# Matheus Santoro Pitanga

> Matheus Santoro Pitanga is a pre-seed investor backing Software, SaaS and Retail. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matheuszensantoro/

Matheus Santoro Pitanga is a pre-seed investor focused on Software and SaaS. Matheus Santoro Pitanga

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.1M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 63% |
| SaaS | 3 | 38% |
| Retail | 2 | 25% |
| Education | 2 | 25% |
| Automotive | 2 | 25% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solomon | Solomon platform helps ecommerce brands optimize marketing campaigns with real-time dashboards. | $468.8K | Angel | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Brendi | We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Start Carreiras | Start Careers offers Publicize the vacancies in a practical way to the best universities in the country. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Zarv | Zarv is a cutting-edge AI-powered risk intelligence platform built exclusively for insurers, redefining how they assess risk, price policies, prevent fraud, and recover assets. By combining behavioral analytics, GPS data, and exclusive access to public and private camera networks, Zarv delivers real-time insights that drive more accurateunderwriting, faster claims investigations, and usage-based premium adjustments.Launched in 2024, Zarv has rapidly scaled to process over 2TB of data daily and manage $150 million in financed assets across clients like Movida, Arval, Santander, Creditas, Brinks, and C6 Bank. The platform has achieved a 93% success rate in fraud prevention and asset recovery — more than double the industry average — unlocking significant improvements in operational efficiency and loss ratios.Zarv is initially focused on the auto insurance sector, with future applications in health and pensions. Founded by João Costa (ex-Kovi, ex-Chaordic), Zarv is João’s third venture at the intersection of mobility, AI, and financial infrastructure. The company is backed by leading investors and is actively building strategic partnerships to expand its global footprint in insurance risk management. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2022 |  |
| Mecanizou | Mecanizou is a distributor of automobile parts. They offer products that include filters, lubricantes, scanners, correias, arrefecimento, frenagem, and baterias. | $4M | Seed | Dec 29, 2021 |  |
| Driven Education | Driven Education is an edtech platform for high-potential youth with the goal of training the country's future technology leaders. The platform invests in high-potential young people committed to entering and growing rapidly in technology companies. They believe in agile education (education that adapts to the labor market), human education(education that puts people first), and courageous education (which challenges the status quo with regard to the quality of education for employability).Driven's mission is to build the college where they would have liked to study, through an agile and real-world learning journey that is always connected to the job market. | $3.1M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Zazos | Zazos is the all-in-one people platform that molds to your company’s reality. Start with apps for hiring, performance, or engagement, then customize or expand them as your needs grow. With no-code tools and support from our solution architects, Zazos evolves with you — not the other way around. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Abstra | Abstra is a software development platform that provides businesses with a low-code platform. Its platform facilitates the creation of internal tools and apps, through a graphical interface and offers solutions to operational problems helping businesses to get personalized applications to make their internal processes more efficient. It is focusedon late-/growth-stage tech companies and enterprise IT consulting companies. So far, Abstra is growing MRR (monthly recurring revenue) by 45% on average and has landed 11 customers, including Accenture, Stone, and Descomplica.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. | $691.6K | Pre-Seed | Aug 27, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Iporanga Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iporanga-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Latitud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitud) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Niu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niu-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3G Radar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3g-radar) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crivo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crivo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Matheus Santoro Pitanga invest in?

Matheus Santoro Pitanga invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Retail startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Matheus Santoro Pitanga's check size?

Matheus Santoro Pitanga typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$4M at Seed and $125k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Matheus Santoro Pitanga participates in.

### When did Matheus Santoro Pitanga last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matheus Santoro Pitanga closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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