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 Social Network

X (formerly Twitter)

Venture Round in 2025
X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages.

Rocket.Chat

Series A in 2023
Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication and collaboration platform that serves over 12 million users on more than 500,000 servers globally. It offers an open-source solution designed for team collaboration and omnichannel customer service, enabling users to exchange messages, organize video calls, and share files. The platform supports integration with various external communication tools, allowing companies to customize their communication environment while ensuring data ownership and compliance. Rocket.Chat provides a secure space for both internal and external communications, with features such as individual and group messaging, video conferencing, file uploading, screen sharing, and LiveChat. The company aims to replace traditional email with a real-time federated communications platform and plans to establish a marketplace to facilitate app development and business services built around its core offerings. An active community of over 1,000 developer-contributors continuously enhances the platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of its users.

Bússola Social

Venture Round in 2022
Bússola Social develops management software tailored for social projects, aiming to enhance social development by making technology accessible to professionals in the third sector. The platform provides essential tools such as a task manager, lead tracker, decision-making support, promotion capabilities, and a daily planner. These features are designed to improve the capacity and effectiveness of social welfare initiatives, enabling managers to efficiently track, manage, and control various projects. By facilitating better management of social programs, Bússola Social contributes to expanding access to education, health, culture, leisure, work, and income opportunities.

Uncovered

Venture Round in 2022
Uncovered is a software company that operates a platform focused on solving cold cases, particularly murder and mystery cases. By leveraging data and analytics, it creates a collaborative environment that engages a community of citizen detectives, advocates, and true-crime enthusiasts. This initiative aims to assist families in their pursuit of justice, peace, and closure regarding unresolved cases.

Joy

Series B in 2022
Creating a shared home is hard and time consuming. Joy is the future of co-living. Founded by Gustavo Carvalho and Rafael Rebouças the company offers private rooms in fully furnished and professionally managed apartments with weekly cleaning. And uses a matchmaking algorithm to help you find the perfect roommate.

Polen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Polen is a company based in Curitiba, Brazil, that operates an online platform designed to enhance e-commerce by integrating social responsibility into the purchasing process. By facilitating donations through virtual shopping carts, Polen ensures that each transaction contributes to social causes, allowing consumers to make a positive impact with their purchases. The platform simplifies the connection between businesses and social initiatives, enabling companies to implement automated and measurable cause marketing strategies. Polen's mission is to make it standard for consumers to expect a social benefit from their buying decisions, ultimately transforming e-commerce into a vehicle for social good.

Fable

Series A in 2021
Fable is a company founded in 2019 by Padmasree Warrior in Palo Alto, California, that focuses on enhancing mental wellness through storytelling. The company has developed an e-book platform that allows users to engage with stories in a social context, enabling reading with friends or influencers in curated reading clubs. Fable's platform is designed to cater to digital natives, providing personalized stories that align with users' time, mood, and interests. By filling micro-moments in busy lives with engaging narratives, Fable aims to create memorable social experiences that promote mental well-being.

Wander

Seed Round in 2021
Wander is a social mobile messaging app.

Wayfinder.Net

Venture Round in 2021
Alan Yelsey, the founder of WAY (wayfinder.net), sold his previous company, Machine Dreams, to multi-billion dollar Australian Company Computershare in 2009. Alan, a former Honeywell Executive responsible for Signal and Image Processing Business Development, founded and grew Machine Dreams into one of the world's largest knowledge visualization companies. His clients spanned the globe and all industry segments. Alan was acclaimed for the inventive creativity of the unique software, hardware and services Machine Dreams provided to most of the world's largest corporations. Since then, Alan assembled a team that has spent the last 10 years developing WAY to solve the largest problem facing the world today, and fully embrace the greatest business opportunity of the century - the reinvention of the defective primitive language and interfaces we use for everything important. Fast Company judged WAY to be one of the top world changing ideas of 2019. Noted media experts and social networking companies believe what WAY has developed will inevitably disrupt and replace the way human beings communicate with themselves and their computer screens. What WAY has invented (5 seminal patents and more pending) is an elegantly simple multi sensory universal language that for the first time enables organizations and individuals to accumulate, access and apply a systemic lens to everything complex - with an attractive entertaining gaming-like interface,, paint by numbers touch, no language barriers, feedback loops for mass action reward and recognition, transparency and proof verification on top of AI and Big Data, and ubiquitous potential. WAY's new pattern based semiotic language will disrupt and revolutionize commerce, the internet, social networks, finance, healthcare, organizational management systems, AI/Big Data/IT, education and economic systems worldwide. WAY's invention is an entirely new paradigm that declares that our inherited deficient languages - how people think, communicate and act - are actually THE problem. The solution is an accumulative multi-sensory language built upon ontologically organized universal cellular models filled with pattern and sound to signify meaning. Please contact us to experience what many believe is the invention that will reset how corporations and economies work. WAY is seeking a corporate partner to fully realize its technology and bring its inventions to life or investors who believe in WAY's new paradigm.

