Mate Pencz
Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ Loft
Mate Pencz is a seed investor at Loft focused on Software and Real Estate. Mate is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GE32 Capital. In addition, he is a Founder and Co-CEO of Brazil's premier real estate marketplace Loft, which has raised more than $90M since its inception in July 2018. Previously, he co-founded Printi, a leading e-commerce platform for customized materials & services with operations in Braziland the United States. Printi has raised more than $70M in capital from financial and strategic investors including Cimpress (Nasdaq:CMPR). Mate is also a Co-Founder and Investment Partner at Canary, Brazil's foremost seed-stage technology investment firm. Before moving to Brazil, he worked at eminent financial firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs after receiving a degree in economics from Harvard University. In 2015, Mate and his co-founder Florian were listed on Forbes' prestigious 30 under 30 list.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Mate Pencz invests in
Stages Mate Pencz invests in
Countries Mate Pencz invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$6M
- Series A
- $23M–$23M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (20%)
- Real Estate 2 (20%)
- Information Technology 2 (20%)
- Apps 1 (10%)
- SaaS 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (60%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
Country
- Brazil 3 (30%)
- United States 2 (20%)
- India 1 (10%)
- Mexico 1 (10%)
- Germany 1 (10%)
Investments
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Caliza
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Provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open digital dollar accounts for their users to save and transact. | $5.3M / Seed / Sep 13, 2023 | |
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Caliza
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Provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open digital dollar accounts for their users to save and transact. | $5.3M / Seed / Sep 13, 2023 | |
Filo
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Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US | $22.7M / Series A / Mar 03, 2022 | |
Kocomo
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Kocomo is an early-stage proptech startup, backed by leading U.S., European, and Latin American investors. Leveraging the power of technology, Kocomo has created a transparent vertically-integrated solution that empowers people to purchase, enjoy, and sell co-ownership stakes in luxury homes, starting in Mexico. At Kocomo, we believe your memoriesdeserve a home. We are on a mission to make the dream of vacation home ownership an attainable reality for more people around the world. | $6M / Seed / Aug 30, 2021 | |
Casai
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Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental. | $23M / Series A / Oct 14, 2020 | |
Bambus.io
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Fintech, Credit | Pre-Seed / Jun 05, 2019 | |
idwall
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Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo. | $600K / Seed / Mar 17, 2017 | |
Volanty
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Volanty is a digital used car marketplace that digital second-hand car mall for pre-owned cars. For the seller, the company simplifies the entire sales process from inspecting and photographing the car to negotiating with potential buyers while reducing bureaucracy. For the buyer, Volanty makes buying used cars safe, convenient and moretransparent by selecting only the best cars and providing thorough information about the vehicle and seller. They use technology to connect sellers and buyers securely and efficiently, eliminating middlemen such as stores and dealers and thus maximizing the selling value of your car. The marketplace goal is to create a new era for those looking to sell or buy their car.Volanty was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. | $800K / Seed / Jan 30, 2017 | |
Méliuz
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Meliuz owns and operates an online platform that offers consumers with free discount coupons from Brazilian online stores. Israel Salmen and and Ofli Guimarães founded it on September 12, 2011, with its headquarters in Belo Horizonte in Brazil. | Seed / Aug 31, 2015 | |
Revelo
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Revelo provides data infrastructure for frontier model AI code generation, including expert annotators, eval frameworks, and reinforcement learning gyms. Its network of 400,000+ vetted software engineers in Latin America powers both AI training data pipelines for code and direct staffing for US tech companies. | $800K / Seed / Jul 10, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Loft
Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Loft Contacts
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Bernardo Carneiro
VP of Engineering
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Bruno Giacomelli
Director of Customer Experience
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Florian Hagenbuch
Founder & President
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Gustavo D. Saraiva
Head of Engineering
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João Vianna
Founder & Head of Real Estate
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FAQ
What does Mate Pencz invest in?
Mate Pencz invests primarily in Software, Real Estate and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Mate Pencz's check size?
Mate Pencz typically joins rounds of $600k–$6M at Seed and $23M–$23M 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 Mate Pencz participates in.
When did Mate Pencz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mate Pencz closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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