Bossa Invest

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

Thiago Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Image Recognition

Gryfo

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Gryfo is a facial biometrics platform that specializes in identifying individuals and preventing authentication fraud through the use of advanced technology. The company develops APIs and SDKs that can be seamlessly integrated into various digital products, catering primarily to business-to-business clients. Gryfo's platform transforms facial images into unique biometric data, allowing for accurate recognition by comparing these features against extensive databases. This capability enables clients to enhance their services, broaden their customer reach, and drive profitability across different market verticals.

Twiggy

Venture Round in 2022
Twiggy.ai is an intelligent personalization engine that focuses on enhancing the eCommerce experience by delivering real-time, hyper-relevant shopping interactions. The company’s application utilizes advanced AI technology to analyze customer behavior, preferences, and purchase intent, allowing it to tailor every aspect of the shopping journey, from product discovery to checkout. In addition, Twiggy provides a style lens application that identifies shoppable items from user photos and creates a personalized digital closet. By leveraging insights from users' social networks, Twiggy enables brands to offer efficient product searches, thereby increasing conversion rates, average order value, and reducing cart abandonment. Overall, Twiggy.ai aims to drive measurable revenue growth for eCommerce brands through dynamic personalization.

Alcatraz AI

Series A in 2022
Alcatraz AI specializes in developing a facial authentication system for secure physical access control. Utilizing machine learning, computer vision, and 3D sensing, the company's solution enables frictionless entry into buildings while enhancing security through real-time facial recognition.

Zensors

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2018, Zensors develops AI-powered visual sensors for real-time analytics. It offers custom dashboards and smart tracking solutions to various sectors such as cafés, cities, factories, offices, and retailers.

Zippedi

Series A in 2022
Zippedi Inc. is a technology company based in Burlingame, California, that specializes in developing AI-powered robots designed for the retail sector. The company focuses on addressing longstanding challenges in inventory management and retail execution by automating these processes. Zippedi's robots utilize advanced capabilities in image recognition, machine learning, and deep learning to monitor in-store operations, ensuring accurate on-shelf availability, product pricing, and compliance with planograms. By providing retailers and consumer packaged goods manufacturers with precise and actionable data, Zippedi aims to enhance sales, improve labor efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Akridata

Series A in 2021
Akridata Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, specializes in developing AI-driven data operations platforms. The company's core business is creating efficient data architecture solutions that manage high-volume data processing for AI applications in the cloud. Akridata's innovative platform enables businesses to automatically filter and prepare raw data from edge sensors, optimizing deep learning model training times and reducing storage costs. Furthermore, Akridata offers cutting-edge computer vision technology tailored for visual inspection in manufacturing sectors, enhancing quality control by detecting defects swiftly and accurately at scale. This allows clients to transition from manual review processes to intelligent automation, improving efficiency and minimizing errors.

DNABLOCK

Seed Round in 2021
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.

Zendar

Venture Round in 2021
Zendar Inc. is a manufacturer of advanced radar systems specifically designed for autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the company focuses on developing high-definition radar technology that integrates the advantages of traditional radar—such as long-range detection and all-weather functionality—with the high resolution typically associated with lidar systems. Zendar's radar solutions enable self-driving cars to operate safely in adverse weather conditions, providing high-resolution imaging that enhances situational awareness and overall safety for autonomous driving.

Grabango

Series B in 2021
Grabango develops checkout-free technology for existing brick-and-mortar stores, combining cameras, shelf sensors, and computer vision to identify items as they are picked up, count them, and add purchases to a virtual basket. Shoppers pay with a registered method on their smartphone and leave the store without waiting in line, with a receipt sent to their phone after exit. The system retrofits stores from convenience to large grocers, does not use facial recognition, and keeps data anonymized to protect privacy. Grabango was founded in 2016 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Deep Sentinel

Venture Round in 2021
Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel develops AI-based security systems designed to prevent crimes before they occur. The company combines artificial intelligence with real-time human monitoring, offering AI-powered surveillance, live remote guards, and audio intervention to deter intruders and protect properties.

