# Victor Lazarte

> Victor Lazarte is a Series A investor at Wildlife Studios backing Banking and Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wildlife Studios](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wildlife-studios)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorlazarte/

Victor Lazarte is a Series A investor at Wildlife Studios in San Francisco focused on Banking and Software. Victor Lazarte is based out of San Mateo, California and he served as General Partner.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$10M |
| Series A | $5.6M–$60M |
| Series B | $100M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 21% |
| Payments | 2 | 14% |
| Generative AI | 2 | 14% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 50% |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 5 | 36% |
| United States | 5 | 36% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Applied Compute | Applied Compute is an AI startup that builds custom AI models and Specific Intelligence solutions for enterprises. | $80M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Mercor | Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees. | $350M | Series C | Oct 27, 2025 |  |
| Decart | Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $100M | Series B | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Mercor | Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees. | $100M | Series B | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Decart | Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $32M | Series A | Dec 19, 2024 |  |
| Mercor | Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees. | $30M | Series A | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| HeyGen | HeyGen creates AI-generated videos from text, images, or audio, featuring avatars, voiceovers, and translations. It offers hyper-realistic avatars, text-based video editing, and automated multilingual dubbing. Users can also generate product ads, social content, and personalized training or marketing videos at scale. | $60M | Series A | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| Jusfy | Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 16, 2022 |  |
| NG.CASH | NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life. | $10M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Stark Bank | Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges. | $13.3M | Series A | Dec 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Norte Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norte-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [17Sigma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/17sigma) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Iporanga Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iporanga-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Wildlife Studios

VC Fund · São Paulo, Brazil

Wildlife Studios is a mobile gaming company that develops games that will mark a generation. The company strives in its major disciplines, which are product, engineering, art, marketing, and data, expanding and building talented and passionate teams in its offices in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, and the US.

5 contacts available at Wildlife Studios.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arthur Lazarte | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-lazarte |
| Fernando Sette | Director of Engineering Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fernando-sette |
| Michael Mac-Vicar | CTO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mac-vicar |
| Reginaldo Valadares | Director of Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reginaldo-valadares |
| Sebastian Cortes | Finance director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-cortes |

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## FAQ

### What does Victor Lazarte invest in?

Victor Lazarte invests primarily in Banking, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Victor Lazarte's check size?

Victor Lazarte typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed, $5.6M–$60M at Series A and $100M–$100M 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 Victor Lazarte participates in.

### When did Victor Lazarte last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Victor Lazarte closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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