Facily

Series D in 2021
Facily is a social commerce marketplace operating in Latin America, designed to cater to low-ticket items and provide competitive prices alongside efficient logistics for lower-income neighborhoods. The platform emphasizes community engagement by facilitating group buying, allowing users to purchase products collectively while enjoying interactive experiences such as games and quizzes. By harnessing local leaders and influencers, Facily enhances its appeal and promotes a sense of community among buyers. Users can also earn rewards by inviting friends, making the shopping experience not only economical but also enjoyable and socially engaging.

Gobillion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion is a social e-commerce platform that facilitates group purchasing, allowing users to save money on groceries and household essentials. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New Delhi and Bangalore, Gobillion enables customers to create shopping rooms where they can collaborate with friends and family to make collective purchases. This "Team Buy" model harnesses the power of group buying, helping users reduce their expenses while fostering a sense of community around shopping. Through its innovative marketplace, Gobillion aims to transform the way consumers approach e-commerce by making it a more social and cost-effective experience.

Betterfly

Series B in 2021
Betterfly is a purpose-driven wellbeing and insurance platform based in Santiago, Chile, founded in 2018. The company focuses on enhancing the health and wellbeing of employees while fostering positive community impacts. Its innovative platform allows organizations to reward employees for maintaining healthy habits by offering life insurance coverage that increases over time. Additionally, every healthy activity is converted into a charitable donation sponsored by the company. This model not only supports employee wellbeing but also integrates corporate wellness and social responsibility into business operations, allowing companies to contribute actively to their communities.

Facily

Series C in 2021
Facily is a social commerce marketplace operating in Latin America, designed to cater to low-ticket items and provide competitive prices alongside efficient logistics for lower-income neighborhoods. The platform emphasizes community engagement by facilitating group buying, allowing users to purchase products collectively while enjoying interactive experiences such as games and quizzes. By harnessing local leaders and influencers, Facily enhances its appeal and promotes a sense of community among buyers. Users can also earn rewards by inviting friends, making the shopping experience not only economical but also enjoyable and socially engaging.

turntable.fm

Venture Round in 2021
Turntable.fm is a project of [Seth Goldstein](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-goldstein) and [Billy Chasen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/billy-chasen), the two guys who brought us [Stickybits](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stickybits). Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people and discovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify. In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform.

Bunches

Venture Round in 2021
Bunches is a platform that allows creators to establish paid group chats on various topics. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the application enables users to create chat rooms, set membership fees, and share links to these groups on social media. This functionality allows creators to engage with their audience in a more exclusive manner by sharing unique content within the group chats. Through Bunches, individuals can monetize their interactions while providing a space for community building and shared experiences.

Build on Scenes

Venture Round in 2021
Scenes is an all-in-one community management platform that enables its users to host and run webinars, course cohorts, forums, newsletters, blogs, content libraries, and chats. It enables its users to manage, moderate, and monetize their community.

Myplace

Venture Round in 2021
MyPlace is a social networking site that lets users display their private spaces to their network. The platform is currently running a quick-paced private beta for its international user base. Their platform features the ability to let users list their properties and share them with people they trust, enabling users to host and stay with friends.

