Bossa Invest

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. The firm specializes in managing investment portfolios and providing asset management services across various sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate. Bossa Invest analyzes market trends to guide its investment decisions, with a particular focus on companies in the software as a service sector. Through its strategic investments, the firm aims to support the growth and development of innovative businesses.

Thiago Gomes Hilário de Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Language Processing

Lightmatter

Series D in 2024
Lightmatter specializes in developing photonic chips that leverage light for data processing and communication, significantly enhancing the speed and efficiency of artificial intelligence computations. By utilizing integrated optical technology, the company designs processors that accelerate key operations in neural networks through programmable photonic elements, which are fabricated alongside traditional transistors. This innovative approach allows for improved performance in applications such as image recognition and natural language processing while maintaining low power consumption. Lightmatter's technology primarily serves sectors including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and telecommunications, positioning the company as a leader in light-based computing solutions.

Clarice.ai

Venture Round in 2023
Clarice.AI is a developer of an artificial intelligence-based writing assistant that offers comprehensive grammar and spell checking services. Catering to a diverse clientele including fiction and non-fiction writers, proofreaders, and entrepreneurs, the platform aims to enhance communication by ensuring texts are clear, concise, and error-free. The assistant provides style tips, conducts grammar reviews, and facilitates the automatic generation of various types of content, such as articles, posts, advertisements, emails, and blogs. By identifying deviations and offering suggestions for improvement, Clarice.AI helps users create original content efficiently while maintaining high standards of accuracy and style.

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 offers a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the management and scaling of data pipelines for machine learning applications. Their flagship product, Deep Lake, serves as a specialized database for artificial intelligence, optimized for deep learning and large language model applications. It allows users to store a variety of data types, including text, images, audio, and videos, in a single location, while providing capabilities such as data streaming, version control, and vector search. Deep Lake simplifies the deployment of enterprise-grade LLM-based products and integrates seamlessly with popular tools like LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is serverless and capable of handling datasets of any size, making it suitable for organizations working on complex machine learning projects. Activeloop counts notable companies such as Bayer Radiology and Matterport among its users. The founding team comprises individuals with backgrounds from prestigious institutions like Princeton and Stanford, along with experience from industry leaders like Google and Tesla.

Outloud.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Outloud.ai specializes in voice automation software designed to enhance customer interactions in the hospitality sector, particularly in drive-thru restaurants. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the company creates solutions that can replicate human voices, comprehend complex language, and adapt to various conversational contexts, even in noisy environments. This technology allows businesses to effectively automate voice conversations with their customers, streamlining operations and improving service efficiency.

Sanas

Seed Round in 2021
Sanas is a technology company that specializes in real-time speech-understanding solutions designed to modulate accents while maintaining the natural quality of voices and emotions. Its platform aids multilingual speakers by offering accent correction, which facilitates effective communication and reduces language barriers. The technology is particularly beneficial for contact centers and enterprises, enhancing overall communication, improving customer satisfaction, and minimizing instances of miscommunication. By enabling users to communicate in their preferred accents without noticeable delays, Sanas fosters better understanding and interaction among diverse speakers.

Botpress

Series A in 2021
Botpress, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing an open-source chatbot development platform. Founded in 2016 and based in Newark, Delaware, Botpress provides software that enables the creation of various types of chatbots, including scripted, artificial intelligence, and application-based options. The platform is widely used by developers, organizations, and individuals, facilitating the building, deployment, and management of chatbots. Key features include a conversational flow management system and natural language understanding, allowing businesses to create customizable conversational experiences. Additionally, the platform is designed to be manageable by non-developers after deployment, making it accessible for a broader audience to enhance their conversational strategies.

Deepgram

Series B in 2021
Deepgram, Inc. develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions, offering a platform that enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models. This platform allows users to convert audio data into text, facilitating the extraction of insights and automation of actions. Deepgram also provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language understanding, making it suitable for a variety of applications, including medical transcription and autonomous agents. The technology supports keyword searches in transcripts by both sound and text, enhancing the usability of audio and video files for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies, focusing on delivering scalable and effective voice AI experiences.

Toucan

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Toucan is a company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in a Google Chrome extension designed to facilitate language learning and communication. The extension allows users to translate words and phrases into various languages while browsing the web, enhancing vocabulary acquisition in a natural context without the need for traditional methods such as flashcards or formal classes. By employing experts in habit formation, learning, and human behavior, Toucan aims to create an effective and engaging language learning experience for its users.

KUDO

Seed Round in 2020
KUDO, Inc., also known as Kudo Technologies, specializes in a language as a service (LaaS) platform designed for multilingual online meetings. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, KUDO provides a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) that facilitates video conferencing and chatting with integrated support for interpreters and multiple audio streams. The platform enables businesses to conduct multilingual live events and offers tools for web conferencing and language-ready rooms. KUDO's solutions allow teams to communicate effectively across global markets, ensuring that participants and interpreters can connect from anywhere using standard computers or smartphones.

Slang

Venture Round in 2020
Slang is a technology-driven company that specializes in providing online English courses tailored for career development. Originating from a research project at MIT, Slang employs a proprietary machine learning engine to create a highly adaptive e-learning platform. This platform offers a wide range of specialized courses across various fields, including Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. With the largest professional English course offering globally, Slang's curriculum focuses on real-world scenarios, enabling learners to acquire essential language skills relevant to their careers. The platform also features personalized software that tracks users' knowledge and progress, continually optimizing the learning experience. Looking ahead, Slang plans to expand its course offerings significantly, aiming to release an additional 1,000 courses in the next three years.

