Top 50 Real Estate Startup Investors in Brazil in December 2024

Investor	Real Estate Brazil investments
Brian Requarth	10
Canary	9
Terracotta Ventures	6
ONEVC	6
Bossa Invest	6
Redpoint eventures	6
Construtech Ventures	5
Caravela Capital	5
DOMO.VC	4
Global Founders Capital	4
Kaszek	4
Latitud	4
Gvangels	3
Norte Ventures	3
Mauricio Feldman	3
Shaun Di Gregorio	3
Better Tomorrow Ventures	3
Simon Baker	3
Roberto Nascimento	3
Renan Constantino	3
Pear VC	3
Valor Capital Group	3
FJ Labs	3
Gávea Angels	3
TM3 Capital	3
monashees	3
Luiz Eduardo Perna	3
Anderson de Andrade	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Brazil	2
Julio Vasconcellos	2
Hi Ventures	2
Andréa Nogueira, CFA	2
GE32 Capital	2
Caju Capital	2
Smart Money Ventures	2
João Ventura	2
MAYA Capital	2
VNV Global	2
CapTable	2
NXTP Ventures	2
South Ventures	2
Confrapar	2
Wayra	2
NFX	2
Lucas Vargas	2
Next Billion Ventures	2
TheVentureCity	2
DGF Investimentos	2
Errol Damelin	2

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, SaaS, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.

Terracotta Ventures is a venture capital in Latin America focused on investment in Construtechs and Proptechs.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Construction, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Livance — Healthcare Infrastructure as a Service
Construex — Construex is a B2B SaaS construction marketplace for Latin America. We bring together suppliers and users of constructions supplies and services. We are bringing digital commerce to a huge industry ruled by legacy commerce.
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.

ONEVC is a venture capital firm, focused on seed-stage investments in Latam.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
Tako — Tako is an incredibly automated payroll and HR Software.
Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Somos Bossa Invest

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.
Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Brazil, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Housi — Housi is an online living-as-a-service on-demand housing platform.
StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.

Construtech Ventures combines over 20 years of knowledge and networking in the construction and real estate industry with a objective and clear approach to diagnosing opportunities for adding real value to its portfolio, through prototyping solutions, hiring teams of entrepreneur to build startups with high growth potential and investing inConstrutechs with teams capable of generating a digital transformation in this industry whilst partnering with great companies looking to innovate in the development of the construction chain.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Construction
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bider — Bider finds the best real estate offer to the user's criteria and needs. It began operation on March 1, 2016, with its headquarters in Florianópolis in Brazil.
Kaasa — Kaasa is a technology startup that connects real estate with repair and maintenance service providers.
Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

Brazilian Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage companies in Latam

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, United States

Portfolio highlights

Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.
SuaQuadra — Quadra is a commercial real estate marketplace. Major technology and real estate investors' support, including Kaszek, Canary, ONEVC, and the Cyrela family.

DOMO.VC is a Brazilian Venture Capital Firm that invests in technology startups across LatAm, particularly focusing on disruptive and innovative founders. We

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Basemaker — Hey, what's up? We are Basemaker, the world's first 1st-party data creator marketplace. Creatively designed by creators, strategically targeted for advertisers.Our platform allows advertisers to accurately achieve their marketing objectives through data provided by the creators. With this, audience hypersegmentation in digital adcampaigns will make your company send the message to the right person much faster and more efficiently!Influencer marketing raised to the square: create campaigns with influencers and boost them using the creator's engaged audience: more reach, more significant results, and highly qualified audiences.We exist to create new paths in the digital universe and invest in digital tools to transmit and share what we believe with more people, creating microcosms of hyper-connected communities.Welcome to the new world of first-party data in advertising!Create your next campaign with us and explore the power of the Creators community worldwide.contato@basemaker.co#creatoreconomy #creators #ads #firstpartydataTranslated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Turbi — Turbi is a digital shared mobility company that makes car rental experience practical, cheaper and unique

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

CXC — CXC enables private debt transaction in Latin America.
Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
Cometa — Cometa provides technological and financial tools to increase access to quality education in Mexico and Latin America. Take off with the most recent developments in school administration. Maintain complete control over your reconciliation, billing, and operations.

