# Endeavor

> Endeavor is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Information Technology. See 77 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 77
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Fund size: $292M
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/endeavorglobal/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/endeavor_global
- Website: http://www.endeavor.org
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/endeavorglobal

Endeavor is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Information Technology. About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$25M |
| Series B | $9M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 11 | 14% |
| FinTech | 9 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 9% |

96 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 19 | 25% |
| Series A | 16 | 21% |
| Series B | 10 | 13% |
| Seed | 8 | 10% |
| Series C | 4 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 15 | 19% |
| United States | 9 | 12% |
| Malaysia | 7 | 9% |
| Mexico | 3 | 4% |
| South Africa | 3 | 4% |

18 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Swette | Member of the Board of Trustees | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-swette-2 |
| Vincent Speranza | Director Nacional de Operaciones | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-speranza |
| Adrian Garcia-Aranyos | TitlePresident | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-garcia-aranyos |
| Ahmet Onur | Entrepreneur | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahmet-onur |
| Alexis Pantazis | Entrepreneur | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-pantazis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jusfy | Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations. | $15M | Series A | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| aviva | Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved. | $18M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Lunar Outpost | Lunar Outpost creates technologies that enable a sustainable presence in cislunar space while driving a positive impact here on Earth. With product lines focused on robotics and advanced instrumentation Lunar Outpost has helped create the first oxygen on Mars as part of the Perseverance mission, has the first ever contract to sell space resources(specifically lunar resources) to NASA, and has successfully created product line from advanced technology work. Key products include the commercial lunar rover MAPP that can provide mobility to a variety of payloads on the lunar surface, and the Canary Air Quality and Monitoring System, an IoT system, which has collected over 20 Billion unique data points to date in over 20 different states.[ | $32.1M | Series B | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Ascent Funding | Ascent offers students opportunities to pay for higher education with or without a cosigner. It encourages transparency and financial wellness by incorporating financial education into the application process, preserving the notion that education is an investment where students and families should understand the return on their investment relativeto the cost. | $45M | Series C | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Avenia | BRLA Digital is a technological firm that promotes economic growth and financial inclusion using cutting-edge crypto technologies and applications. | $17.3M | Series A | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Rivio | RIVIO is the intelligence of the future hospitals. We transform data, procedures, and operations into actual efficiency so that medical professionals, nurses, and management teams can concentrate on what matters most: caring for people. | $18.1M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Ume | Ume is a credit platform that specializes in accessing credit to all individuals for all purchases. | $21M | Series B | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| UME Financial Services | Ume is a credit platform capable of reaching competitive prices and creating an economic environment to make credit simple and democratic. | $21M | Series B | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| qlub | qlub is a financial technology company that provides payment and ordering systems for restaurants. It develops a system where customers in restaurants can scan a QR code to access a digital menu and pay the bill using a mobile device. The same system can also support bill splitting, tipping, and payment without requiring a separate app. Theplatform is mainly used in dine-in restaurants, cafes, hotels, and similar venues. | $30M | Series B | Jul 21, 2025 |  |
| Tensec | Founded in 2023, Tensec is a global fintech that enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to enter global trade and thrive by giving them access to global transaction banking solutions that are user-friendly, efficient, and secure.Tensec founders have driven startups from foundation to exit, built decacorns, and led global teams atcompanies such as PayPal, Credit Karma, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. We’re putting together a world-class team to disrupt the $50 trillion cross-border b2b financial services industry by providing SMBs the financial strength to participate and win in the global economy.We believe that successful companies and teams are directly correlated to a company's cultural DNA. At Tensec, we make a deliberate effort to create values and foster a culture able to unleash both human and organizational potential. We strongly believe that the best business results derive from teams that have a strong identification with a mission, push themselves to the edge, and love what they do.The Tensec team is diverse and global, with members in New York, San Francisco and São Paulo. We are funded by top venture capital firms such as Costanoa Ventures, Quiet Capital, Cambrian Ventures, Ignia Partners and WillowTree Investments. | $12M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |

10 of 77 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Scale-Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-up-ventures) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Valor Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Clocktower Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clocktower-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Quona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quona-capital-management) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Endeavor invest in?

Endeavor invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Financial Services startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 77 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Endeavor's check size?

Endeavor typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$25M at Series A and $9M–$50M 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 Endeavor participates in.

### How do I contact Endeavor?

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### Who are the partners at Endeavor?

The team at Endeavor includes Brian Swette (Member of the Board of Trustees), Vincent Speranza (Director Nacional de Operaciones) and Adrian Garcia-Aranyos (TitlePresident), among 47 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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