Top 5 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Life science startups based in Brazil. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from Brazil. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in December 2024

Investor	Life Science Brazil investments
SP Ventures	2
SOSV	2
Bold Capital	1
Inseed Investimentos	1
NTT Data	1

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Investor list

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"

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
Verqor — Verqor is a platform that disrupts the agricultural sector with finances and technology. We give farmers access to cashless credits that can be used for purchasing supplies and technology, everything through our platform. Verqor uses an alternative data-driven credit scoring criteria, for reaching financial inclusion and technifying the fields.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

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.
Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Agriculture, AgTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

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.

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.