Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Brazil in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Brazil. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Brazil. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Brazil in July 2025
Investor | Recruiting Brazil investments |
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Bossa Invest | 3 |
MAYA Capital | 2 |
Honey Island Capital | 2 |
Owl Ventures | 2 |
Dan Rosensweig | 2 |
B Venture Capital | 2 |
David Vélez | 2 |
Exor Ventures | 2 |
Exor Ventures | 2 |
Armínio Fraga | 2 |
Kevin Efrusy | 2 |
Kaszek | 2 |
ArpexCapital | 1 |
K50 Ventures | 1 |
42K Investimentos | 1 |
SOFTBANK Latin America Ventures | 1 |
Rodrigo Dantas | 1 |
Globo Ventures | 1 |
Renato Freitas | 1 |
Upload Ventures | 1 |
Confrapar | 1 |
Altos Ventures | 1 |
Valor Capital Group | 1 |
Romero Rodrigues | 1 |
Scale-Up Ventures | 1 |
Daniel L Gleizer | 1 |
Indigo Global | 1 |
Mago Capital | 1 |
Canary | 1 |
SaaSholic | 1 |
André Street | 1 |
Empower Investment | 1 |
Hangar 8 Capital | 1 |
BRQ | 1 |
SoftBank Group | 1 |
Citrino Ventures | 1 |
Otto Group | 1 |
Reach Capital | 1 |
Graphene Ventures | 1 |
André Fauri | 1 |
Brian Requarth | 1 |
DOT Digital Group | 1 |
Aimorés Investments | 1 |
Astella | 1 |
Latitud | 1 |
Otto Capital | 1 |
Romero Rodrigues | 1 |
Curitiba Angels | 1 |
Reaction | 1 |
Gávea Angels | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Comunitive — Peepi is a solution for scaling and changing customer and employee engagement into brand defenders improving retention, empowering sharing experiences, and attracting new customers. The company allows users to know who likes a brand and get closer to these people and increase engagement. Users can encourage people to share and advertise a brand insocial networks and more.Peepi was founded on 2017 and is headquartered Curitiba, Brazil.
- X (formerly Twitter) — X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
- Just Travel — Just Travel serves as a reference in the distribution of tourism products and customer service. The company offers cutting-edge technology that focuses on virtual presence, and provides growth, profitability, and brand strengthening on the internet.
MAYA Capital is an early-stage fund that supports bold leaders who are catalyzing change in Latin America. | MAYA Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- V360 — V360 is an invoice and payment management system.
- 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.
- Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- Linus — The fun, free, and effective way to study for the SAT.
- Complement 1 — Improve cancer-related health outcomes with Complement 1 by attending expert-led 1:1 live sessions covering exercise, nutrition, and overall well-being.
Dan Rosensweig is the Executive Chairman of Chegg. He previously worked at Yahoo! as a Chief Operating Officer. Dan Rosensweig attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
- Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
BVC is a venture capital fund investing in Latin American startups at the seed and pre-seed stages. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs to build world-changing companies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Brazil, Colombia, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- Loopia — Loopia is an AI-based platform that centralize customer service in e-commerce and marketplaces, transforming support interactions into sales opportunities. With Luna, our intelligent AI agent, businesses can centralize and streamline their customer service, ensuring fast, efficient, and highly scalable support. By automating repetitive tasks andoptimizing response times, Loopia enables e-commerce companies to reduce operational costs while maximizing customer satisfaction and revenue growth.We believe that traditional customer service is outdated, our mission is to elevate it into a strategic sales driver. Every customer interaction should go beyond simple support, it should create meaningful engagement, build brand loyalty, and drive conversions. With Loopia, businesses don’t just solve customer issues, they unlock their full sales potential.
- Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
- Give4.Tech — Give4.Tech is a fintech firm that offers a global infrastructure for online giving.
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Beep Saúde — Application that lets you find high quality healthcare services where you need.
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
- PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
- PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Armínio Fraga
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, SaaS, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- gen-t — Gen-t is a platform capable of providing the map of genomic research. Gen-t was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.
We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Azos — Azos is an insurtech firm that offers personalized insurance services. The company was founded by Rafael Cló, Bernardo Ribeiro, and Renato Farias and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Mombak — Mombak is a carbon removal company that focuses on the reforestation of the Amazon. The company's team combines experts in science, technology, forestry, and carbon markets
- Grão Direto — The agriculture that has so much technology inside the gate and gives lessons of modernity to Brazil and to the world can also be so technological and modern in the commercialization of its products!The Grão Direto forms a web between buyers and producers of grains connected in a much more intelligent way.Through technology, they can interactdigitally and much faster and more efficiently. This is either for spot, future or barter trading. Grão Direto was created with the necessary flexibility to support all the chain's profiles: cooperatives, tradings, traditional brokers, feed factories, warehouses, traders and much more.The platform generates market intelligence gains for producers and buyers to make better decisions, as well as more agility in processes associated with marketing (logistics, contract management, financial products and more).
