Bossa Invest

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. The firm specializes in managing investment portfolios and providing asset management services across various sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate. Bossa Invest analyzes market trends to guide its investment decisions, with a particular focus on companies in the software as a service sector. Through its strategic investments, the firm aims to support the growth and development of innovative businesses.

Thiago Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Banks

Kapstar

Venture Round in 2022
Kapstar is a company that operates a digital exchange platform designed to facilitate the transfer of money to and from the United States. The platform leverages advanced banking structures to provide cross-border payment services, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. By focusing on a user-friendly experience, Kapstar enables both individuals and businesses to send and receive funds internationally with reduced fees, thereby streamlining the process of managing international payments.

TeamApt

Series B in 2022
TeamApt is a financial technology company that develops digital banking and payment platform for financial transactions. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel digital banking service called Moneytor Digital Banking, enabling banks to offer retail, merchant, and corporate banking services through digital channels, Aptpay for automation of digital banking business operations, settlements, reconciliations, and tracks digital transformation processes with web and mobile interfaces. TeamApt was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.

NymCard Payment Services

Series A in 2022
NymCard is a payment processing platform founded in 2016, operating from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with a focus on enhancing the digital payment landscape in Africa and the Middle East. The company specializes in providing an issuer processor solution that allows banks and financial institutions to offer innovative digital payment products, including plastic, virtual, and tokenized cards. NymCard's advanced infrastructure and user-friendly mobile wallet solutions facilitate quick account setup and immediate access to smart payment cards, promoting efficient and secure online transactions. By leveraging open APIs and mobile SDKs, NymCard aims to address the low penetration of payment cards in these regions, thereby driving greater participation in the digital economy.

albo

Series C in 2022
Albo is a prominent Mexican challenger bank that provides a financial platform designed to simplify money management for its users. It offers a mobile banking app and a Mastercard, enabling clients to easily track their spending, saving, and investment activities. The platform allows users to receive and transfer money effortlessly, with features that include real-time tracking of monetary movements and categorized expense and income reports. Albo focuses on adapting to individual lifestyles by delivering honest and innovative banking services that enhance financial management.

TymeBank

Series B in 2022
TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, specializing in financial technology and digital banking solutions aimed at the lower-income market. The bank offers accessible financial services with a focus on minimal fees, allowing customers to open secure personal and business accounts online. TymeBank's digital platform provides a range of services, including transactional and savings accounts, with features such as free card swipes and competitive interest rates. By prioritizing affordability and convenience, TymeBank serves over 15 million customers, helping them manage their banking needs with ease and efficiency.

TymeBank

Series B in 2021
TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, specializing in financial technology and digital banking solutions aimed at the lower-income market. The bank offers accessible financial services with a focus on minimal fees, allowing customers to open secure personal and business accounts online. TymeBank's digital platform provides a range of services, including transactional and savings accounts, with features such as free card swipes and competitive interest rates. By prioritizing affordability and convenience, TymeBank serves over 15 million customers, helping them manage their banking needs with ease and efficiency.

DgPays

Venture Round in 2021
DgPays is a financial technology company that specializes in providing comprehensive payment solutions tailored for banks, e-money institutions, telecom operators, and transportation operators. The company's platform includes a range of services such as online and mobile payment systems, mobile wallets, prepaid cards, and bill payment solutions. Additionally, DgPays offers tools for managing loyalty programs and payment gateway infrastructure. Their solutions also encompass essential banking services, including compliance, fraud management, and authentication, ensuring secure and efficient financial transactions. By integrating these diverse services, DgPays aims to facilitate seamless and convenient financial experiences for its clients and their customers.

One

Series B in 2021
One is a financial mobile application headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers a range of banking and fintech solutions. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on enhancing users' financial capabilities by providing services such as online payments, cash transactions, and digital wallet functionalities. The app is designed to increase users' spending power by optimizing their earnings and helping them achieve financial goals more efficiently. Additionally, One enables users to share money easily with family and friends while promoting faster growth of their finances. Through its innovative offerings, One aims to bridge financial gaps for its users.

TeamApt

Series B in 2021
TeamApt is a financial technology company that develops digital banking and payment platform for financial transactions. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel digital banking service called Moneytor Digital Banking, enabling banks to offer retail, merchant, and corporate banking services through digital channels, Aptpay for automation of digital banking business operations, settlements, reconciliations, and tracks digital transformation processes with web and mobile interfaces. TeamApt was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.

