Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Brazil in October 2023
Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Brazil in October 2023
| Investor | Education Brazil investments |
|---|---|
| Bossanova Investimentos | 10 |
| Canary | 8 |
| Leonardo Teixeira | 6 |
| Igah Ventures | 6 |
| DOMO Invest | 6 |
| TM3 Capital | 4 |
| Valor Capital Group | 4 |
| Mario Letelier | 4 |
| Invest Tech | 4 |
| Owl Ventures | 3 |
| Niu Ventures | 3 |
| Crescera Investimentos (f/k/a Bozano Investimentos) | 3 |
| Positive Ventures | 3 |
| Global Founders Capital | 3 |
| Astella | 3 |
| Guilherme Stocco Filho | 3 |
| Par Equity | 2 |
| APEX Partners | 2 |
| Kevin Efrusy | 2 |
| Dan Rosensweig | 2 |
| Barrah Investimentos | 2 |
| Nicolas Gautier | 2 |
| Anjos do Brasil | 2 |
| VERVE CAPITAL | 2 |
| Iporanga Ventures | 2 |
| Brian Requarth | 2 |
| Gvangels | 2 |
| NB Capital Partners | 2 |
| Supera Capital | 2 |
| West Quad Ventures | 2 |
| Bolt Ventures | 2 |
| Cedro Capital | 2 |
| Romero Rodrigues | 2 |
| Exor Ventures | 2 |
| Criatec 2 | 2 |
| MAYA Capital | 2 |
| Redpoint eventures | 2 |
| FundersClub | 2 |
| Fuse Capital | 2 |
| Rodrigo Dantas | 2 |
| David Vélez | 2 |
| Vox Capital | 2 |
| Romero Rodrigues | 2 |
| DGF Investimentos | 2 |
| Elie Horn | 1 |
| BTG Pactual | 1 |
| Mike Mahlkow | 1 |
| X8 Investimentos | 1 |
| Endurance Companies | 1 |
| BASF | 1 |
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BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
- Ping. — SaaS
- Doutor Ao Vivo — Doutor ao Vivo is a digital health platform for telemedicine. Doutor Ao Vivo is a health tech software company.
Canary is the first partner of the best founders in Latam.
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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
- Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
- BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
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.
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- Education, E-Learning, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordablepersonal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.
- Consulta do Bem — Consulta do Bem seeks to promote universal access to health by offering an innovative way to schedule and get consultations online. Using technology and science, the company connects doctors and patients instantaneously, optimizing the health professionals' agenda and allowing them to offer their services at more affordable prices to thepopulation.Consulta do Bem was founded in 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Back4app — Store and query relational data on the cloud. Make it accessible over GraphQL and REST with a scalable, open-source backend.
Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm that was born from the union of forces of two successful investment platforms (e.bricks ventures and Joa Investimentos). We have a unique and complementary team of partners and an extremely qualified and experienced team.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Axenya — Axenya is a digital health platform company.
- Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.
DOMO Invest 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.
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- Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, United States, Trinidad and Tobago
Portfolio highlights
- Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
- Sensix — Through the FieldScan platform, Sensix uses analytical intelligence and machine learning to consolidate and correlate data from drones, satellites, machines, climate and soil and plant samples, generating input application maps, greater crop predictability and greater profitability for farmers. The web-based platform FieldScan is capable ofdelivering weed localization maps, quantifying planting gaps, identifying vigor and biomass variability and soil and plant sampling maps for variable rate application of fertilizers, nematicides, regulators (cotton), resistance inducers and insecticides, communicating directly with the agricultural machinery and impacting in saving of inputs, greater homogeneity of the crop and increase of yields.
- Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.
TM3 Capital is an asset management company that specializes in technology companies. The company specializes in technology investments, and it looks to fund businesses with strong growth prospects and/or scalable hardware and/or software solutions. Its investment vehicles benefit from the synergies and experience that TM3 Capital, a teamwith a long history in the technology industry, brings to the table.
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- Software, SaaS, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Docket — Docket optimizes the search, management, and analysis of documents with legal value, reducing costs and time. The platform makes the processes of formalization, as well as the business sectors, more strategic and efficient. Docket was established in 2016 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Speedio — Speed IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.