ArpexCapital invests in early- and growth-stage web-related businesses and is a venture capital firm based in Brazil.
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Investment focus
- Software, Messaging, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series D
- United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
- Podium — Podium is a computer software company that offers a customer communication platform for businesses that interact with customers on a local level. It features an interaction management platform that utilizes messaging features designed for businesses to interact with their leads, customers, and teams.The company was founded in 2014 andheadquartered in Utah, United States.
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
K50 Ventures is a purpose-driven, early-stage venture capital firm. We are the first institutional check and long-term partner to founders who believe technology has the potential to unlock access and affordability for the world’s working class across health, finance, and work. Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 150 companies that have generatedtop-decile venture returns for our investors and material impact for millions of people and small businesses.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Persona AI — Persona AI is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions.
- Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
42K Investimentos - Investimento e apoio ao desenvolvimento de startups
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Wedy — Organize seu casamento com facilidade usando nosso aplicativo gratuito, repleto de recursos que abrangem todos os aspectos do seu dia especial
- BizCapital — BizCapital provides loans to SMEs without access to large banks through an evaluation machine that analyzes and ranks each request in a few seconds, analyzing the variables digitally, enabling customers to get loans to operate business through an online lending platform.
- GeekHunter Brasil — GeekHunter is an online platform developed to capture, test and select the best IT professionals on the market and present them dynamically to technology companies, reversing the traditional recruitment process. We pre-select candidates through our selection algorithm, which are then evaluated by automated testing of programming logic and videointerview. Only the top 5% are featured in online hiring rounds involving GeekHunter's partners and customers. Today GeekHunter has a portfolio of more than 250 customers! Some examples are Ambev, CI & T, Dafiti, Bank Facil, Chaordic, Mercado Livre, GuiaBolso, among others.
SoftBank created the $5B SoftBank Latin America Fund to partner with the companies and entrepreneurs defining the future of the region.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Reflexivity — Purpose-built for asset managers and capital markets. Reflexivity delivers accurate, auditable insights from verified financial data sources.
Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Zazos — Allow companies to create their own people management tools and offer a unique experience to their employees.
- Weego — Weego is Duolingo-like platform for leadership development. Helping managers to develop soft skills that they lack and make them great leaders, reduce turnover, burnouts and increase company results.
- Cardeal.app — Cardeal, a proptech that aims to unleash the potential of distressed real estate assets, managing all the complexities and simplifying access to ownership, whether for investment or residential purposes.
Globo Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on investments and entrepreneurship.
It was headquartered in Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Alice — Alice is reinventing health insurance in Brazil. It created a new end-to-end healthcare system based on (i) tech and data, (ii) world-class proprietary primary care, and (iii) value-based agreements with health providers, delivering personalized, data-driven longitudinal care, improving clinical outcomes, with an astonishing experience at lowercosts.
- Franq — Hyperlocal and phygital marketplace that connects financial products to retail & SME customers with the support of a baking agent.
Renato Freitas
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Investment focus
- Internet of Things, Software, Database
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jestor — Jestor is a no-code platform for building scalable internal systems for companies.
- FestaLab — FestaLab is an all in one event planning platform that helpers users organize parties, weddings, baby showers and meetups in just a few clicks.
- Worc — Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.
Upload Ventures is a venture capital firm in Brazil and Mexico that exist to support the brave, the bold, the Latin American leaders shaping the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series E
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
- Tipspace — Tipspace allows to any gamer monetize their matches and create new game modes on competitive games.
- Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills
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.
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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.
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. They have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
- Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
- OnlinePajak — Kelola Pajak Online dengan Hitung, Setor & Lapor secara terintegrasi dalam 1 Aplikasi Pajak Online kami. Praktis & gratis Selamanya, Coba Sekarang!
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
- Advolve AI — AI-driven adtech startup that collect data to from public databases and private historical performance from our client’s ad history
Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
- Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Scale-Up Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in companies selected by Endeavor Brazil's hyper-growth acceleration programs.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Tensec — Tensec is reimagining B2B cross-border financial services by providing the fastest and simplest way for businesses to move money across global markets.
