Top 30 Video Games Startup Investors in Brazil in July 2025
A list of 30 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Video games startups based in Brazil. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from Brazil. We update this investor list every month.Top 30 Video Games Startup Investors in Brazil in July 2025
Investor | Video Games Brazil investments |
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Indicator Capital | 3 |
Crescera Investimentos (f/k/a Bozano Investimentos) | 2 |
Eclipseon Ventures | 2 |
Criatec 2 | 2 |
Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
Benchmark | 2 |
Ric Elias | 1 |
Hotmart | 1 |
Triaxis Capital | 1 |
Hugo Barra | 1 |
Bradley Horowitz | 1 |
Javier Olivan | 1 |
Meyer Malka | 1 |
The Brazilian Development Bank(BNDES) | 1 |
GE32 Capital | 1 |
TheVentureCity | 1 |
Jump Crypto | 1 |
Shima Capital | 1 |
Human Capital | 1 |
Inception Capital | 1 |
Formless Capital | 1 |
Mechanism Capital | 1 |
Ascensive Assets | 1 |
ROK Capital | 1 |
Ambridge Capital | 1 |
Animoca Brands | 1 |
1 | |
Base Partners | 1 |
Divesh Makan | 1 |
Next Play Ventures | 1 |
Founded in 2014, Indicator Capital is a Brazilian venture capital firm operating in Sao Paulo and the Silicon Valley. The partnership formed by Derek Lundgren Bittar, Fabio Iunis de Paula, and Thomas Lundgren Bittar, promotes the convergence between the dream of the entrepreneur and the financial return for the investor, tropicalizing American bestpractices to national startups. With more than R$ 270MM under management, Indicator Capital is the largest early-stage venture capital firm in Latin America specialized in Internet of Things (IoT). In their investments, the partners apply value-adding, proprietary methodology Building Value Together®, besides acting as Investors for Good, a concept reinforced by the firm`s certification as a B System™ company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Infleet — Infleet provides transparency and agility through an integrative hub involving the main verticals of logistics and equipment management.
- CTA Smart — CTA Plus is a company that specializes in the production and sale of measuring instruments. Their product range includes measurement instruments, indicators, solenoid valves, and robotics. They also offer a solution for internal supply automation for fleets, which can potentially save companies up to 20% on fuel costs. Their products, such as theShaft Type Rotary Torque Transducer, utilize strain gauge technology and offer digital display, analogue, and relay output functions. These products can be used with various types of sensors, including load and torque sensors.
- Multiledgers — Connecting different IT enterprise resources (IaaS and BaaS)
Crescera Investimentos is an alternative asset management firm created by the merger of the Bozano Group with three leading and complementary investment firms, BR Investimentos, Mercatto Gestão de Recursos and Trapezus Asset Management, resulting in a unique platform for investors, clients and partners. Structured as a partnership, CresceraInvestimentos is able to attract, retain and develop the best talents in each specialty.Our investment philosophy builds on trust and knowledge. We offer to our clients, investors and investees companies consistent and distinguished returns through diversified financial products and strategies. Founded with approximately R$ 4 billion in AUM, Bozano Investimentos aims to become the most successful alternative investment management firm in Latin America.BR Investimentos` private equity business combines industry knowledge and specialized teams in well-defined circles of competence to successfully invest in privately held Brazilian growth companies. Mercatto Gestão de Recursos has been delivering solid returns through its managed public equities and fixed income portfolios based on strictly fundamental analysis. Lastly, Trapezus Asset Management offers innovative and high alpha quantitative strategies, based on academic research and development.Crescera Investimentos also benefits from the vision of Mr. Julio Bozano - founder of the Bozano Group. Through Banco Bozano, Simonsen, the Bozano Group was recognized as one of the most important investment banking organizations in Brazil for more than 40 years with a very successful track record in long-term proprietary investments. The Group`s expertise in aligning clients` interests with outstanding performance drives the basis of Bozano Investimentos` activities.Our goal is to offer solutions that create long-standing value for our investors, the society at large and the companies we invest in and to perpetuate Bozano Group`s legacy. Crescera Investimentos has a team of over 70 executives, employees, consultants, and senior advisors, including more than 40 partners in offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Private Equity, Funding Round
- Brazil, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Portfolio highlights
- Vitru — Vitru offers distance learning education group in the postsecondary digital education market in Brazil based on the number of enrolled undergraduate students.
