# Patrick Arippol

> Patrick Arippol is a seed investor at Alexia Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alexia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexia-ventures)
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parippol
- Website: https://alexia.vc/

Patrick Arippol is a seed investor at Alexia Ventures 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 42% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 27% |
| SaaS | 8 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 17% |
| Internet | 6 | 13% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 31% |
| Series A | 14 | 29% |
| Series B | 4 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 8% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 22 | 46% |
| United States | 9 | 19% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| N5 Now | 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 | Winnin develop cutting edge technology to understand what your audience really want to watch. |  | Series A | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Rocket.Chat | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Valor Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Igah Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-bricks-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Scale-Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-up-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Astella](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astella-investimentos) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Alexia Ventures

VC Fund · Brasil, Brazil

Alexia Ventures is an early-stage (Series A) value-add investor for top entrepreneurs from Brazil and Latin America.  We focus on disruptive business models that are driven by data / artificial intelligence technologies (A.I.) and software platforms.  Alexia Ventures believes that the best founders from Latin America are as good as the topfounders around the world – and can create companies that are global technology leaders.  Many of the top talents that its founders have worked with over the past 20+ years, in both LatAm and Silicon Valley, are part of our network.  Alexia Ventures was created to help outstanding founders catalyze human potential through data and technology, while building a better future and inspiring the region with a new definition of what is possible.

5 contacts available at Alexia Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alice Samaia | Investment Team | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alice-samaia |
| Andrew Keesee | Head of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-keesee-f45a |
| Bianca Martinelli | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bianca-martinelli |
| Luis Felipe Lemos | Investment Team | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-felipe-lemos |
| Patrick Arippol | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-arippol |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Arippol invest in?

Patrick Arippol invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 48 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Patrick Arippol last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Arippol closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 48 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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