Bossa Invest is a venture capital investment firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software as a service investments and provides investment services to clients, informed by market trend analysis, and serves sectors such as finance, technology, and real estate.

Kaszek Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in Latin America with offices in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. It invests in technology-enabled companies across the region, primarily in seed to early-stage rounds and some growth opportunities, with a focus on software, fintech, education, healthcare, e-commerce, marketplaces, enterprise software, and SaaS. In addition to capital, the firm provides strategic and operational guidance, including product development, growth, hiring, networking, and fundraising, to help portfolio companies scale in Latin America.

Monashees is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2005, that backs technology-driven founders across Latin America and beyond. The firm engages with entrepreneurs from their earliest stages and supports growth through expansion funds, prioritizing a human-values-first approach to help founders challenge the status quo and improve people's lives through technology. It maintains a regional footprint with offices in Sao Paulo, Mexico City, and San Francisco, and its portfolio spans artificial intelligence, climate tech, fintech, healthcare, enterprise software, consumer platforms, marketplaces, and services. With a community of more than 150 portfolio companies and 300-plus founders, Monashees aims to shape Latin America's tech ecosystem by enabling bold, category-defining companies from the region to scale globally.

Canary is an early-stage venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2017. It invests in early-stage startups across fintech, crypto, climate, healthcare, consumer, business-to-business, and enterprise sectors, leveraging a team of seasoned founders and investors with a track record of building and backing successful companies, including unicorns in Latin America. The team brings experience from leading investment positions with firms such as Silver Lake, Tarpon, and MSquare/Velt.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm concentrates on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups and is stage-agnostic, investing across seed and Series A rounds. It seeks scalable companies with strong unit economics and potential to become market leaders, often co-investing with other global funds to broaden its impact. FJ Labs emphasizes rapid decision-making and leverages its broad network to support portfolio companies in fundraising and growth, helping startups scale across large markets and ecosystems.

Valor Capital Group is a venture capital firm focused on cross-border investment opportunities between the United States and Brazil. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, it pursues growth equity and venture capital strategies, backing seed, early, and later-stage companies across sectors such as software, technology, fintech, e-commerce, B2B, B2C, consumer services and commercial services. The firm targets opportunities in the United States and Brazil, providing capital and strategic support to help portfolio companies scale in both markets. Valor Capital Group operates as a registered investment adviser and maintains a multi-fund approach to investing.

Crescera Capital is a Brazilian asset manager specializing in private equity and venture capital, formed through the merger of the Bozano Group with BR Investimentos, Mercatto Gestão de Recursos and Trapezus Asset Management to create a unified platform for growth investments. Based in Rio de Janeiro, the firm combines buyout and growth strategies with active governance and ESG principles to generate long-term value for companies, investors and partners. It targets a broad range of sectors, including education, technology, consumer, retail, healthcare, digital media, services and logistics, and leverages a diversified approach that includes private equity, venture capital, public market strategies and quantitative capabilities. The organization emphasizes talent development through a partnership model and seeks to build lasting value across Brazil and the region, drawing on a team of seasoned professionals and an integrated network of specialists.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital platform founded by Rocket Internet that invests in early-stage technology companies worldwide. It operates as a globally oriented, stage-agnostic investor, partnering with exceptional founders across sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase through scale. The firm targets high-potential, rapidly expanding ventures and emphasizes impact and feasibility in evaluating opportunities. It is led by investment partners Cedric Asselman, David Sainteff, and Fabricio Pettena.

Headline is a global venture capital firm with a footprint in seven cities worldwide, investing across geographies and leading rounds at multiple stages. Its Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil to support local deal flow, while a San Francisco–based Growth Fund leads Series B and later rounds from a global perspective. The firm operates Headline Asia, the Tokyo-based Asia arm formerly Infinity Ventures, which backs companies across East, South, and Southeast Asia in sectors including business software, fintech, healthcare, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and cloud technologies. Its portfolio includes notable names such as Sonos, The RealReal, Farfetch, Bumble, Acorns, and Sorare. Headline Asia IV, a 2020 vintage fund based in Tokyo, pursues minority investments across East, South, and Southeast Asia.

Endeavor is a global nonprofit organization that identifies, supports, and accelerates growth for high-impact entrepreneurs to scale their ventures and spur economic growth. Through a worldwide network spanning nearly 40 countries, it mentors more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in revenue and have created more than 3.9 million jobs. Endeavor connects founders with mentors, peers, markets, and access to capital, aiming to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and sustain long-term operations across its global community.

QED Investors is a venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, with an additional office in New York City. Founded in 2007, it concentrates on fintech and financial services, investing from seed and early ventures through growth rounds. It backs companies that disrupt finance with software, payments, data, and digital platforms, combining capital with hands-on support to accelerate scale. The firm emphasizes data-driven decision making and direct engagement with portfolio companies, fostering experimentation and learning. Although active globally, its investments target the United States, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and related markets in Southeast Asia. QED operates as a venture capital adviser and investor, focusing on disruptive financial services firms and associated technology while taking a proactive, founder-friendly approach.

