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 Gomes Hilário de Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in HoReCa

EPOC Tech

Seed Round in 2024
EPOC TECH is a provider of innovative solutions and technology for foodservice and entertainment that transform customer service. EPOC TECH offers a wide range of products that cater to the evolving needs of the gastrobar segment. EPOC TECH ensures efficiency, information control, increased profitability, and fast service at any time for companies in various sectors. We are pioneers in the digital transformation of the food service and entertainment marketrevolutionizing the guest experience with top-tier technology and innovative solutions. Market leader of intelligent sales and customer relationship systems for bars, restaurants and nightclubs, that scale the revenue and business to higher levels. A OZ Technology delivers a series of integrated softwares that adapt to the ever evolving necessities of the food & beverages market, with a single goal: We empower the bar and restaurant community to amaze their guests, do what they were born to do and reach their true potential, while we handle all the rest.

@Hotel

Seed Round in 2021
@hotel is an innovative online travel agent that utilizes social media, particularly Instagram, to engage with a community of over 50 million followers. By focusing on social commerce, @hotel provides users with access to exceptional hotel deals in popular destinations worldwide. The company emphasizes the importance of personalized customer service, aiming to create memorable travel experiences that foster human connections. Its platform combines curated community insights, competitive pricing, and extensive coverage of travel trends to ensure a seamless booking experience for travelers. Founded with a mission to challenge conventional practices in the travel industry, @hotel is dedicated to treating every guest as a valued member of its community, thereby enhancing the overall journey of travel.

NetFoods

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NetFoods is a centralized platform established in 2017 and based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, aimed at simplifying the wholesale purchasing process between restaurants and suppliers in the food industry. The platform assists restaurants by recommending the best local prices, thereby alleviating the challenges of sourcing new suppliers and obtaining product quotes. For suppliers, NetFoods streamlines customer and order management, providing a secure environment for billing and receipts. By integrating the purchasing process and consolidating all purchase information into a single channel, NetFoods enhances efficiency and reduces delivery failures, enabling food businesses to scale their operations more effectively.

Foodics

Series B in 2021
Foodics is a technology company based in AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia, founded in 2014. It specializes in developing a cloud-based restaurant management system designed for iPads, catering to the needs of restaurants, food trucks, cafes, and fast-food chains across the Middle East. The platform offers comprehensive solutions including point-of-sale transactions, inventory management, employee scheduling, loyalty programs, e-commerce integration, and real-time operational oversight through a user-friendly dashboard. Foodics aims to enhance revenue generation and customer relationships for its clients by providing high-tech, easy-to-use tools that streamline restaurant operations.

Worc

Seed Round in 2021
Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.

Chefs Club

Series C in 2021
ChefsClub is a membership-based platform that offers gastronomic enthusiasts exclusive dining benefits at partner restaurants. Members pay a subscription fee and can choose from a selection of approximately 450 restaurants, enjoying discounts ranging from 30% to 50% on their meals. Upon joining, members receive a personalized metal card to present at participating establishments, allowing them to dine with friends while enjoying the discounts. The business model is designed to be mutually beneficial; restaurant partners can fill empty tables at no cost and without contractual obligations, while gaining increased visibility through ChefsClub's communication channels. This arrangement not only enhances customer flow for restaurants but also ensures that members experience significant savings on dining out. ChefsClub has established partnerships with notable companies to further enhance its offerings and reach within the market.

Ghost Kitchens

Venture Round in 2020
Ghost Kitchens is a neighborhood restaurant that applies economies of scale to ultimately lower cost. Furthermore, increasing a single company’s visibility within its market by leveraging multiple brand identities. Differentiated target marketing of multiple brands to generate sales for a single brick and mortar location becomes Ghost Kitchens competitive advantage. Third party food delivery apps serve as a means for dual distribution, each acts as its own marketing channel. Ghost Kitchens LLC is a restaurant business model which allows for easy creation and transitioning of brand concepts that cater to specific target demographics and lifestyles. The Ghost Kitchens restaurant model also enhances the cost cutting techniques that are misused in a traditional restaurant business model by utilization of recipes across several menu items as well as menus. A single kitchen of a brick and mortar establishment serves several brand identities and concepts. The portal of which this will be done is through online food delivery services. The Ghost Kitchens model will allow one establishment to reach multiple target markets while allowing concepts to both be created and retired with minimum cost. The competitive advantage in this model is the ability to cross utilize menu items ultimately reducing waste while simultaneously diversifying revenue generating avenues.

