Astella
VC Fund
São Paulo, Brazil
Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.
- Total investments:
- 90
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
- Fund size:
- $86M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Astella invests in
Stages Astella invests in
Countries Astella invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $270k–$1.6M
- Series A
- $651k–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 13 (14%)
- Software 11 (12%)
- E-Commerce 9 (10%)
- SaaS 8 (9%)
- Financial Services 8 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 32 (36%)
- Series A 17 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (10%)
- Series B 7 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (3%)
Country
- Brazil 46 (51%)
- United States 4 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ana Rezende
Talent Strategist
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Talent Strategist | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ana Roisman
Operations Manager
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Operations Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel Chalfon
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Edson Rigonatti
Founder and Partner
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Founder and Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
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Guilherme Lima
Venture Capital Associate
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Venture Capital Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Lastlink
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Lastlink assists content creators in managing subscriptions to closed groups on social media platforms such as Instagram, Telegram, and Whatsapp. It owns a system that makes it easier for creators to work by automating sales and management for access to exclusive communities. It is becoming a more common source of revenue for the content creatormarket, which employs over 1 million people across the country. | $5.3M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | |
BotCity
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BotCity is a governance platform for Python scripts created by AI or humans.AI copilots have turned Python into the new Excel macro. Business users are now generating thousands of scripts with GPT to automate workflows, often outside IT’s control. This wave of shadow automation creates serious risks to security, compliance, and continuity.BotCity brings oversight and governance to this new wave of AI-generated automation. We are YC-backed, growing 3x annually, serving enterprise customers such as Bayer and LG. | $12M / Series A / Sep 25, 2025 | |
Gabriel
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Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond. | $6.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 08, 2025 | |
Leapy
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Leapy transforms hiring apprentices from a legal obligation into a strategic investment, solving talent shortages and youth unemployment. | $2.2M / Seed / Jul 17, 2025 | |
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Leapy
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Leapy transforms hiring apprentices from a legal obligation into a strategic investment, solving talent shortages and youth unemployment. | $2.2M / Seed / Jul 17, 2025 | |
Estoca
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Estoca is a decentralized Fulfillment-as-a-Service for multi-channel businesses, allowing them to seamlessly deliver goods in less than 2 days in the main Brazilian cities, with hassle-free setup. We combine our network of warehouses with a prediction algorithm that allocates goods closer to customers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 11, 2025 | |
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Estoca
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Estoca is a decentralized Fulfillment-as-a-Service for multi-channel businesses, allowing them to seamlessly deliver goods in less than 2 days in the main Brazilian cities, with hassle-free setup. We combine our network of warehouses with a prediction algorithm that allocates goods closer to customers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 11, 2025 | |
Cayena
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Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $200b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, grocery stores and any food outlet to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services. The suppliers who sell through Cayena get a rapid boost in high-quality,recurring demand without taking any credit risk. | $55M / Series B / Jul 30, 2024 | |
Traive
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Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers. | $20M / Series B / Feb 02, 2024 | |
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Gabriel
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Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond. | $7.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 11, 2024 | |
| See all 90 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Astella invest in?
Astella invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 90 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Astella's check size?
Astella typically joins rounds of $800k–$6M at Seed, $270k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $651k–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Astella participates in.
How do I contact Astella?
Public channels for Astella include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Astella?
The team at Astella includes Ana Rezende (Talent Strategist), Ana Roisman (Operations Manager) and Daniel Chalfon (Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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