Build good sh*t with Latitud

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Conectamos — Ship with local carriers, more affordable and reliable
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

GVAngels is a network of angel investors founded by former students of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Brasil in 2017. The GVAngels network invests in technology startups that aim to solve inefficiencies in large markets.In these 4 years of operation, investments have already been made in 40 startups and checks have averaged from R$800,000 to R$2million. We currently have more than 300 associates with a personal interest in investing in startups and adding knowledge with their expertise and experience through smart money to our investees.GVAngels has its roots in the School of Business Administration at FGV, where most of the associated angel investors graduated. For 11 consecutive years, the university has been considered the best think tank in Latin America and has been ranked among the best institutions in the world since 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Movêu — Movêu is an online custom furniture brand that enables customers to design the furniture of their choice. It utilizes an intuitive 3D customization platform to customize the furniture.
HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
Emitter — Emissor de CTe e NFSe em massa mais simples e rápido, acesse e conheça todas as soluções para sua empresa, emitir CTe de forma simples.

Norte is a founder's fund created and invested by entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
Lerian — Lerian is a next-gen core banking platform built on top of an open source ledger.
CredAluga — CredAluga is a B2B2C fintech company that offers innovative financial solutions for rental partnering with Real Estate Agencies in Brazil. CredAluga combines Technology, Credit and Real Estate expertise to offer innovative financial solutions that make rental seamless for tenants, safer for landlords and empower real estate agencies. With officesin São Paulo and Minas Gerais, CredAluga has local partners nationwide. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a strong track record in the real estate market, CredAluga is growing rapidly, with a mission-driven multidisciplinary team.

Co-founder & CEO at Volanty

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Sports
Seed, Angel
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quansa — Changing the way workers access financial services.
Sooper — Sooper | O APP da sua loja
Rough Diamonds — Rough Diamonds is a platform which unites Web3 and the sports universe.

Recognised as a global leader in the online classifieds arena, Founder of Frontier Digital Ventures, Shaun Di Gregorio is a former CEO of ASX listed company, iProperty Group (ASX: IPP), operator of Asia’s #1 network of property portals. During his four and a half year tenure there (2014-2009), Shaun spearheaded the transformation of iProperty Groupfrom a small online business with a market capitalisation of US$15 million into the largest listed Internet company in ASEAN with a market capitalisation of US$600 million.Under Shaun’s leadership, iProperty Group experienced growth in all key metrics, achieving revenue growth by 500 per cent and clientele exceeding more than 25,000 agents. Profitability was also achieved, with the business becoming cash flow positive, while the share price increased by 4000 per cent giving shareholders a 15 times return on investment on the original AU$0.25 price per share. iProperty Group was also added to the ASX300, a list of 300 largest public companies on the Australian Securities Exchange.Prior to this, Shaun spent eight years as General Manager at Australia-based REA Group, a global leader and publisher of as many as 20 real estate websites in 12 countries. As General Manager of the core Australian business and global leader ‘realestate.com.au’, Shaun grew the business alongside a team of eight people with revenue of AU$5million into a company with more than 300 staff and revenues exceeding AU$150 million.Shaun was also appointed General Manager, International Operations, overseeing five businesses and 16 brands that REA had previously acquired. During this period he identified long-term strategic opportunities in Hong Kong and Italy and instituted initiatives that improved operational margins by 30 per cent in France, Germany, Luxemburg and Dubai.Shaun is a non-Executive Director of iCar Asia (ASX:ICQ), Asia’s leading operator of online automotive portals, an advisor to online classifieds businesses around the world, and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

VivaReal — VivaReal is an online real estate marketplace that connects buyers, sellers, and renters with properties in Brazil. It enables its users to sell, buy, rent, or invest in residential and commercial properties, vacation homes, beachfront properties, and investment properties.VivaReal lists approximately 5 million properties on its site and has over15 million visits every month.The company was launched in 2009 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

We believe Financial Technology will create a better future. And we are Investing and building to create that future.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Deck — Open Data API accessing Energy, Water, Government and many more data verticals to power sustainability, credit check, accounting, bill payments and many more use-cases. Start building now with Deck's self-serve platform.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
OneCard — One Credit Card is India's best and smartest metal credit card. Apply credit card online & get instant approval. Enjoy benefits like 5X reward points, no hidden charges and more.

