# Vira Ventures

> Vira Ventures is a VC fund in Buenos Aires backing Software and Human Resources. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vira-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/viraventures

Vira Ventures is a VC fund in Buenos Aires focused on Software and Human Resources. Vira Ventures is invests in startups that leverage technology to solve big problems of the low/mid-income population in Latin America.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Angel | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Mexico | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darwin AI | Self-learning plug & play AI employee for non-technical SMBs | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| Gondi | Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market. | $5.4M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Fuul | Fuul is a Blockchain Service provider agency. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Lara AI | Lara AI is an AI-powered employee experience platform designed to enhance HR operations and employee engagement through conversational automation and real-time analytics. It functions as a virtual HR assistant, interacting with employees via platforms like WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat to gather feedback, answer questions, andstreamline onboarding processes. By automating routine HR tasks and providing actionable insights, it aims to reduce employee turnover and improve overall organizational efficiency. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Emi Labs | At Emi we are on a mission to increase Frontline Workers’ access to professional opportunities. This is a population that accounts for +70% of the world’s workforce. They are digitally invisible, as there’s little to no data available on who they are, their career history, or their skill set, limiting their access to professional opportunities andgrowth. We're here to transform this by building the infrastructure to make Frontline Workers visible.Our first step to achieving our mission is to transform the recruiting experience into an easy, human and fair process, for both candidates and companies with high-volume job openings. Emi, our main product, is an A.I. recruitment assistant that enables companies to engage in a conversation with each applicant to detect interested and qualified individuals while saving Recruiters a huge amount of time by automating tasks such as screening, validating skills, scheduling interviews, and collecting documents.We operate with a remote-first culture with office hubs in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and San Francisco. |  | Angel | Sep 28, 2017 |  |
| Flexipag | Flexipag offers technology solutions focused on generating financial inclusion WorldWide by making consumer finance more accessible, affordable, and easier to pay even for thin-file customers. Flexipag was born to re-invent how to structure the loans using access to mobile phone as a guarantee of the amount borrowed and thus offer many benefits.The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |  | Angel | Jun 15, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global: Latam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups-latam) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brazil-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canary-5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Compa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/compa-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Vira Ventures invest in?

Vira Ventures invests primarily in Software, Human Resources and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vira Ventures's check size?

Vira Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5.4M 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 Vira Ventures participates in.

### When did Vira Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vira Ventures closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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