# Top 50 Startup Investors in Brazil in June 2026 ## Sergio Furio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS Sergio Furio is based out of São Paulo, São Paulo, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Sergio previously worked at Juntos Somos Mais as a Board Member. Sergio Furio attended the Esade. Sergio Furio has received the Kaszek Innovation and Leadership Program certificate. ## Matias Woloski - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires. ## Sergio Fogel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, CRM, Sales Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery. ## Sebastian Mejia - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Daniel Undurraga - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop. ## SaaSholic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology SaaSholic is the premier software/SaaS early stage venture capital firm. ## big_bets - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Big_bets is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate business development. ## David Vélez - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## NFX - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies. ## Carlos Garcia - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Marketplace Carlos Garcia is the Founder & CEO at PositivUS. He attended ESSCA Ecole de management during 2005. ## DOMO.VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services DOMO.VC is a leading venture capital firm in Brazil that invests in best in class entrepreneurs. We back early-stage technology startups, helping them grow faster and establish themselves in competitive markets.We started from the collective desire of our founding partners to contribute to the success of the next generation of Brazilianentrepreneurs. DOMO’s multi-disciplinary team is supported by its Advisory Board who’s members have solid and proven track-record in creating, investing, advising and financing tech startups of all sizes.Our GPs have thrived as entrepreneurs, having founded companies such as Buscapé in Brazil. The team was also an early investor in well renowned start-ups such as Loggi, Gympass, Hotmart, among others. ## Claire Diaz-Ortiz - Type: Angel - Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America. ## FJ Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups. ## Endeavor - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia. ## Gerry Giacoman Colyer - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Business strategist and product guy oriented towards growth and finance. At my core, I'm a liberal arts grad who thought about going into public service, but then fell in love with the potential for technology-driven companies to make our lives better. ## Quartz - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet Quartz is a venture & growth capital firm investing in companies in Latin America. ## Paulo Silveira - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology CEO and founder at Caelum Alura ## Canary - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software Canary is the first partner of choice of the best founders in LatAm. We are co-founders of the companies we back, from the ground up, supported by the best community of builders. ## B Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## JAM Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm. ## Loreanne Garcia - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Loreanne Garcia is a Co-Founder & Chief People Officer at Kavak. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business. ## Andreessen Horowitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology. ## Ganas Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Carlsbad, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Retail, E-Commerce Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America. ## Dileep Thazhmon - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, B2B, Finance Dileep Thazhmon is the Co-Founder and CEO at Jeeves. ## Kim Machlup - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Kim Machlup ## Andrea Ponce - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Andrea Ponce ## Tiago Dalvi - Type: Angel - Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Fruit, Financial Services Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist. ## Kallie Parchman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Kallie Parchman ## Parker Treacy - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Founder at Cobli. ## Daniel Vogel - Type: Angel - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Daniel holds two degrees from Stanford (BA in Economics, BS in Computer Systems Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously he built Quantcast's Real Time Bidding system, which became the company's main revenue-generating product-line. ## Mike Krieger - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Mike Krieger is the CTO and co-founder of Instagram, a global community that shares more than 70 million photos every day. As the head of engineering, Mike focuses on building products that bring out the creativity in all of us. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Mike holds an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Prior to foundingInstagram, he worked at Meebo as a user experience designer and front-end engineer. ## Far Out Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech We are an equity investor at the pre-seed and seed stages at the intersection of: Enterprise Vertical Software and FinTech ## Tania Zapata - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Tania I. Zapata is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Akily. He previously worked at Voice123 as a Board Member. He attended the City University of New York. ## Rafael Duton - Type: Angel - Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile. Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ## Stellar Development Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant - Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech Stellar Development Foundation is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets andsettle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology. ## Guilherme Bonifacio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services 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. ## Everywhere Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. ## Oriana Fuentes - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Oriana Fuentes is the Co-Founder and COO at Emptor. She is a former Specialty Finance (FIG) Banking at JP Morgan. She attended Syracuse University and Columbia University in the City of New York. ## Alex Torrenegra - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Alex Torrenegra ## 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. ## BlockFi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs. ## Tribe Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. The team is made up of investors, engineers and scientists who use artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data science to model venture-backed private companies.Beyond investment capital, Tribe deploys these AI tools toseparate signal from noise, helping our companies understand their businesses better. Our data-informed strategy includes an underwriting infrastructure and a quantitative analysis tool called the “Magic 8-ball.” We leverage these tools to provide deep insight on factors driving growth and how to accelerate sustainable growth, honed through years of developing similar products at major tech and finance players like Lyft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Bridgewater Associates. Our team uses these tools to measure quantitative product-market fit, so we can more effectively assess and accelerate what Tribe refers to as “N-of-1” companies - companies with the potential to be 10-100x growth opportunities, while minimizing loss ratio by a large degree. Tribe Capital has $2.2 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Apollo.io, Kraken, Carta, SpaceX, OpenAI, and xAI. ## Benjamin Gleason - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Software Benjamin Gleason is the Founder and Angel Investor of Beta Ventures. He previously worked at Groupon Brasil as a Managing Director and CFO. Benjamin Gleason attended The Wharton School. ## Stelleo Tolda - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Venture Capital, Financial Services Stelleo Tolda is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MercadoLibre, Inc. since April 1, 2009. In addition, he served as Country Manager in Brazil between 1999 and 2010.In the latter role MercadoLibre has led to his current leadership position in e-commerce in the country.Before joining MercadoLibre, Tolda worked in the financial market, withcompanies such as Lehman Brothers, Inc. in the U.S. and Banco Pactual and Banco Icatu, Brazil.With an MBA in school business administration from Stanford University, in the United States, the executive is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and also holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution.Born in Brazil, Tolda speaks fluent English, Spanish and French as well as Portuguese. ## HOF Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses. ## Philippe Teixeira da Mota - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia. ## 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. ## MANTIS Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech MANTIS is an early stage technology investment firm supporting the most innovative companies across consumer tech, media & entertainment, distributed ledger and other emerging technologies. ## TwentyTwo VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology WE ARE ACTIVE INVESTORS BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO. WE MAKE EARLY STAGE INVESTMENTS AND WE SEEK AMBITIOUS AND MAGNETIC FOUNDERS ## Rodrigo Dantas - Type: Angel - Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co