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 Language Processing

Clarice.AI

Venture Round in 2023
Clarice.AI offers an AI-powered writing assistant that helps users improve their grammar, spelling, and style. It serves a wide range of clients including fiction and non-fiction writers, proofreaders, entrepreneurs, and other professionals seeking clear, concise, and error-free communications.

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.

Activeloop

Seed Round in 2021
Activeloop is a technology company that specializes in providing a distributed cloud computing platform designed for building and scaling data pipelines for machine learning applications. Its flagship product, Deep Lake, is a database optimized for artificial intelligence, particularly for deep learning and large language model (LLM) applications. Deep Lake offers a unique storage format that accommodates various data types, including embeddings, audio, text, videos, images, and annotations. The platform features capabilities for querying, vector search, data streaming during model training, and comprehensive data versioning and lineage management. Deep Lake is designed to handle data of any size in a serverless environment, facilitating seamless integration with popular tools such as LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is utilized by notable organizations, including Bayer Radiology and Matterport. Founded by a team with backgrounds from prestigious institutions such as Princeton and Stanford, Activeloop has garnered support from Y Combinator, positioning itself as a key player in the machine learning and AI data management landscape.

Outloud.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Outloud.ai is a developer of voice automation software that specializes in enhancing customer interactions in the hospitality sector, particularly in drive-thru restaurants. The company's technology leverages artificial intelligence to replicate human voices, manage informal language, and comprehend various conversational contexts. Outloud.ai's solutions are designed to operate effectively in noisy environments, allowing businesses to automate voice conversations with their customers. This innovation aims to streamline communication processes and improve operational efficiency within the industry.

Sanas

Seed Round in 2021
Sanas operates as a real-time speech understanding platform, specializing in accent modulation technology. Its core product enables multilingual speakers to communicate effectively by correcting accents while preserving voice and emotional nuances. This innovation benefits contact centers and enterprises by enhancing communication, boosting customer satisfaction, and minimizing misunderstandings due to language barriers.

Botpress

Series A in 2021
Botpress is an open-source chatbot platform that designs and develops tools for building, deploying, and managing conversational experiences. The platform supports scripted, AI-driven, and application-based chatbots and offers on-premises deployment. It provides a conversational flow management system, natural language understanding, and extensibility that can be managed by non-developers after deployment. Hundreds of thousands of developers and organizations use Botpress to power their conversational strategy.

Deepgram

Series B in 2021
Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Toucan

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Toucan is a company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2019, that focuses on language learning through a browser extension. This extension allows users to translate words and phrases into various languages while they browse the web, facilitating language acquisition in a natural context. By integrating translations into everyday online activities, Toucan helps users expand their vocabulary without the need for traditional methods such as flashcards or formal classes. The company employs specialists in habit formation, learning, and human behavior to optimize the learning experience, making it more accessible and engaging for users.

KUDO

Seed Round in 2020
KUDO, Inc., also known as Kudo Technologies, is a New York-based company that provides a language as a service (LaaS) platform designed for multilingual online meetings. Founded in 2016, KUDO offers a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) solution that includes video conferencing tools with integrated support for translators and multiple audio streams. The platform facilitates multilingual live events and web conferencing, allowing businesses to communicate effectively with global audiences in their preferred languages. KUDO's innovative approach enables participants and interpreters to connect from anywhere in the world using standard computers or smartphones, making it a cost-effective option for reaching diverse markets.

Norby

Venture Round in 2020
Norby is an AI-powered language robot that helps language learners improve their speaking and pronunciation skills.

Activeloop

Seed Round in 2020
Activeloop is a technology company that specializes in providing a distributed cloud computing platform designed for building and scaling data pipelines for machine learning applications. Its flagship product, Deep Lake, is a database optimized for artificial intelligence, particularly for deep learning and large language model (LLM) applications. Deep Lake offers a unique storage format that accommodates various data types, including embeddings, audio, text, videos, images, and annotations. The platform features capabilities for querying, vector search, data streaming during model training, and comprehensive data versioning and lineage management. Deep Lake is designed to handle data of any size in a serverless environment, facilitating seamless integration with popular tools such as LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is utilized by notable organizations, including Bayer Radiology and Matterport. Founded by a team with backgrounds from prestigious institutions such as Princeton and Stanford, Activeloop has garnered support from Y Combinator, positioning itself as a key player in the machine learning and AI data management landscape.

Sanas

Seed Round in 2020
Sanas operates as a real-time speech understanding platform, specializing in accent modulation technology. Its core product enables multilingual speakers to communicate effectively by correcting accents while preserving voice and emotional nuances. This innovation benefits contact centers and enterprises by enhancing communication, boosting customer satisfaction, and minimizing misunderstandings due to language barriers.