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 offers a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the management and scaling of data pipelines for machine learning applications. Their flagship product, Deep Lake, serves as a specialized database for artificial intelligence, optimized for deep learning and large language model applications. It allows users to store a variety of data types, including text, images, audio, and videos, in a single location, while providing capabilities such as data streaming, version control, and vector search. Deep Lake simplifies the deployment of enterprise-grade LLM-based products and integrates seamlessly with popular tools like LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is serverless and capable of handling datasets of any size, making it suitable for organizations working on complex machine learning projects. Activeloop counts notable companies such as Bayer Radiology and Matterport among its users. The founding team comprises individuals with backgrounds from prestigious institutions like Princeton and Stanford, along with experience from industry leaders like Google and Tesla.

Sanas

Seed Round in 2020
Sanas is a technology company that specializes in real-time speech-understanding solutions designed to modulate accents while maintaining the natural quality of voices and emotions. Its platform aids multilingual speakers by offering accent correction, which facilitates effective communication and reduces language barriers. The technology is particularly beneficial for contact centers and enterprises, enhancing overall communication, improving customer satisfaction, and minimizing instances of miscommunication. By enabling users to communicate in their preferred accents without noticeable delays, Sanas fosters better understanding and interaction among diverse speakers.

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 platform offers structured representations of entities and topics, facilitating easy access to detailed information through a powerful search capability. By utilizing natural language processing, it interprets user queries, enabling researchers and academics to find relevant information efficiently. Additionally, Golden enhances collaboration and operational efficiency by providing semi-automatic research assistance that identifies knowledge gaps, allowing users to stay informed about the latest trends in their respective industries. Through the integration of human effort and machine intelligence, Golden simplifies the process of gathering and communicating knowledge.

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
Symbl.ai is an early-stage startup based in Seattle, Washington, focused on providing conversational intelligence solutions for developers. Founded in 2018, the company has created a platform that leverages machine learning to analyze voice and text conversations in real time. By simplifying the process of building and maintaining conversational understanding systems, Symbl.ai allows developers to concentrate on creating engaging and productive user experiences. The platform offers proprietary algorithms that extract actionable insights and outcomes from human-to-human discussions without requiring extensive training or custom classifiers, enabling clients to implement conversational intelligence at scale effectively.

Looplex

Venture Round in 2019
Looplex is a company that specializes in creating systems for the drafting, analysis, and interpretation of legal documents using natural language processing. Its digital transformation platform aims to automate and improve various aspects of legal practice by offering features such as document generation, data analysis, and task automation. Additionally, Looplex provides an ecosystem of application integrations that allows legal professionals to digitize their content and streamline their workflows effectively. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website for interested users.

Hand Talk

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hand Talk is a mobile translator that converts content into Brazilian sign language in real-time on smartphones and tablets. Founded in 2012 and based in Maceió, Brazil, Hand Talk aims to provide digital and automatic translation to improve access to information and communication for the deaf community. By offering a solution that complements the work of Libras interpreters, Hand Talk strives to make communication more inclusive and accessible for all.

Slang

Seed Round in 2018
Slang is a technology-driven company that specializes in providing online English courses tailored for career development. Originating from a research project at MIT, Slang employs a proprietary machine learning engine to create a highly adaptive e-learning platform. This platform offers a wide range of specialized courses across various fields, including Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. With the largest professional English course offering globally, Slang's curriculum focuses on real-world scenarios, enabling learners to acquire essential language skills relevant to their careers. The platform also features personalized software that tracks users' knowledge and progress, continually optimizing the learning experience. Looking ahead, Slang plans to expand its course offerings significantly, aiming to release an additional 1,000 courses in the next three years.

Stilingue Inteligencia Artificial

Seed Round in 2018
Stilingue Inteligencia Artificial Ltda. is a Brazilian company founded in 2014 and based in São Paulo, specializing in artificial intelligence software for social media analysis. The company offers an AI SaaS platform that focuses on listening to, summarizing, and prioritizing customer feedback. Stilingue's technology excels in natural language processing for Spanish and Portuguese, providing clients with insights into brand management and customer sentiment. The platform collects and analyzes conversations, ratings, and opinions across various channels, enabling major brands, including Natura, Itaú, and Bradesco, to enhance their brand performance. With a team of nearly 200 employees, including experts with advanced degrees in AI, Stilingue is positioned as a leader in the field of business intelligence and real-time brand management.

Cognovi Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Cognovi Labs LLC, founded in 2016 and based in Columbus, Ohio, specializes in semantic Web technology that offers real-time analysis of social data through its proprietary AI. By integrating deep machine learning with behavioral psychology, Cognovi's technology measures emotions from textual and transcribable data, enabling the prediction of human decisions. This innovative approach provides clients with actionable intelligence and prescriptive tools to influence outcomes, such as accelerating revenues and identifying potential threats. Additionally, Cognovi Labs offers an Event Impact application on the Bloomberg portal, allowing subscribers to assess how corporate events might affect consumer purchasing intent and future sales.

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 platform offers structured representations of entities and topics, facilitating easy access to detailed information through a powerful search capability. By utilizing natural language processing, it interprets user queries, enabling researchers and academics to find relevant information efficiently. Additionally, Golden enhances collaboration and operational efficiency by providing semi-automatic research assistance that identifies knowledge gaps, allowing users to stay informed about the latest trends in their respective industries. Through the integration of human effort and machine intelligence, Golden simplifies the process of gathering and communicating knowledge.

ROBOS.im

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ROBOS.im is a company established in 2016 and headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, that specializes in developing solutions for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) challenges. The company offers an online chatbot platform that allows users to create chatbots without writing any code. By automating communication with users, ROBOS.im enables its clients to enhance service quality and streamline operations. With aspirations for global expansion, the company aims to provide its innovative products to a worldwide audience.
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