Bossa Invest

Bossa Nova Investimentos e Administração S.A. is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in pre-seed, seed, startup, and early-stage investments. Founded in 2010, Bossa Nova is recognized as Brazil's first micro venture capital firm and has become the most active investor in the pre-seed stage within the country. The firm focuses on technology sectors, particularly software, service development, mobile applications, SaaS, and B2B solutions, and has expanded its investment activities to include companies in the United States. Bossa Nova typically makes minority investments, with funding ranging from R$0.1 million to R$0.8 million per project. Additionally, the firm manages the Bossa Nova Sports Tech Fund, which targets investments in consumer and business products, information technology, wellness, and gaming sectors, with preferred investment amounts between R$0.1 million and R$0.3 million across multiple companies.

Flavio Garcia

Investor

Marcus Marques

Investor

Ricardo Miranda

Investor

Thiago Gomes Hilário de Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Publishing

Post.co

Venture Round in 2022
Post is the best way to share big and small news across your team. Designed as a substitute for messy threads and awkward reply-all team emails, Post is a simple, low-stakes way to share team-wide updates. From new hire announcements to company goals to weekly updates, Post is a singular space for remote teams to connect over updates and celebrate achievements.

4students

Pre Seed Round in 2022
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Draft

Venture Round in 2021
ContentFly makes generating quality content ridiculously easy & affordable for any business, for a flat monthly fee. Get content on-demand, high quality, and written by professional writers.

Tales

Venture Round in 2021
Developer of a content publishing platform through generative artificial intelligence tools, new storytelling formats, and ownership models, designed to offer budding writers a space to showcase their creative skills. The company's platform lets creators make books, comics, games, audiobooks, and everything in between, enabling content creators to rapidly pilot episodic stories and iterate off feedback or metrics to improve performance.

Foster

Seed Round in 2021
Community-powered writing workflow driven by some of the internet's best writers, editors, and experts.

Journal

Seed Round in 2021
Journal's mission is to help people focus and bring new ideas to life. Much of our personal and professional lives run on apps. Yet these tools create boundaries between our activities, require constant checking, and have enabled a culture of interruptions. Journal gives individuals and groups a focused “space” to find, remember, and share all the information they need to have fun and do good work.

Piraporiando

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Piraporiando is a publisher specializing in children's literature and art education, emphasizing cultural diversity and the promotion of reading. The organization undertakes projects aimed at fostering reading habits among children, thereby supporting the realization of their rights. Additionally, Piraporiando is committed to addressing social issues such as prejudice, racism, and bullying through educational initiatives. The company champions anti-racist and anti-bullying education, while also promoting gender equity. By focusing on these areas, Piraporiando seeks to not only enhance literacy but also contribute to the overall well-being and rights of children.

MessageParty

Venture Round in 2021
MessageParty is a new kind of mobile blogging service. Users can create and consume content from mobile browsers, a native iphone app, or the web.

Public

Series C in 2020
Public is a social investing network that enables individuals to buy public stocks with any investment amount while fostering community engagement. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the platform incorporates social features that allow users to connect with friends, follow trading professionals, and share their trading experiences on a social feed. This approach aims to make the stock market more accessible and interactive, promoting a collaborative investing environment. Public's innovative application offers free trading on stocks and funds, enhancing user experience and encouraging participation in financial markets.

Minerva

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Minerva is a Brooklyn-based company founded in 2019 that develops a process-sharing platform designed to capture and share dynamic workflows across any website. The platform enables users to create clickable instructions for various online properties, including those they do not own. Additionally, it offers a software development kit and a browser extension that facilitate the efficient creation of documentation. By streamlining the process of generating instructional content, Minerva aims to enhance user experience and improve workflow management for businesses.

Mettzer

Venture Round in 2020
Mettzer is a platform that centralizes the production of academic and scientific content in educational institutions. It offers a text editor that automatically formats the works according to ABNT standards and helps teachers throughout the orientation process. In addition to improving the experience and productivity of academics, the tool also delivers relevant indicators to educational institutions, helps improve academic production management, knowledge management, research editorial management, and student retention. Mettzer was founded in 2014 and is based in Florianópolis, Brazil.

ImaginaKIDS

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ImaginaKIDS is an educational technology startup focused on fostering children's development through creative and playful engagement. The company offers a platform that allows children to create their own stories using a variety of scenarios, characters, and drawing tools available in its application. This platform, accessible on Android, iOS, and the web, combines technology with education, enabling children to enhance their imagination, creativity, motor coordination, reading, and writing skills. By facilitating the creation of printed books from their stories, ImaginaKIDS supports the emotional and cognitive development of students, empowering them to become active participants in their learning journey.

Fourthwall

Venture Round in 2020
Operator of a monetization platform for creators intended to help them build businesses around their audiences. The company's platform helps creators launch fully-branded websites where fans can support them through e-commerce, donations and memberships while providing full ownership and control of their website and brand, enabling creators to expand their business domain to the outside market in order to earn profits.

Unsplash

Seed Round in 2019
Unsplash, Inc. is a photography community platform founded in 2013 and based in Montreal, Canada. It offers a collection of high-resolution photographs that are freely available for various uses, supported by a community of users who share their images under the Unsplash License. The platform allows users to upload their photos, which are then curated by a team of photo editors to ensure quality. Unsplash aims to create an open creative ecosystem, providing individuals and businesses with access to copyright-free images that can be utilized for purposes such as album art, advertisements, and product design.