Quona Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in financial technology and services companies in emerging markets to advance financial inclusion. It targets Africa, Latin America, and Asia with a focus on digital and consumer lending, payments, remittances, insurance, wealthtech, and related financial services, including platforms and channels that broaden access for underserved consumers and small businesses. The firm backs startups across stages from early and seed to growth via equity or equity-like investments, typically in the range of $1 million to $10 million. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Washington, DC, Quona maintains offices in Bengaluru, Lima, Cape Town, and Mexico City, concentrating on Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

DGF Investimentos is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm focused on technology companies, particularly software and emerging technologies, with an emphasis on early-stage investments. Founded in 1998, the firm manages a family of early-stage funds and backs B2B software startups, leveraging local market knowledge to support growth and exits. Its portfolio includes investments across software and technology-enabled sectors, with notable exits such as RD Station and Reclame Aqui. The firm also engages with opportunities in related areas like energy technology, maintaining a software-centric investment approach.

Globo Ventures is an investment firm based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was founded in 2020 and focuses on investments and entrepreneurship.

Founded in 2016, DOMO.VC is a leading venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil. It invests in early-stage technology startups across various sectors, including fintech, health tech, ed-tech, and more. The firm backs entrepreneurs with high growth potential, providing them with resources to establish themselves in competitive markets.

European Investment Fund is the EU's financing arm for small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-caps, providing financial instruments to improve access to affordable financing for businesses across their lifecycle, with a focus on innovation, growth, competitiveness, social impact and sustainability. The EIF leverages its capital base to foster public-private partnerships and allocates guarantees and equity funding to catalyze lending and investment for startups and small businesses throughout Europe, including EU member states, candidate countries and EFTA countries. It collaborates with partners to close funding gaps and support entrepreneurship and economic resilience.

Maya Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, that invests in technology startups across Brazil and Latin America. Founded in 2018, it supports portfolio companies through hands-on acceleration, mentorship, and long-term partnerships to drive growth in sectors such as FinTech, HealthTech, and SaaS, as well as other tech-driven areas aimed at improving accessibility, transformation and efficiency in the Latin American market.

Norte Ventures is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that backs early-stage technology companies across Latin America. The firm pursues a broad mandate, investing in sectors including B2B and consumer technology, financial services and fintech, healthcare, information technology, cybersecurity, e-commerce, education technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud technology and software as a service, advertising technology, agtech, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, mobility, insurtech, climate tech and real estate technology. Norte Ventures emphasizes founder-oriented partnerships and aims to build lasting relationships that help portfolio companies scale within LatAm. The firm operates as a dedicated regional investor, supporting companies from early traction toward broader market impact.

Wayra is Telefónica's global corporate venture capital arm and open innovation hub. It operates in ten countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela—connecting startups with Telefónica to generate joint business opportunities. Wayra acts as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing investment, acceleration programs, and partnerships with Telefónica's businesses to help startups scale and access global markets. The program focuses on digital transformation in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and logistics, leveraging AI and IoT to drive innovative solutions, supported by Wayra's networks and capital within a broad international ecosystem.

Kinea Investimentos is the asset management arm of Banco Itaú focused on private equity and alternative assets. Based in São Paulo, it operates with an independent investment and executive management team within Itaú Unibanco. The firm invests in Brazil across private equity and growth capital, including middle-market and later-stage opportunities, healthcare, education, consumer, infrastructure, agribusiness and technology, often taking minority stakes and board seats. It also pursues venture capital investments in technology startups and manages hedge funds across multiple asset classes, reflecting a diversified investment platform.

KPTL is a Sao Paulo-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage to growth investments in Brazil. It seeks minority stakes across sectors including agriculture, water and energy, health, information technology, telecommunications, retail, media, education, biotechnology, government tech, transport and logistics, nanotechnology and new materials. The firm targets investments of roughly BRL 2 million to BRL 5 million in companies with enterprise value of about BRL 15 million to BRL 150 million and annual sales in the BRL 12 million to BRL 120 million band. It operates from Sao Paulo with an additional office in Minas Gerais and engages in venture capital activities including fund-of-funds investments.

ONEVC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It focuses on seed-stage investments in Latin America, supporting founders with capital as well as hands-on help in recruiting, people strategy and operational execution drawn from its operators' background. The firm emphasizes backing teams with large addressable markets, strong product-market fit and technology-driven business models, and it leverages a network of advisors to assist portfolio companies. ONEVC pursues a concentrated approach, partnering with founders to help them scale from early traction toward category-defining growth, often providing strategic guidance on talent and organizational needs. Founded in 2017, the firm aims to empower regional startups to build scalable businesses and capture opportunities across the LatAm ecosystem.

