Caio Bolognesi
General Partner @ MONASHEES
São Paulo, Brazil
Caio Bolognesi is a Series A investor at MONASHEES in São Paulo focused on Software and SaaS. Caio joined monashees in 2014 and is a General Parter of the firm. Currently, he's involved in monashees' investments in Saas, Fintech infrastructure, and Healthcare. He leads the firm relationships in Tractian, Datasnipper, NG Cash, Pomelo, Nowports, Sami, Pipo, IdWall, Azion, Liti, and Rocket.Chat, among others. He is also theco-founder and board member of the 42 SP Coding School non-profit organization.Caio holds a BA from USP in Business administration, and a master's degree in economics from FGV.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
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Industries Caio Bolognesi invests in
Stages Caio Bolognesi invests in
Countries Caio Bolognesi invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (17%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
- Health Care 3 (10%)
- Financial Services 3 (10%)
- Information Technology 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (28%)
- Seed 5 (17%)
- Series B 5 (17%)
- Series C 3 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- Brazil 6 (21%)
- United States 2 (7%)
- Mexico 1 (3%)
- Colombia 1 (3%)
- Argentina 1 (3%)
Investments
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Pomelo
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Pomelo provides a cloud-native financial technology platform that enables businesses to issue, process, and manage payment cards and related services through modular APIs and infrastructure. Its technology supports the issuance and processing of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including options for businesses without their own issuing licensethrough BIN sponsorship and integration with Mastercard and Visa networks. The company’s platform also includes tools for transaction authorization, chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, tokenization for digital wallets, and logistical support for card production and distribution. Pomelo’s offerings aim to streamline card program development by consolidating technical, regulatory, and operational components into a unified system that can be tailored to diverse use cases across fintech, banking, and embedded finance sectors. It supports virtual and physical card workflows and provides dashboards and management interfaces to monitor and control card portfolios and transactions. The company collaborates with clients to integrate its APIs into existing systems and scale card products across multiple markets. Pomelo’s infrastructure emphasizes flexibility, data visibility, and compliance with international payment standards. | $55M / Series C / Jan 20, 2026 | |
Simetrik
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Simetrik is a no-code solution that offers the right balance between flexibility and robustness for the reconciliation process automation. The company's approach allows us to offer a unique solution that provides efficiency and productivity, empowering finance and operations teams, in both tech and traditional companies, to customize andmaintain end-to-end automations for a great diversity of use cases and geographies. On the other hand, our secure big data infrastructure guarantees control of operational, compliance, and reputational risks, supporting high volumes of data, which, combined with a world-class team, allows customers to implement and trust Simetrik at scale. The company is reconciling $75 Bn of TPV per year in over 28 countries and serving well-known names across the industry, including Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, NuBank, Bancolombia, Addi, DLocal, Clara, Clip, and Banco Falabella. | $30M / Series B / Jun 04, 2025 | |
NG.CASH
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NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life. | $12.5M / Series A / Apr 30, 2024 | |
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Pomelo
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Pomelo provides a cloud-native financial technology platform that enables businesses to issue, process, and manage payment cards and related services through modular APIs and infrastructure. Its technology supports the issuance and processing of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including options for businesses without their own issuing licensethrough BIN sponsorship and integration with Mastercard and Visa networks. The company’s platform also includes tools for transaction authorization, chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, tokenization for digital wallets, and logistical support for card production and distribution. Pomelo’s offerings aim to streamline card program development by consolidating technical, regulatory, and operational components into a unified system that can be tailored to diverse use cases across fintech, banking, and embedded finance sectors. It supports virtual and physical card workflows and provides dashboards and management interfaces to monitor and control card portfolios and transactions. The company collaborates with clients to integrate its APIs into existing systems and scale card products across multiple markets. Pomelo’s infrastructure emphasizes flexibility, data visibility, and compliance with international payment standards. | $40M / Series B / Jan 17, 2024 | |
Vortexa
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Vortexa provides a real-time data and analytics platform for energy and freight industries. The company covers all vessel classes of crude oil, refined products, LPG, and LNG. It helps traders, analysts, and freight professionals gain a competitive edge in complex and opaque markets by confidently making trading decisions. Its platform usesartificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data and absorb data points from multiple sources to show oil's past, present, and future flow worldwide. | $34M / Series C / Jan 08, 2024 | |
Rocket.Chat
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Rocket.Chat is a fast-growing enterprise communication and collaboration platform that is now installed on over 500k servers and counts over 12m users worldwide as well as having an active, passionate community of over 1k developer-contributors who help Rocket.Chat’s core team of developers to constantly improve the product. Rocket.Chat’s long-termvision is to replace email with a real-time federated communications platform and to establish a marketplace that will nurture app-building and offer services to enable businesses to be built using Rocket.Chat.The platform improves internal and external communication within a controlled and secure environment. Users can run Rocket.Chat on-premises or on cloud and a range of features are at their disposal to tailor their platform: individual and group communication, video conferencing, file uploading, screen sharing, LiveChat, and integration with a variety of different communications platforms. | $10M / Series A / Sep 21, 2023 | |
Tractian
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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. | $45M / Series B / Aug 07, 2023 | |
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NG.CASH
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NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life. | $10M / Seed / Jul 28, 2022 | |
Nowports
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Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the productsand providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port. | $150M / Series C / May 24, 2022 | |
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Tractian
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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. | $15M / Series A / May 17, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About MONASHEES
monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. With a human-values-first approach, monashees helps founders challenge the statusquo and improve people’s lives through technology. The monashees community includes over 150 companies and 300+ founders.
MONASHEES Contacts
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Amanda Ribeiro
Administrative Analyst
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Bruno Koba
Associate
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Caio Bolognesi
General Partner
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Carlo Dapuzzo
Partner
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Eric Acher
Managing Partner and Co-founder
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What does Caio Bolognesi invest in?
Caio Bolognesi invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Caio Bolognesi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Caio Bolognesi closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 29 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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