- Grão Direto — The agriculture that has so much technology inside the gate and gives lessons of modernity to Brazil and to the world can also be so technological and modern in the commercialization of its products!The Grão Direto forms a web between buyers and producers of grains connected in a much more intelligent way.Through technology, they can interactdigitally and much faster and more efficiently. This is either for spot, future or barter trading. Grão Direto was created with the necessary flexibility to support all the chain's profiles: cooperatives, tradings, traditional brokers, feed factories, warehouses, traders and much more.The platform generates market intelligence gains for producers and buyers to make better decisions, as well as more agility in processes associated with marketing (logistics, contract management, financial products and more).
Daniel L Gleizer
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- SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Jobecam — Jobecam is a SaaS which uses video technology to help recruiters to reduce unconcious biases during hiring process applying AI, concealing the candidates' identity, by blurring their images and changing their voices in the video interviews or video resume. With this, we help the decision-maker to evaluate candidates just for their competences,abilities and experiences instead of their gender, race, ethinic, religion, etc.Our IA do a match between the recruiter's requirements and the audio transcriptions from the video interviews to ranking the best profiles. In this point we already are by designed to reduce biases besides optimizing the hiring process, reducing unnecessary interviews.We are supported by Oracle, Estação Hack Facebook, Artemísia, IBMEC, People Strategy, BR and Harvard Angels BrazilThinking at efficiency and diversity during hiring process we are promoting a world to value difference in companies!Learn more at www.jobecam.com
Indigo Global is an investment advisory firm providing asset management, private equity and investment services with a focus on emerging markets. Our clients include strategic investors, investment funds and corporations in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources
- Series A
- Brazil
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- Beejobs — Uma Renda Extra Online
Mago Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Software, AgTech, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Brazil
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- Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
- 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.
- Worc — Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.
Canary is the first partner of the best founders in Latam.
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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
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- Robbin — Robbin is leading a revolution to change how 21 million SMBs fund $2.5 trillions in B2B Payments. Employing an innovative underwriting approach, Robbin leverages BRL 3 trillion in card receivables as collateral to underwrite a one-of-a-kind business credit card for underserved entrepreneurs.
- Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
- Loads — Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers.Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to+20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.
SaaSholic is the premier software/SaaS early stage venture capital firm.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Colombia
André Street
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- EdTech, Education, Recruiting
- Series A
- Brazil
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- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Empower Investment was founded in 2012 in Shanghai, China. Their investment covers early-stage ventures, mid-stage growth, and securities in the public market. With headquarters in Shanghai, the company established branch offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Empower Investment has invested in over 150 high-tech and high-growthcompanies on a global scale covering regions including China, U.S, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Their portfolio companies include fast-growing industries such as internet, AI, big data, automation & robotics, financial technology, cultural creativity, advanced materials, and healthcare.The Empower team has extensive experience in both deep technologies and financial services including internet, computer science, electronic engineering, materials science, auditing and investment banking. Some team members were serial entrepreneurs. With candidness and empathy, the team is eager to find and partner with the most visionary, determined and down-to-earth entrepreneurs. It always brings great excitement and pleasure to build a bright future with them.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, United States, India
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- SideChef — Your digital resource for all home cooking needs. Browse 18,000 step-by-step recipes personalized to your diet and taste, for every skill level.
- Hongpeng Airlines — Hongpeng Airlines is committed to developing, designing, and producing low-cost airplane engines.
- Xunyuan Technology — Xunyuan Technology is a bio-refining and bio-manufacturing platform company based on non-grain carbon sources.
Hangar 8 is an investment firm.
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- iOS, Software, Home Decor
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Já Vendeu — We help our users to sell pre-owned, pre-loved products easily. Doing that, we also enable a whole new buyer experience, making more transparent and safe transactions compared to others similar companies.
- 123Projetei — 123Projetei specializes in real estate solutions. It began operation in January 2016, with its headquarters in Rio Grande in Brazil.
- GeekHunter Brasil — GeekHunter is an online platform developed to capture, test and select the best IT professionals on the market and present them dynamically to technology companies, reversing the traditional recruitment process. We pre-select candidates through our selection algorithm, which are then evaluated by automated testing of programming logic and videointerview. Only the top 5% are featured in online hiring rounds involving GeekHunter's partners and customers. Today GeekHunter has a portfolio of more than 250 customers! Some examples are Ambev, CI & T, Dafiti, Bank Facil, Chaordic, Mercado Livre, GuiaBolso, among others.
