Top 5 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in October 2023

Portfolio (Fundo de Inovação Paulista)Launched in 2014, Fundo de Inovação Paulista (FIP) is a R$ 105 Million Venture Capital Fund that counts with top tier Limited Partners: Desenvolve SP, FINEP, FAPESP, Sebrae-SP, CAF, and Jive Investments. FIP is focused on technology-based startups located in the state of São Paulo, the most importanteconomic pole in Brazil. Investment tickets vary from R$ 2 Million to R$ 6 Million per company, on average, but can reach R$ 15 Million including follow-ons.Track-Record (Fundo Criatec I)SP Ventures was established in 2007 as the Venture Capital firm responsible for Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Criatec I was a cornerstone in Brazilian Venture Capital Industry led by BNDES and BNB. From 2007 to 2013, over 1,200 companies were analyzed and 8 investments were made by SP Ventures.EntrepreneursWe back technology-based companies in the segments of Agricultural Technologies; Information and Communication Technologies; Health Technologies; New Materials; and Nanotechnologies.We seek investment opportunities with the following profile:- Passionate entrepreneurs with solid technical background and market-orientated attitude- Proprietary technology with high scalability potential- Large proportions targeted-market- São Paulo based- Annual Revenue inferior to R$ 18 Million"

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, United States, Argentina

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Frizata — Frizata is the first digitally native, vertical brand in the flexitarian frozen food space.
Arado — Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions.
ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.

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Inseed is a Brazilian venture capital firm that invests in seed and early stages.It manages three of the largest brazilian VC funds:- Criatec, with R$100 million, invested seed money in 36 innovative tech companies from all sectors throughout Brazil. It is closed for new investments and focused on increasing the portfolio companies value;-FIMA, with R$150 million, invested in 11 early stage cleantech companies, specially on waste management, renewable energy, agriculture and building materials industries. The fund started on January 2013. It is closed for investmentsand focused on increasing the portfolio companies value;- Criatec 3, with R$220 million, started investing on January 2016. It's focused on innovative hard tech startups. Invested in 14 companies and still open with R$3 million as the target ticket for Seed or Series A rounds.Inseed has offices on Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Agriculture, AgTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

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Dom Rock — Dom Rock is a provider of cloud-based analysis solutions designed and built to be a unified business data integrity environment in a simple, fast, and assertive way. It captures any kind of data from any source, whether in the form of texts, PDF files, transactions, or records of releases.Dom Rock unifies and publishes analyzes with fulltraceability eliminating the arduous task of incurring long processes in the search for data under deadlines pressure, often non-negotiable and having assertiveness in sensitive issues involving impact on cash generation of companies.Dom Rock was founded in 2013 and it has offices in Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, and Campinas in Sao Paulo Estate of Brazil.
Chatbot Maker — Chatbot Maker helps companies get more customers by automatically capturing leads using a chatbot. The platform helps customers use messaging applications to do marketing, sell more, and create relationships in a personalized, private, and automatic way through chatbots.Its service includes design, strategy, conversation design, artificialintelligence, machine learning, implementation, launch, metrics, and chatbot tracking. Chatbot Maker was founded in 2016 and is based in Fortaleza in Brazil.
Fractal Engenharia — Fractal Engenharia is a company specialized in water resources management.

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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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

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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.

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NTT DATA provides broad range of IT services and solutions, including consulting, systems integration and IT outsourcing, for major financial, public administration and enterprise sectors. NTT DATA Group has established global support network that covers 53 countries worldwide.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Marketing
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
Japan, United States, India

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iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
Securitize — Securitize is unlocking alternative assets with a fully digital, regulatory compliant platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities.
NTT DATA Payment Services — Atom technologies Limited is an end to end payment services provider offering a vast range of payment services and solutions through Online & Offline platforms. High Success Ratio 24/7 support Multiple payment options Great value adds for boosting business.

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