Mettzer

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Mettzer is a platform that centralizes the production of academic and scientific content in educational institutions. It offers a text editor that automatically formats the works according to ABNT standards and helps teachers throughout the orientation process. In addition to improving the experience and productivity of academics, the tool also delivers relevant indicators to educational institutions, helps improve academic production management, knowledge management, research editorial management, and student retention. Mettzer was founded in 2014 and is based in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Mawdoo3

Series B in 2019
Mawdoo3.com is an online platform based in Amman, Jordan, that offers a vast array of Arabic content across various topics, including health, education, and cooking. Founded in 2010, it aims to enrich Arabic digital content, attracting over 50 million unique visitors each month. The platform serves as a digital encyclopedia, providing users with credible information from trustworthy sources and direct answers to their queries, facilitated by subject matter experts. Mawdoo3 also leverages artificial intelligence to enhance user experience, making it easier for Arabic internet users to access relevant content efficiently.

Passei Direto

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Passei Direto S.A. is an academic social network based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 2012. The platform serves over 15 million students across more than 2,500 universities, facilitating connections among university students. It allows users to follow specific courses, share study materials, and engage in collaborative learning through peer interactions. With over 3 million pieces of shared content, Passei Direto enhances the academic experience by providing resources such as solved exercises, study plans, and video summaries tailored to popular textbooks. Additionally, the platform offers a Premium Plan that grants access to exclusive content created by specialists, further supporting students in their academic pursuits.

Highlighter

Seed Round in 2019
Highlighter aims to dramatically reduce the cost of textbooks while dramatically increasing student engagement on any online content. Highlighter's HTML5 reader allows professors/teachers to publish PDF and ePUB documents for free, accessible on any device, with unprecedented engagement by highlighting, annotating, commenting, sharing and saving over snippets of text.

Unsplash

Series A in 2018
Unsplash, Inc. is a photography community platform founded in 2013 and based in Montreal, Canada. It offers a collection of high-resolution photographs that are freely available for various uses, supported by a community of users who share their images under the Unsplash License. The platform allows users to upload their photos, which are then curated by a team of photo editors to ensure quality. Unsplash aims to create an open creative ecosystem, providing individuals and businesses with access to copyright-free images that can be utilized for purposes such as album art, advertisements, and product design.

Holloway

Venture Round in 2018
Holloway, Inc. publishes online guides. It offers a library of book-length online guides about work, written and regularly updated by teams of all the industry. Holloway, Inc. was formerly known as Feynman Labs, Inc. and changed its name to Holloway, Inc. in April 2018. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Buffer

Venture Round in 2017
Buffer, Inc. is a social media management company that provides a comprehensive tool designed to assist marketers and agencies in planning, scheduling, and analyzing their social media campaigns. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, California, Buffer allows users to schedule posts across various platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. The tool also supports multimedia engagement and facilitates collaboration among team members, enabling them to share insights and create content efficiently. In addition to its core scheduling features, Buffer offers Pablo, a tool for designing engaging images tailored for social media. By focusing on user-friendly solutions, Buffer helps businesses and non-profits enhance their online presence and drive meaningful engagement with their audiences.

Forestry

Seed Round in 2017
Forestry.io Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in content management software designed for static websites. Founded in 2016 and based in Canoe Cove, the company offers a headless content management system that simplifies the processes of posting and updating content. The platform supports popular static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo, making it suitable for creating documentation sites. By utilizing an open-source, Git-backed approach, Forestry.io enables seamless collaboration on content development. Its system organizes official documents and synchronizes content from frequently visited sites, ultimately streamlining the content creation process. This allows developers to customize the visual editing experience to better fit their websites or applications, thereby saving time and effort in managing web content.

Bulletin

Seed Round in 2017
Bulletin, Inc. is a wholesale marketplace that connects individual designers and brands with retailers, facilitating the sale of a diverse range of products online, including home decor, kitchen items, bedding, furniture, lighting, jewelry, and cards. In addition to its online platform, Bulletin also provides shared storefronts and utilizes vacant commercial spaces to showcase and sell the works of emerging designers in person. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, Bulletin aims to create a community that supports premium brands while offering a unique shopping experience.

Blogo

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Blogo is a company that develops a blog publishing application designed for content creators. Founded in 2014 and based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the application allows users to manage multiple blogs from a single dashboard. It offers features such as scheduling and organizing posts, editing images, and previewing content while writing. Additionally, Blogo enables users to manage comments and interact with commenters efficiently. The application is compatible with Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices and supports offline writing and synchronization with platforms like Evernote. It is available for download on the App Store, catering to the needs of bloggers and content creators looking for streamlined publishing solutions.

Passei Direto

Series B in 2016
Passei Direto S.A. is an academic social network based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 2012. The platform serves over 15 million students across more than 2,500 universities, facilitating connections among university students. It allows users to follow specific courses, share study materials, and engage in collaborative learning through peer interactions. With over 3 million pieces of shared content, Passei Direto enhances the academic experience by providing resources such as solved exercises, study plans, and video summaries tailored to popular textbooks. Additionally, the platform offers a Premium Plan that grants access to exclusive content created by specialists, further supporting students in their academic pursuits.
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