BRQ is an IT services company that focus on transforming businesses with technology. BRQ develops applications as well as digital products and channels. It also executes a complete range of technology solutions and manages applications, infrastructure, and processes for its customers. It has 3,500 professionals distributed in the branches of SãoPaulo, Alphaville, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador, Brasilia, Christmas, and New York.With agility and flexibility, BRQ seeks to exceed the expectations of its customers. It was awarded by IAOP - World Association of Outsourcing Professionals. BRQ was founded on 1993 and is headquartered in
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- Financial Services, Payments, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Certdox — Certdox is a developer and provider of document management software designed for handling information, documents electronically.
- InvestPlay — Investplay is a financial education game that delivers gamified learning experiences for financial institutions and helps them better understand their customers' habits, behaviors, and financial needs in order to better satisfy those customers. They provide financial institutions with the ideal corporate solution. They are The main objectiveis to help participants change their financial habits so they can live a healthier financial life. Moreover, they also generate metrics for the company.
- Easy Carros — Easy Carros offers services such as washing, waxing, and internal hygiene for cars without the owners leaving home or work.Easy Carros is a technology provider and car service marketplace, connecting companies to automotive service providers. The services offered by the company are external and internal dry cleaning, waxing, polishing, leathermoisturizing, air conditioning cleaning, engine technical cleaning, lubricating oil exchange, and glass crystallization.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.
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- Mobile, Software, Advertising
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, China
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- Birdie — Transform thousands of user feedback into insights with our Feedback Analytics Platform and take faster product decisions
- Energy Vault — Energy Vault creates gravity and kinetic energy-based, long-duration energy storage solutions that are transforming the world's approach to energy storage.
- Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.
Citrino Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Computer, Software, Logistics
- Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Cromai — Cromai takes agronomic management to the next level of efficiency with digital solutions based on artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- PayHop — B2B Platform in Supply Chain: for Supplier a "Warranty as a Service" provider, for Retailer an innovative "Buy now Pay later" alternative
- Infleet — Infleet provides transparency and agility through an integrative hub involving the main verticals of logistics and equipment management.
Otto Group is a worldwide operating retail trust and contractor with business activity in over 20 countries.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Peru, Brazil, Sweden
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- Fitfox — Since launching its service in Hamburg, Fitfox offers pay-as-you-go passes for sport activities such as gyms, yoga classes, leisure centres and marathons in over 100 cities in Germany, including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart and Frankfurt. In 2018, SportScheck - Germany's largest sports retail company acquired Fitfox to 100percent after investing in 2017.
- LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.
- AuctioNet.com — Auctionet is a marketplace where auction houses from all over Europe sells furniture, art, design items, collectibles and more.The items are sold at online auction, much like eBay, but with a significant difference: all items are carefully inspected, described and photographed by experts, so you can bid with confidence.Auctionet.com was foundedin 2011 by Niklas Söderholm, formerly CEO and founder of Bukowskis Market, and Tom Österman, senior expert formerly of Bukowskis and Åmells.
Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.
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- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Spain
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- FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
- Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
- WorkWhile — Hire event staff and warehouse talent near you, fast. WorkWhile connects businesses with reliable, flexible professionals for logistics, production, and events.
Graphene - venture fund for innovative startups.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series F
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Datalogz — Datalogz is a BI Ops solution that enables teams to bridge the gaps in their business intelligence environment.
- Start Careers — Start Careers offers Publicize the vacancies in a practical way to the best universities in the country.
- Retailo Technologies — Retailo is an online regional B2B marketplace platform that serves small and medium-sized retail businesses, including kiryana and baqala stores, in the MENAP region. We are using technology to digitize and streamline the retail sector to make it more efficient.
CEO & Founder at beepbeep mobilidade - Founder at LAIOB - Angel investor of startups in Brazil
and Silicon Valley - Mentor startups such as Biomimetic Solutions and Brazillab.
Finance extensive career in multinationals
Graduated in Economics and Accounting
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- B2B, Internet, Education
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Wall Jobs — Wall Jobs is a social networking site for students that helps them search and share jobs opportunities such as apprenticeship positions. The companies that uses the site are Adobe, AREZZO, DANONE, GROUPON, kanui, Claro, and EASY TAXI. It creates innovative products in order to improve human development. The values of the company are transparency,winning attitude, persistence, and proactive. The company offers businesses with training contracts, jobs, internship programs and trainees, and attraction projects and employer branding.Wall Jobs is a Brazil-based company was founded in 2015.
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.
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- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, Colombia, United States
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- Taxflow — Taxflow is an AI agent for US tax and accounting firms and eliminate tedious tasks and reduce manual errors. Our AI agent automates data collection, client communications, transaction categorization and other end to-end tax preparation tasks.
