# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Brazil in May 2026

## Ariel Lambrecht
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Ariel Lambrecht

## Guilherme Bonifacio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services

Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.

## Rei Carvalho
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Sales Automation, Mobile

Rei Carvalho is a computer scientist and stands out as the visionary founder and CEO of Emailage , a world-leading online fraud prevention company acquired by RELX/Lexis in March 2020. Rei's entrepreneurial journey further includes the founding of Wealth Inc (wealth.com) in 2020. With a track record as a serial entrepreneur, Rei nowchannels his expertise and passion as an investor through Bela Juju Ventures, his esteemed VC arm. Through Bela Juju Ventures, Rei offers invaluable insights, resources, and unwavering support to founders and fellow investors alike, driving innovation and success in the startup ecosystem.

## Romero Rodrigues
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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

## Juscelino Martins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Grocery, Delivery

Juscelino Martins

## Américo Pereira Filho
- Type: Angel
- Location: Recife, Bahia, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Computer

Américo Pereira Filho

## Matias Muchnick
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Sustainability, B2C

Matias Muchnick is the CEO and Founder at NotCo.

## Adeyemi Ajao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

## Ignacio Vilela
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Cyber Security

Ignacio Vilela - Partner @ Junipero Capital

## Eduardo Steiner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Fashion, Lifestyle

Eduardo Steiner is Regional CFO at Publicis Worldwide.

## Fabio Cristilli
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Marketplace, Business Travel, Sharing Economy

Fabio Cristilli

## Andreas Penna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

## Diego Libanio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery

Diego Libanio - Founder & CEO @ Mercê do Bairro

## Phil Solomon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Delivery, Shipping

Phil Solomon

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps

Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.

## Fernando Meirelles
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery

Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.

## Peter Kellner
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Analytics, Software, Information Technology

Peter Kellner is the Co-Founder & Director at Richmond Global Sciences.

## Fernando Rivera
- Type: Angel
- Location: Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Recruiting, Vending and Concessions

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and VC. Ex-CTO for ETF.com. Interest in LatAm startups and Fintech.

## Ricardo Costa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles

Ricardo Costa

## Mayer Mizrachi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Delivery, Shipping

Mayer Mizrachi is a Founder & CEO at jigl.

## Jorge Woldenberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: SaaS, Consumer, Software

Jorge Woldenberg

## Felix Cardamone
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Electric Vehicle, Fleet Management

Felix Cardamone

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Marco Valta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

## Fabio Dutra
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency

Fabio Dutra

## Hamish Shephard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Fruit, FinTech, Finance

Hamish Shephard is the Co-Founder of HelloFresh and Bridebook.

## Dan Rumennik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Delivery

Daniel Rumennik is Co-founder and General Partner at AirAngels. He Attended Harvard Business School.

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

## Silvio Genesini
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Convertible Note
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Internet

Silvio Genesini is a Member of the Board of Directors at Infracommerce.

## Michael Shalom
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Delivery, Shipping

Michael F. Shalom is a co-founder of Intcomex, a company that offers IT products such as self-standing computer systems, PC components, peripherals, power protection, and backup devices. Previously, he was the CEO of IFX Corp and FirstRain.

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

## Kevin Efrusy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Andres Bilbao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Andres Bilbao

## Rafael Duton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile.
Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Abhi Ramesh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fruit, Grocery, Food Delivery

Abhi Ramesh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Misfits Market.

## Tiago Dalvi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1

Tiago Dalvi is Founder & CEO of Olist.

## Miquéias Barros da Silva
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Consulting

Miquéias Barros da Silva

## Kees Koolen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Infrastructure

Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.

## Eduardo Casarini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Automotive, Marketplace

Eduardo Casarini is Founder at Flores Online

## Patricia Moraes
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Mobile, Content Marketing

Patricia Moraes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Unbox Capital. She attended Columbia Business School.

## Flavia Buchmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketing, Restaurants, Food Delivery

Flavia Buchmann is the CMO at NotCo.

## Greg Waldorf
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Internet

Greg Waldorf is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the former CEO of Invoice2go, the mobile app that helps small businesses manage their cash flow through easy-to-use invoicing, expense tracking and simple reporting tools. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Gregwas affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony for five years from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide.He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.

## Julio Vasconcellos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, B2B

Julio Vasconcellos is a Managing Partner at Atlantico. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Brendan Wallace
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Brendan Wallace is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Brendan Wallace attended Princeton University.

## Daniel Martins
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Credit, FinTech

Daniel Martins - Founding Partner @ GEO Capital

## Sylvio de Barros
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Electric Vehicle, Fleet Management

Webmotors founder of the first online automotive marketplace in Brazil, which was later sold to ABN-Amro. Along with Banco Itau, Sylvio founded iCarros, today the market leader in automotive marketplace. Founding partner of My Life, the largest online community of Brazil focused on health.

## Oscar Salazar
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine.Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international companydesigned to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work.Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

## Gabriel Cherubini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery

Gabriel Cherubini

## Daniel Alvarez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Consulting

Daniel Alvarez

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