# Supernova

> Supernova is a VC fund in Curitiba backing Big Data, Blockchain and Communities. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Curitiba, Brazil
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/supernovabrcom
- Website: http://www.supernovabr.com/en

Supernova is a mentorship driven startup accelerator that runs acceleration programs twice an year providing mentorship, workshops, office-space, and access to executives and investors.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 33% |
| Communities | 1 | 33% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 33% |
| Smart Cities | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EchoTwin AI | EchoTwin AI is a Physical AI–powered Cognitive City platform transforming how cities operate. By turning existing municipal fleets into mobile sensing platforms, we give agencies real-time visibility into road conditions, critical assets, and curbside/parking environments. Powered by AI cameras, digital twins, and proprietary vision-languagemodels, the system continuously observes the city—detecting infrastructure hazards, defects, and compliance issues—predicting failures before they escalate, and understanding context to route actions through compliant workflows. It creates work orders, evidence trails, and prioritized operator queues, then closes the loop with verification by re-checking locations to confirm fixes and quantify outcomes. The result is measurable: safer streets, faster repairs, lower operational costs, and a unified intelligence layer that moves cities from reactive, manual inspections to self-healing, auditable, and scalable municipal service delivery—systems that can truly see, think, and act. | $8M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| DoinGud | DoinGud operates an online marketplace for companies that use non-fungible tokens. It allows various users to join, from artists that wants to promote their works, collectors that searches for new products, and businesses that aim for sustainable goals. DoinGud is based in Zug, Switzerland. | $5M | Seed | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| AFYREN | AFYREN develop innovation in biotechnologies for the valorization of non-food biomass and in respect of the environment. | $23M |  | Feb 12, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AFY Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afy-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Eksim Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eksim-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Supernova invest in?

Supernova invests primarily in Big Data, Blockchain and Communities startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Supernova's check size?

Supernova typically joins rounds of $5M–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Supernova participates in.

### When did Supernova last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Supernova closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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