Simon Baker - Executive Chairman @ Property Portal Watch

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management, Internet
Seed, Series B
Brazil, Thailand, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Serial Entrepreneur with more than 20 years on Proptech and fintech business with 3 successful exits: Zap Imoveis(Globo and Estado Acquisition 2000 ), Suahouse (VivaReal Acquisition 2015) and Kzas (Creditas Acquisition 2021).

Investment focus

Real Estate, Information Technology, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kzas.AI — Kzas is a real estate transaction platform that matches real buyers with real sellers/properties with a assistance of conversational AI or a specialized team, making a really painful process from search, mortgage to the notary, as easy and transparent as it gets.
Pipeimob — Real Estate Transactional Platform that brings security, transparency and speed to everyone involved in the transaction
Suahouse.com — Suahouse.com develops real estate CRM and marketing platform to help developers and builders improve the efficiency of the sales process. It helps manage the company's sales business with a greater focus on online, processes, and systems.

Renan Constantino

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars
Federato — Insurers can no longer afford to underutilize data. RiskOps means more precise + productive underwriting live in only 8 weeks... yes, seriously. Thinking yet?

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Brazil, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Agrolend — Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit.
XP Health — XP Health is a health tech startup introducing a new kind of vision benefit for employees leveraging machine learning.Founded in 2019 by Antonio Moraes and James Wong, XP Health is an AI-powered vision benefits platform for employees and their families to get frames from the world’s leading designers like Tom Ford, Ray-Ban, Armani, Gucci, Coach.Its proprietary deep learning model uses facial recognition technology that recommends the best frames based on facial dimensions with 98% accuracy. The company is working with companies like Chegg, Zenefits, and Sequoia Consulting Group.
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FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.

Gávea Angels is a leading angel investors-led group that makes equity investments in the $50-500K range in emerging growth ventures in the Rio de Janeiro area, and syndicated investments in other parts of Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuu — Nuu is a food-based company that makes old-fashioned food with future generations in mind. Nuu is not to make the best products in the world, but the best products for the world.
Inspira AI — Save time on your legal tasks with artificial intelligence With Inspira, you and your team will conduct jurisprudence research, analysis, reports, and knowledge management in an instant - and the best part is: reliable results
Central da Visão — Central da Visão is a social impact healthtech. We connect people without health insurance to partner clinics that provide more affordable eye surgery.

TM3 Capital is an asset management company that specializes in technology companies. The company specializes in technology investments, and it looks to fund businesses with strong growth prospects and/or scalable hardware and/or software solutions. Its investment vehicles benefit from the synergies and experience that TM3 Capital, a teamwith a long history in the technology industry, brings to the table.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Speedio — Speed IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.
Spotlar — Proptrech; Real Estate
Conducco — With several systems in place for subscription management, B2B companies demand an iPaaS solution that supports an automated and intelligent way to manage the opportunity-to-cash process, and we are laying the infrastructure to make it happen in Latin America

monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. With a human-values-first approach, monashees helps founders challenge the statusquo and improve people’s lives through technology. The monashees community includes over 150 companies and 300+ founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
BHub — BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs in Latam. We unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We offer bookkeeping, CFO services, legal and HR services. BHub enable businesses to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with administrative functions.
Facio — Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class, as well as providing financial education. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No. 3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnoverdecrease of up to 36%, and doesn't not charge anything from the company. It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Luiz Eduardo Perna

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AoCubo — The new development brokerage of independent agents. We manage the entire real estate purchasing experience from listing to closing via an Uber-like solution called iBroker, matching every lead with the right agent. We deliver a unique value and experience to buyers, developers and agents.

Anderson de Andrade is a Partner at Bzplan.

Investment focus

Internet, Real Estate, Online Portals
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Imóveis-SC — Imóveis-SC is a service center for online audience, digital marketing and technology for real estate business.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

The HBS Angels' goal is to support and strengthen the startups ecosystem through direct investment in companies. We bring financial capital, promote education and mentoring, and aggregate collective knowledge of a worldwide network of Harvard alumni, which presents itself as a competitive advantage in a globalized world with smaller borders.

Investment focus

Pet, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrowinCo. — GrowinCo., is the lead sourcing platform for the CPG industry, connecting suppliers, co-packers, co-manufacturers, and business partners.
Prius — Prius is a brewing company.
SunRay Scientific Inc. — SUNRAY SCIENTIFIC offers custom engineered interconnect solutions for advanced electronic packages.

