# Grão

> Grão is a VC fund in São Paulo backing Software, SaaS and FinTech. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gr%C3%A3o
- Website: https://grao.vc/en/

Grão is a VC fund in São Paulo focused on Software and SaaS. A venture capital firm, backed by a family office, which invests in early stage startups in Brazil and VC funds from around the world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $362k–$3.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $540k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $3.2M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 20% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |
| FinTech | 5 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 11% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 22% |
| Series A | 6 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 25 | 56% |
| United States | 3 | 7% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monica Saccarelli | Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monica-saccarelli |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aro | Aro focused on personal financial services, particularly for individuals facing challenges with traditional banks. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Mappa.ai | Use Mappa to hire thoroughly vetted Latin American rockstars in just 48 hours.No two people are the same, and neither are two companies—by applying AI, voice analysis, and big data, we identify what makes each person unique and build powerful connections that drive business success. Our 12-layer brain includes a proprietary voice analysis systemthat extracts 128 voice parameters and integrates with other data models to leverage over 100,000 parameters per user. This helps companies fill open roles in less than a week, saving over 300 work hours and up to 80% in costs. Go from finding to hiring with no upfront fees or hidden costs.Formerly Free The Freela. | $3.4M | Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Coalize | SaaS, Mobile App, HR | $570K | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| BeConfident | Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Stay | Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators. | $3M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Wehandle | Wehandle provides third-party management services. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| Lexter | Lexter.ai is the first SaaS platform that helps legal teams in Brazil gain efficiency by automating documents' analysis and revision using AI. Lexter's technology is capable of automatically reviewing contracts based on each client's strategy and is already being used by companies such as Gerdau, Votorantim Cimentos and Suzano. | $3.2M | Series A | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Kuri | Kuri is a healthtech company that uses AI for revenue cycle management services at hospitals, laboratories, and clinics. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Cayena | Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $200b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, grocery stores and any food outlet to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services. The suppliers who sell through Cayena get a rapid boost in high-quality,recurring demand without taking any credit risk. | $13M | Series A | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| dex | dex is a data engineering company with a mission to automate table management in the data lake. Our solutions focus on data ingestion, transformation, and distribution, and our mission is to make data engineering scalable by eliminating manual processes in addition to being the primary source of high-quality information for analytics. | $900K | Pre-Seed | Mar 29, 2023 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Norte Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norte-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Scale-Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-up-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Astella](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astella-investimentos) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FEMSA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/femsa-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Grão invest in?

Grão invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Grão's check size?

Grão typically joins rounds of $362k–$3.5M at Seed, $540k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $3.2M–$20M 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 Grão participates in.

### How do I contact Grão?

Public channels for Grão include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. 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 Grão?

The team at Grão includes Monica Saccarelli (Founder & CEO). 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 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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