- Spotlar — Proptrech; Real Estate
Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
- Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- Software, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Linte — Linte helps companies to lower expenses with lawsuits using document assembly and marketplace tools. Linte offers a cloud-based solution that automates repetitive tasks, quickly, cheaply and safely, with the best practices of usability and design. Users can handle contracts, processes, and documents in an efficient and smart way.Linte was foundedon 2015 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Prontmed — Prontmed organizes and integrates health information with an intuitive Electronic Medical Record. It develops the technologies that facilitates the day-to-day medical and hospital procedures. The main function of electronic medical records is to facilitate and support the care of patients. Therefore, the company focuses on optimizing the time ofdoctors, ensures high availability of the system, and assists in maintaining the quality of care. The features of the product are automatic configuration, security and reliability, simplified navigation, excellence support, and smart prescription.Prontmed is a Brazil-based company that was founded in 1996 by Wang Feng.
- Qual Canal — Qual Canal provides social TV analytics for advertisers and TV stations willing to know more about their audiences. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Invest Tech is an independent investment firm focused on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The firm’s team has over 20 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions and fund raising transactions and in investing and managing IT and Telecommunication companies. As of September, 2020, the company managed more than R$ 466 million, raised frominstitutional investors from Brazil, Latin America, United States and Europe.The Company was founded in 2004, with a focus on M&A, strategic investment and capitalization transactions for Brazilian IT companies. Its main goal is to create unique solutions that generate value for all stakeholders of the advised companies. Since then, we have concluded more than 30 successful transactions involving major local and international institutions.In 2008, Invest Tech raised its initial investment fund, with a focus to invest in innovative B2B companies in the knowledge based industries. With top-notch local and international investors, CT I invested in 6 companies, having completed 6 exits.In 2014, Invest Tech raised its second investment fund with aggregate commitments of R$209 million (US$110 million at the time). This vehicle invested in 8 high profile companies that operate in unique industries. As of Sept, 2020, it had also sold 2 of those companies. The Manager’s portfolio as of June, 2021 has 13 companies, with an aggregate gross IRR of 23.4% per year since 2008.In 2016, its capital structure was strengthened through a strategic transaction with Tesalia do Brasil, an investment vehicle held by Santiago Valbuena, prior CEO of Telefonica Latam for 3 years and Global CFO of the Telefonica Group for 9 years, and Gilmar Camurra, CFO of Telefonica Vivo for 14 years. Through its partnership, Invest Tech has expanded its approach to international players in the Latin America and European regions.Invest Tech’s work is based on the deep understanding of the companies we invest in and the support for the development of the portfolios, active participation in the creation of the growth strategy, evaluation of opportunities and support to financial planning, combining such actions with fundraising or merger and acquisition transactions. We proud ourselves of the close work and relationship with our invested companies and long term approach to our investment process.Our key strengths are:• Strong local presence • Uniquely qualified and complementary team • Focus and experience in the portfolio sectors’ • Entrepreneurial experience • Financial and M&A capabilities • Strong and active investor base
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- Information Technology, Software, Cloud Computing
- Private Equity, Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Uello — Uello uses technology to solve a very difficult problem that is still old fashioned approached - The Urban Logistics market. We provide guidance and smart logistics decisions to a huge workforce of independent resources.Different from peer-to-peer on demand solutions, we provide drivers with optimized routes and a more attractive compensation,making the last mile cheaper for customers and operationally sustainable.We focus on small & medium size companies whose access to great carriers are limited or non-existent. We want to improve the logistics experience and to empower small companies with a first class logistics service at an affordable price.
- Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.
- Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
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- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Germany
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- DeepHow — DeepHow uses machine learning to capture real-time technical expertise in the form of smart how-to videos generated in record time.
- Sizzle AI — Sizzle uses AI to help learners solve homework problems, step-by-step.
- Coala Saúde — Coala is the first health tech focused on children's care at school in LatAm. We were born with the mission of taking care of the next generation's health, by driving development in the educational ecosystem.Based on prevention, care, and information, we provide security to the school manager and peace of mind to the student'sfamilies, while we take care of their most valuable asset: their children.Because health and education go hand in hand.