Lexset

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lexset develops AI-powered tools for business applications, including a B2B API that enables furniture and home goods retailers to grow sales through augmented reality and artificial intelligence, and a data generation platform that creates real-time synthetic datasets with pixel annotations and labeled 3D models, material tagging and semantic labeling to support data scientists in rapid model iteration, bias controls and improved accuracy.

Pano

Seed Round in 2021
Pano specializes in fire detection technology, offering hardware and software solutions for professionals. It uses AI-powered cameras and satellite imagery to monitor wildfire threats in real-time, benefiting government agencies, utilities, insurers, and private landowners.

Nines

Series B in 2020
Nines is a pioneering teleradiology practice that focuses on enhancing patient care through advanced technology. The company develops in-house tools that empower radiologists to provide high-quality diagnostics. Its platform is designed to analyze medical scans for urgent findings that necessitate immediate attention, as well as to identify subtle details that assist in the radiological review process. This innovative approach aims to improve the accuracy of results and overall patient care, setting Nines apart in the field of radiology.

Tiliter

Funding Round in 2020
Tiliter Pty Ltd., established in 2017, specializes in developing computer vision solutions for the retail industry. Based in Parramatta, Australia, with additional offices in Kensington, Australia, and Munich, Germany, the company designs and manufactures Point of Sale (POS) and Self-Checkout (SCO) systems. Tiliter's flagship product, Tiliter Vision Smart Checkout System, employs AI-driven computer vision to identify products without barcodes at the time of checkout. The system uses cameras and lighting to scan fresh produce in real-time, delivering accurate results directly to the checkout. Tiliter offers its technology in API form for seamless integration, aiming to make computer vision accessible and affordable for retailers.

Ionpath

Series B in 2020
IonPath Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, specializes in multiplexed ion beam imaging services for pathology. The company's core technology surpasses light microscopy, enabling it to analyze fresh, frozen, or FFPE tissues with high precision. This allows healthcare providers to diagnose cancer more accurately, ultimately improving human health through better insights into the tissue microenvironment at a single-cell level.

Akridata

Venture Round in 2020
Akridata Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, specializes in developing AI-driven data operations platforms. The company's core business is creating efficient data architecture solutions that manage high-volume data processing for AI applications in the cloud. Akridata's innovative platform enables businesses to automatically filter and prepare raw data from edge sensors, optimizing deep learning model training times and reducing storage costs. Furthermore, Akridata offers cutting-edge computer vision technology tailored for visual inspection in manufacturing sectors, enhancing quality control by detecting defects swiftly and accurately at scale. This allows clients to transition from manual review processes to intelligent automation, improving efficiency and minimizing errors.

Zendar

Venture Round in 2020
Zendar Inc. is a manufacturer of advanced radar systems specifically designed for autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the company focuses on developing high-definition radar technology that integrates the advantages of traditional radar—such as long-range detection and all-weather functionality—with the high resolution typically associated with lidar systems. Zendar's radar solutions enable self-driving cars to operate safely in adverse weather conditions, providing high-resolution imaging that enhances situational awareness and overall safety for autonomous driving.

Pano

Seed Round in 2020
Pano specializes in fire detection technology, offering hardware and software solutions for professionals. It uses AI-powered cameras and satellite imagery to monitor wildfire threats in real-time, benefiting government agencies, utilities, insurers, and private landowners.

Deep Sentinel

Series A in 2020
Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel develops AI-based security systems designed to prevent crimes before they occur. The company combines artificial intelligence with real-time human monitoring, offering AI-powered surveillance, live remote guards, and audio intervention to deter intruders and protect properties.

Viziomed

Venture Round in 2020
Viziomed is a healthtech company that develops AI-based health solutions for rapid and accurate early identification of major diseases, including cancer. Its AI-driven diagnosis platform analyzes medical images such as X-rays, mammography, and tomography to support image-oriented diagnostics. The platform integrates into hospital and clinic workflows, enabling healthcare centers to identify diseases earlier and improve treatment outcomes. The company serves a broad user base, including employees of client organizations, private hospitals, specialist doctors, and public healthcare providers, with scalable solutions that fit hospital and clinic operations.