Promise

Series A in 2021
Promise simplifies government debt and helps people pay their bills. We partner with utilities and government agencies to offer a variety of convenient and flexible payment options, including zero-interest installment plans and relief distribution. We use sophisticated outreach methods that make it easy for customers to sign up and manage their plans. Ultimately, our technology maximizes government revenue while helping customers pay off debt sooner and with fewer penalties. Promise is a team of technology experts from companies like Palantir, Stripe, Uber and Google and leaders from the public sector. We are backed by a diverse group of venture capital firms like Kapor Capital, Y Combinator, First Round and RocNation.

Bevy - Everything Startup

Venture Round in 2021
Bevy is an app for startup ecosystem that will make it easier for everyone involved in the startup world to connect with each other

Zingeroo

Seed Round in 2020
Zingeroo, Inc. is a fintech startup based in Plymouth, Massachusetts, established in 2019. The company operates an innovative platform that transforms stock trading into a competitive and social experience. By allowing users to challenge friends to games based on financial markets, Zingeroo aims to make investing accessible and educational. The platform promotes a fun and interactive approach to learning about trading options, enabling users to build personal portfolios and track their performance against others. Through this social trading experience, Zingeroo seeks to enhance engagement in financial markets while fostering a community of informed investors.

Paway

Venture Round in 2020
Paway, founded by Jason Meltzer, aims to enhance the pet care community for Gen-Z and Millennial pet owners. The company develops a pet tracking application that provides real-time safety alerts and neighborhood tips, promoting safer walks for pets and their owners. Users can create pet profiles and share experiences with caregivers, family, and friends, enabling effective communication and collaboration in pet care. Additionally, Paway supports pet care professionals by offering software tools to manage and grow their businesses, thereby fostering connections between these professionals and pet owners. By addressing consumer demand for improved pet care services, Paway seeks to lower costs, increase loyalty among pet professionals, and collect valuable user data, including pet details and location.

turntable.fm

Seed Round in 2020
Turntable.fm is a project of [Seth Goldstein](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-goldstein) and [Billy Chasen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/billy-chasen), the two guys who brought us [Stickybits](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stickybits). Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people and discovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify. In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform.

Myplace

Seed Round in 2020
MyPlace is a social networking site that lets users display their private spaces to their network. The platform is currently running a quick-paced private beta for its international user base. Their platform features the ability to let users list their properties and share them with people they trust, enabling users to host and stay with friends.

Bunches

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bunches is a platform that allows creators to establish paid group chats on various topics. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the application enables users to create chat rooms, set membership fees, and share links to these groups on social media. This functionality allows creators to engage with their audience in a more exclusive manner by sharing unique content within the group chats. Through Bunches, individuals can monetize their interactions while providing a space for community building and shared experiences.

Bevy - Everything Startup

Venture Round in 2020
Bevy is an app for startup ecosystem that will make it easier for everyone involved in the startup world to connect with each other

Build on Scenes

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Scenes is an all-in-one community management platform that enables its users to host and run webinars, course cohorts, forums, newsletters, blogs, content libraries, and chats. It enables its users to manage, moderate, and monetize their community.

Promise

Seed Round in 2020
Promise simplifies government debt and helps people pay their bills. We partner with utilities and government agencies to offer a variety of convenient and flexible payment options, including zero-interest installment plans and relief distribution. We use sophisticated outreach methods that make it easy for customers to sign up and manage their plans. Ultimately, our technology maximizes government revenue while helping customers pay off debt sooner and with fewer penalties. Promise is a team of technology experts from companies like Palantir, Stripe, Uber and Google and leaders from the public sector. We are backed by a diverse group of venture capital firms like Kapor Capital, Y Combinator, First Round and RocNation.

Passei Direto

Series B in 2020
Passei Direto is an academic network for university students whose mission is to connect students. Since 2012, Passeidireto.com already concentrates over 15 million students and is present in more than 2,500 universities. Through the site and our applications, students can connect with each other, follow specific courses, share study materials, and take questions with each other. Created by the then university students of PUC-RIO Rodrigo Salvador and André Simões, the platform offers content and tools that increasingly help students perform. To this end, in addition to the more than 3 million shared content, Passei Direto also offers through its Premium Plan exclusive content produced by specialists. There are thousands of exercises solved step by step of the books most used by teachers, study plans with videoaulas and summaries of the topics of each discipline and also tools to make their study routine even more simple and effective.