Niu Ventures is a pre-seed VC that connects early-stage Brazilian startups with the Silicon Valley growth mindset.
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- Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Vidia — Vidia is a digital marketplace that allows the purchase of surgeries by individuals without access to health plans.
- Coodesh — Hiring coders is a pain in the ass for traditional HR. Save time and money by tracking the best coders with a complete Tech Recruitment Platform that evaluates coders to connect with your company. We provide on the platform a set of tools for talent acquisition, interview priority algorithm, behavioral mapping, and different ways to techchallenges.
- Clarke Energia — A Clarke ajuda a sua empresa a economizar na conta de luz com o Mercado Livre de Energia. Compre energia limpa e mais barata com a gente!
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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- Software, Information Technology, Education
- 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.
- Nelogica — Nelogica develops software for technical analysis of assets in the financial market.
- 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.
investimos nas tecnologias do futuro para resolver os maiores desafios da sociedade e planeta no presente.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, 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.
- Oya.Care — Oya Care was founded with the purpose of putting women’s health in the right place - directly in their hands. With the mission of empowering women to take control of their own health outcomes, our aim is to give women access to the information and resources they need to make the right decisions for their bodies. Rather than cure disease, we usepreventative care to bolster health.
- Worc — Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
- Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
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.
- Silverguard — A B2C2B protection fintech that provides freemium protection solutions for individuals and valuable protection data for companies.
- 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.
Guga Stocco has more than 20 years of experience in building up digital business and leading corporate transformation.He is responsible for carrying out successful projects concerning digital banking (Banco Original); startup investments (Domo Invest); mobile and e-commerce (Buscapé); internet platforms (Microsoft); and advertising (TeRespondo).Nowadays, he is a member of the Management Board at Falconi Holdings, Totvs, Vinci Partners and Banco Original. He is also the co-founder of Futurum.Capital and founder of FPass. As a speaker, he delivers talks about Tendencies and Innovation, and spoke in more than 120 events in Brazil, LATAM, Canada, the United States, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. His education background includes a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP (1997); an MBA in Management from Insper (2010); a post-graduation degree in Marketing Management from FAAP (2007); and a Marketing Certificate from Berkeley, University of California (1996).Main contributions: managing digital businesses; innovative viewpoint towards technology; entrepreneurship-driven attitude.
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- Education, Web Design, Web Development
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- FPass — Solução de plataforma de educação no modelo white label para educação corporativa.
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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- Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Plotbox — Award winning Cemetery and Crematory management software that enables world class death care facility operations. Fully integrated software and true digital mapping solve long standing problems and accelerates business development. Various packages available.
- Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
- Manus Neurodynamica — Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.
APEX Partners is a platform for alternative investments and financial services, specialized in resource management and corporate finance, based on strong values and guided by the objective of developing the financial market in the state of Espírito Santo.
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- Apps, Software, Home Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- MyDoor — MyDoor is a proptech startup building the practice of co-owning a Vacation Home with full hospitality services.
- Bankme — Bankme is a fintech that creates and operates mini banks for companies.
- Conta Café — Conta Café is a technology company that covers the entire process of managing the purchase & sale of coffee from barter transactions.
Kevin Efrusy is the Co-Founder of The Efrusy Family Foundation and a Partner at Accel. Prior to that, he was the CEO and board member, and co-founder of IronPlanet. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- 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.
- CAF — We are specialists in combating identity theft and people trying to impersonate others.
- Lemon Energy — A Lemon leva energia solar para a sua empresa, sem obras e com economia anual na conta de luz.
Dan Rosensweig has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2010 and as the Chairman of our board of directors since March 2010. From March 2009 to February 2010, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of RedOctane, a business unit of Activision Publishing and developer, publisher and distributor ofGuitar Hero. From August 2007 to March 2009, Rosensweig was an Operating Principal at the Quadrangle Group, a private investment firm. From April 2002 to April 2007, Rosensweig served as Chief Operating Officer of Yahoo!, an Internet content and service provider. Prior to serving at Yahoo!, Rosensweig served as the President of CNET Networks and prior to that as Chief Executive Officer and President of ZDNet, until it was acquired by CNET Networks. Rosensweig also currently serves on the board of directors of Adobe Systems as well as Birchbox.Rosensweig holds a B.A. in political science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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- Recruiting, Internet, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil
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- 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 — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.
