# Universo Ventures > Universo Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Fitness. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: VC Fund - Total investments: 2 - Last investment: Jun 2025 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 Universo Ventures is a VC fund focused on Health Care and Fitness. Brazilian venture holding focused on deep tech backing founders building AI-native infrastructure for underserved markets. ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Universo Ventures. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Universo Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/universo-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Pre-Seed | $150k–$200k | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Health Care | 2 | 100% | | Fitness | 1 | 50% | | Wellness | 1 | 50% | | Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% | ## Team | Name | Title | Investments | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Dimas Timmers | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimas-timmers | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Raras Health | Raras Health is a Brazilian health technology company building AI infrastructure for rare disease diagnosis. An estimated 300 million people worldwide live with one of more than 7,000 known rare diseases, and the average patient endures a diagnostic odyssey of five to seven years across multiple specialists before receiving an accurate diagnosis.Raras was founded to compress that timeline through a combination of advanced AI, biomedical knowledge engineering, and clinical partnerships.The company's flagship product, My Scientist, is a multi-agent on-premise AI platform that supports clinicians in evaluating complex undiagnosed cases. It combines specialized agents for phenotype extraction, genomics analysis, knowledge-graph reasoning, literature review, differential diagnosis, and treatment guidance. On RareBench, the leading public benchmark for rare disease diagnostic AI, My Scientist achieves Recall@1 of 66.7% and Recall@5 of 86.7%, placing it among the strongest rare disease diagnostic systems published to date. The platform is deployed on-premise to meet hospital data governance requirements and is powered by open-source foundation models served through vLLM, alongside Araras-HPO, the company's proprietary Portuguese-language biomedical language model.Raras Enciclopédia serves as the underlying knowledge and ontology layer, integrating data on more than 10,468 rare diseases across a graph of over 927,000 nodes and 5.4 million edges. The encyclopedia consolidates international ontologies (HPO, Orphanet, OMIM, MONDO) with curated clinical knowledge into a unified resource that powers both clinical decision support and patient-facing applications. Raras is co-founded by Dimas Timmers (CEO), a deep-tech AI entrepreneur with prior experience at Antler and Meta, and previously founder of Nindoo, an AI lab focused on federated learning in healthcare; Dr. Alexandre Kawassaki (CMO), a rare disease specialist at Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo and LinkedIn Top Voice in Healthcare; and Dr. João Bosco Oliveira Filho (CSO), holder of dual PhDs from USP and the University of Amsterdam, post-doctorate at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, founder of NeoGenomica, and former principal investigator of the Rare Genomes Project at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein.Raras maintains institutional partnerships with Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Jô Clemente. The company is headquartered in Brazil, with European expansion underway in Lisbon, Portugal.Menos sorte. Mais respostas. (Less luck. More answers.) | $150K | Pre-Seed | Jun 05, 2025 | | | Be Gym | Be Gym is a wellness healthtech built around a simple idea: being active shouldn't feel hard, lonely, or intimidating. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jan 16, 2025 | | 2 of 2 investments shown. ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund - [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund - [DOMO.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/domo-invest) — VC Fund - [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Wellness VC Funds in Brazil](https://shizune.co/investors/wellness-vc-funds-brazil) - [Sports VC Funds in Brazil](https://shizune.co/investors/sports-vc-funds-brazil) - [Fitness Investors in Brazil](https://shizune.co/investors/fitness-investors-brazil) - [Fitness VC Funds in Brazil](https://shizune.co/investors/fitness-vc-funds-brazil) ## FAQ ### What does Universo Ventures invest in? Universo Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Fitness and Wellness startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Universo Ventures's check size? Universo Ventures typically joins rounds of $150k–$200k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Universo Ventures participates in. ### How do I contact Universo Ventures? For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox. ### Who are the partners at Universo Ventures? The team at Universo Ventures includes Dimas Timmers (Founder). 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