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 Crowdsourcing

Keelvar

Series B in 2022
Keelvar Systems Ltd. provides innovative sourcing software solutions aimed at local and central governments and energy utilities in Ireland and internationally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Bishopstown, Ireland, with regional offices in Dublin, Dallas, Pittsburgh, London, and Berlin, the company specializes in advanced sourcing for procurement and supply chain management. Its offerings include Sourcing Optimizer, which facilitates tailored price collection; Sourcing Automation, an API-driven tool for intelligent sourcing; and Fulfillment Optimizer, a digital rate card that automates sourcing events. Keelvar’s technology also includes network operations solutions for supplier information capture and equipment and vehicle fleet solutions for multi-category discounts. The company's auction technology addresses budget conflicts while helping to balance cost-effective outcomes between large and small suppliers. By automating sourcing processes, Keelvar's software enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement activities across various industries, including automotive, pharmaceutical, food, manufacturing, and retail.

Lightmeter

Seed Round in 2022
Lightmeter combines crowdsourced network intelligence with a diagnostic arsenal to provide delivery monitoring, alerts, and automated optimisation, resolving issues before they develop.

Uncovered

Venture Round in 2022
Operator of a cold case platform intended to solve murder and mystery cases. The company combines data, analytics, and a growing community of citizen detectives, advocates, and true-crime enthusiasts, helping families to find the intersection of justice, peace, and closure.

Job&talent

Series E in 2021
Job&Talent operates as an on-demand staffing marketplace designed to enhance the flexibility and transparency of the labor market. The platform addresses the growing demand from companies for adaptable hiring solutions while simultaneously working to reduce global unemployment. As the labor market shifts towards greater flexibility, workers often find themselves in precarious employment situations. Job&Talent offers a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) model that aims to create a mutually beneficial environment for both employers and employees. The company has established a presence in several countries, including the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, with plans for expansion into France and Italy.

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.

Viable

Seed Round in 2021
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Jurify

Venture Round in 2021
Jurify is a legal service using technology that leverages the work of legal titans to offer capital law resources. Created by experienced lawyers from global law firms who grew tired of the cloistered and outdated way law was practiced, Jurify channels the collective genius of the best attorneys worldwide to deliver high-quality legal resources in seconds.

Gobillion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion operates a social e-commerce platform that facilitates group purchasing for groceries and household essentials. Through its "Team Buy" model, the platform allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to buy items together. This collaborative approach not only enhances the shopping experience but also helps customers save money by leveraging the benefits of group buying. By making e-commerce more social, Gobillion aims to transform how consumers shop for everyday essentials.

Talentdrop

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Talentdrop is turning to recruit into an open marketplace, where hiring companies post bounties for their open roles, and any recruiter or other professional can collect it by referring a successful candidate. Companies get more people working on their hiring problem without having to pay more for it, and now anyone can earn big recruiting bonuses previously limited to a few firms.

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.

Benable

Seed Round in 2021
Benable is a recommendation platform designed to facilitate the sharing of curated suggestions among users. It allows individuals to create organized lists of recommendations, which can be easily shared with friends, followers, or clients. The platform emphasizes trust by enabling users to receive recommendations from their social circles, promoting collaborative input on shared lists. This user-friendly approach fosters connections and enhances decision-making through collective insights.

User Interviews

Series A in 2021
User Interviews, Inc. is a company that provides a platform designed to recruit participants for product testing and market research. The company offers two primary products: Recruit, which facilitates flexible participant recruitment for various research types, and Research Hub, a centralized system for managing research participants. Additionally, User Interviews offers a UX Research field guide that serves as a resource for researchers, designers, and product managers, covering various research methods. With a mission to help businesses make informed decisions, User Interviews connects companies with their target customers, enabling them to test new ideas, concepts, and products effectively. This approach helps organizations avoid costly mistakes and focus on developing products that align with customer needs. Established in 2013 and based in Brooklyn, New York, User Interviews was previously known as MobileSuites, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.