- Mustard — Elevate your game with real time analytics and instruction from the world's best coaches and athletes.
O Barrah nasceu em um family office com forte DNA empreendedor. Somos um fundo de venture capital, somos investidores – empreendedores.
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- EdTech, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Vivadí — Vivadí is an innovative educational organization that aims to deliver a set of experiences to develop student's soft (future) skills. Vivadí is a platform for young people and children to improve their habilities through an disruptive methodology.
Nic is the founder of EDUKO and ran the group as CEO from 2015 until late 2018 before becoming group chairman. Nic is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has built and invested in numerous businesses across many sectors and continents. Nic is the father of two young boys.
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- MOOC, EdTech, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Brazil, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Veduca — Veduca is a Brazilian online education platform that believes that people's lives can be transformed through high quality content, produced and distributed in a sustainable and collaborative way. The company was founded in March 2012 by Carlos Souza, Eduardo Zancul, Marcelo Mejlachowicz and Andre Tachian. Over the last 5 years Veduca has grownto be one of the most relevant educational portals in Brazil. The platform was fully relaunched in December 2016. Since then we have 500k new students that can have access to content for free and can chose to apply for a certificate by paying R$49,00. Veduca is a social business, with the commitment to re-invest profits into better platform and new content. Over these 5 years, Veduca has been profiled by many of the main media vehicles in Brazil, such as TV Globo, SBT, TV Band, Veja, Valor Econômico, Brasil Econômico, O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, Galileu, among others, and thousands of websites. Abroad, Veduca has also been highlighted as one of the key players in the ed-tech world by the Financial Times, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo Finance, The Chronicle of Higher Education, El Universal (Mexico), and others.
- easyOwn.it — easyOwn is the Personal Shopping Basket (independent from single webshops) where you can highlight, comment and share products. You can put items on a wish list, select and buy them later, where you have your online shopping history irrespective where and from whom you have selected/chosen/bought the product and independently of theunderlaying webshop.easyOwn is a revolutionary eCommerce Cloud Web-Service with magnificent advantages for Merchants, Consumer & Manufacturer...easyOwn is not only streamlining the checkout process by adopting the easiness of buying a chocolate bar at a kiosk. No, it also expands the shopping reach for each associated Online Merchant to make their offers/products purchasable through Ads, eMail Campaigns, … Thus merchants are able to place and sell there products where their target customers are with a unique one-stop-shopping experience. With the easyOwn-shopping basket functionality for the first time merchants will get direct orders from multiple virtual chainstores into their inventory systems. directly back-channels oby providing direct back channels to make products additional sales channels offering alternative sales.
Anjos do Brasil is a angel investor network dedicated to foster angel investment for supporting inovative entrepreneurs in Brazil. It was founded by Cassio Spina, a entrepreneur and a angel investor with over 25 years experience in tech industry (see more at http://www.crunchbase.com/person/cassio-spina-3) .Receivingsupport of major brazilian institutions related to entrepreneurship and investments, such as Endeavor Brasil, ABVCAP, BM&F BOVESPA, FIESP/CJE, Brazil Innovators, etc., Anjos do Brasil is commited to connect investors with entrepreneurs in order to help growing new business in Brazil.We do also keep relationship with major VC investment funds, in order to exchange investment opportunities between our members and them. Anjos do Brasil is advised by a seasoned board of advisors, that support our strategic actions for promoting our vision.We promote events between our members and some also for entrepreneurs, for both educating the community and connecting people, to empower their relationsIf you wish to contact us, please, visit our site at www.anjosdobrasil.net and leave a message.
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- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Re Petit — Re Petit is an e-commerce company that offers children's items such as clothing, accessories, shoes, toys, and utensils. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Sao Paulo.
- Prol Educa — Proleduca is an educational inclusion program that provides student with access to partial scholarships. It was created with the objective of giving an opportunity for students who can not afford the full amount of tuition. Approved candidates are being directed to the institution with the possibility of receiving a benefit that can reach a 100%discount in the value of the monthly payments.Proleduca was founded in 2015 and is based in Pernambuco, Brazil.
