Patrick Arippol
Angel Investor @ DGF
São Paulo, Brazil
Patrick Arippol is a seed investor at DGF in São Paulo focused on Software and Information Technology. Former silicon valley entrepreneur and founder and Managing Partner of Alexia Ventures. He is also Venture Partner of 2 VC funds that he led in Brazil (together DGF's partners), which backed some of the top tech companies in the region. Previously launched Prosper Services (mobile payments startup) and Delphis Capital in Silicon Valley, andleading e-health company in Brazil (acquired by TIVIT). Spent 20 years building and investing in high-growth innovative companies, after working for entrepreneurial thought leaders at the Monitor Company, Seer Technologies, and at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Particular focus in companies disrupting the world through software as a service (SaaS) platforms, and artificial intelligence (A.I.) / big data, and mobile platforms.
- Total investments:
- 50
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Patrick Arippol invests in
Stages Patrick Arippol invests in
Countries Patrick Arippol invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (40%)
- Information Technology 13 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (18%)
- SaaS 8 (16%)
- Internet 6 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (30%)
- Series A 14 (28%)
- Series B 4 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (4%)
Country
- Brazil 22 (44%)
- United States 9 (18%)
- Uruguay 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| N5 Now is a create your own digital ecosystem with a platform designed exclusively for the financial industry. | $20M / Series B / Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| Winnin develop cutting edge technology to understand what your audience really want to watch. | Series A / Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Rocket.Chat is a fast-growing enterprise communication and collaboration platform that is now installed on over 500k servers and counts over 12m users worldwide as well as having an active, passionate community of over 1k developer-contributors who help Rocket.Chat’s core team of developers to constantly improve the product. Rocket.Chat’s long-termvision is to replace email with a real-time federated communications platform and to establish a marketplace that will nurture app-building and offer services to enable businesses to be built using Rocket.Chat.The platform improves internal and external communication within a controlled and secure environment. Users can run Rocket.Chat on-premises or on cloud and a range of features are at their disposal to tailor their platform: individual and group communication, video conferencing, file uploading, screen sharing, LiveChat, and integration with a variety of different communications platforms. | $10M / Series A / Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Parfin is a financial technology company building enterprise-grade software products to allow financial institutions to adopt blockchain rails. Founded in 2019 by seasoned veterans of investment banking and blockchain technology, Parfin is the core developer of Rayls, taking a unified finance (UniFi) approach that enables traditional finance to usethe latest blockchain technology with the required level of compliance, security and privacy. Building blockchain technology products for the world’s leading financial institutions, digital assets traders, and developers, Parfin is paving the way for a world with more efficient, transparent and inclusive markets. Learn more at https://www.parfin.io. | $15M / Seed / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| 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. | $2.3M / Seed / Jan 03, 2022 | ||
| BotCity is a governance platform for Python scripts created by AI or humans.AI copilots have turned Python into the new Excel macro. Business users are now generating thousands of scripts with GPT to automate workflows, often outside IT’s control. This wave of shadow automation creates serious risks to security, compliance, and continuity.BotCity brings oversight and governance to this new wave of AI-generated automation. We are YC-backed, growing 3x annually, serving enterprise customers such as Bayer and LG. | $2.5M / Seed / Dec 16, 2021 | ||
| Parfin is a financial technology company building enterprise-grade software products to allow financial institutions to adopt blockchain rails. Founded in 2019 by seasoned veterans of investment banking and blockchain technology, Parfin is the core developer of Rayls, taking a unified finance (UniFi) approach that enables traditional finance to usethe latest blockchain technology with the required level of compliance, security and privacy. Building blockchain technology products for the world’s leading financial institutions, digital assets traders, and developers, Parfin is paving the way for a world with more efficient, transparent and inclusive markets. Learn more at https://www.parfin.io. | $6.1M / Seed / Dec 09, 2021 | ||
| Mercê do Bairro is a Virtual Retail Chain. We provide a reliable brand and digital solutions to improve revenues and reduce costs of small groceries stores, making life easier for shopkeepers and their customers. | $9.4M / Series A / Oct 25, 2021 | ||
| Mercê do Bairro is a Virtual Retail Chain. We provide a reliable brand and digital solutions to improve revenues and reduce costs of small groceries stores, making life easier for shopkeepers and their customers. | $10M / Series A / Oct 21, 2021 | ||
| UpFlux helps health insurance and hospitals to improve operational efficiency, safety and quality avoiding nonconformities and waste. UpFlux is a cognitive platform that applies Artificial Intelligence techniques to dynamically evaluate the patient’s care flow in relation to medical protocols and guidelines. UpFlux is Health Tech, but we will drivegrowth and spread to other business segments, and, we have already been validated in industry. | Seed / Sep 21, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About DGF
DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.
DGF Contacts
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Celso Nunes
Partner
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Frederico Greve
Managing Partner
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Marcos Affonseca
Associate
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Sidney Chameh
Founding Partner
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Henrique Frandi Ferreira
Venture Analyst
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What does Patrick Arippol invest in?
Patrick Arippol invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
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The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Arippol closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 50 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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