Gather

Series A in 2021
Gather Town is a developer of a social platform that facilitates virtual interactions and connections among individuals. The platform enables users to create customized 2D virtual spaces for a variety of events, including conferences, weddings, classes, game nights, and office gatherings. By providing these customizable environments, Gather Town allows participants to engage authentically and meaningfully, overcoming physical limitations and fostering communication among friends, coworkers, and community members. The platform serves as a versatile tool for diverse social and professional occasions, enhancing the experience of gathering in a digital landscape.

Hopps

Venture Round in 2021
Hopps (www.hopps.io) is an LA-based startup that provides enterprises with one-click access for instant help with enterprise tools like Facebook Ads Manager, Hubspot and Figma. Through our platform’s AI-driven matching, vetted experts screen-share and upskill professionals in < 2 minutes by collaborating on problems in real-time.

Citizen

Series C in 2021
Citizen is a free mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates. It is a powerful force for good that has already evacuated people from burning buildings, diverted school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and, in one instance, led to the rescue of a one-year-old boy from a stolen car. It is a truly unique proposition that provides you with alerts from 911 data that until now has never been made available to the public. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide you with the information you need so you know what’s happening around you rather than having to wonder why police are on your corner or there are helicopters above you. Today, over a million people across the United States have downloaded the app and use it to keep themselves, their families, and their friends safe. Emergency services and community activists alike hail the app as a ground-breaking development in personal and community safety. Over 1 million New Yorkers have citizens, and the app has seen similar growth, usage, and engagement in LA, SF, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The company was founded in 2017 and based in New York City, New York.

Comparably

Series A in 2021
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Wage

Seed Round in 2021
Wage is an app-based recruitment platform focused on micro-jobs, creating a marketplace that connects employers with workers seeking short-term gigs. Users can post job listings by including pictures or videos along with task descriptions, allowing for clear communication of job requirements. The platform facilitates direct communication between employers and service providers, streamlining the hiring process. Wage is designed to be user-friendly, compatible with both Android and iOS devices, making it accessible for a wide range of users. By enabling job seekers to find opportunities that align with their preferred rates and skills, Wage aims to empower workers in the gig economy.

Interviewing.io

Venture Round in 2020
Interviewing.io is an anonymous technical interviewing platform. Its interviewers have worked at Google, Udacity, Square, Twitch, Microsoft, and other recognized companies.

Talentdrop

Seed Round in 2020
Talentdrop is turning to recruit into an open marketplace, where hiring companies post bounties for their open roles, and any recruiter or other professional can collect it by referring a successful candidate. Companies get more people working on their hiring problem without having to pay more for it, and now anyone can earn big recruiting bonuses previously limited to a few firms.

Viable

Venture Round in 2020
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Matter

Venture Round in 2020
Matter is a new way to gather professional feedback. Here’s how it’s different... No boss required™: Take control and receive feedback on your own terms The data is yours: Your profile goes with you as your career progresses Your team and beyond: Hear from respected peers across your industry Track progress over time: Level up your unique skills and make feedback fun

Freatz

Seed Round in 2020
Freatz is a Brazilian company that has developed a management intelligence platform focused on enhancing the restaurant industry. The platform allows consumers to receive free meals in exchange for their feedback on various aspects of dining experiences, including product quality, service, and overall atmosphere. By collecting and analyzing consumer perceptions, Freatz generates comprehensive evaluations of restaurants, helping them to improve their operations, differentiate themselves from competitors, and attract more repeat customers. This innovative approach not only benefits consumers by providing them with free food but also supports restaurants in optimizing their offerings and increasing profitability.

Commsor

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a community platform designed to grow better, engage, and make money for community-led organizations and teams. The company's platform provides software, education, and resources that help to manage community businesses and help companies build trusted partnerships with unique audience segments, enabling community leaders to access tools for managing online communities.