Novo

Series A in 2021
Novo Platform Inc. is a digital banking platform designed for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers. Founded in 2018 by Tyler McIntyre and Michael Rangel, the company is headquartered in Miami, Florida. Novo offers enhanced business deposit accounts and integrates banking activities with applications that provide users with analytical insights and fraud notifications related to their banking data. The platform is supported by a network of FDIC-insured community banks, aiming to streamline financial management for its clients. Originally known as Novo Financial Corp., the company was incorporated in 2016 and has since focused on creating tailored banking solutions for modern businesses.

Striga

Seed Round in 2021
Striga is a technology company that provides a blockchain platform designed for digital assets and financial services through a single set of APIs. The platform enables businesses to seamlessly integrate compliant payment solutions into their applications without the complexities of regulatory licensing, such as MiCA and EMI. Catering primarily to developers, Striga offers a robust suite of services that includes user onboarding, custody, trading, IBAN issuing, and card issuing across over 30 countries in the European Union. Its client base comprises early-stage FinTech startups, Web3 innovators, banks, and crypto exchanges, all of whom utilize Striga's solutions to facilitate secure cryptocurrency transactions and enhance their financial service offerings.

DgPays

Venture Round in 2021
DgPays is a financial technology company that specializes in providing comprehensive payment solutions tailored for banks, e-money institutions, telecom operators, and transportation operators. The company's platform includes a range of services such as online and mobile payment systems, mobile wallets, prepaid cards, and bill payment solutions. Additionally, DgPays offers tools for managing loyalty programs and payment gateway infrastructure. Their solutions also encompass essential banking services, including compliance, fraud management, and authentication, ensuring secure and efficient financial transactions. By integrating these diverse services, DgPays aims to facilitate seamless and convenient financial experiences for its clients and their customers.

Synctera

Seed Round in 2020
Synctera Inc. is a digital banking solutions provider based in San Carlos, California, and was incorporated in 2020. The company specializes in offering technology infrastructure, sponsor bank connections, and a compliance framework to facilitate the launch of FinTech and embedded banking products for businesses of all sizes. Synctera’s platform employs a unified set of APIs, allowing companies to efficiently introduce and expand various financial products such as debit cards, bank accounts, charge cards, lines of credit, and money movement services. By examining the specific needs of traditional banks and connecting them with appropriate FinTech firms, Synctera manages relationships and regulatory compliance, enabling regional and community banks to transition to digital operations effectively.

Griffin

Funding Round in 2020
Griffin is a banking-as-a-service provider that offers a digital banking platform designed to facilitate financial services for the fintech sector. Its solution serves as an operating system for embedded finance, enabling companies to easily build and launch financial products. By streamlining the integration of complex payment systems, Griffin reduces costs and time to market while simplifying the process of establishing banking partnerships. The platform includes integrated compliance services, supporting businesses with custodial accounts and interbank payments, while ensuring adherence to know-your-customer and anti-money laundering regulations. This comprehensive approach allows global brands with intricate payment needs to enhance their customer experience through seamless embedded finance solutions.

Solid Financial Technologies

Series A in 2020
Solid Financial Technologies, Inc. is a San Mateo, California-based company that specializes in providing a modern banking platform designed for small businesses and e-commerce platforms. Founded in 2018, Solid enables these businesses to offer banking services directly to their customers through an integrated suite of fintech solutions. The platform allows users to quickly create bank accounts and payment cards, facilitating the embedding of banking services within various applications and marketplaces. By offering a fully managed infrastructure, Solid supports companies in launching compliant and user-friendly fintech products, enhancing their overall business management capabilities.

Neon

Series C in 2020
Neon is a Brazilian fintech company founded in 2016, offering a digital banking platform and bill payment services. With over 15 million customers and 1,600 employees, Neon provides a range of products including debit and credit cards without annual fees, personal loans, investments in CDB and CDI, cashback on debit transactions, and various payment methods. Notably, Neon For Life, an AI-driven platform, enables consumers to pay bills like rent and utilities on flexible terms, without traditional credit pitfalls. The company aims to provide accessible, abusive-fee-free financial services to Brazilian workers and micro-entrepreneurs, with a focus on simplicity and convenience.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payment transactions. The platform features a modular, workflow-driven architecture accompanied by a real-time interface that allows users to track transactions and consolidate data from various payment processors. It also supports the underwriting of merchant accounts, thereby facilitating efficient and secure push payments over debit cards. Finix serves banks, acquirers, and enterprises, providing them with the tools necessary to send money globally.