Julio Vasconcellos is the Managing Partner of Atlantico. He previously worked at Prefer as a CEO. Julio Vasconcellos attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
Volanty — Volanty is a digital used car marketplace that digital second-hand car mall for pre-owned cars. For the seller, the company simplifies the entire sales process from inspecting and photographing the car to negotiating with potential buyers while reducing bureaucracy. For the buyer, Volanty makes buying used cars safe, convenient and moretransparent by selecting only the best cars and providing thorough information about the vehicle and seller. They use technology to connect sellers and buyers securely and efficiently, eliminating middlemen such as stores and dealers and thus maximizing the selling value of your car. The marketplace goal is to create a new era for those looking to sell or buy their car.Volanty was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro.

Founded in 2012 by Federico Antoni, ALLVP is the first institutional fund seed and early venture capital of its kind in Mexico, formed to invest in entrepreneurs with strong components and scalable models of innovation. Across three funds, the firm has invested in more than 30 highly innovative and successful startups throughout Latin America :Cornershop scaled its unique on-demand marketplace from Chile to Canada; Flink provides access to free trading to nearly 2 million small investors; Nuvocargo enables thousands of cross-border shipments in the world's most active trade corridor; Robinfood is building the largest network of ghost restaurants in the region and Yana is the world's fastest-growing mental health app with over 6 million downloads.ALLVP is targeting companies led by founders who share our vision to democratize access to services and fix large inefficient industries such as Healthcare, Financial technology, Consumer Internet and Smart cities & Mobility.The firm is a member of the Latin-American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA), the Mexican Private Equity Association (AMEXCAP) and Endeavor Investor Network.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Atlas — No-code friendly tool to automate emails and send segmented campaigns.
R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

Andréa Nogueira, CFA - Founder & Managing Partner @ Flame Ventures

Investment focus

Analytics, Advertising, Apps
Seed
Brazil, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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StopClub — StopClub is a vertical community app designed for gig workers. Our features addresses their everyday needs while building the social foundation for future business.
Back4app — Harness the power of a low-code cloud platform to rapidly launch apps and seamlessly scale to millions of users. Unlock AI-powered tools and out-of-the-box components for blazing-fast development.

GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

Caju Capital investment fund created to design and foster businesses for social impact.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Alpop — They believe in good housing for everyone. Moving house has to be easy and safe. It is the right of everyone to have a good place to live - without it being necessary to commit a large share of the monthly income or to discourage amid the bureaucracy of renting a property.Alpop is a real estate rental platform that aims to make life easier forthose who are looking for a property, and offer guarantees to those who are advertising. They use technology in favor of people, and that is how they manage to rent real estate without the need for bail bonds, unnecessary collateral or bureaucracies, and making payments to the owner on the agreed date, even if they have not yet received them from the tenants.

SmartMoney Ventures invests in early-stage startups in fintech, edtech, hrtech and SaaS B2B.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Human Resources, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alpop — They believe in good housing for everyone. Moving house has to be easy and safe. It is the right of everyone to have a good place to live - without it being necessary to commit a large share of the monthly income or to discourage amid the bureaucracy of renting a property.Alpop is a real estate rental platform that aims to make life easier forthose who are looking for a property, and offer guarantees to those who are advertising. They use technology in favor of people, and that is how they manage to rent real estate without the need for bail bonds, unnecessary collateral or bureaucracies, and making payments to the owner on the agreed date, even if they have not yet received them from the tenants.
U.mode — U.mode operates as the fashion segments and connects through various functionalities. They provide solutions to all sizes of companies through technologies.
Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.

João Ventura is the founder of Sling Capital.

Investment focus

Analytics, Advertising, B2B
Seed
Brazil, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Priced — Priced provides businesses with solutions to obtain analytics that focus on market research and promotional marketing.Priced provides retail businesses with applications, marketing services, and research. The applications it provides are my Rates and credits NFP.Priced was founded by Claudio N, Victor Key Harada, Ricardo C, Rafael M, Ricardo M,and Fernando Romero. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
LINKETT — Use real-time audience data and analytics to increase DOOH ad revenue and optimize advertising campaigns across digital signs, billboards, TVs and more.