Hopps

Seed Round in 2020
Hopps (www.hopps.io) is an LA-based startup that provides enterprises with one-click access for instant help with enterprise tools like Facebook Ads Manager, Hubspot and Figma. Through our platform’s AI-driven matching, vetted experts screen-share and upskill professionals in < 2 minutes by collaborating on problems in real-time.

Matter

Venture Round in 2020
Matter is a new way to gather professional feedback. Here’s how it’s different... No boss required™: Take control and receive feedback on your own terms The data is yours: Your profile goes with you as your career progresses Your team and beyond: Hear from respected peers across your industry Track progress over time: Level up your unique skills and make feedback fun

Forem

Seed Round in 2020
Operator of an open-source community platform designed to facilitate software developers to get together and help each other. The company's platform features the ability to assist users to inspect every detail of code and share ideas, tutorials, stories, and questions, enabling software developers to grow transparently in the software development ecosystem.

Snapcart

Venture Round in 2020
Snapcart is a cashback application based in Indonesia that allows consumers to earn rewards by taking photos of their receipts. The app provides brands and retailers with real-time insights into consumer behavior, offering a more accurate measurement than traditional research methods. By incentivizing users to engage with their receipts, Snapcart helps businesses connect with shoppers on a personal level, enhancing brand engagement through crowd-sourced data. This innovative approach enables clients to build stronger relationships with consumers, ultimately driving loyalty and improving marketing strategies. Backed by Ardent Capital, Snapcart aims to transform the way brands understand and interact with their customers.

MURAL

Series A in 2020
MURAL is a digital workspace designed for visual collaboration, enabling innovative teams to solve complex problems through effective communication and teamwork. The platform is user-friendly, allowing for the rapid creation of diagrams that support design thinking and agile methodologies. MURAL's tools facilitate impactful meetings and workshops, helping global enterprises streamline decision-making, enhance alignment, and foster a culture of innovation. Major companies, including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, and Atlassian, utilize MURAL to connect teams and reduce travel costs. The company is based in San Francisco and employs over 100 individuals who work remotely across multiple time zones, with additional office hubs in Buenos Aires and Europe. MURAL's enterprise-class, cloud-based infrastructure supports a significant portion of Fortune 100 companies, reflecting its commitment to enhancing collaboration in various sectors, including education and non-profit organizations.

Golden

Venture Round in 2020
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler. It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top of changes, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.

User Interviews

Venture Round in 2020
User Interviews, Inc. is a company that provides a platform designed to recruit participants for product testing and market research. The company offers two primary products: Recruit, which facilitates flexible participant recruitment for various research types, and Research Hub, a centralized system for managing research participants. Additionally, User Interviews offers a UX Research field guide that serves as a resource for researchers, designers, and product managers, covering various research methods. With a mission to help businesses make informed decisions, User Interviews connects companies with their target customers, enabling them to test new ideas, concepts, and products effectively. This approach helps organizations avoid costly mistakes and focus on developing products that align with customer needs. Established in 2013 and based in Brooklyn, New York, User Interviews was previously known as MobileSuites, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.

IdeaFlow

Venture Round in 2019
IdeaFlow, Inc. develops a human-artificial intelligence hybrid platform aimed at enhancing the analytical capabilities of teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company focuses on creating a collaborative environment where analysts can visualize and analyze networks of information. Its platform integrates diverse data sources, allowing users to merge information from various formats and identify connections that machines alone might overlook. By combining human insight with artificial intelligence, IdeaFlow enables organizations to leverage previously stagnant data, fostering more effective decision-making and innovation.

GeekHunter

Seed Round in 2019
GeekHunter is an online platform developed to capture, test and select the best IT professionals on the market and present them dynamically to technology companies, reversing the traditional recruitment process. We pre-select candidates through our selection algorithm, which are then evaluated by automated testing of programming logic and video interview. Only the top 5% are featured in online hiring rounds involving GeekHunter's partners and customers. Today GeekHunter has a portfolio of more than 250 customers! Some examples are Ambev, CI & T, Dafiti, Bank Facil, Chaordic, Mercado Livre, GuiaBolso, among others.

