# Fabio Povoa

> Fabio Povoa is a seed investor at Smart Money Ventures backing Software and Human Resources. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Smart Money Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smartmoney-ventures)
- Location: Campinas, Brazil
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiopovoa/

Fabio Povoa is a seed investor at Smart Money Ventures in Campinas focused on Software and Human Resources. Fábio Póvoa is the Managing Partner of Smart Money Ventures. He previously worked at EXEC as a Board Member. Fábio Póvoa attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Human Resources | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 8 | 67% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alpop | They believe in good housing for everyone. Moving house has to be easy and safe. It is the right of everyone to have a good place to live - without it being necessary to commit a large share of the monthly income or to discourage amid the bureaucracy of renting a property.Alpop is a real estate rental platform that aims to make life easier forthose who are looking for a property, and offer guarantees to those who are advertising. They use technology in favor of people, and that is how they manage to rent real estate without the need for bail bonds, unnecessary collateral or bureaucracies, and making payments to the owner on the agreed date, even if they have not yet received them from the tenants. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Bondy | Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes. | $749.5K | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Alpop | They believe in good housing for everyone. Moving house has to be easy and safe. It is the right of everyone to have a good place to live - without it being necessary to commit a large share of the monthly income or to discourage amid the bureaucracy of renting a property.Alpop is a real estate rental platform that aims to make life easier forthose who are looking for a property, and offer guarantees to those who are advertising. They use technology in favor of people, and that is how they manage to rent real estate without the need for bail bonds, unnecessary collateral or bureaucracies, and making payments to the owner on the agreed date, even if they have not yet received them from the tenants. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Vesti | Vesti is a firm that serves the wholesale fashion industry and offers solutions for our customers to increase their online sales. | $343.3K | Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| Gasola | Gasola provides digital supply management between gas stations and fleet companies, using fuel card fees and digital tax reconciliation. | $381K | Seed | Aug 13, 2021 |  |
| InChurch | InChurch is a software company that offers an engagement and management platform based on cutting-edge technology for churches. | $961.3K | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |
| Rocketmat | Rocketmat is an industry-leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company focusing on the challenges within Human Resources, Talent Management, and Recruiting. We are Artificial Intelligence using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques to assist Human Resources - in particular Recruiting and Talent Management professionals. Wespecialized in analyzing and developing algorithms based on data from people originating from education, career, behavioral - soft and hard skills, and performance. Our proprietary algorithms are capable of analyzing talent pools of candidates or employees during the selection/promotion process for any given job category. In addition, we are capable of providing even deeper predictive analysis around corporate training programs, workforce planning, skill analysis, performance and resource management. Our solutions are delivered seamlessly into our clients ATS or HCM systems via robust API’s. Our platform can also be embedded as a white label feature to multi-client environments. Our goal is to aid in the decision-making process of our client's people management strategies by utilizing intelligent and dynamic algorithms that evolve and learn with the speed of each of our client's business environments. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Ramper | Ramper is digital marketing & sales platform that helps B2B companies to growth trough generating more leads and selling better.Ramper technology empower users and help the companies to establish a digital and integrated culture in their marketing and sales areas. Ramper's stack includes solutions like CRM, marketing automation,prospecting automation and lead engagement. | $1.4M | Seed | Apr 12, 2021 |  |
| Iugu | 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 |  |
| Gama Academy | Gama Academy, a digital skills micro-college for fast learners, that developing a new educational method for future professions to teach coding, design, growth and sales to work in the digital market with more than 90% job placement rate. | $710K | Seed | Jan 29, 2020 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Caju Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caju-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DOMO.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/domo-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Investidores.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investidores-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merchant-banking-division) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aimorés Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aimor%C3%A9s-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alexia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexia-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Smart Money Ventures

VC Fund · São Paulo, Brazil

SmartMoney Ventures invests in early-stage startups in fintech, edtech, hrtech and SaaS B2B.

1 contacts available at Smart Money Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fabio Povoa | Managing Director and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabio-povoa |

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## FAQ

### What does Fabio Povoa invest in?

Fabio Povoa invests primarily in Software, Human Resources and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Fabio Povoa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fabio Povoa closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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