Striga

Seed Round in 2020
Striga is a technology company that provides a blockchain platform designed for digital assets and financial services through a single set of APIs. The platform enables businesses to seamlessly integrate compliant payment solutions into their applications without the complexities of regulatory licensing, such as MiCA and EMI. Catering primarily to developers, Striga offers a robust suite of services that includes user onboarding, custody, trading, IBAN issuing, and card issuing across over 30 countries in the European Union. Its client base comprises early-stage FinTech startups, Web3 innovators, banks, and crypto exchanges, all of whom utilize Striga's solutions to facilitate secure cryptocurrency transactions and enhance their financial service offerings.

Conductiv

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Conductiv is a technology company that enhances the lending process for credit unions, banks, and fintech lenders by leveraging alternative data to improve loan approvals without increasing risk. The company has developed an artificial intelligence-based platform that digitizes data collection, utilizing user experience and permissioned data to streamline the lending workflow. By integrating machine learning, Conductiv enables lenders to access hundreds of alternative data points through a single API, facilitating more accurate lending decisions. This innovative approach not only increases loan approval and funding rates but also continuously improves the efficiency of the lending process, ultimately allowing lenders to make more loans with reduced effort.

Indo

Seed Round in 2020
Indo is a mobile first technologically advanced neo-bank. Indo is secure, safe and offers the best interest that is available irrespective of the amount a customer would have in their indó wallets.

One

Series A in 2020
One is a financial mobile application headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers a range of banking and fintech solutions. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on enhancing users' financial capabilities by providing services such as online payments, cash transactions, and digital wallet functionalities. The app is designed to increase users' spending power by optimizing their earnings and helping them achieve financial goals more efficiently. Additionally, One enables users to share money easily with family and friends while promoting faster growth of their finances. Through its innovative offerings, One aims to bridge financial gaps for its users.

NorthOne

Series A in 2020
NorthOne Inc., established in 2016 with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, specializes in digital banking solutions. The company offers a mobile-first API-based bank account, accessible via iOS, Android, and desktop platforms, catering primarily to startups, freelancers, and small businesses across America. NorthOne's platform enables users to manage finances and transactions efficiently, with features such as automated envelope creation for expenses like taxes, payroll, and rent, along with seamless integration of payment processing tools via Stripe. The company aims to simplify financial management, allowing businesses to focus more on their core operations.

Ualá

Series C in 2019
Ualá is a financial technology company that offers a digital banking application aimed at democratizing access to financial services. The platform provides a comprehensive financial ecosystem, allowing users to manage payments, request loans, and invest in various financial products. Ualá's services include a prepaid Mastercard and savings accounts, which enhance financial inclusion by enabling users to make secure purchases and transfer money instantly through a traditional transactional payment network. The company's mission is to empower individuals by offering accessible financial solutions.

Bayonet

Venture Round in 2017
Bayonet Technologies, Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in Camden, Delaware, specializes in designing and developing reputation system software. It provides software solutions that visualize user reputation and assess risk, primarily serving banks, payment processors, financial institutions, and lenders. The company's unique approach to machine learning enables it to calibrate decision models with significantly less historical data compared to traditional methods, making it an efficient solution for fraud detection and low acceptance rate challenges, particularly in the e-commerce sector.

albo

Venture Round in 2017
Albo is a prominent Mexican challenger bank that provides a financial platform designed to simplify money management for its users. It offers a mobile banking app and a Mastercard, enabling clients to easily track their spending, saving, and investment activities. The platform allows users to receive and transfer money effortlessly, with features that include real-time tracking of monetary movements and categorized expense and income reports. Albo focuses on adapting to individual lifestyles by delivering honest and innovative banking services that enhance financial management.

Conta um

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Conta Um is a Brazilian company that provides a digital account for payment, enabling users to conduct financial transactions without the need for a traditional bank. The platform optimizes payroll processes and simplifies the payment of employees and outsourced workers, reducing costs and enhancing control over corporate expenses. By facilitating online reconciliation and managing premiums and incentives, Conta Um allows businesses to navigate financial transactions efficiently while minimizing labor risks. Users can access the platform without the requirement for proof of income or residence, making it an accessible alternative for managing payments and financial activities.
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