An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Lerian — Lerian is a next-gen core banking platform built on top of an open source ledger.
Finkargo — FINKARGO created Latin America’s first supply chain platform for micro, small and medium enterprises empowering them with centralized control, shipment tracking, analytics and embedded financing for all of their international commerce operations. With its solution, Finkargo will enable international trade for Latam’s 27.5 million MSMEs.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Marketplace
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

Captable is a startup investment platform that operates transactions through crowdfunding. They exist to simplify and make startup investments viable, as well as to connect the entire ecosystem, by leveraging business growth with high return potential for investors who want to contribute to the growth of startups. It makes connections at variouslevels for various agents in the innovation market with the goal of encouraging entrepreneurship through investment in startups. CapTable was founded in 2018 by Guilherme Enck and Paulo Deitos Filho.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Veggi — Veggi is the first vegan delivery platform in Brazil.
CowMed — CowMed is an agricultural service company of technological solutions for health, nutrition, and reproduction for milk cattle. It also develops animal monitoring products for precision livestock, generating value, and ensuring the sustainability of the business.The company was named 2018 - NEOVIA's Future Farm, 2017 - Ideas for Milk andAcceleration Criatec 3, and 2017 & 2016 Tecnova Notice SEBRAE.CowMed was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
E-Comprei — E-Comprei is a company that buys and sells beauty and hygiene products for small shop keeper.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

South Ventures facilitates an online platform that focuses on connecting investors with startups. It offers its services in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, and the United States.South Ventures was acquired by nubelo and Guidecentral.South Ventures was founded by Federico Tessore and Sebastian Ortega in January 2013. It is based in Miami,Florida.

Investment focus

DIY, Mobile, Content
Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

FormaFina — FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovativedesign products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium.FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Guidecentral — Guidecentral is an online platform that enables DIY fans to create, share, and explore DIY projects. It has also created a program known as The Maker Program to help talented people be rewarded for their creativity. It is constantly improving its product based on its users’ needs and recommendations.Guidecentral was launched in 2012 and isbased in New York, United States.

Confrapar invests in technology companies through four Brazilian regulated (CVM) funds with a diverse range of limited partners, including family offices, pension funds, banks and development agencies from Brazil and abroad. Confrapar invests up to $20 million USD in each company. We currently have 10 companies in our portfolio and offices inSão Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.Confrapar relies on the background and expertise of its more than 100 Market Partners in key market sectors. These relationships create unique opportunities for the portfolio companies to grow their businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Brazil, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fielo — Fielo is an Incentive and Loyalty software platform that helps channel marketers drive partner engagement, loyalty and sales performance.Fielo is growing rapidly. They invest in their people and are looking for motivated and talented individuals to join their team. If you’re interested in their mission to help companies reach their goals withcutting edge incentive and loyalty program technology.
Flapper Technologies — Flapper Technologies is Brazil's first boutique private airline. The company was born of a need for accessible on-demand private aviation services, including flights to Premium destinations inaccessible to commercial aviation. Building on the rising popularity of sharing economy, the company sells individual seats on general aviation aircraft,as well as offers on-demand charters, including helicopters, private jets and large corporate airliners.With more than 550 certified aircraft available on its charter platform Flapper boasts the most complete private aviation offer in Latin America.
SalaryFits — A platform that allows financial institutions to integrate their systems with payroll information of entities, providing access to a new risk assessment tool. All of these create a win-win scenario, which reduces the transaction costs and assures the feasibility of a sustainable personal loan credit line.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

Lucas Vargas is the CEO at Nomad. Lucas Vargas attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Alpop — They believe in good housing for everyone. Moving house has to be easy and safe. It is the right of everyone to have a good place to live - without it being necessary to commit a large share of the monthly income or to discourage amid the bureaucracy of renting a property.Alpop is a real estate rental platform that aims to make life easier forthose who are looking for a property, and offer guarantees to those who are advertising. They use technology in favor of people, and that is how they manage to rent real estate without the need for bail bonds, unnecessary collateral or bureaucracies, and making payments to the owner on the agreed date, even if they have not yet received them from the tenants.

A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Mexico, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
Advance Tech Lending — Overcome cashflow disruptions with our credit solutions so you can focus on what matters: building your business.

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.

DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
Visio.ai — Visio.ai is a artificial intelligence to help franchisees improve store operations, driving scalability and profitability.
Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
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