- Jumpstart — We use AI to improve approval chances for visa and green card applications.
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
DOT Digital Group provides innovative and integrated EdTech solutions for online corporate education. Our mission is to develop people to launch organizations forward. With over 24 years of experience, we are one of the largest digital education organizations and pioneers in the Brazilian Communication Education market. We offer end-to-endsolutions, varying from educational consultancy to Education Technology platforms and Apps. We are headquartered in Florianópolis, a technological hub in the state of Santa Catarina. We also have offices in São Paulo and Brasília. In the international market, we have operations in Lisbon, Portugal.
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- EdTech, E-Learning, Employment
- Seed
- Brazil
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- Plooral — Plooral is an eduployment platform that helps you recruit, qualify, train and develop your workforce efficiently through a human-driven approach.
Aimorés Investments is investing in technology companies between the Anjo and Pré-Seed stages.
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- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil
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- Vidia — Vidia is a digital marketplace that allows the purchase of surgeries by individuals without access to health plans.
- Vestipago — Vesti's payment solution, specialized for the wholesale apparel sector
- Meu Pescado — Meu Pescado is an agtech company.
Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
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- Traive — Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers.
- 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.
- Gabriel — Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond.
Build good sh*t with Latitud
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
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- Altis — ALTIS is a digital platform that acts as a banking correspondent to facilitate the loan contracting process.
- Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills
- Carecode — Carecode system combines powerful Generative AI models with continuous learning mechanisms, enabling natural and autonomous interactions that adapt to complicated environments without the need for human intervention.
Empowering Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, Germany, United States
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- Nifti — Nifti enables users to store and track products and their prices from their favorite websites.
- Shore — Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system.Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.
- Bidu — Bidu is an online recommendation, comparison and marketplace portal for insurance and financial services. The company helped millions of consumers compare the prices and benefits of several types of insurance, including auto, travel, home, life, and health insurance, in addition to a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financingoptions, and loans. Our mission is to help people make smart financial decisions throughout their lives by way of our technology and objective and content. Bidu was named Best of Insurance 2017, of the magazine Revista. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Romero Rodrigues is the Managing Partner of Headline in Brazil, which invests in Early-Stage companies across Latin America as part of the global Headline platform. As a partner of XP.inc responsible for Venture Capital, he manages the recently raised Headline Brazil fund 3, with $200M in AUM, and co-manages Redpoint e.ventures funds 1 and 2, with$305M in AUM. Together, the funds have invested in more than 70 companies since 2012.For the last 24 years, Romero has been a startup entrepreneur and investor. He has been involved in over 100 companies, 10 now unicorns.In 1998, Romero co-founded Buscapé, a pioneering force in the Brazilian startup scene. His leadership as CEO for 16 years, until 2014, was instrumental in shaping Buscapé's success. The pinnacle of his tenure was the acquisition of Buscapé by Naspers/Prosus for $374 million in 2009, a landmark event in the Latam startup world.Romero has served on the boards of companies such as Pismo, Wayfair, TOTVs, and Neogrid.
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- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
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- MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
- Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.
Curitiba Angels Angel investment for original entrepreneurs and filmmakers.
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- B2B, Freelance, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Marfin — Projetos de marketing sob demanda. Conectamos profissionais especialistas e entregamos uma plataforma completa para gerenciar centenas de trabalhos simultaneamente.
- Transfeera — Transfeera is a platform that generates savings with each transfer between banks and also allows its customers to reduce errors and operational efforts that generate even more expenses.Designed in March 2016, Transfeera was created with the purpose of reducing the costs of TEDs and DOCs to its users. It is founded by 3 ex-employees of ContaAzul:Guilherme Verdasca, Rafael Negherbon, and Fernando Nunes.
- Abler Recrutamento Digital — For companies that are struggling to hire, Abler is a platform that compares requirements and skills, facilitates management and simplifies communication by offering simplicity, automation and better experiences through technology. For professionals looking for job opportunities and suffering from the lack of references and evaluations in the jobmarket, Abler is a platform that through the comparison of requirements and skills, guides and indicates opportunities according to their profile providing feedbacks, automation and better experiences for candidates.
Reaction Fund is a venture capital firm owned and operated by 150 founding partners and Stanford Business alumni.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- India, Brazil, Canada
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- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Jumbotail — Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building.
- Shoelace Learning — Shoelace Learning utilizes Science of Reading principles to transform literacy through engaging, educational games.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
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- 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.
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