Azor Barros
Angel Investor · at Parallax Ventures
São Paulo, Brazil
Azor Barros is a seed investor at Parallax Ventures in São Paulo focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Azor Barros has worked at TPG Growth, Warburg Pincus, McKinsey, and Pátria Investments. He is focused primarily on Fintechs, SaaS, Financial Infrastructure, and Internet Verticals. His investments include BizCapital (Monashees, Quona Capital, DEG), iugu (Goldman Sachs), Agrolend (Valor), Gorila (Ribbit), Karvi (Pelham Capital), Ali Credito(Parallax), SolFacil (QED), and Neoway - sold to B3, the Brazilian Stock Exchange - amongst others. He has a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnique School of the University of São Paulo, where he delivered the commencement speech, an MBA from Wharton, where he was on the Dean's List, and is a Stanford GSB alumnus (SEP 21).
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Azor Barros invests in
Stages Azor Barros invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$1.9M
- Series B
- $12M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 7 (70%)
- Financial Services 6 (60%)
- Software 3 (30%)
- Information Technology 3 (30%)
- Banking 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Series B 3 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
Country
- Brazil 8 (80%)
- Argentina 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Asaas is a complete digital account for businesses, offering way more than just banking and payment services. Asaas automates financial processes and streamlines the communication of companies with their customers. It connects and automates: sending invoices; issuing and sending tax invoices; communication through different channels with customers(CRM); receivables management; and financial management through an ERP. All of this drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the company's receivable default rate, resulting in more profits and cash flow for businesses. Additionally, Asaas allows companies to receive payments through the main payment methods: PIX, bank payment slip, credit, and debit cards, wire transfers, and deposits. It also offers all kinds of services you see in a typical account: a credit card connected to the business digital account, payment of bills, wire transfers and PIX, and more. | $20.7M / Series B / Jun 16, 2023 | ||
| Solfácil purpose is to allow all people to invest in solar. We are the first solar investment platform in Brazil. We are a fintech with a innovative loan that allows consumers to switch their monthly cost with electricity into a great investment in a solar system. Consumers benefit from zero downpayment, up to 30% immediate savings, 20+ years offree electricity and ability to produce and consume clean energy. | $30M / Series B / Jun 23, 2021 | ||
| 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. | $1.6M / Seed / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| UJJI AI transforms knowledge in people's mind into business-specific documentation. And documentation into easy-to-consume training. No time or effort on you or team mates, whatsoever.Businesses of all sizes use UJJI AI to help individuals document their day-to-day processes, accelerating time to value and mitigating the cost of lostknowledge.Just build SOPs and documentation with the help of UJJI AI. And transform them along with any of your any other internal resources such PDFs, PPTs, DOCs, Notion, Slack, call recordings, etc. into easy-to-consume knowledge equipping e-learning experiences. | Pre-Seed / Apr 06, 2021 | ||
| Iugu offers an online platform for financial automation, signature management and marketplace. Marcelo Paez and Patrick Negri founded it on February 1, 2013, with its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil. | $22.5M / Series A / Sep 11, 2020 | ||
| BizCapital provides loans to SMEs without access to large banks through an evaluation machine that analyzes and ranks each request in a few seconds, analyzing the variables digitally, enabling customers to get loans to operate business through an online lending platform. | $12M / Series B / Jun 17, 2020 | ||
| Karvi is the digital future of Latin America's auto market. Karvi makes car buying a seamless experience by offering real-time stock of certified pre-owned vehicles from dealers to customers in a simple, transparent, and more efficient way. | $1.9M / Seed / Feb 28, 2020 | ||
| Gorila is a Fintech that helps investors and advisors control of their portfolio. | $1M / Seed / Aug 15, 2019 | ||
| Ali Credito is Brazilian born Fintech platform, focused on prime-rate customers, offering 100% digital and best available interest rates for consumer finance loans. Multi acquisition and service channels, with same day payment and integrated receivables services. | Seed / Nov 18, 2018 | ||
| Neoway is a market intelligence and big data analytics company that helps businesses to navigate and extract insights for discovering various market opportunities. It develops and operates SIMM, a subscription based big data analytics platform that allows its users to search detailed data about companies and individuals; export their prospects tothe map and distribute the opportunities geographically; control the distribution of opportunities and create multi-platform alerts to their vendors; and map economic groups, and other individual and legal entity relationships, including corporate and administrative structure, suppliers, subsidiaries, and franchises. It serves automotive and transportation, benefits, consumer goods, billing and recovery, construction, oil and gas, health and pharma, technology, and telecom markets, as well as banks, credit cooperatives, and insurance companies and brokers. Jaime de Paula founded Neoway in 2002, with its headquarters in Florianópolis in Brazil. It has additional offices in São Paulo in Brazil and New York City. | Series C / Sep 15, 2017 |
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FAQ
What does Azor Barros invest in?
Azor Barros invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Azor Barros's check size?
Azor Barros typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.9M at Seed and $12M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Azor Barros participates in.
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When did Azor Barros last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Azor Barros closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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