Vanan Online Services

Seed Round in 2020
Vanan Online Services is a global provider of language support services, catering to both individual and business clients. The company specializes in a wide range of services, including audio and video transcription, certified translation, closed captioning, subtitling, document typing, and legal typing. Additionally, Vanan offers audio voiceover, video animation, and video editing services.

Ardis AI

Seed Round in 2020
Ardis AI develops advanced natural language understanding tools. Its software extracts structured information from raw text, simulating comprehension of goals, beliefs, assertions, spatial relationships, and temporal contexts. It learns from experiences and stores this information for future use.

Golden

Venture Round in 2020
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge platform designed to aggregate information from various public and private sources, creating a comprehensive repository. The company's platform employs natural language processing to facilitate structured representation of entities and topics, making detailed and canonical information easily searchable and accessible. By leveraging both human effort and machine intelligence, Golden enhances the process of knowledge gathering and communication. Its features include powerful search capabilities, fine-grain alerts to track changes, and semi-automatic research assistance, all aimed at helping organizations stay informed and leverage the latest industry trends. This approach improves collaboration among researchers and academics while enhancing operational efficiency.

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.

Symbl.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Symbl.ai is a startup that simplifies conversational intelligence for developers. Its platform uses machine learning to analyze conversations in real-time, providing insights and actions without the need for upfront training or wake words.

Looplex

Venture Round in 2019
Looplex is a company specializing in digital transformation solutions for the legal industry. It develops systems aimed at streamlining the drafting, analysis, and interpretation of legal documents using natural language processing. Looplex's platform includes features such as document generation, data analysis, and legal logic components, which assist legal professionals in automating tasks and optimizing their workflows. Additionally, the platform supports an ecosystem of application integrations, allowing for enhanced functionality and efficiency in legal practices. Through its innovative approach, Looplex aims to modernize and digitize legal content and processes.

Stilingue Inteligencia Artificial

Series A in 2019
Stilingue Inteligencia Artificial Ltda. is a Brazilian company founded in 2014 and based in Sao Paulo, specializing in artificial intelligence software for social media analysis. The company offers an AI SaaS platform that consolidates, summarizes, and prioritizes customer feedback from various digital channels. Stilingue's advanced natural language processing technology excels in Spanish and Portuguese, making it a preferred choice for major brands such as Natura, Itaú, Claro, Bradesco, and Kroton. With a workforce of nearly 200 employees, including experts with master's and doctoral degrees in artificial intelligence, Stilingue focuses on real-time brand management by efficiently collecting and analyzing conversations, ratings, and opinions. This enables clients to assess brand performance and customer sentiment, ultimately enhancing their brand strategies through sophisticated AI-driven insights.

Stilingue Inteligencia Artificial

Seed Round in 2018
Stilingue Inteligencia Artificial Ltda. is a Brazilian company founded in 2014 and based in Sao Paulo, specializing in artificial intelligence software for social media analysis. The company offers an AI SaaS platform that consolidates, summarizes, and prioritizes customer feedback from various digital channels. Stilingue's advanced natural language processing technology excels in Spanish and Portuguese, making it a preferred choice for major brands such as Natura, Itaú, Claro, Bradesco, and Kroton. With a workforce of nearly 200 employees, including experts with master's and doctoral degrees in artificial intelligence, Stilingue focuses on real-time brand management by efficiently collecting and analyzing conversations, ratings, and opinions. This enables clients to assess brand performance and customer sentiment, ultimately enhancing their brand strategies through sophisticated AI-driven insights.

Cognovi Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2016, Cognovi Labs develops proprietary AI technology that integrates deep machine learning with behavioral psychology. This enables real-time analysis of textual data to predict human decisions and emotions, providing actionable insights for businesses to make informed decisions and shape outcomes.

Golden

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge platform designed to aggregate information from various public and private sources, creating a comprehensive repository. The company's platform employs natural language processing to facilitate structured representation of entities and topics, making detailed and canonical information easily searchable and accessible. By leveraging both human effort and machine intelligence, Golden enhances the process of knowledge gathering and communication. Its features include powerful search capabilities, fine-grain alerts to track changes, and semi-automatic research assistance, all aimed at helping organizations stay informed and leverage the latest industry trends. This approach improves collaboration among researchers and academics while enhancing operational efficiency.

ROBOS.im

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ROBOS.im is a technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, that specializes in addressing challenges related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). It develops an online chatbot platform that allows users to create chatbots without writing any code, facilitating automation in user communication. The company's products are designed to enhance service quality and simplify the coding process for its customers. With a vision for global expansion, ROBOS.im aims to deliver innovative solutions to a worldwide audience.
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