# Urca Angels

> Urca Angels is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ime-anjos/
- Website: http://www.urcaangels.com.br

Urca Angels is a Brazilian network of investors mainly composed by former Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME) Alumni who are interested in new, cutting edge early stage startups on individual basis.Urca Angels was formed in 2019 and is composed by a diverse team of C-Levels, mentors, former startup founders, professional investors and managerswho are actively involved in the Brazilian startup ecosystem.Our approach is to identify and invest in high potential and long-term growth opportunities, with a focus in technology. Urca Angels leverages prior investment experience, industry experience and functional expertise, creating value for each company in which we invest. ​Reflecting the diverse expertise of our team, Urca Angels’s mission is to invest in many different field of activities, including fintechs, e-commerce, energy, agtech, and many others. We are looking to leverage and invest in startups with scalable products, disruptive ideas, high growth and a team with strong execution capabilities.​We are a forming a new generation of angel investors – we offer no bureaucracy, decisions as quickly as possible and constant contact and support to companies in which we invest. Our trademarks are a hands-on approach, with support in M&A, introduction to potential partners, customers and other investors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $113k–$1M |
| Angel | $5.4k–$6.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $205k–$825k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 12% |
| FinTech | 5 | 10% |
| Finance | 5 | 10% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 20% |
| Angel | 4 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 31 | 61% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antonio Rocha | angel investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-rocha-e9e7 |
| Marcelo Bella | Angel Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcelo-bella |
| Ricardo Aragao | Angel Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricardo-aragao-94cf |
| Rodrigo Iannuzzi | Angel Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodrigo-iannuzzi |
| Vicente Alencar | Angel Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vicente-alencar-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lifty Solutions | Lifty is an official WhatsApp Business API integration platform, Meta-verified, connecting systems, people, and artificial intelligence into reliable, secure, and high-performance conversational journeys. | $825K | Pre-Seed | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| Coalize | SaaS, Mobile App, HR | $570K | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Conta Comigo Digital | Conta Comigo Digital offers financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises, including business formation. | $528.2K | Seed | Dec 19, 2024 |  |
| Inspira AI | Inspira is Brazil's smartest legal AI assistant, being the first legaltech and LATAM startup to ever win Websummit's Pitch Contest. Created by lawyers and experienced tech entrepreneurs, the platform makes attorney's time-intensive tasks such as research, document analysis and knowledge sharing more efficient and costless, empoweringits users to obtain actionable insights faster through cutting-edge AI technology. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Plaza | Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience. | $974.6K | Pre-Seed | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| Giro.Tech | Banking as a Service for companies that want to have their own banking operation in Brazil | $677.9K | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Sr.Proprietário | Sr.Proprietário platform offers innovative solutions for selling properties. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| LUCA | LUCA platform enables to create personalized online e=commerce websites without coding. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Mercado de Recebíveis | Mercado de Recebíveis provides financial instruments to assist businesses in managing their cash flow by providing access to receivables from card transactions and invoices. |  | Angel | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| GrowinCo. | GrowinCo. is the best platform for supplier and co-manufacturing collaboration for the CPG industry. We connect idle capacity from co-manufacturers with needs for production outsourcing in the industry and private label products for retailers. We connect to the leading quality certification databases in a network of over 40,000 companies. | $1M | Seed | Nov 06, 2023 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Urca Angels invest in?

Urca Angels invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Urca Angels's check size?

Urca Angels typically joins rounds of $113k–$1M at Seed, $5.4k–$6.2M at Angel and $205k–$825k 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 Urca Angels participates in.

### How do I contact Urca Angels?

Public channels for Urca Angels include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. 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 Urca Angels?

The team at Urca Angels includes Antonio Rocha (angel investor), Marcelo Bella (Angel Investor) and Ricardo Aragao (Angel Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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