INDUS.AI

Series A in 2019
INDUS.AI is a construction intelligence platform that provides real-time visibility into construction sites for real estate investors, owners, developers, and general contractors. The platform uses live video from secure cameras to identify inefficiencies, monitor productivity, and surface risks, enabling project teams to optimize labor, equipment, and materials, reconcile over-billed charges, and adjust schedules. It aims to improve safety, efficiency, and transparency on projects. Founded in 2017, INDUS.AI has offices in San Francisco and Toronto and serves clients in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Brazil.

Carbigdata

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Carbigdata is a data analytics platform specializing in vehicle information and recognition. Utilizing smart cameras, the company has amassed a database of over 1 billion detections, enabling real-time vehicle recognition through images and georeferencing. This technology integrates with other databases to provide comprehensive insights, assisting clients in theft prevention, vehicle monitoring, and recovery, as well as license plate recognition. Carbigdata's services are particularly valuable for banks, helping them locate defaulting vehicles, and for insurers, aiding in the identification of fraudulent claims. Accessible through a SaaS platform, Carbigdata transforms extensive data into actionable intelligence for various stakeholders in the automotive and financial sectors.

Pearl

Series A in 2019
Pearl Health, established in 2019 and headquartered in West Hollywood, California, specializes in developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools for the dentistry industry. The company offers a suite of products, including Second Opinion, a computer vision platform that identifies dental pathologies; Smart Margin, aiding in dental restoration; Scan Clarity Score, evaluating patient scan quality; and Practice Intelligence, providing office-specific data for decision-making. Pearl's AI technology, cleared by the FDA, recognizes and measures various dental issues, enabling practitioners, labs, and insurers to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in dental care.

INDUS.AI

Seed Round in 2018
INDUS.AI is a construction intelligence platform that provides real-time visibility into construction sites for real estate investors, owners, developers, and general contractors. The platform uses live video from secure cameras to identify inefficiencies, monitor productivity, and surface risks, enabling project teams to optimize labor, equipment, and materials, reconcile over-billed charges, and adjust schedules. It aims to improve safety, efficiency, and transparency on projects. Founded in 2017, INDUS.AI has offices in San Francisco and Toronto and serves clients in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Brazil.

Deep North

Venture Round in 2017
Deep North, Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based video analytics. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Foster City, California, the company leverages existing security video streams to analyze consumer behavior and engagement in physical environments. Its flagship product, NorthPoint Analytics, provides insights into occupancy, cone management, and various attributes of consumers, including gestures and facial characteristics. Deep North's technology is designed for a diverse range of sectors, including shopping centers, retail outlets, groceries, casinos, schools, and event venues, enabling these enterprises to better understand and enhance customer experiences.

Grokstyle

Seed Round in 2017
Grokstyle develops an app that automatically identifies furniture and home decor from just about any picture or angle. Partner with us to reimagine the consumer experience — visual search, inspiration, and on-point recommendations.

Butterfleye

Venture Round in 2016
Butterfleye, Inc. is a company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in designing and developing advanced security cameras and monitoring systems for both home and office use. Established in 2013, Butterfleye offers a cloud-connected, AI-powered wireless security camera equipped with features such as facial recognition, motion and sound detection, privacy mode, and two-way audio. The camera streams in high definition and includes a built-in rechargeable battery and 16GB of storage. It is designed to maintain functionality during power or internet outages, ensuring continuous monitoring. The system provides real-time alerts and utilizes advanced technology to optimize recording based on detected activity, making it a cost-effective solution for users seeking reliable security for their premises. As of December 2017, Butterfleye operates as a subsidiary of Ooma, Inc.

Grokstyle

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Grokstyle develops an app that automatically identifies furniture and home decor from just about any picture or angle. Partner with us to reimagine the consumer experience — visual search, inspiration, and on-point recommendations.
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