1.3M
Inseed Investimentos
VC Fund
1 Brazil Series A, Seed Information Technology, Agriculture, AgTech $271k–$10M
NTT Data
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Corporate Round, Series B Information Technology, Software, Marketing $1.9M–$177M
DOMO.VC
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $44k–$2.5M
Armínio Fraga
Angel
1 Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A EdTech, Education, Recruiting
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SP Ventures
VC Fund · Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 2 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

Portfolio (Fundo de Inovação Paulista)Launched in 2014, Fundo de Inovação Paulista (FIP) is a R$ 105 Million Venture Capital Fund that counts with top tier Limited Partners: Desenvolve SP, FINEP, FAPESP, Sebrae-SP, CAF, and Jive Investments. FIP is focused on technology-based startups located in the state of São Paulo, the most importanteconomic pole in Brazil. Investment tickets vary from R$ 2 Million to R$ 6 Million per company, on average, but can reach R$ 15 Million including follow-ons.Track-Record (Fundo Criatec I)SP Ventures was established in 2007 as the Venture Capital firm responsible for Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Criatec I was a cornerstone in Brazilian Venture Capital Industry led by BNDES and BNB. From 2007 to 2013, over 1,200 companies were analyzed and 8 investments were made by SP Ventures.EntrepreneursWe back technology-based companies in the segments of Agricultural Technologies; Information and Communication Technologies; Health Technologies; New Materials; and Nanotechnologies.We seek investment opportunities with the following profile:- Passionate entrepreneurs with solid technical background and market-orientated attitude- Proprietary technology with high scalability potential- Large proportions targeted-market- São Paulo based- Annual Revenue inferior to R$ 18 Million"

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Argentina

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $562k–$3.7M; Series A $344k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
  • AIMIRIM — AIMIRIM provides integrated technology solutions for simulation and visualization of industrial processes. It was created in 2010 with the main goal to offer a complete solution in engineering projects for industry, involving Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Aside from this, AIMIRIM also offers turbulence problem solving or modeling.
  • Produzindo Certo — Produzindo Certo focuses on providing solutions in the farming industry. The company offers a digital platform that automates agricultural processes, aiming to enhance efficiency and sustainability. It engages in projects that promote responsible farming practices, including carbon management and sustainable soybean production. The companycollaborates with ranchers and other stakeholders to implement pilot projects that transform social and environmental practices in agriculture.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in Brazil Life Science startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Roivant Sciences
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

Roivant Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company focused on completing the development of promising late-stage drug candidates.Roivant’s mission is to reduce the time and cost of developing new medicines for patients and to share those savings with the healthcare system. Roivant does this by building Vants - nimble, entrepreneurial biotech andhealthcare technology companies with a unique approach to sourcing talent, aligning incentives, and deploying the technology. In addition to its biopharmaceutical subsidiaries, Roivant also builds technology-focused Vants focused on improving the process of developing and commercializing medicines.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $13M–$86M; Series A $21M–$48M; Series B $30M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Proxima — Proxima Bio develops programmable medicines that modulate protein interactions to address disease processes. It focuses on creating proximity-modulating therapeutics that direct protein interactions for potential use in conditions such as autoimmune disorders and cancer, expanding the range of targets that traditional drugs cannot easily reach.Proxima Bio combines structural biology, data generation, and machine learning to identify actionable protein-protein interfaces and support the discovery of new therapeutic modalities. The company works with pharmaceutical partners to apply its platform in research collaborations and advance drug discovery pipelines. Proxima Bio’s platform integrates multiple technologies to support the design and discovery of novel proximity-based treatment approaches.
  • Lokavant — Bring the best in artificial intelligence and human insight to let you see and solve risks before they happen, keeping your study on time and on budget.
  • Zest Health — Zest Dermatology is a value-based virtual clinic specializing in high-quality, cost-effective care for patients with eczema and psoriasis. As a subsidiary of Roivant, Zest partners with health plans, employers, pharmacy consultants, and brokers to optimize dermatology care while reducing specialty drug costs. Recognized by the V1C Coalition for itscommitment to evidence-based care, Zest participates in initiatives like the National Psoriasis Foundation's CP3 study to improve patient outcomes. By aligning with leading dermatologists and leveraging data-driven care models, Zest delivers innovative solutions for chronic skin conditions at scale.
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CVENTURES
VC Fund · Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

Our mission is to develop these ventures from capital assets, networking and mentoring in reference to innovation environments in the country, such as universities, research institutes, incubators and technology parks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $181k–$3M; Series A $633k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $17M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Hariken — Every second a website produces thousands of information about each visitor such as, pages accessed, interests, purchases made, origin, time, among others. With this information collected and targeted, Hariken can generate profiles and organize them by creating a strategic big date. In addition, Hariken allows this data to be used in the mainactivation tools: CRMs, Email Marketing, Yahoo / Oath / Doubleclick, Appnexus, and even Facebook and Instagram. Hariken not only collects and organizes information but also works so that the manager has full control of all the data generated in the company and the freedom to access them whenever they want. Hariken is a data hub and the possibilities are endless. Some cross data online with Offline, others exchange data with partner companies; lease data from non-competing companies to strengthen their campaigns, etc. Anyway, the data is yours and the decision on how best to take advantage of them as well.
  • Sensorweb — Sensorweb is a technology company that develops solutions with the Internet of Things for Health, connecting environments, devices, and people. Sensorweb helps institutions in their journey of success, through innovation and excellence of its services.
  • Wevo — Wevo is the first iPaaS in Latin America, a SaaS platform for APIs, systems and data integrations, with pre-built connectors to connect different kinds of softwares like Magento, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Zendesk, VTEX, Rakuten, Mercado Livre, among other applications, with customers in 10 countries.
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 649
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $40k–$653k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
  • Sukha — The Focus App for Healthy Productivity. Sukha offers focus music, timers, AI assistants and more while you work.
  • Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
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Bold Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