Triaxis Capital is a Brazilian independent venture capital firm focused on technology-based companies with high growth potential. Based in São Paulo and Recife, it invests across multiple stages through structures for qualified investors, emphasizing rigorous due diligence, strategic capital, and solid governance. The firm manages about 42 million in assets and maintains a small portfolio of tech ventures, aiming to combine impact with financial returns.

Caravela Capital is a Curitiba-based venture capital firm that backs Brazilian startups and regional companies across fintech, logistics, healthcare and technology. The firm supports portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance, leveraging a network of experienced entrepreneurs who mentor and share insights. It operates across Latin America and the Caribbean, pursuing early-stage investments and collaborating with other investors to foster growth and innovation in the Brazilian startup ecosystem.

Darwin Startups is a Florianópolis, Brazil-based accelerator and ecosystem that educates, supports and invests in early-stage startups. Founded in 2015, it focuses on fintech, big data and analytics, information technology and telecommunications, providing mentorship, resources and seed investments typically between USD 50,000 and USD 150,000. The organization operates as a human-driven platform that fosters collaboration with larger corporate partners to help entrepreneurs develop scalable technology solutions.

NXTP Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Buenos Aires that backs early-stage B2B startups in Latin America and beyond. Founded in 2011, it focuses on four verticals: Cloud and Software-as-a-Service, FinTech, E-commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The firm writes checks from $0.5 million to $5 million in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds and maintains a regional footprint across Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina. NXTP provides strategic guidance and leverages a Latin American network to help portfolio companies scale and expand internationally. With a track record of backing unicorns and multiple exits, NXTP aims to advance founders to scalable growth and facilitate subsequent rounds of capital, supported by over 400 experts across segments.

SP Ventures is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2007. It focuses on early-stage, technology-driven startups across Latin America, with emphasis on information technology, agribusiness, and medical technology. The firm backs ventures in sectors such as agriculture, information and communication technologies, health technologies, new materials, nanotechnologies, and climate technology, and seeks founders with proprietary technology that demonstrates high scalability and large addressable markets. Typical investments target São Paulo-based companies or those serving the São Paulo ecosystem, leveraging a regional network and sector expertise to support growth.

Distrito is a Brazilian innovation platform and venture ecosystem that accelerates startups, enables corporate transformation through emerging technologies, and provides investors with data-driven insights. Based in Sao Paulo, it offers a combination of software-as-a-service tools and professional services to deliver market intelligence, data and insights, and access to a dataset of Latin American startups and funding rounds. The platform supports startups in refining business models and scaling, while helping corporations adopt new technologies and advance their innovation agendas within a connected ecosystem.

Astella is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, that provides capital and operational support to Brazilian entrepreneurs. It targets investments in software-as-a-service, e-commerce, marketplaces, and companies enabled by artificial intelligence and data analytics.

Prosus is a global internet assets group and a leading technology investor, originating as the international assets division of Naspers. It combines venture capital and operating capabilities to fund, acquire, build and scale technology businesses across platforms and geographies, including the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The firm seeks to support high-potential technology companies from growth stage to scale, providing strategic resources and operational expertise to help them reach global markets. Its portfolio spans e-commerce, payments and fintech, food delivery, travel, education and other internet platforms, and it maintains meaningful investments in large online platforms such as Tencent, Mail.ru, Ctrip and Delivery Hero. The business model emphasizes both capital and active involvement to accelerate growth and create impact in communities served. Prosus is majority owned by Naspers.

Iporanga Ventures is a Sao Paulo–based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups in Brazil and Latin America. The firm focuses on pre-seed and seed investments across multiple sectors, including fintech, embedded finance, blockchain, artificial intelligence, education, enterprise software, and other technology-enabled markets. It emphasizes backing diverse founding teams with scalable ideas and market potential, providing capital, mentorship, and strategic connections to help companies move from startup to scale-up. While the portfolio centers on financial technology and related platforms, Iporanga also seeks opportunities across sectors such as SaaS, marketplaces, and mobility, with a view to fostering innovation and sustainable growth in the Latin American startup ecosystem.

Tiger Global Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital to private and public markets worldwide, with a focus on technology, internet, consumer and financial services sectors, and regions including the United States, China, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The firm employs public equity strategies such as long/short and growth, alongside private investments across early to late stages, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and supporting portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle.

Igah Ventures is a Brazilian venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo that invests in healthcare and technology-based companies in Brazil. It supports portfolio companies with business development, technology, networking, mergers and acquisitions, and senior-level team-building to help founders scale high-growth ventures and address industry challenges through technology.

Honey Island Capital is a venture capital firm based in Curitiba, Brazil, founded in 2015 by the founders of EBANX. The firm makes early-stage technology investments, with a focus on fintech, software as a service (SaaS), and business-to-business sectors.

