# Paul Bragiel

> Paul Bragiel is a seed investor at Bragiel Brothers (San Francisco) backing Software and Gaming. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bragiel
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bragiel
- Website: https://x.com/bragiel
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bragiel

Paul Bragiel is a seed investor at Bragiel Brothers in San Francisco focused on Software and Gaming. Paul Bragiel is the Managing Partner of Bragiel Brothers. He previously worked at the United Republic of Tanzania as an Advisor. Paul Bragiel attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$8.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$1.2M |
| Series A | $8.5M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| Gaming | 4 | 24% |
| SaaS | 3 | 18% |
| FinTech | 3 | 18% |
| Auto Insurance | 3 | 18% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 4 | 24% |
| Poland | 2 | 12% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| Iceland | 1 | 6% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| Rocky Road | Rocky Road intends to create the world's first casual open world mobile game based on real-world map data. | $3M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Finmap | Finmap is a cash flow management tool that helps small and mid-sized businesses like agencies, service companies, developers, and project-based companies to get real-time visibility on what's going on in their business in terms of money, avoid cash gaps, and make the right decisions.The company's easy-to-use financial management toolanalyzes key business financials such as cash flows and profitability statements and automates financial management routines through integrations with banks and accounting tools, allowing clients to set up company financial and management accounting smoothly and optimize analytical summary reports in a matter of clicks.Finmap was established on January 1, 2018 in London, England. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| W4 Games | W4 Games helps to support the open-source Godot ecosystem by giving businesses the goods and services they require on a commercial level. | $8.5M | Seed | Sep 13, 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 |  |
| Rocky Road | Rocky Road intends to create the world's first casual open world mobile game based on real-world map data. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Exato Digital | Exato is a quick, affordable, and thorough background check platform that can be used by corporations, startups, and micro-entrepreneurs to constantly verify customers, suppliers, and candidates. | $350K | Pre-Seed | Nov 25, 2021 |  |
| Quantum Flytrap | We create user interfaces for quantum computers - for software enginers to design, debug, unit-test and deploy quantum algorithms. | $260K | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| Thirdverse | Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan. | $11.5M | Series B | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| Condofy | Condofy is ready to serve you from essential and recurring services to other types of specific services, should the need arise. Being that all services are guaranteed by our team and always supported by our own platform and processes of excellence in service. Services included: Collection, Collection, Payments, Calculation and collection of taxes,Accounting, Payroll, Legal, Virtual Assembly and Face-to-face, among others. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crivo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crivo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crowberry Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowberry-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Incubate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incubate-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [JAFCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafco-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Latitud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/latitud) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Bragiel Brothers

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds. Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.

2 contacts available at Bragiel Brothers.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Bragiel | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-bragiel |
| Paul Bragiel | Managing Partner & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-bragiel |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Bragiel invest in?

Paul Bragiel invests primarily in Software, Gaming and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Paul Bragiel's check size?

Paul Bragiel typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8.5M at Seed, $100k–$1.2M at Pre-Seed and $8.5M–$9M 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 Paul Bragiel participates in.

### When did Paul Bragiel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Bragiel closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 17 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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