# Scale-Up Ventures

> Scale-Up Ventures is a VC fund in São Paulo backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 94 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 94
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scale-up-ventures-br/
- Website: https://endeavor.org.br/scaleup-ventures

Scale-Up Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in companies selected by Endeavor Brazil's hyper-growth acceleration programs.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$15M |
| Series A | $5.3M–$25M |
| Series B | $15M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 22 | 23% |
| FinTech | 19 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 19% |
| Software | 17 | 18% |
| Health Care | 12 | 13% |

121 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 42 | 45% |
| Seed | 20 | 21% |
| Series B | 14 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 77 | 82% |
| United States | 5 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Comp | Strategy in every penny invested in your people.Comp is an agile partner that combines compensation and technology experts to align your Total Rewards strategy with business needs.From labor cost strategy to process automation, we are helping hundreds of innovative companies with job and salary management, short- and long-term incentives, meritcycles, people budgeting and more. | $19.3M | Series A | Feb 22, 2026 |  |
| Avenia | BRLA Digital is a technological firm that promotes economic growth and financial inclusion using cutting-edge crypto technologies and applications. | $17.3M | Series A | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| BeConfident | Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling | $15.8M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Rivio | RIVIO is the intelligence of the future hospitals. We transform data, procedures, and operations into actual efficiency so that medical professionals, nurses, and management teams can concentrate on what matters most: caring for people. | $18.1M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Lastlink | Lastlink assists content creators in managing subscriptions to closed groups on social media platforms such as Instagram, Telegram, and Whatsapp. It owns a system that makes it easier for creators to work by automating sales and management for access to exclusive communities. It is becoming a more common source of revenue for the content creatormarket, which employs over 1 million people across the country. | $5.3M | Series A | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| MotoristaPX | MotoristaPX connects self employed drivers with companies. The single driver hired by application to drive the company's fleet for a specific period or trip, including trucks, buses, and suvs. They hire labor according to the demand from carriers. | $47.2M | Series B | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Bull | Bull is a modular credit platform that turns customers into revenue through fast, secure Workers' Loans. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 13, 2025 |  |
| Lastro | Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates. | $16M | Series A | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $12M | Series A | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Infleet | Infleet is an integrating center involving the main logistics and equipment management verticals of route planning, maintenance, supply, monitoring, and telemetry. The company provides transparency and agility. Infleet requires immediate responses and require consolidated data. | $7.5M | Series A | Sep 18, 2025 |  |

10 of 94 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Valor Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-capital) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Endeavor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Astella](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astella-investimentos) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 12 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Scale-Up Ventures invest in?

Scale-Up Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 94 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Scale-Up Ventures's check size?

Scale-Up Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$15M at Seed, $5.3M–$25M at Series A and $15M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Scale-Up Ventures participates in.

### When did Scale-Up Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scale-Up Ventures closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 94 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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