Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Brazil in November 2024

Investor	Recruiting Brazil investments
Bossanova Investimentos	3
Dan Rosensweig	2
Owl Ventures	2
Armínio Fraga	2
Exor Ventures	2
Kevin Efrusy	2
Honey Island Capital	2
MAYA Capital	2
Kaszek	2
B Venture Capital	2
David Vélez	2
Upload Ventures	1
Daniel L Gleizer	1
Gvangels	1
Indigo Global	1
DOT Digital Group	1
ArpexCapital	1
Otto Capital	1
Mago Capital	1
Scale-Up Ventures	1
Gávea Angels	1
SaaSholic	1
Aimorés Investments	1
Altos Ventures	1
K50 Ventures	1
Reach Capital	1
Brian Requarth	1
42K Investimentos	1
BRQ	1
G2 Capital	1
Curitiba Angels	1
Reaction	1
SOFTBANK Latin America Ventures	1
Romero Rodrigues	1
Hangar 8 Capital	1
Romero Rodrigues	1
Latitud	1
Canary	1
Rodrigo Dantas	1
André Street	1
Positive Ventures	1
Otto Group	1
monashees	1
Renato Freitas	1
Graphene Ventures	1
André Fauri	1
Astella	1
Empower Investment	1
SoftBank Capital	1
Citrino Ventures	1

Somos Bossa Invest

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SenseUp — SenseUp provides IoT, big data, machine learning, and computer vision for the real-time needs of the financial market. It improves the way organizations interact with data by using microintegrations to orchestrate different data sources, consumers, and data flows in support of processes and decision-making.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet, EdTech
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 — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.

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.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Authentica Solutions — Authentica Solutions provides innovative solutions and products for education that empower learners, educators, and administrators.

Armínio Fraga

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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
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.
Zubale — Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Venture Capital para startups de tecnologia

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
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.
VAAS — VAAS is an AML and Compliance platform that offers on-chain and off-chain data integration for crime and suspicious activity prevention.

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

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.
Avra — AI for Credit Intelligence and Risk
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.

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
Winnin — Cultural Relevance powered by AI. Winnin AI transforms cross-platform video behavioral data into game-changing predictive insights

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Brazil, Colombia, Peru

Portfolio highlights

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.
DORA — Everything you need to know about the future of financial inclusion through rental property management. We solve the iconic Edgar Vivar character Señor Barriga in El Chavo del 8 Show main problem: -Rent collection.
Creditares — Creditares is a phygital hybrid model where we combine local presence with a tech infrastructure to bridge the gap between investors and borrowers in agribusiness. This combination provides the answer to the most challenging question in the industry. Connecting locally with farmers and suppliers, digitizing their credit journey and gatheringreliable information for financial agents. Opportunities to engage on our ecosystem extends from insurance, crowdfunding, carbon credit commercialization to numerous financial services that can be structured digitally and distributed locally.

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

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.

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

Daniel L Gleizer

Investment focus

SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Beejobs — Uma Renda Extra Online

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, E-Learning, Employment
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Plooral — Plooral is an eduployment platform that helps you recruit, qualify, train and develop your workforce efficiently through a human-driven approach.

ArpexCapital invests in early- and growth-stage web-related businesses and is a venture capital firm based in Brazil.

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.

Empowering Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, CRM
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Mago Capital is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

Scale-Up Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in companies selected by Endeavor Brazil's hyper-growth acceleration programs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.

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.

SaaSholic help early stage Startups grow with capital, go-to-market strategy and access to later-stage funding.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
YOOGA — Yooga provide assistance to small and micro businesses.
Curseduca — The all-in-one community and courses platform for creators. All in one place, all under your own brand.

Aimorés Investments is investing in technology companies between the Anjo and Pré-Seed stages.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We 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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

MarqVision — Effortlessly discover and remove counterfeits to protect your sales and reputation.
Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Makestar — The K-Culture place everyone seeks first

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i

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.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
Coral Care — Coral Care is a technology company for in-person specialized pediatric developmental healthcare. It aims to improve access to pediatric developmental health services from infancy to adolescence. The platform serves as a marketplace, offering a simplified path to care by matching families with Coral Care’s team of trusted, local, in-networkpediatric specialists available for in-person and in-home sessions.Coral Care’s platform provides pediatric specialists with the infrastructure needed to grow their private practices and deliver quality in-person care. The company offers administrative support and tools, content, credentialing services, and marketing services, which enable pediatric specialists to focus on care, not managing their businesses.
Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play

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, Software, SaaS
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).

