# Top 45 Recruiting Startup Investors in Brazil in May 2026

## Bossanova Investimentos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

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.

## Exor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, FinTech

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

## B Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

BVC is a venture capital fund investing in Latin American startups at the seed and pre-seed stages. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs to build world-changing companies.

## Dan Rosensweig
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Recruiting, Internet, EdTech

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.

## Honey Island Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Venture Capital para startups de tecnologia

## Armínio Fraga
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Recruiting, SaaS, EdTech

Armínio Fraga

## David Vélez
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

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.

## Kevin Efrusy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Owl Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

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.

## G2 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

G2 Capital: Aceleradora de startups que apoia empreendedores inovadores. Participe e transforme sua ideia em realidade com nosso suporte.

## Canary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Canary is the first partner of the best founders in Latam.

## Positive Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

investimos nas tecnologias do futuro para resolver os maiores desafios da sociedade e planeta no presente.

## Gávea Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Gávea Angels is a leading angel investors-led group that makes equity investments in the $50-500K range in emerging growth ventures in the Rio de Janeiro area, and syndicated investments in other parts of Brazil and Latin America.

## 42K Investimentos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: iOS, Apps, FinTech

42K Investimentos - Investimento e apoio ao desenvolvimento de startups

## Brian Requarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

## Empower Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Empower Investment was founded in 2012 in Shanghai, China. Their investment covers early-stage ventures, mid-stage growth, and securities in the public market. With headquarters in Shanghai, the company established branch offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Empower Investment has invested in over 150 high-tech and high-growthcompanies on a global scale covering regions including China, U.S, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Their portfolio companies include fast-growing industries such as internet, AI, big data, automation & robotics, financial technology, cultural creativity, advanced materials, and healthcare.The Empower team has extensive experience in both deep technologies and financial services including internet, computer science, electronic engineering, materials science, auditing and investment banking. Some team members were serial entrepreneurs. With candidness and empathy, the team is eager to find and partner with the most visionary, determined and down-to-earth entrepreneurs. It always brings great excitement and pleasure to build a bright future with them.

## Scale-Up Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Scale-Up Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in companies selected by Endeavor Brazil's hyper-growth acceleration programs.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Health Care

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner of Headline. He was an Investor at Olist. He attended the University of Sao Paulo.

## Valor Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities.

## Astella
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Astella is a venture investor, providing capital, culture, and capabilities to Brazilian entrepreneurs who are willing to change our country's future.

## Globo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Globo Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on investments and entrepreneurship.
It was headquartered in Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Duxx Investimentos
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

We are an active venture capital fund. We invest in startups with high growth potential, where we can effectively add knowledge and contribute to business’ development – We’re not just another financial fund.Since our foundation, in 2014, we built a portfolio of diversified companies. We help entrepreneurs develop their business from strategy today-to-day activities.Discipline, ethics and execution are values ​​that are present in our corporate culture and in our startups. Therefore, we can establish strong and reliable relations to overcome the challenges of companies’ structuration and development.

## K50 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software

K50 Ventures is the most trusted first-check investor for mission-driven founders building a better future for the 99% in the US and LATAM.

## Daniel L Gleizer
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Recruiting, Human Resources

Daniel L Gleizer

## Mago Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: AgTech, FinTech, Software

Mago Capital is a venture capital firm.

## Indigo Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Recruiting, Human Resources

Indigo Global is an investment advisory firm providing asset management, private equity and investment services with a focus on emerging markets. Our clients include strategic investors, investment funds and corporations in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

## SaaSholic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

SaaSholic help early stage Startups grow with capital, go-to-market strategy and access to later-stage funding.

## DOT Digital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, E-Learning, Employment

DOT Digital Group provides innovative and integrated EdTech solutions for online corporate education. Our mission is to develop people to launch organizations forward. With over 24 years of experience, we are one of the largest digital education organizations and pioneers in the Brazilian Communication Education market. We offer end-to-endsolutions, varying from educational consultancy to Education Technology platforms and Apps. We are headquartered in Florianópolis, a technological hub in the state of Santa Catarina. We also have offices in São Paulo and Brasília. In the international market, we have operations in Lisbon, Portugal.

## Citrino Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Employment, Recruiting

Citrino Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## Gvangels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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.

## CapTable
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Captable is a startup investment platform that operates transactions through crowdfunding. They exist to simplify and make startup investments viable, as well as to connect the entire ecosystem, by leveraging business growth with high return potential for investors who want to contribute to the growth of startups. It makes connections at variouslevels for various agents in the innovation market with the goal of encouraging entrepreneurship through investment in startups. CapTable was founded in 2018 by Guilherme Enck and Paulo Deitos Filho.

## Aimorés Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

Aimorés Investments is investing in technology companies between the Anjo and Pré-Seed stages.

## Altos Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

## SOFTBANK Latin America Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

SoftBank created the $5B SoftBank Latin America Fund to partner with the companies and entrepreneurs defining the future of the region.

## Curitiba Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Freelance, Financial Services

Curitiba Angels Angel investment for original entrepreneurs and filmmakers.

## André Fauri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Internet, Education

CEO & Founder at beepbeep mobilidade - Founder at LAIOB - Angel investor of startups in Brazil
and Silicon Valley - Mentor startups such as Biomimetic Solutions and Brazillab.
Finance extensive career in multinationals
Graduated in Economics and Accounting

## Renato Freitas
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet of Things, Software, Database

Renato Freitas

## Hangar 8 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: iOS, Software, Home Decor

Hangar 8 is an investment firm.

## Upload Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series E
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software

Upload Ventures is a venture capital firm in Brazil and Mexico that exist to support the brave, the bold, the Latin American leaders shaping the world.

## André Street
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Recruiting

André Street

## Latitud
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Build good sh*t with Latitud

## Reaction Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Reaction Fund is a venture capital firm owned and operated by 150 founding partners and Stanford Business alumni.

## Rodrigo Dantas
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Financial Services

Rodrigo is the leader of the new generation of entrepreneurs in the segment. Co-founder of Vindi , he was an Itaú business executive, coordinated the bank's mergers (with BankBoston and Unibanco). Vindi is a payment platform founded in 2013 and one of the finest fintechs in the country.

## Kaszek
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

We are tech entrepreneurs partnering with the most extraordinary founders in Latin America.

## SoftBank Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Advertising

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

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