- Kor Solutions — KOR Solutions is an IT company that offers software through B2B models to facilitate bureaucratic and legal data processing for companies.
Verve Capital is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with founders to fund ideas and accelerate growth. We believe in people with big dreams and the grit to bring them to life. We invest in ideas that challenge the status quo and build a better world through innovation. We partner with companies providing early stage investment,support and advice that help founders reach their vision.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- Tipspace — Tipspace allows to any gamer monetize their matches and create new game modes on competitive games.
- Beekeeper — Frontline business leaders use Beekeeper to connect and engage their whole workforce with our productivity app that teams love to use.
- KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.
Iporanga Ventures is venture capital funds management company, focused on Pre-Seed/Seed stage Brazilian startups.
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- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
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- Klavi — Klavi specializes in data analytics and open data connectivity that receives data securely, quickly, and scalable through a single API.
- 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.
- Appito — The next generation of amateur sports arenas
Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.
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- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
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- 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).
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.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, United Kingdom
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- Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
- GrowinCo. — GrowinCo., is the lead sourcing platform for the CPG industry, connecting suppliers, co-packers, co-manufacturers, and business partners.
- MeuChapa — MeuChapa is a logtech digital platform that provides workforce solutions for logistics and supply chains.
NB Capital Partners is a merchant bank affiliated with National Bank of Canada.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, B2B
- Series C, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, Brazil
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- Play2sell — How about increasing your sales and preparing your team to better serve the customer? Sales people have no incentive to attend boring and inefficient traditional training. In the real estate market, just like in any other segment, the client has already researched a lot before talking to the realtor. He knows maybe even more than the broker.Play2sell was created in San Francisco – California – in 2017. After co-founding and selling two software companies for the real estate market, economist and serial entrepreneur Felipe dos Santos, went to live in Silicon Valley, looking for inspiration for next businesses. There isn´t a better place to innovate, is it?After graduating from the Founder Institute acceleration program, Play2sell debuted as the fastest funded startup in the program. In addition to Jupter, NB Capital and LAAS, the angels of Resh, a group from ABMI – also participated in this round, whose objective was to validate the product and the market, in addition to reaching the break even point. See the StartSe article.After reaching the objectives set for the first year, the company closed the second round of investments, with the participation of NB Capital and LAAS (follow on), Bossa Nova Investimentos, and a group of angel investors. The goal was to strengthen operations in the real estate market and validate new verticals. See the article from Startupi.Recently, with the Coronavirus crisis, Play2sell created a free game to support the population in preventing the virus, as well as in identifying fake news. See here one of the articles about it, published by Forbes.
- Maximum Throughput — Maximum Throughput Inc. is a networked storage developer whose products deliver SAN performance over TCP/IP. The Company's unique solutions provide many times the storage bandwidth of other NAS and SAN products, using software that runs on commodity hardware. Maximum Throughput's products offer unparalleled performance capacitymanagement, and capacity availability, and have the lowest total cost-of-ownership in their class.
- Kyberpass Corporation — Kyberpass Corporation provides security software for high-trust applications. It offers TrustPlatform, a business integration solution for businesses of various sizes to connect and perform electronic business with customers and business partners; and Digital Signature Services, a solution to build security infrastructure in the form of a managedservice. The company serves clients in various areas, including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, government, and defense. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.
Supera Capital is a Brazilian venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed and seed rounds of tech companies in Latin America.
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- EdTech, FinTech, Software
- Series A
- Brazil
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- Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
West Quad Ventures invest in startups that aspire to be leaders in their respective category, teams we believe in with an emphasis on what’s good for the world!
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- Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, India
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- FlowFi — FlowFi is a first-class finance team and platform that delivers accurate books and actionable financial intelligence.
- Itsme — Itsme creates high fidelity Avatars and Environments that enable the World to feel closer together. Millions of people use Itsme to explore the world, meet new people, and grow meaningful friendships without the constraints of physical space
- Stack Finance — Stack is a personalised online wealth management platform helping you invest in Indian & US equity, debt, gold, real estate & more. Our investment team has 50+ years of experience in wealth management.