- Letrus — Letrus connects linguistic, pedagogical, and digital intelligence, proposing a more effective way of learning and teaching how to write.
- Semantix — Semantix is a software platform company that specializes in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. We deliver a one-stop-shop platform to helps customers unify their analytics across the business, data science, and data engineering provides a Truly unified Data Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering andlines of business to build data products without friction and simply.
Seed Investment Firm based in Brazil
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Investment focus
- Nutrition, Health Care, Video Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
- ARVORE — We envision a future where technology becomes a magical gateway into living story worlds, and we want to bring forth this new era by creating innovative immersive stories that profoundly connect people to these worlds.
The Criatec 2 fund is the second fund from a series of funds sponsored by BNDES, which started in 2006 with the Criatec 1 fund. The Criatec 2 has Bozano Investments as the Nationa Manager and Triaxis Capital as Operational Advisor. The fund management structure also includes six regional managers.Criatec 2 is the largest venture capital fundcurrently in operation in Brazil, in both size and national coverage.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Vindi — Vindi (PCI Compliance certification) provides subscription and recurring billing, payment solutions to Saas companies, subscriptions e-commerce, financial services, marketing, gym clubs, education, and all subscription-based companies. Its features (Recurring Billing with plus Financial Services (invoice bills, NFe, reconcile cards), PaymentGateway (with acquirers and sub-acquirers) and Dashboards KPI`s help thousands of different businesses.
- Convenia — Convenia is a cloud-based platform offering practical and efficient web-based tools for corporate engagement. It also provides a club of corporate advantages with over 5,500 establishments ready to use for all levels. Convenia is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Confiance Medical S/A — Confiance Medical S/A is a medical device company that manufactures video surgery equipment being sold throughout the country. Recently, Confiance Medical became Brazilian’s largest producer of such type of equipment. With focus on quality and customer services, Confiance Medical is a reference on video-surgery devices in Brazil.
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Datafy.io — Optimize cloud storage costs with Datafy. Our solution auto-scales your EBS storage so you only pay for the storage you use saving you up to 50%.
- MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!
- Crash Override — Crash Override is a cyber security company founded by Mark Curphey and John Viega. Screw security busy work. We reduce the noise and increase the signal.
Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California.The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
- Manus AI — Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
- Sema4.ai — The Enterprise AI Agent Company
Ric attended Boston College and Harvard Business School before beginning his career as part of GE's Financial Management program. Ric co-founded Red Ventures in 2000, just days before the dot-com bubble burst. The company weathered the storm and by 2007 it was ranked 4th on the Inc. 500 list.In 2009, Elias was a survivor of Flight 1549, anevent which drastically changed his life and led to his widely viewed TED Talk “3 things I learned while my plane crashed.” Elias is cited as aspiring to create the “Google of the East Coast” within his company’s culture and facilities.Ric's leadership style earned him noteworthy recognition in 2011, when he was named an Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year. His inspirational views on both business and family have been featured on CNN, TED Talks and MSNBC.Ric Elias is the co-founder and CEO of Red Ventures, a portfolio of digital companies headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. With over 3,000 employees in 10 US cities, Puerto Rico, the UK, and Brazil, Red Ventures’s digital platform spans across many industries, including home services, financial services, health services, education, and entertainment. Through its influential brands, strategic partnerships, and powerful technology platform, Red Ventures connects millions of people to premium content, intuitive digital experiences, and consumer advice to help make life’s most important decisions.Over the last decade, Red Ventures has compounded growth at over 30%. In 2010, General Atlantic made a strategic investment in the company, and in 2015 Silver Lake also joined as a shareholder. Ric has cultivated an award-winning and technology-centric company culture, ranking as one of