42K Investimentos - Investimento e apoio ao desenvolvimento de startups

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

G2 Capital: Aceleradora de startups que apoia empreendedores inovadores. Participe e transforme sua ideia em realidade com nosso suporte.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Koibanx — KOIBANX is a software company focused on Smart Contracts and Blockchain Services.Koibanx solutions cover a wide range of use cases defined by their Transparency, Security, LowCost and Efficiency of applying Blockchain technology.These new decentralized software solutions have the potential to disrupt several industries rangingfrommarketing rewards to financial inclusion, allowing a democratic access to new opportunities formillions of new consumers across the world.
RadarFit — Fitness and health game app for people to transform health and body. Daily healthy food, physical activity, meditation and hydration missions are customized by artificial intelligence according to the physical profile and final goal of each user. Players prove their healthy tasks with photos that are analyzed by the image recognition of the app andearn coins and diamonds to participate in rankigns, championships and win prizes. Format: B2B, monthly subscription, Dashboard delivery for companies to monitor usage metrics and results in improving the health of their employees. B2C format, monthly subscription for individuals to use the application.
CustomerX — CustomerX is a full customer success management platform that helps companies to growth reducing churn following your customers' engagement, monitoring their needs and selling more. A closed deal is good, keep the recurrence is even better. CustomerX allows you to follow your customers from the sale until the renewal or upsell/cross-sell.Build customers journeys, monitor what features they use and how is the engagement with your SaaS, make NPS survey, create automations to scale customer success operation and have an accurate customers health score.

Curitiba Angels Angel investment for original entrepreneurs and filmmakers.

Investment focus

B2B, Freelance, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Seed
India, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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 is the create games that instil a love for reading.

SoftBank created the $5B SoftBank Latin America Fund to partner with the companies and entrepreneurs defining the future of the region.

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 — Say goodbye to stodgy terminals and clunky, decades-old interfaces. By asking questions in natural language, our institutional-grade analytic tools come alive and at your service.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
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.

Hangar 8 is an investment firm.

Investment focus

iOS, Software, Home Decor
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

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.
Plaza — Plaza leverages artificial intelligence to enhance real estate brokerages. It believes that the real estate market can be as efficient as the financial sector, and the key to realizing this vision lies in providing brokerages with AI assistants that promote productivity and improve the customer experience.
Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling

Canary is the first partner of the best founders in Latam.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

André Street

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Recruiting
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Galena — Established in 2020, Galena trains and develops young talented individuals for the jobs of the future.

investimos nas tecnologias do futuro para resolver os maiores desafios da sociedade e planeta no presente.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
Yuna — Yuna develops an AI-driven platform that provides personalized, interactive, and free children's stories.
Pathways Technologies, Inc. — Pathways is a full stack sustainability platform for the construction industry.

Otto Group is a worldwide operating retail trust and contractor with business activity in over 20 countries.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
Peru, Brazil, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Renato Freitas

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Software, Database
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jestor — Jestor helps you automate your tasks and mange your company without the need to increase your team.
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.

Graphene - venture fund for innovative startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series F
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

B2B, Internet, Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Brazil, United States

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.
Purple Metrics — Purple Metrics é o software de mensuração recorrente de branding para times de marketing visualizarem os resultados da sua marca.
Movens — Movens is a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce brands. We deeply understand the business to support entrepreneurs in their growth journey, solving working capital issues and cash flow fluctuations with affordable, flexible funding and insights with data intelligence.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Ykccn.com — Ykccn.com is a professional company that operates and replaces the operation and maintenance of new energy vehicles.
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.

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!.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Advertising
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Logistics
Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.
INTERA — INTERA specializes in digital marketing, talent hacking, branding, recruitment, data operations and design services.