Bolt Ventures is a team of entrepreneurs and investment specialists that offers seed and early stage financing solutions to companies focused on e-commerce, mobile, and subscription-based business models. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- E-Commerce, Sports, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Chile, Brazil
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- Gametime — Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada.
- Just Women's Sports — Visit JWS for women's sports news coverage, scores, schedules, stats, and standings for NWSL, WNBA, WTA, NCAA Basketball, and more.
- Sportlight Technology — Sportlight Technologies offers hyper-accurate LiDAR and AI technologies deliver unrivalled insights in the areas of load management, performance monitoring, talent development, technical and tactical analysis for teams.
Cedro Capital is an independent asset management firm located in Brasília-DF with a geographical focus in the Central region of Brazil. Cedro Capital is the leading asset manager firm in the Center-West, connecting companies and projects in the region with qualified institutional investors through alternative investment funds. Cedro Capital isformed by professionals with strong track record and proven experience within the Brazilian capital market.
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- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Brazil
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- trampay — Trampay provides financial services. They deliver products and services that serve both providers and companies. They offer services for doctor's offices, laboratories, restaurants, entertainment, and education.
- SolarView — SolarView engages in monitoring services for the production and consumption of electrical energy from photovoltaic systems.
- Minds Digital — Have you ever identified someone by their voice? Through a safe and fast artificial intelligence, Minds Digital's solutions use the unique characteristics of human voice to identify and authenticate a person. Easily integrated with other systems, our fraud prevention by voice platform is able to register clients and recognize customers in realtime, providing a better experience and cost reduction.
Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Brazil, United States
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- MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
- Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Galena — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.
With EXOR Seeds, We have reconnected with our entrepreneurial roots and long history of innovation. We look for exceptional founders, with the ambition to build great businesses in their field. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-ledbusiness, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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- Health Care, Software, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- DICE — DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.
- 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!
- Habyt — Habyt is an easy way to find a fully furnished, private room or apartment in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Lisbon. All costs are included in the rent, no surprises.
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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- Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A
- Brazil
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- 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.
An early-stage venture firm that supports businesses generating accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
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- Z1 — Z1 is a digital banking app made for teenagers and young adults where teenagers can learn financial independence. Founded in 2020 by João Pedro Thompson (ex-Vereda Educação), Thiago Achatz (ex-Grow Pay), Sophie Secaf (ex-BOX 1824) and Mateus Craveiro (ex-Pagar.me), the company has already conquered important investors: the Maya Capital fund and 99founders , Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas. Now, the company announces that it has received a contribution from the American accelerator Y Combinator, which has companies such as Airbnb, Twitch, and Rappi in its portfolio.
- Arado — Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions.
- Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Belgium
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- 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.
- Nobli — Nobli is a fintech that helps investors use their financial assets to secure special terms credit.
- CondoConta — CondoConta is a provider of digital banking database for condominium finances.
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, India
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- Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- Shaktimaan — Empowering UPSC aspirants with Kalam's potential to answer, evaluate & personalise your preparation for World's Toughest Exam.
Fuse Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage tech opportunities.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Seed, Series A
- Brazil, United States, Belgium
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- Hashdex — Hashdex is a global pioneer in crypto asset management. We believe open blockchains are unlocking economic growth and creating unprecedented opportunities for investors.
- Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
- ARTHUR MINING — Our Mission is to bring greener, efficient and profitable bitcoin mining worldwide.We strive to be amongst the most profitable bitcoin mining operations globally while pursuing carbon mitigating impact.Our team guarantees our scalable and mobile modern infrastructure is built in timely deployed operations through strategic energy partnerships.Arthur is the expression of our team's high standards.
Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.
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- FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Brazil
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- 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.
David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nubank, a Brazilian financial technology company. Before founding Nubank in 2013, David was a Partner at Sequoia Capital in charge of the firm’s Latin American investments. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. David has a BSin Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- 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.
Investimentos de impacto para o seu bolso e para o planeta. Retorno financeiro competitivo com impacto socioambiental positivo.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Fiibo — Fiibo is the first health and wellness multplatform in Brazil, offering an innovative technological solution that connects all healthcare stakeholders in one place. The platform includes an app that allows employees to choose from a variety of available products and services, as well as a data management and contracting platform for companies andbrokers. This provides greater freedom and flexibility in selecting how to care for one's health.