AlmocoGratis

Seed Round in 2020
AlmocoGratis provides intelligence management services for bars and restaurants based on data analysis. They offer a complimentary meal in exchange for the customer's feedback.

Overflow

Venture Round in 2020
Overflow allows patrons to order and pay for drinks at bars and nightclubs. It also provides an easy interface for the bartenders to handle incoming orders and prepare them for their patrons.

@Hotel

Seed Round in 2020
@hotel is an innovative online travel agent that utilizes social media, particularly Instagram, to engage with a community of over 50 million followers. By focusing on social commerce, @hotel provides users with access to exceptional hotel deals in popular destinations worldwide. The company emphasizes the importance of personalized customer service, aiming to create memorable travel experiences that foster human connections. Its platform combines curated community insights, competitive pricing, and extensive coverage of travel trends to ensure a seamless booking experience for travelers. Founded with a mission to challenge conventional practices in the travel industry, @hotel is dedicated to treating every guest as a valued member of its community, thereby enhancing the overall journey of travel.

Goomer

Debt Financing in 2020
Goomer is a Brazilian company based in Sorocaba that specializes in developing an omnichannel food service system for restaurants, hotels, and bars. Founded in 2014, Goomer provides a self-service platform that includes digital menus displaying images and descriptions of dishes and drinks, as well as a self-delivery totem for food establishments. This platform enables consumers to place orders via smartphones, tablets, and kiosks, whether they are dining in, ordering for delivery, or arranging for pick-up. Goomer's system not only streamlines service but also personalizes customer experiences by suggesting sales and facilitating payment and feedback. Through its innovative solutions, Goomer aims to enhance the agility and profitability of food service businesses.

AlmocoGratis

Pre Seed Round in 2018
AlmocoGratis provides intelligence management services for bars and restaurants based on data analysis. They offer a complimentary meal in exchange for the customer's feedback.

Goomer

Seed Round in 2018
Goomer is a Brazilian company based in Sorocaba that specializes in developing an omnichannel food service system for restaurants, hotels, and bars. Founded in 2014, Goomer provides a self-service platform that includes digital menus displaying images and descriptions of dishes and drinks, as well as a self-delivery totem for food establishments. This platform enables consumers to place orders via smartphones, tablets, and kiosks, whether they are dining in, ordering for delivery, or arranging for pick-up. Goomer's system not only streamlines service but also personalizes customer experiences by suggesting sales and facilitating payment and feedback. Through its innovative solutions, Goomer aims to enhance the agility and profitability of food service businesses.

Alana

Venture Round in 2018
Alana is an online platform based in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, that specializes in connecting blue-collar job seekers with employers in the hospitality and retail sectors across Latin America. Founded in 2017, Alana offers a web and mobile application designed to streamline the recruitment process by matching talent with job opportunities in real time. The platform enhances communication between companies and candidates through an integrated chatbot and facilitates scheduling with an automatic internal agenda. Additionally, Alana provides live reports to companies, allowing them to monitor key HR metrics such as recruitment time, employee turnover rates, and staff satisfaction. This innovative approach aims to reduce employee turnover and optimize the hiring process, ultimately saving time and resources for businesses.

Hooked

Venture Round in 2016
Hooked, Inc. operates a mobile application designed to connect college students with local restaurants and bars in the United States. Founded in 2011 and based in Santa Monica, California, the app enables users to discover deals and food events from nearby establishments, influencing dining and socialization choices among millennials. Hooked partners with top restaurants to promote their offerings and drive sales during peak times, effectively targeting the college demographic. The application has gained significant traction, with hundreds of thousands of active users across major U.S. college markets, converting 25% to over 50% of the student population in those areas. The company plans to expand into additional college towns over the next two years, aiming to increase its user base and restaurant partnerships, while also exploring opportunities for growth in metropolitan areas and international markets.

Grubster

Seed Round in 2015
Grubster is a Brazilian company that provides an online platform for restaurant reservations and discounts. Founded in 2011 and based in São Paulo, Grubster aims to increase restaurant patronage while assisting dining establishments in filling their unused capacity. The company operates in three major cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. Through its services, Grubster has generated over R$2 million for its restaurant partners and saved customers more than R$1 million. As of February 2019, Grubster is a subsidiary of Chefs Club, LTDA.
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