Marcos Leite
Managing Partner & Co-founder @ Canary
Marcos Leite is a seed investor at Canary focused on Software and SaaS. Marcos started his career at JP Morgan. In 2005, he helped create M Square Investimentos, an asset management business based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, currently with US$ 2 bi under management. He left M Square in 2015 to focus on Venture Capital, starting Canary with other tech entrepreneurs.He holds a BSc in Production Engineering (Poli-USP) and aMaster’s in Economics (Insper).
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
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Industries Marcos Leite invests in
Stages Marcos Leite invests in
Countries Marcos Leite invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (36%)
- SaaS 3 (12%)
- FinTech 3 (12%)
- E-Commerce 3 (12%)
- Marketplace 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (48%)
- Series A 6 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (20%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Country
- Brazil 14 (56%)
- United States 2 (8%)
- Mexico 1 (4%)
- Colombia 1 (4%)
- Cayman Islands 1 (4%)
Investments
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| Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates. | $16M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates. | $4M / Seed / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Bendo lists products from third-party suppliers and makes them available for users to resell in exchange for a commission. Bendo enables users to run a risk-free dropshipping business from their smartphones while creating a unique sales channel for suppliers. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 21, 2022 | ||
| Sticky is a mobile social and gaming superapp with an AI Game Maker at its center. Using AI, Sticky lets creators make professional-quality games on their phones or in their browsers in a few minutes without touching a line of code. Creators can publish on the Sticky platform and earn money. They can also integrate social features, collectibles,in-game-purchases, leaderboards, and more to their games, as well as submit their games to game jams. Sticky members can play thousands of games and make friends, chatting in clubs, streaming, competing in tournaments, and more. | $2.2M / Seed / Jun 01, 2022 | ||
Mara
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Mara is a startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved. | $6M / Seed / Mar 09, 2022 | |
| SaaS for small businesses | $4M / Seed / Feb 09, 2022 | ||
| Cobre is a corporate treasury platform that allows companies to centralize, digitize and automate their payments processes. Our technology helps finance teams and CFOs claim back their time to focus on what really matters: growing their business. We’re committed to creating a frictionless payment process for companies; from cash-in to cash-out,allowing businesses to move money in real time, connect their bank accounts to a central treasury hub, and consolidate a single source for real-time data and reconciliation. Cobre began operations in 2020 and currently serves companies in Colombia and Mexico | $14M / Series A / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Cross Commerce Store is a cross border e-commerce company from Brazil that empowers entrepreneurs to sell globally in an easy and fast way. We are experienced in e-commerce and we believe your cross border sales can be simpler, bigger and better.Our team is made of professionals who come from the biggest marketplaces, payment, tech andinternational logistics companies, providing the best solutions in cross border sales.Our platform plug international sellers with local marketplaces, significantly decreasing the friction of cross-border e-commerce. We help sellers to integrate with Brazilian marketplaces (Americanas.com, Mercado Livre, etc.) by intermediating the registering, uploading, logistics and other challenging processes. | $3M / Seed / Dec 16, 2021 | ||
| Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond. | $12M / Series A / Oct 06, 2021 | ||
| Zax is creating a platform for product discovery, sales, marketing, trust, payment, credit & logistics services to suppliers & resellers across Latin America. | $5.8M / Series A / Oct 05, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Canary
Canary is an early-stage VC firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2017. Our partners are seasoned founders and investors who have built multiple successful companies, including one of Latin America's ~20 unicorns. Collectively, our team has extensive investment experience from leading firms such as Silver Lake, Tarpon, and MSquare/Velt.
Canary Contacts
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Florian Hagenbuch
Investment Partner
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Izabel Gallera
Partner
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Julio Vasconcellos
Co-founder, Partner
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Kristian Huber
General Partner
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Marcos Leite
Managing Partner & Co-founder
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What does Marcos Leite invest in?
Marcos Leite invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Marcos Leite closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 25 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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