Qualcomm is an American fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services. It produces processors and connectivity solutions, software, displays, and charging products, and serves automotive, education, healthcare, Internet of Things, mobile computing, networking, smart cities, smart homes, and wearables. The company operates through three segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), which develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software for 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless communications; Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), which licenses its intellectual property portfolio for wireless standards; and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI), which invests in early-stage ventures to support new products and services. A core product line is Snapdragon, the brand for its mobile processors and related platforms.

GVAngels is an angel investor network based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2017 by former students of Fundação Getúlio Vargas, it focuses on technology startups that aim to improve efficiency in large markets. In its first years, it has invested in around 40 startups, with individual checks ranging from 0.8 million to 2 million reais. The network counts more than 300 associates who contribute capital and expertise to portfolio companies. Its roots are in the FGV School of Administration, leveraging the university's strong regional reputation.

TM3 Capital is a venture capital firm and asset management company based in Curitiba, Brazil. Founded in 2011, it concentrates on technology investments, funding software and hardware businesses with strong growth prospects and scalable solutions. Drawing on its experience in the technology industry, the firm seeks to add value through active involvement with portfolio companies. The firm also invests in real estate properties alongside its technology focus.

Barn Investimentos is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups in Brazil and Latin America, with a focus on agriculture and land use, transport and mobility, clean industry and the circular economy, and renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Invisto is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil. Founded in 2002, it targets investments across seed, early-stage and later-stage companies located in the southern Brazil region.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provides project financing and banking products to banks, industries and private enterprises, including loans for projects, equity and quasi-equity investments, equity funds for smaller enterprises, guarantees and trade finance. It also offers policy reform dialogue and advisory services and supports loan syndication. The bank assists privatization and restructuring of municipal services and invests across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and real estate in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on market transition and private sector development. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in London, it seeks to promote sustainable growth, job creation and higher living standards through financial support, advisory services and policy reform.

BR Angels is an angel investment network based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2019. As a private non-profit association comprised of individual and corporate members, it promotes the development of startups in Brazil and focuses on early-stage investing and related financial services.

L4 Venture Builder is a venture builder firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2022. It identifies and develops startup projects, focusing on energy, carbon, decentralized finance, fintech, and neobank sectors, and pursues opportunities that involve equity participation by B3.

Investidores.vc is an angel network established in 2019 and based in São Paulo, Brazil. The organization focuses on early-stage startups that have achieved product-market fit and generate monthly recurring revenue exceeding R$40,000. It typically provides investment checks ranging from BRL 1 million to 2 million, often leading funding rounds or co-investing alongside other investors. Investidores.vc operates across various sectors, maintaining an agnostic approach to its investment strategy.

2bCapital is a Brazil-based investment firm headquartered in São Paulo that operates as a private equity and venture capital investor. It pursues seed to growth investments across sectors including technology, media, telecommunications, education, consumer goods, cosmetics, chemicals, real estate, tourism and e-commerce, primarily within Brazil. The firm targets both minority and controlling stakes and provides advisory services to portfolio companies.

ACE Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that provides funding and strategic support to Latin American startups, focusing on early-stage investments to help portfolio companies scale and gain market traction.

Inseed Investimentos is a Brazilian venture capital firm that concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in technology and cleantech sectors. It manages several venture funds and supports portfolio companies across Brazil, with offices in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.

Quartz is a venture capital and growth equity firm based in Brazil that invests in high-growth startups, with a focus on consumer and fintech companies. The firm partners with founders to support growth in Brazil, and it operates across venture capital and growth stages to back scalable business models.

Rebel Fund is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology startups in the United States. It leverages a network of Y Combinator alumni and employs a proprietary machine learning algorithm to assess startup potential and support early growth.

Invest Tech is an independent investment firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, specializing in venture capital and private equity with a technology focus. The firm backs technology-enabled companies across sectors such as IT services, software, fintech, telecommunications, healthcare technology, edtech, agtech, and cleantech, offering strategic value through growth planning, financial forecasting, fundraising, and merger and acquisition support. It emphasizes deep understanding of portfolio companies, close collaboration with entrepreneurs, and a long-term partnership approach to help improve performance and market positioning. The company leverages a strong local presence and experienced team to identify opportunities in Brazil and the broader Latin American tech ecosystem.

Andreessen Horowitz is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It backs technology companies across stages, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software and services, fintech, consumer internet, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and life sciences applications at the intersection of computer science and biology. The firm emphasizes long-term support for entrepreneurs, offering capital and resources to help companies scale, and operates through multiple investment vehicles to fund early and later-stage opportunities. Its portfolio targets information technology, software-enabled businesses, and technology-enabled services, reflecting a commitment to innovation and leadership in American technology.