Polen

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Polen is a company based in Curitiba, Brazil, that operates an online platform designed to enhance e-commerce by integrating social responsibility into the purchasing process. By facilitating donations through virtual shopping carts, Polen ensures that each transaction contributes to social causes, allowing consumers to make a positive impact with their purchases. The platform simplifies the connection between businesses and social initiatives, enabling companies to implement automated and measurable cause marketing strategies. Polen's mission is to make it standard for consumers to expect a social benefit from their buying decisions, ultimately transforming e-commerce into a vehicle for social good.

Uncovered

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Uncovered is a software company that operates a platform focused on solving cold cases, particularly murder and mystery cases. By leveraging data and analytics, it creates a collaborative environment that engages a community of citizen detectives, advocates, and true-crime enthusiasts. This initiative aims to assist families in their pursuit of justice, peace, and closure regarding unresolved cases.

Wayfinder.Net

Venture Round in 2019
Alan Yelsey, the founder of WAY (wayfinder.net), sold his previous company, Machine Dreams, to multi-billion dollar Australian Company Computershare in 2009. Alan, a former Honeywell Executive responsible for Signal and Image Processing Business Development, founded and grew Machine Dreams into one of the world's largest knowledge visualization companies. His clients spanned the globe and all industry segments. Alan was acclaimed for the inventive creativity of the unique software, hardware and services Machine Dreams provided to most of the world's largest corporations. Since then, Alan assembled a team that has spent the last 10 years developing WAY to solve the largest problem facing the world today, and fully embrace the greatest business opportunity of the century - the reinvention of the defective primitive language and interfaces we use for everything important. Fast Company judged WAY to be one of the top world changing ideas of 2019. Noted media experts and social networking companies believe what WAY has developed will inevitably disrupt and replace the way human beings communicate with themselves and their computer screens. What WAY has invented (5 seminal patents and more pending) is an elegantly simple multi sensory universal language that for the first time enables organizations and individuals to accumulate, access and apply a systemic lens to everything complex - with an attractive entertaining gaming-like interface,, paint by numbers touch, no language barriers, feedback loops for mass action reward and recognition, transparency and proof verification on top of AI and Big Data, and ubiquitous potential. WAY's new pattern based semiotic language will disrupt and revolutionize commerce, the internet, social networks, finance, healthcare, organizational management systems, AI/Big Data/IT, education and economic systems worldwide. WAY's invention is an entirely new paradigm that declares that our inherited deficient languages - how people think, communicate and act - are actually THE problem. The solution is an accumulative multi-sensory language built upon ontologically organized universal cellular models filled with pattern and sound to signify meaning. Please contact us to experience what many believe is the invention that will reset how corporations and economies work. WAY is seeking a corporate partner to fully realize its technology and bring its inventions to life or investors who believe in WAY's new paradigm.

Rocket.Chat

Seed Round in 2019
Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication and collaboration platform that serves over 12 million users on more than 500,000 servers globally. It offers an open-source solution designed for team collaboration and omnichannel customer service, enabling users to exchange messages, organize video calls, and share files. The platform supports integration with various external communication tools, allowing companies to customize their communication environment while ensuring data ownership and compliance. Rocket.Chat provides a secure space for both internal and external communications, with features such as individual and group messaging, video conferencing, file uploading, screen sharing, and LiveChat. The company aims to replace traditional email with a real-time federated communications platform and plans to establish a marketplace to facilitate app development and business services built around its core offerings. An active community of over 1,000 developer-contributors continuously enhances the platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of its users.

Juristas

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Juristas operates as a news portal focused on the legal sector, providing valuable resources and services to assist individuals in navigating legal matters. The platform offers updated jurisprudence, petition templates, and tools for document creation, facilitating the preparation of legal documents. Additionally, it hosts thematic forums and provides workflow tools for procedural tasks, fostering engagement and collaboration within the legal community. Juristas also offers digital certification services, allowing users to share their insights and experiences while enhancing their understanding of legal processes. Through these offerings, Juristas aims to empower users with the knowledge and tools necessary for effective legal navigation.

