# Iporanga Ventures

> Iporanga Ventures is a VC fund backing Payments and Financial Services. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last fund: Aug 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iporanga-investimentos/
- Website: http://www.ipo.ventures

Iporanga Ventures is a VC fund in São Paulo focused on Payments and Financial Services. Iporanga Ventures is venture capital funds management company, focused on Pre-Seed/Seed stage Brazilian startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $494k–$2.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$1.1M |
| Series A | $2M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payments | 7 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 14% |
| Software | 6 | 12% |
| FinTech | 4 | 8% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 16% |
| Series A | 6 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 29 | 58% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guilherme Assis | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guilherme-assis |
| Leo Kalim | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-kalim |
| Leonardo Teixeira | General Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonardo-teixeira |
| Renato Valente | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/renato-valente-fb12 |
| Renato Valente | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/renato-valente |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pagô | Pagô offers automated payment solutions to streamline financial processes, from accounts payable to accounts receivable. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Praso | Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| Covalenty | Covalenty is a search focused on connecting small pharmacies with their medication suppliers. It allows to add requests from multiple small pharmacies to quote with different suppliers and get the best conditions for your products and have a closer experience than large pharmacy networks. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Verde | Verde is a digital platform that simplifies and expands access to working capital loans for small and medium farmers in Brazil. Verde allows agro assessors to offer more agile and transparent rural credit to rural producers. | $895K | Seed | May 09, 2023 |  |
| Kravata | Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Appito | The next generation of amateur sports arenas | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| Prota Games | Prota Games is the most popular eSports learning platform of Brazil with League of Legends and Fortnite Classes | $2M | Seed | Jun 10, 2022 |  |
| Prota Games | Prota Games is the most popular eSports learning platform of Brazil with League of Legends and Fortnite Classes | $2M | Seed | Jun 10, 2022 |  |
| FLOKI Technologies | We are a Market Network startup with a plug & play solution to bring the procurement area in fragmented industries to the age of A.I..Our current clients are Bars, Restaurants, Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores.Our mission is to improve the procurement operation & financial health of fragmented food retailers by providing them with the sameresources, technology and bargaining power that only the large companies had. | $10.8M | Seed | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Klavi | Klavi specializes in data analytics and open data connectivity that receives data securely, quickly, and scalable through a single API. | $15M | Series A | Mar 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Iporanga Ventures invest in?

Iporanga Ventures invests primarily in Payments, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Iporanga Ventures's check size?

Iporanga Ventures typically joins rounds of $494k–$2.6M at Seed, $300k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $2M–$15M 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 Iporanga Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Iporanga Ventures?

Public channels for Iporanga Ventures 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 Iporanga Ventures?

The team at Iporanga Ventures includes Guilherme Assis (Co-Founder), Leo Kalim (Co-Founder) and Leonardo Teixeira (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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