Bold Capital is a micro Venture Capital firm in Brazil that invests on early stage Healthtechs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $191k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cor.Sync — Fast and accurate infarction diagnosis for hospital emergency care. High sensitivity quantitative test of cardiac troponin level in less than 10 minutes with just one drop of blood. Learn more about corsync point of care.
  • Viziomed — Viziomed offers artificial intelligence solutions for image-oriented health diagnostic services such as radiography and mammography.
  • Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.
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Inseed Investimentos
VC Fund · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

Inseed is a Brazilian venture capital firm that invests in seed and early stages.It manages three of the largest brazilian VC funds:- Criatec, with R$100 million, invested seed money in 36 innovative tech companies from all sectors throughout Brazil. It is closed for new investments and focused on increasing the portfolio companies value;-FIMA, with R$150 million, invested in 11 early stage cleantech companies, specially on waste management, renewable energy, agriculture and building materials industries. The fund started on January 2013. It is closed for investmentsand focused on increasing the portfolio companies value;- Criatec 3, with R$220 million, started investing on January 2016. It's focused on innovative hard tech startups. Invested in 14 companies and still open with R$3 million as the target ticket for Seed or Series A rounds.Inseed has offices on Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Agriculture, AgTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$1.1M; Series A $271k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dom Rock — Dom Rock is a provider of cloud-based analysis solutions designed and built to be a unified business data integrity environment in a simple, fast, and assertive way. It captures any kind of data from any source, whether in the form of texts, PDF files, transactions, or records of releases.Dom Rock unifies and publishes analyzes with fulltraceability eliminating the arduous task of incurring long processes in the search for data under deadlines pressure, often non-negotiable and having assertiveness in sensitive issues involving impact on cash generation of companies.Dom Rock was founded in 2013 and it has offices in Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, and Campinas in Sao Paulo Estate of Brazil.
  • Chatbot Maker — Chatbot Maker helps companies get more customers by automatically capturing leads using a chatbot. The platform helps customers use messaging applications to do marketing, sell more, and create relationships in a personalized, private, and automatic way through chatbots.Its service includes design, strategy, conversation design, artificialintelligence, machine learning, implementation, launch, metrics, and chatbot tracking. Chatbot Maker was founded in 2016 and is based in Fortaleza in Brazil.
  • Fractal Engenharia — Fractal Engenharia is a company specialized in water resources management.
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NTT Data
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

NTT DATA provides broad range of IT services and solutions, including consulting, systems integration and IT outsourcing, for major financial, public administration and enterprise sectors. NTT DATA Group has established global support network that covers 53 countries worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series B $6.6M–$177M; Corporate Round $1.9M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DeepTek — DeepTek plans to equip healthcare caregivers with the power of AI. It's power has the potential to transform healthcare radically. Deeptek uses in-house innovative "assisted and augmented" (AaA) imaging-focused algorithmic tools designed by our experts and covers a wide sphere of medical imaging like radiographs, CT scans, and MRI. Cutting-edge radiology artificial intelligence solutions for radiologists, imaging experts, physicians, and all stakeholders to accurate, faster, and efficient care.
  • TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
  • MarkLogic — Let MarkLogic deliver agile data integration for your organization with Data Hub Service, an enterprise cloud data hub solution that runs on a trusted, multi-model, NoSQL database.
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DOMO.VC
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

DOMO.VC is a leading venture capital firm in Brazil that invests in best in class entrepreneurs. We back early-stage technology startups, helping them grow faster and establish themselves in competitive markets.We started from the collective desire of our founding partners to contribute to the success of the next generation of Brazilianentrepreneurs. DOMO’s multi-disciplinary team is supported by its Advisory Board who’s members have solid and proven track-record in creating, investing, advising and financing tech startups of all sizes.Our GPs have thrived as entrepreneurs, having founded companies such as Buscapé in Brazil. The team was also an early investor in well renowned start-ups such as Loggi, Gympass, Hotmart, among others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $191k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $127k–$500k; Venture - Series Unknown $44k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • PO27 — PO27 is an IT firm that offers solutions in the business, technology, and regulatory sectors in the financial market.
  • Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.
  • Delfos Energy — Why did it Fail? Avoid unexpected failures across your assetsReduce the risk of unexpected failuresmoreOptimize Maintenance Windowsmoreretain and scale up operational knowledgemoreplatform real time monitoring, analysis and predictions for renewable energy and oil&gas assetsVIEW OUR APPLICATIONS customer and partnerssee what our customers say about our solutions TestimonialsYour failure prediction alarm, helped us avoid an
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Armínio Fraga
Angel · Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 1 investments in Brazil Life Science startups

Armínio Fraga

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
  • Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com
  • Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
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Life Science Investor funding in Brazil at a glance

Stats across 18 deals from 23 investors.

23
investors
in Brazil Life Science startups
18
deals
in Brazil Life Science startups
$261k
median round
in Brazil Life Science startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
50%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage
87/13
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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