# FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação

> FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Florianópolis, Brazil
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fapesc/
- Website: https://x.com/fapesc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fapesc.gov

FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação is a VC fund in Florianópolis focused on Information Technology and EdTech. Governmental foundation (Innovation program "Sinapse da Inovação" for startups)

## Contacts

5 contacts available for FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação. Shizune tracks 3 team members at FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/fapesc---fundação-de-amparo-à-pesquisa-e-inovação?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $11k–$20k |
| Non-Equity Assistance | $28k–$88k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 60% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 20% |
| Hospital | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 2 | 40% |
| Grant | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 4 | 80% |
| Singapore | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amauri Bogo | Director of Science, Technology and Innovation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amauri-bogo |
| Fabio Zabot Holthausen | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabio-zabot-holthausen |
| Wânio Wiggers | Director of Administration and Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/w%C3%A2nio-wiggers |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greendoors | Greendoors is a technology-driven company dedicated to creating smarter and more sustainable cities. We design and implement artificial intelligence solutions that empower small businesses and collaborative networks to operate more efficiently, responsibly, and intelligently. | $22K | Grant | Apr 01, 2025 | https://greendoors.com.br/ |
| Ciclix | Ciclix offers real-time indoor tracking for hospitals, boosting efficiency and lowering costs via a SaaS model. | $88.5K | Non-equity Assistance | Dec 17, 2024 | https://www.ciclix.com/ |
| Ymmuno Biotech | A Biotech start-up focused on developing new science-based products. Immunotherapies and Orally passive immunization is our cup of tea. Nowadays we are working on a new therapy to improve life quality in Crohn´s Disease patients and improving a new methodology to reduce the use of antibiotics in hospitalized elderly patients. | $11.1K | Seed | Aug 14, 2020 | http://www.ymmuno.com/ |
| Crave Industry | Crave Industry offers solutions that help manage operations and optimize information in industrial environments. The company seek to help manufacturing industries digitalize and connect their shop floor using emerging technologies such as Cloud Computing, Industrial Internet of Things, Big Data/Analytics, and Security. | $27.9K | Non-equity Assistance | Feb 18, 2018 | http://craveindustry.com/ |
| Mind The Graph | Mind the Graph is in the business of creating interactive authoring platforms on the web."Design for non-Designers" empower author to create professional-looking infographics by themselves.The trick is the combination of pre-assembled templates and illustrations with the specific content they need.Team includeds life sciencescientists, programmers, illustrators and information designers.Entered market in 2016 with subscription model plus content customization.Today with 25K users and just passed break-even with a BtoC subscription model.Looking for investors to execute marketing plan and reach the first 100K users by mid-2018. | $20K | Seed | Mar 04, 2014 | https://x.com/mindthegraph |

5 of 5 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação invest in?

FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação invests primarily in Information Technology, EdTech and Content startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação's check size?

FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação typically joins rounds of $11k–$20k at Seed and $28k–$88k at Non-Equity Assistance. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação participates in.

### How do I contact FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação?

Public channels for FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação?

The team at FAPESC - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação includes Amauri Bogo (Director of Science, Technology and Innovation), Fabio Zabot Holthausen (President) and Wânio Wiggers (Director of Administration and Finance). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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