GeekHunter

Seed Round in 2019
GeekHunter is an online platform developed to capture, test and select the best IT professionals on the market and present them dynamically to technology companies, reversing the traditional recruitment process. We pre-select candidates through our selection algorithm, which are then evaluated by automated testing of programming logic and video interview. Only the top 5% are featured in online hiring rounds involving GeekHunter's partners and customers. Today GeekHunter has a portfolio of more than 250 customers! Some examples are Ambev, CI & T, Dafiti, Bank Facil, Chaordic, Mercado Livre, GuiaBolso, among others.

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.

SocialWave

Seed Round in 2019
SocialWave helps event producers find the biggest fans of a festival, event, show or nightclub. SocialWave provides tools for fans to publicize the event and win tickets and other benefits in return.

Freatz

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Freatz is a Brazilian company that has developed a management intelligence platform focused on enhancing the restaurant industry. The platform allows consumers to receive free meals in exchange for their feedback on various aspects of dining experiences, including product quality, service, and overall atmosphere. By collecting and analyzing consumer perceptions, Freatz generates comprehensive evaluations of restaurants, helping them to improve their operations, differentiate themselves from competitors, and attract more repeat customers. This innovative approach not only benefits consumers by providing them with free food but also supports restaurants in optimizing their offerings and increasing profitability.

Job For Model

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Job For Model operates an online marketplace that connects freelance models and actors with companies in the fashion and events industry. This platform allows businesses, ranging from startups to large corporations, to efficiently find, hire, manage, and pay for talent such as models, actors, receptionists, and event promoters. By enabling companies to post job descriptions and specify model characteristics, Job For Model streamlines the hiring process, making it more cost-effective and faster. The marketplace fosters a transparent relationship between contractors and models, allowing talent to access a variety of job opportunities while simplifying the hiring process for agencies and businesses.

SocialWave

Venture Round in 2018
SocialWave helps event producers find the biggest fans of a festival, event, show or nightclub. SocialWave provides tools for fans to publicize the event and win tickets and other benefits in return.

ComOferta

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Developer of a promotion-sharing application designed to offer an online channel for the dissemination of offers. The company's platform allows retailers to advertise their offers to consumers who can still share these offers on their social networks, with basic information about the product, price and establishment, enabling users to buy and share deals with their network.

SocialWave

Pre Seed Round in 2018
SocialWave helps event producers find the biggest fans of a festival, event, show or nightclub. SocialWave provides tools for fans to publicize the event and win tickets and other benefits in return.

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.

TESTR

Venture Round in 2018
Testr operates as a dual-purpose platform focused on both product sampling and usability testing. It offers consumers the opportunity to try a diverse range of products, including groceries, health and ecological items, and beauty and care products from various brands worldwide. Simultaneously, Testr provides businesses with an agile usability testing platform that evaluates user experience across websites, applications, and prototypes. This research tool identifies usability issues, allowing companies to enhance user experience and improve conversion rates. By combining product sampling with usability insights, Testr aims to bridge the gap between consumer needs and effective product design.

Snapcart

Series A in 2017
Snapcart is a cashback application based in Indonesia that allows consumers to earn rewards by taking photos of their receipts. The app provides brands and retailers with real-time insights into consumer behavior, offering a more accurate measurement than traditional research methods. By incentivizing users to engage with their receipts, Snapcart helps businesses connect with shoppers on a personal level, enhancing brand engagement through crowd-sourced data. This innovative approach enables clients to build stronger relationships with consumers, ultimately driving loyalty and improving marketing strategies. Backed by Ardent Capital, Snapcart aims to transform the way brands understand and interact with their customers.

Interviewing.io

Seed Round in 2017
Interviewing.io is an anonymous technical interviewing platform. Its interviewers have worked at Google, Udacity, Square, Twitch, Microsoft, and other recognized companies.