- Lagoped — Lagoped operates as a sustainable outdoor clothing brand.
- Eyecare Health — Eyecare Health is a health technology company that specializes in ophthalmology.
Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.
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- Software, Marketplace, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, United States
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- MarketUP — MarketUP Brasil is an innovative startup that believes in the impact of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the entrepreneurial attitude towards the development of the economic scenario, since it is these companies that drive a good part of the country's economy. We believe in these entrepreneurs and offer a complete and freesolution for companies that want to grow and differentiate themselves in the market. We came up with the idea of facilitating the day-to-day business of the SME with a sales and management system capable of managing all the business processes in a simple and uncomplicated way. Our team is composed of experienced people, with relevant history in WEB business development and active participation in the evolution of the Brazilian internet. What was once only available to large companies, now it is within the reach of SMEs without having to pay anything for it. A revolutionary way to run a business. Our system has no use limit and no cost per license, installation, maintenance or paid versions! With tools that encompass purchasing and inventory management, sales, issuance of fiscal documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management. Create your account right now in the MarketUP Management System: https://marketup.com/ Follow MarketUP also: Blog: http://marketup.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarketUP.Brasil ? fref = ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketupoficial/?hl=en sales, issue of tax documents and financial management.
- Moneto — Moneto is a financial services application that automates and controls the receipt and management of sales in small businesses and insurance companies. Moneto was launched by Marcos Arruda, Carlos Arruda, and Paulo Silva Filho in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Galena — Plataforma de desenvolvimento profissional que empodera colaboradores, maximiza o potencial das equipes e ajuda a reter os melhores talentos.
DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to fortyinvestments with several successful exits.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Uruguay
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- Amicci — Amicci provides services to retail and industry to generate better sales, profits and consumer loyalty.
- Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
- DEX Screener — DEX Screener is a real-time blockchain analytics app used by 1.5M+ crypto traders every month.
Elie Horn
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- Children, Education, Publishing
- Angel
- Brazil
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- Estante Mágica — Estante Mágica is a children's book provider that aims to develop the full capacity of reading and writing among children and enable them to explore their talents. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Nova Friburgo, Brazil.
BTG Pactual is a global financial company that operates in the markets of Investment Banking, Corporate Lending, Sales & Trading, Wealth Management, and Asset Management. It offers advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, wealth planning, loans, and financings, as well as investment solutions and market analyses.The company’s globalpresence, based on a dominant fully-fledged Latin America Investment Bank, Global Asset and Wealth Management platform, enables it to provide a comprehensive range of financial services to a global client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments and high net worth individuals. It's the biggest investment bank in Latin America and the Caribbean. Also the 5th biggest bank in Brazil.In 2019, BTG Pactual has already been recognized with more than 10 awards, including "Best Private Bank in Brazil" by the magazine World Finance, "Best Private Bank in Latin America" by Global Finance, and "Best Private Banking Services Overall" by the Euromoney.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Brazil, United States, Chile
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- Systemica — Systemica is a business that designs, creates, and puts into action programmes to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as trade the resulting environmental assets.
- Enviva — Enviva Partners is a publicly traded master limited partnership that aggregates a natural resource, wood fiber, and processes.
- BioElements — BioElements aims to transform polluting products into environmentally friendly solutions. Specifically, it is developing an ecological alternative to conventional plastic. BioElements' bags, films, packaging and other rigid products have national and foreign certifications that place their effectiveness in the highest international standards.
Mike Mahlkow
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- Education, E-Learning, Continuing Education
- Angel
- Brazil
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- Awari — Awari is an education startup upskilling Latam with a modern approach to education. We offer project-driven, cohort-based courses, and students receive feedback and one-on-one mentorship from mentors who work at companies like Disney, Apple, Google and other top companies.
Pioneer in middle market growth capital in Brazil, with a focus on Social and Environmental Impact.
