Marcelo Claure
Vice President & COO @ SoftBank
Overland Park, United States
Marcelo Claure is a seed investor at SoftBank in Overland Park focused on FinTech and Software. Marcelo Claure is the Partner and Co-Chair at Brightstar Capital Partners. Previously he served as the CEO of Sprint. He serves as the Group Vice Chairman of Shein. Marcelo Claure attended Bentley University.
- Total investments:
- 37
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Marcelo Claure invests in
Stages Marcelo Claure invests in
Countries Marcelo Claure invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$25M
- Series B
- $30M–$680M
- Series C
- $30M–$1B
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 5 (14%)
- Software 5 (14%)
- Information Technology 5 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (14%)
- E-Commerce 4 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (16%)
- Series B 6 (16%)
- Series C 4 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (11%)
- Series A 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 12 (32%)
- Brazil 6 (16%)
- France 2 (5%)
- Mexico 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Technology focused Virtual assistance service | Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| Technology focused Virtual assistance service | $10M / Series A / Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| Tildei is on a mission to change the way marketing happens by enabling brands to hold real conversations in a radically simple way. We believe the future of marketing is conversational, and we are building the next generation platform to support enterprise brands to have meaningful conversations with their customers, at scale.Our platform allowsenterprise brands to reach customers where they already are and conduct meaningful, AI-powered conversations to enable on-brand yet personalized conversations with all the guardrails. | $6M / Seed / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| 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. | $55M / Series B / Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| K Health is a data-driven digital primary care app that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.The AI-powered health platform integrates data and creates a predictive model to enable its user to learn more about their personal wellbeing as well as help them better manage their health by comparing themselves to people with similarcharacteristics–gender, age, symptoms, medical history –through a free symptom tracker. K Health is backed by Mangrove, 14W, Comcast Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Primary Ventures, Max Ventures, The Box Group, GGV Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Kaiser Permanente, LTS Ventures, Atreides Ventures, PICO Partners, Marcy Venture Partners, and other New York and Israeli seed investors.It was founded in 2016 by Adam Singolda, Allon Bloch, Israel Roth, and Ran Shaul and is based in New York, New York. | $88.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 01, 2024 | ||
| Hedosophia is a London-based growth Venture Capital investor looking at B2C companies in Europe, the US, and China. | Private Equity / Feb 08, 2024 | ||
| We were born to serve the unserved! We started our journey providing assets so people can work and make their lives better by delivering goods for marketplaces. In the long run we want to become the main solution for the ones working with delivery. | $50M / Series C / Sep 15, 2023 | ||
| 3D Printed Furniture Manufacturer | Seed / Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Zamp is building at the intersection of global and local banking ,helping businesses innovate and be at the forefront of consumer demand for digital goods. | $25M / Seed / Jul 15, 2022 | ||
| Valon Mortgage is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved, tech-enabled residential mortgage servicer. The company’s mission is to champion homeowners on their financial journey as the partner they trust with their home and their future. | $43.9M / Series B / Nov 03, 2021 | ||
| See all 37 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About SoftBank
SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet telecommunications, and digital television products. It is a multinational telecommunications and internet corporation focused on broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, the internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. The company operatesthrough four segments.The mobile communications segment provides mobile communications services, produces and distributes online games for smartphones and other devices, offers mobile broadband services, provides supply chain solutions, handset protection, and insurance, buy-back and trade-in services, omnichannel solutions, and financial services, and sells mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and SoftBank smartphones. The Sprint segment offers mobile and fixed-line voice and data transmission services for individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. and sells mobile devices and accessories. The fixed-line telecommunications segment offers telecom services such as fixed-line telephone and data communications services to corporate customers and broadband services to individual customers. The internet segment is engaged in the operation of the Yahoo! Japan portal, the sale of internet advertising, the operation of e-commerce sites, the provision of membership services, the sale and marketing of data centers, the provision of online automobile-related information, and the operation of the internet affiliate system.SoftBank also generates and sells electricity from renewable energy sources; provides payment processing, invoice collections, and computation services for businesses; distributes video, voice, and data content via media; operates the IT information site ITmedia; provides solutions and services for online businesses; and operates online games and software downloads. Additionally, it is involved in the ownership of professional baseball teams, the operation of baseball games, the management and maintenance of baseball stadiums and other sports facilities, and the procurement of funds by issuing preferred securities.
SoftBank Contacts
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Andrew Kovacs
Global Head of Communications
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Gary Ginsberg
Global Head of Communications
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Hideyuki Tsukuda
Senior Vice President & CTO
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Kimikazu Kato
Data Scientist
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Kunihiro Fujinaga
Executive Vice President, Deputy Head of Enterprise Unit
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FAQ
What does Marcelo Claure invest in?
Marcelo Claure invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Marcelo Claure's check size?
Marcelo Claure typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$25M at Seed, $30M–$680M at Series B and $30M–$1B at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marcelo Claure participates in.
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When did Marcelo Claure last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marcelo Claure closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 37 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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