Opentoken

Venture Round in 2017
Opentoken Inc. operates a blockchain based platform for token projects. Its platform allows users to access to discover upcoming token projects, contribute to choose projects to support, manage to track the tokens for the projects, and convert their tokens into cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Golden

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler. It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top of changes, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.

Tarefa

Venture Round in 2017
Tarefa S.A.S. is an online academic support platform based in Bogota, Colombia, that connects students with professional educators specializing in mathematics. The platform allows students who struggle with math problems to receive assistance from validated professionals in real-time, available 24/7 in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Since its inception, Tarefa has gained over 5,000 users and more than 1,000 customers across 11 countries, facilitating the resolution of over 18,000 math questions. The company has recently expanded its operations into Brazil and plans to launch mobile applications for both Android and iOS, enhancing accessibility for learners seeking immediate help with their math exercises.

SocialWave

Venture Round in 2016
SocialWave helps event producers find the biggest fans of a festival, event, show or nightclub. SocialWave provides tools for fans to publicize the event and win tickets and other benefits in return.

Job For Model

Seed Round in 2016
Job For Model operates an online marketplace that connects freelance models and actors with companies in the fashion and events industry. This platform allows businesses, ranging from startups to large corporations, to efficiently find, hire, manage, and pay for talent such as models, actors, receptionists, and event promoters. By enabling companies to post job descriptions and specify model characteristics, Job For Model streamlines the hiring process, making it more cost-effective and faster. The marketplace fosters a transparent relationship between contractors and models, allowing talent to access a variety of job opportunities while simplifying the hiring process for agencies and businesses.

Certbest

Seed Round in 2015
CertBest is a startup of simulated collaborators, a completely different way of studying for vestibular, enem, Technology .... where the generated content (and consumed) occurs by the users themselves, combining the efforts in an environment where each collaborator enhanced by gamification adds content and curation to generate data to foster discussion and learning through that collaboration. The central idea is that the universe of Internet users can provide information more accurate or more didactic than experts, and that the whole is able to self-correct, that is, a large number of people is able to correct each other's mistakes and the results will be on the whole with more quality than the responses of an individual or a small group.

Job For Model

Venture Round in 2015
Job For Model operates an online marketplace that connects freelance models and actors with companies in the fashion and events industry. This platform allows businesses, ranging from startups to large corporations, to efficiently find, hire, manage, and pay for talent such as models, actors, receptionists, and event promoters. By enabling companies to post job descriptions and specify model characteristics, Job For Model streamlines the hiring process, making it more cost-effective and faster. The marketplace fosters a transparent relationship between contractors and models, allowing talent to access a variety of job opportunities while simplifying the hiring process for agencies and businesses.

Fundacity

Seed Round in 2014
Fundacity is a Latin American platform that facilitates the fundraising process for startups and investors. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Santiago, Chile, the company provides a deal flow management and collaboration platform designed to assist entrepreneurs in securing funding and managing investor reporting. Fundacity supports over 100 accelerator programs and serves users in 156 countries, offering tools for application creation, management, and cohort selection. The platform simplifies the investment process for accredited investors by providing an intuitive dashboard that streamlines startup investing. In 2016, Fundacity became a subsidiary of Gust, a global funding platform that aids startups in managing and sourcing early-stage investments.

Data Mundus

Venture Round in 2013
Data Mundus specializes in transforming various types of documents, both structured and unstructured, from analog or digital sources into actionable data and information. The company originated from the XI Entrepreneurship Marathon at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where its business plan garnered recognition, leading to its establishment. In 2012, Data Mundus launched its first product, Judi LEI, which assists companies and professionals in monitoring information from federal, state, and municipal electronic journals. As part of the Startup Brasil program, they developed Tem Erro?, an automated accounting audit service that eliminates the need for human intervention. Their latest innovation, iXtract ECM, offers an automated solution for document recognition, classification, and indexing, streamlining the search process without human involvement. Currently, Data Mundus is incubated at the Information Technology Development Center of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, continuing to enhance its offerings in data management and legal information services.
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