Passei Direto

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Passei Direto is an academic network for university students whose mission is to connect students. Since 2012, Passeidireto.com already concentrates over 15 million students and is present in more than 2,500 universities. Through the site and our applications, students can connect with each other, follow specific courses, share study materials, and take questions with each other. Created by the then university students of PUC-RIO Rodrigo Salvador and André Simões, the platform offers content and tools that increasingly help students perform. To this end, in addition to the more than 3 million shared content, Passei Direto also offers through its Premium Plan exclusive content produced by specialists. There are thousands of exercises solved step by step of the books most used by teachers, study plans with videoaulas and summaries of the topics of each discipline and also tools to make their study routine even more simple and effective.

Circle

Venture Round in 2018
Circle is a community platform designed to facilitate discussions, memberships, and content sharing among creators. Founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen, Circle aims to provide a centralized space for creators to engage with their audiences and collaborate with one another. The platform supports various features that enhance community interactions and foster a sense of belonging among users. By focusing on the needs of creators, Circle aims to empower individuals and groups to build and manage their own communities effectively.

Rocket.Chat

Seed Round in 2018
Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication and collaboration platform that serves over 12 million users on more than 500,000 servers globally. It offers an open-source solution designed for team collaboration and omnichannel customer service, enabling users to exchange messages, organize video calls, and share files. The platform supports integration with various external communication tools, allowing companies to customize their communication environment while ensuring data ownership and compliance. Rocket.Chat provides a secure space for both internal and external communications, with features such as individual and group messaging, video conferencing, file uploading, screen sharing, and LiveChat. The company aims to replace traditional email with a real-time federated communications platform and plans to establish a marketplace to facilitate app development and business services built around its core offerings. An active community of over 1,000 developer-contributors continuously enhances the platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of its users.

HeroSpark

Venture Round in 2017
HeroSpark is a comprehensive digital entrepreneurship platform that connects educators and learners, facilitating the creation and management of online courses. It provides users with the tools necessary to develop their own branded course portals, manage payments, and engage with students effectively. By promoting knowledge sharing and distance learning, HeroSpark empowers instructors to transform their expertise into accessible educational experiences. The platform fosters a supportive community that encourages continuous growth and collaboration among its members, helping them achieve their entrepreneurial goals.

Poppin

Seed Round in 2017
Poppin is a relationship application for new dating experience based on your Facebook events. It also shows who go to the same events as you, so you can meet new people and do not even need to make a date! Besides, you're not left unmoved! In Poppin, you can see what is rolling around and even confirm presence by the application itself! The party starts here and now. Poppin was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Polen

Venture Round in 2016
Polen is a company based in Curitiba, Brazil, that operates an online platform designed to enhance e-commerce by integrating social responsibility into the purchasing process. By facilitating donations through virtual shopping carts, Polen ensures that each transaction contributes to social causes, allowing consumers to make a positive impact with their purchases. The platform simplifies the connection between businesses and social initiatives, enabling companies to implement automated and measurable cause marketing strategies. Polen's mission is to make it standard for consumers to expect a social benefit from their buying decisions, ultimately transforming e-commerce into a vehicle for social good.

Poppin

Venture Round in 2016
Poppin is a relationship application for new dating experience based on your Facebook events. It also shows who go to the same events as you, so you can meet new people and do not even need to make a date! Besides, you're not left unmoved! In Poppin, you can see what is rolling around and even confirm presence by the application itself! The party starts here and now. Poppin was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Passei Direto

Series B in 2016
Passei Direto is an academic network for university students whose mission is to connect students. Since 2012, Passeidireto.com already concentrates over 15 million students and is present in more than 2,500 universities. Through the site and our applications, students can connect with each other, follow specific courses, share study materials, and take questions with each other. Created by the then university students of PUC-RIO Rodrigo Salvador and André Simões, the platform offers content and tools that increasingly help students perform. To this end, in addition to the more than 3 million shared content, Passei Direto also offers through its Premium Plan exclusive content produced by specialists. There are thousands of exercises solved step by step of the books most used by teachers, study plans with videoaulas and summaries of the topics of each discipline and also tools to make their study routine even more simple and effective.
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