Charlotte’s “Best Places to Work” for ten years in a row.A native of Puerto Rico, Ric graduated from Boston College and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He co-founded Red Ventures in 2000, months before the dot-com bubble burst. The company weathered the storm; by 2007 it was ranked 4th on the Inc. 500 list. Ric’s leadership style has earned him noteworthy recognition; in 2011, he was named an Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2016 he was inducted into the Carolinas Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.In 2009, Ric survived Flight 1549, also known as the “Miracle on the Hudson,” an event which changed his life and led to his widely viewed TED Talk “3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed.” In 2019, he launched a podcast, “3 Things with Ric Elias,” where he shares conversations and insights with top business leaders, athletes, and remarkable guests.In addition to being deeply committed to his family and Red Ventures, Ric is passionate about creating economic mobility opportunities for underserved groups who have the motivation and work ethic to succeed. In 2013, he founded and funded what is now Road to Hire, a 501(c)(3) that connects young adults with on-ramps to professional development and high-earning careers. Programs provided through the Road to Hire platform include career-readiness classes in Charlotte Mecklenberg Title 1 high schools, digital marketing courses at Johnson C. Smith University, on-the-job training and placement with top employers in Charlotte , and scholarships for high-performing undocumented students seeking college degrees.Additionally, in 2018 Ric launched Forward787, a $100M social enterprise committed to building digital businesses based in Puerto Rico. To date, the program has trained and supported more than 100 Puerto Rican professionals, fueling a new economic growth engine on the island.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile, FinTech
- Series A, Series B
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SwervePay — Finvi is a leading provider of intelligent, AI-driven workflow platforms to the account receivables management (ARM) and Healthcare industries
- Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."
Hotmart is a Content Distribution Platform for digital products. With it, you can sell and deliver digital products such as online courses, ebooks, video, software and others. If you don’t have a digital product to sell you can become affiliated to them, helping promote them and earning commissions for it. Hotmart started operating in 2011 and ithas been the market leader in Latin America. Currently, we are expanding our business globally with offices in Spain, Colombia, México and Holland, and preparing to start operations in many other countries, allowing more people, all over the world, to make a living out of their passions.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Robotics, Training
- Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Pingback Inc — Payment
- IZZI Gaming — Platform where gamers learn how to play better thru coaching and courses.
- BITi9 - Business IT Innovation — BITi9 - Business IT Innovation offers Robbi9, a solution that automates administrative processes focused on increasing productivity and reducing costs. The company is founded with the aim of relating automation technologies and business solutions focused on products with minimum acquisition cost and a lot of agility in implementation.
Triaxis Capital is a brazilian independent venture capital firm focused in technology-based companies with high growth potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Cliever — Cliever is a 3D printer manufacturer with accessories and software's available for purchase. The company believes that 3D printing will transform all industries and the production processes, generating time, saving costs, and optimizing the innovative process. The company is passionate about 3D printing and so it is dedicated in offering thequality products to companies.Cliever is based in Minas Gerais, Brazil and was founded on 2012.
- Pinmypet — Pinmypet allows users to monitor the daily behaviors of their pet, like location and physical activity, bringing them a feeling of safety and the comfort of a healthy pet.Pinmypet Care is a compact hardware device that works with software analytics to track pet activity and location data in real time, anytime, anywhere, allowing the visualizationof data through web and mobile devices.
- Dot Legend — Dot Legend is a mobile application development company for mobile shopping segment with a focus on market networks solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hugo Barra is the Co-Founder of /dev/agents. He previously worked at Detect as a CEO. Hugo Barra attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Odyssey — We're pioneering world models, the next frontier of artificial intelligence.
- Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
Javier Olivan is the Chief Operating Officer of Meta. He previously worked at MercadoLibre.com as a Board Member. Javier Olivan attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
- Videowise — End-to-end eCommerce Video Platform built for scale & performance to help brands and retailers create interactive shoppable video experiences.
- Yaba — Yaba buy, finance and support the growth of businesses based on Amazon FBA.
Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Series C, Seed
- United States, Brazil, India
Portfolio highlights
- Topsort — Topsort helps ambitious marketplaces accelerate their growth by providing access to auction-based advertising for their vendors.
- NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
- unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
BNDES is the main financing agent for development in Brazil
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- Brazil, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CCR — Founded in 1999, Grupo CCR is one of Latin America’s largest urban mobility infrastructure players. It started operating in the highway concessions segment and later diversified its portfolio. In 2018, Grupo CCR transformed its four core businesses into divisions composed of the following business units: CCR Lam Vias, CCR Infra SP, CCR Aeroportos,and CCR Mobilidade.
- Sigma Lithium — Sigma Lithium is developing the next generation of electric vehicle batteries with environmentally sustainable and high-purity lithium with an ESG-centric strategy.
- Squadra Tecnologia — Squadra Technology SA is present in Belo Horizonte / MG, Rio de Janeiro.
GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
- Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
- Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Count — Explore, refactor, and share your data at warp speed.
- Tansley — Tansley is a group of companies (Guaw, Milbby, Brand Story, Bookish) focused on fostering consumer ecosystems around hobbies and passions.
- Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.
Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nirvana Labs — Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers.
- Cooking.City — Cooking.City is a comprehensive token issuance platform built on the Solana ecosystem, designed to empower developers, creators, and businesses to seamlessly launch, manage, and scale their own digital tokens.
- Cooking.City — Cooking.city is a Solana ecosystem token issuance platform that focuses on making token launches transparent and equal for all participants.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ava Protocol — For web3 builders, DeFi users, and teams automating on-chain workflows.
- Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
- Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.
We believe ambitious builders turn great ideas into great companies. We invest in founders, teams, and startups that share this mindset.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, France
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Onebrief — Through purpose-built interfaces, Onebrief lets users capture and reuse data across plans, and auto-generate planning products. Onebrief makes military planning fast enough to outpace near-peer adversaries.
- Neuralink — Developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
Inception Capital, formerly OP Crypto, is a first-check VC focusing on early-stage web3 startups. Since raising $50M in September 2021, we have been at the forefront of the industry, investing at the earliest stage in over 30 projects such as Scroll Tech, Merit Circle, Avalanche, Celestia.Backed by esteemed investors like Bill Ackman, AlanHoward, and Garry Tan, and institutions including Galaxy Digital, Animoca Brands, and Mirana, Inception Capital boasts an extensive, global network. This network spans venture funds, exchanges, expert advisors, and major ecosystem founders (Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, Scroll, et cetera), enabling us to source and secure the most competitive deals in the market.Our team, rooted in the United States yet deeply connected to the APAC region, positions Inception Capital as a vital conduit between East and West. This unique positioning allows us to offer our portfolio companies more than just capital. With a dedicated team providing portfolio support, we assist our founders in key areas such as marketing, tokenomics, and strategic networking, ensuring they have the tools and guidance necessary to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.Discover more about Inception Capital and how we are shaping the future of crypto venture capital:Visit our website: https://www.inception.capital/Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_inceptioncap
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Skyfire Systems Inc. — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.
Formless Capital is a cross-border investment fund that invests in the future of blockchain and technologies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
- Gata — Gata uses data technology to develop superintelligence and to ensure its alignment with human objectives.
- Coral Finance — Coral Finance is a decentralized marketplace for trading premium derivatives that offers dependable, long-term liquidity solutions.
Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DeFi.app — DeFi.app helps to make DeFi trading easier while keeping full ownership of crypto assets. It also helps to manage CEFI and DEFI more effectively.
- MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Ascensive Assets is a seed-stage venture firm that invests in blockchain-enabled companies across the full spectrum of web3.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Switchboard — Switchboard allows builders to unlock the power of solana by creating high-performance data feeds from any API. They will bring data on-chain that will enable developers to unlock the future of decentralized applications. They enable the SOL community to push any form of data on-chain.
ROK Capital is a multi-strategy hedge fund and accelerator aiming to grow the Korean crypto ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Cogni — Cogni is a new digital banking platform that brings you curated brands and experiences while helping manage your spend.
- GAM3S.GG — The future of gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience across web3, Steam, and Epic Games.
- Snackclub — Learn more about play to earn games
Founded in 2019 by serial angel and VC investors, Ambridge Capital works with the most daring and ambitious entrepreneurs. Ambridge is built on the pillars of investing early and often, public founder referral network, stage agnostic investment thesis and top-tier network of co-investors.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Atllas — Atllas is a tech-based real estate organization that leverages software tools to offer brokerage services.
- Flossy — Don't have insurance? Perfect. Book an appointment with Arizona and New Mexico's top dentists without breaking the bank. We offer up to 50% off dental treatments like fillings, extractions, bridges, implants, teeth whitenings, veneers, crowns, root canals and dentures. Call us right now!
- Kangaroo — Kangaroo brings you closer to your favorite celebrities and characters through interactive storytelling.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Quranium — Quranium (founded in early 2024) is the world’s first Convergence Layer, a Layer‑1 blockchain infrastructure purpose-built to fuse quantum security, AI-native automation, and EVM compatibility. Headquartered in Switzerland with offices in UAE (DMCC) and Singapore, it leverages post-quantum cryptography (NIST-approved SLH‑DSA, ML‑KEM) andhigh-performance PoS consensus to create an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable foundation for Web3 Quranium is designed for a post-quantum world, it delivers an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable decentralized infrastructure. Quranium is not just a blockchain — it’s the foundation for a new era where quantum, AI, and Web3 converge securely and seamlessly.
- dKloud — dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products.
- Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.
Google is a technology company that offers a search engine, that enables users to find information from various online sources, along with services such as email through Gmail, cloud storage via Google Drive, and productivity tools including Google Docs and Google Sheets; it also provides advertising solutions through Google Ads, video sharing viaYouTube, and mobile operating systems with Android, while continuously developing innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Infin8t — Infin8t.tech provides state-of-the-art AI-powered customer support infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Create, deploy, and manage intelligent chatbots trained on your specific content for personalized and efficient customer interactions that scale with your business needs.
- QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.
- Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
we invest globally in private technology companies and help them win in Latin America, Brazil first.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series C, Series E
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
- Liquido — Liquido is an online payment platform developer that provides turn-key mobile payment solutions. The platform of company provides instant transactions, cross-border technical support, and pay-in and pay-out solutions, allowing clients to make payments with ease.
- Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
Divesh Kanthylal Makan is the Founder of ICONIQ Capital, LLC.
Makan also served at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and Morgan Stanley.
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- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Bahamas
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- Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
- Ellipsis Health — Harnessing the human voice as a biomarker for mental health and wellbeing, along with machine learning and AI, Ellipsis Health generates a clinical-grade assessment of the severity of anxiety and depression, as well as a sub-clinical assessment of the severity of stress - creating the first vital sign for mental health.
- American Cricket Enterprises — American Cricket Enterprises is a strategic partner of the professional T20 cricket league.
Next Play Ventures coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner & Brian Rumao.
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- Software, Internet, Education
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Trala — Learn violin at any age, from anywhere in the world with Trala. Trala gives you the feedback, private lessons, and community you need to learn a new instrument.
- Airspeed — Airspeed is a team-building platform for modern companies to connect digitally. Airspeed’s suite of apps offers simple and fun solutions to celebrate employee milestones, recognize colleagues with kudos, connect hybrid or remote teams, and more. Airspeed's platform serves as a system of record for culture, and helps companies build a strongculture of engagement, recognition, and collaboration.
- Neura Health — Expert headache care at your fingertips
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