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- Education, E-Learning, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- Brazil
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- Vida Veg — Vida Veg is a plant-based food tech company that believes in food as a way to care for one's health and contribute to a better world. It aims to make the world a better place by making delicious and healthy plant-based foods more accessible. It offers plant-based foods, allowing for healthier food for people and more sustainable food for theplanet.
- Tera — Tera is a digital platform used for studying. They allow users to practise with real digital products, balancing theory and practise. They provide courses such as digital product leadership, discovery, product design, data science and machine learning, full stack development, and data analytics.
Endurance is a holding company that manages diversified entrepreneurial projects.
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- FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Readyly — Introducing Readyly, the only AI-driven customer service platform built specifically for fast-growth companies.
- Sora — Sora finds your clients better deals on their new or existing home, auto & student loans, and seamlessly moves them into their lowest cost of debt.
- Layers Education — Education and technology works smoothly with Layers: The best platform to integrate digital solutions in the education market. We provide a all-in-one app with communication tools that can be integrated with any 3rd party provider.
BASF operates as a chemical company worldwide. The company conducts its operations through six business segments, including chemicals, plastics, performance products, functional solutions, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. Chemicals segment, the company offers products for customers in the chemical, electronic, construction, textile,automotive, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries; and provides other BASF segments with chemicals for the production of higher-value products. The company's portfolio ranges from basic chemicals, glues and electronic chemicals for the semiconductor and flat panel display industry, to solvents and plasticizers, as well as starting materials for detergents, plastics, textile fibers, paints, coatings and pharmaceuticals. The Chemicals segment consists of the Inorganics, Petrochemicals and Intermediates divisions. Inorganics: The company's basic products are ammonia, methanol, sodium hydroxide, chlorine, as well as sulfuric and nitric acid. It serves electronic chemicals market in Asia and Europe. Petrochemicals division, the petrochemicals division offers a range of products, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, and benzene are produced in steam crackers from naphtha or natural gas. In further processing stages, the company produces alcohols, solvents and plasticizers for the chemicals and plastics industries. Alkylene oxides and glycols are starting materials for the detergents, automotive, packaging and textile industries. Intermediates: With its 600 products, the company's Intermediates division develops, produces, and markets a range of intermediates of all producers worldwide.Performance Polymers, the company offers performance polymers, such as engineering plastics, polyamide and polyamide intermediates, as well as foams and specialty plastics for various applications. Polyurethanes: The company offers Polyurethanes, such as basic products, customer-specific systems and specialties for automotive, construction and furniture industries, as well as household appliances. Performance Products The Performance Products segment consists of the Acrylics & Dispersions, Care Chemicals and Performance Chemicals divisions.The company's product lines include amines, diols, polyalcohols, acids and specialties. They serve as starting materials for products such as coatings, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textile fibers, crop protection products, as well as detergents and cleaners. Plastics segment The Plastics segment offers a range of products, system solutions and services. The company offers engineering plastics for the automotive and electric industries, as well as for use in household appliances, sport and leisure. The company's styrenic foams are used as insulating materials in the construction industry and in the packaging industry. The company's polyurethanes are versatile: as soft foams, they are to be found in car seats and mattresses, and as rigid foams they serve as insulation in refrigerators. This segment produces plastics. The Performance Polymers and Polyurethanes divisions offer its customers energy-efficient products, system solutions and services. The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, electric/electronics, textile, packaging and construction industries.
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- Electronics, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Grant, Series B
- Canada, Brazil, Germany
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- EAVISION — EAVision is a smart agricultural robotics company that uses computer vision for autonomous crop protection. Its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combine AI visual recognition and precision spraying to allow farmers to protect their produce even in challenging geographical environments.
- Bulky — Bulky is an online tool that allows liquid chemical shippers and tanker truck carriers to instantly match their bulk freight loads for transport. Bulky partners currently include the largest chemical company in the world and some of the largest bulk transportation companies in North America. Bulky began as an idea between BASF and Trimac on howto best bring new marketplace technologies to the liquid bulk industry. Bulky is now being adopted by many industry leaders as a freight fulfillment solution.Bulky was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
- Genecis — Genecis proprietary technology utilizes bacteria to convert food waste into PHA plastic, a biodegradable alternative to traditional plastics
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