# Top 20 Retail Angel Investors in Brazil in June 2026 ## Ariel Lambrecht - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara ## David Vélez - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nu Colombia. He previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. David Vélez attended Stanford University. ## Hans Tung - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services Hans Tung is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital and also Board Member of Wispr Flow. Hans previously worked at Poshmark as a Board Member. Hans Tung attended the Stanford University. ## Kevin Efrusy - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech 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. ## Juscelino Martins - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery Juscelino Martins ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain. ## Leonardo Teixeira - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech I am one of the partners of Iporanga Ventures running our Pre-Seed Stage fund. Prior to That I spent 6 years investing my own money in tech startups as an angel investor. ## Rodrigo Tognini - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Banking, Asset Management Rodrigo Tognini is the CEO & CO-Founder of Conta Simples. ## Patrick Sigrist - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth… ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Internet Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University. ## Marcelo Sampaio - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Apps, Software There are the well-traveled and then there are the travelers. Born in Brazil and raised in France, Marcelo has been jumping between the developing and developed worlds his entire life, which explains his innate understanding of the two. Name a country and it’s likely that Marcelo has been there. He has traveled and worked in over 50 countries likeMozambique, China, Peru, Latvia, and Korea.Marcelo has more than a decade of experience in channel and direct sales for both private and public sectors. He graduated from PUC-Rio in Production Engineering, and discovered his passion for business and technology at Microsoft. From there he transitioned to Oracle where he became head of Sales for Brazil, winning sales awards each year he was there as one of the best global performers in management and execution. He also happened to be Oracle’s youngest sales manager in the world. ## Lucas Fireman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Sales Automation, Digital Marketing Lucas Fireman ## Paulo Piccini - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke ## Marco Crespo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Retail, Sales Automation, Digital Marketing Marco Crespo ## Brian Requarth - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS 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. ## Gregory Reider - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery Gregory Reider is the Managing Partner at Volpe Capital. ## Simon Borrero - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Oskar Hartmann - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Ian McNish - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, CAD, Mobile Ian McNish - Mentor @ StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund) ## In Hsieh - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Marketplace In Hsieh is the Co-Founder at OOOOO.