# Fir Capital

> Fir Capital is a VC fund in Horizonte backing Health Care and SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Horizonte, Brazil
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dfj-fir-capital-partners
- Website: http://www.fircapital.com

Fir Capital is a VC fund in Horizonte focused on Health Care and SaaS. Founded in 1999, FIR Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in nascent, emerging or growing companies that demonstrate tremendous growth potential.FIR Capital looks for innovative projects and companies. It offers financial support, strategic advisory services and support to management, and assistance in hiring key executives, inaddition to its experience in sales, marketing, innovation, controllership, exports, global expansion and strategic alliances.The partners of FIR Capital are venture capital pioneers in Brazil, having invested in Biobrás S.A. (later sold to Novo Nordisk), Miner Technology (sold to UOL) and Akwan Technology (sold to Google).In 2007, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), one of the world´s biggest and best venture capital firms, acquired shareholding interest in FIR Capital. DFJ´s worldwide network spans 4 continents and consists of 23 venture capital funds, 135 investment professionals, more than 300 investors and investments in around 550 companies, with more than US$ 5.5 billion under its management.DFJ´s portfolio of success stories includes Hotmail, Skype, Baidu, DivX, Mobile365, Overture, 411 and EnerNOC.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6.7M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Wellness | 2 | 29% |
| Pet | 1 | 14% |
| Audio | 1 | 14% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Travesso Neto | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-travesso-neto |
| Marcus Uchoa Regueira | Co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-requeira |
| Andre Capistano Emrich | Partner and Member of the Board of Directo | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-capistano-emrich |
| Douglas Valles | Financial Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-valles |
| Helton Dias | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helton-dias |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ISA Saúde | ISA lab is to deliver the best solution for health and offers a humanized service. ISA is an online platform where one can select the process like examination, test, or vaccine. Then schedule and make payment online, receive ISA wherever one wants. Finally, they offer a facility to check the result online and rate their service. | $17M | Series A | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| ABC da Construção | ABC da Construção is a construction company that provides consultation and materials to clients. It supplies furnishing, designing, and building supplies. ABC da Construção was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minas Gerais, Brazil. | $201.3K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 28, 2021 |  |
| Plamev | Plamev is a company which provides with pet health plans. |  | Series A | Jul 23, 2021 |  |
| Nexodata | Nexodata was born to anticipate the future in the healthcare system this is our main purpose. | $6.7M | Series A | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| ABC da Construção | ABC da Construção is a construction company that provides consultation and materials to clients. It supplies furnishing, designing, and building supplies. ABC da Construção was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minas Gerais, Brazil. | $22M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2020 |  |
| AXADO Informação e Tecnologia | Axado provides SaaS-based online freight services. It provides solutions for managing and monitoring shipments of orders. Guilherme Reitz and Leandro Baptista founded Axado on September 30, 2011, with its headquarters in Florianopolis in Brazil. Axado operates as a subsidiary of Ebazar as of June 1, 2016. |  | Seed | Oct 10, 2012 |  |
| Samba Tech | Samba Tech is an online platform that develops videos to help companies better communicate with their audience.Samba Tech is an online video platform in Latin America and helps hundreds of companies to communicate better with their audience, providing tools to stream videos on any device at any time with Samba Videos, a customizable businessintelligence platform. Samba Videos includes an online media management dashboard, with access to every device. The dashboard feeds the user key analytics (e.g., the most popular content, viewer demographics) about their target audience when the content is viewed. The Samba Videos dashboard has customizable categories and the ability to publish and register videos on one user-friendly interface. The platform is integrated with an application program interface (API) that allows for the creation of any application software the user desires. | $3M |  | Jun 01, 2008 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Endeavor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redpoint eventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-eventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bzplan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bzplan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DSK Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsk-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Duratex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duratex) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Fir Capital invest in?

Fir Capital invests primarily in Health Care, SaaS and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Fir Capital's check size?

Fir Capital typically joins rounds of $6.7M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fir Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Fir Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Fir Capital?

The team at Fir Capital includes David Travesso Neto (Partner), Marcus Uchoa Regueira (Co-Founder) and Andre Capistano Emrich (Partner and Member of the Board of Directo), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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