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 Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Peer to Peer

Osmosis Foundation

Seed Round in 2023
Osmosis Foundation operates a decentralized peer-to-peer blockchain platform that facilitates the creation of liquidity and trading of IBC-enabled tokens. The platform features an advanced automated market maker (AMM) protocol, which represents a significant evolution in how liquidity providers engage with decentralized finance (DeFi). Built using the Cosmos software development kit (SDK), Osmosis allows developers to design, build, and deploy customized AMMs, enhancing the flexibility and functionality of liquidity solutions within the ecosystem. By utilizing open-source software, Osmosis promotes transparency and accessibility in the DeFi space.

Tutu Digital

Venture Round in 2022
Tutu Digital is a financial services technology firm that focuses on enhancing the efficiency of financial markets through innovative solutions. The company specializes in peer-to-peer lending, providing business loans to individuals interested in investing. Tutu Digital aims to support micro and small enterprises by facilitating access to financial resources, thereby promoting social impact and economic growth. The firm addresses customer inquiries through various channels, including phone, email, and online applications, ensuring a responsive and accessible service experience.

Erithmitic

Seed Round in 2022
Erithmitic operates a digital lending platform that connects borrowers and brokers with institutional financing options. The company differentiates itself by utilizing proprietary data and software to deliver competitive and reliable funding solutions tailored to various asset types. Its platform streamlines the end-to-end lending process, supported by experienced professionals in origination, underwriting, engineering, and data science.

OpenSea

Series C in 2022
OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace dedicated to the trading of crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It facilitates the buying and selling of various digital assets, including gaming items and virtual goods, all secured by blockchain technology. Users can engage in transactions through smart contracts, which enhance security and trust in the trading process. The platform aims to streamline the exchange of these digital assets, making it accessible for anyone interested in the world of crypto collectibles. By providing a user-friendly interface and robust infrastructure, OpenSea has established itself as a leading marketplace in the burgeoning NFT space.

IOUU

Venture Round in 2021
IOUU is a Fintech company focused on transforming traditional financial services to make them more accessible and efficient. The company offers a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects businesses and individuals seeking credit with investors and lending institutions. By leveraging technology, IOUU aims to streamline access to financial services, providing a more transparent and efficient alternative to traditional loan processes. The platform emphasizes financial inclusion and personalized development, ensuring that clients can secure better credit options. Through the use of innovative solutions, including non-traditional data sources and machine learning, IOUU seeks to enhance the customer experience and promote ethical lending practices. The company's mission is to democratize finance and create lasting relationships by delivering greater value and improved opportunities in digital banking.

Bunches

Venture Round in 2021
Bunches is a group chat platform founded in 2020 and based in New York, New York. The application allows creators to easily establish paid group chats on various topics. Users can create a chat room, set a joining fee, and share a unique link to invite others through social networks. This enables creators to engage with their audience by sharing exclusive content within the group chat environment. Bunches aims to facilitate meaningful interactions and connections between creators and their members, allowing for a monetized and interactive community experience.

Hitch

Seed Round in 2021
Hitch is solving intercity transportation by offering an affordable, personal, and safe ride-sharing service to consumers.

SoLo

Series A in 2021
SoLo Funds, Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, operates a mobile platform that facilitates peer-to-peer lending. It connects individuals in need of short-term loans with those willing to lend, fostering a community-driven financial ecosystem. The platform assesses creditworthiness and enables borrowers to access small, interest-free loans on terms they set, processing millions of transactions since its 2018 launch. SoLo aims to provide an equitable and empowering lending alternative, and is expanding its services to include banking, credit building, and premium member offerings.

Avenify

Funding Round in 2021
Avenify Corporation is a peer-to-peer lending platform based in Reston, Virginia, that focuses on income share agreements (ISAs) to finance education. Founded in 2018, Avenify simplifies the financing process for nursing students by offering them ISAs, which allow them to pay a percentage of their future income in exchange for funding their education. The platform also connects investors with students, facilitating access to both federal and private loan options to cover tuition fees. By providing transparent and straightforward financing terms, Avenify aims to support students in their educational pursuits and help them secure employment after graduation.

Curtsy

Series A in 2021
Curtsy, Inc. is a mobile application platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The app allows women to rent and sell a variety of clothing items, including dresses, shoes, handbags, jewelry, and accessories. Curtsy caters to a younger generation seeking sustainable shopping alternatives by facilitating peer-to-peer transactions within their communities. Utilizing machine learning and human review, the platform enhances the merchandising process for sellers and includes a Shipping Kit to streamline order fulfillment. Overall, Curtsy aims to create a convenient and eco-friendly marketplace for fashion.

Carupi

Seed Round in 2020
Carupi is a Brazilian company founded in 2017 that operates a peer-to-peer marketplace for used cars. Based in São Paulo, the platform aims to transform the traditional buying and selling experience of vehicles, which is often fraught with inefficiencies and safety concerns. Carupi distinguishes itself by offering professional photography services for cars, publishing listings on various classified sites, and managing communications between buyers and sellers, thereby eliminating the need for direct interaction. The company also utilizes an escrow service to ensure secure transactions, streamlining the entire process. With the used car market in Brazil valued at approximately $70 billion, Carupi seeks to redefine how individuals engage in vehicle transactions, much like how Airbnb revolutionized the home rental industry. The founder and CEO, Diego Fischer, brings extensive experience, having previously established Brazil's largest consumer-to-business car marketplace.

Funding Societies

Series C in 2020
Funding Societies, established in 2015 and headquartered in Singapore, operates a digital financing platform that connects small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with investors. The company facilitates business loans, focusing on quick and efficient financing solutions, often bypassing traditional banking methods. It offers a range of flexible financing options, including micro and term loans, and invoice financing, using advanced credit scoring and risk assessment models. With operations across Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, Funding Societies caters to SMEs seeking accessible and timely financing.

Chipper Cash

Series A in 2020
Chipper Cash is a financial services company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates a software application platform that enables users to send and receive money instantly and for free across different currencies within Africa. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer cross-border money transfers in a simple manner, similar to sending a text message, enhancing financial inclusivity across the continent. Chipper Cash’s innovative approach allows users to make personal payments efficiently via their mobile devices, making it a key player in the African fintech landscape.

Orchard Platform

Venture Round in 2020
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

Bunches

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bunches is a group chat platform founded in 2020 and based in New York, New York. The application allows creators to easily establish paid group chats on various topics. Users can create a chat room, set a joining fee, and share a unique link to invite others through social networks. This enables creators to engage with their audience by sharing exclusive content within the group chat environment. Bunches aims to facilitate meaningful interactions and connections between creators and their members, allowing for a monetized and interactive community experience.

IOUU

Seed Round in 2020
IOUU is a Fintech company focused on transforming traditional financial services to make them more accessible and efficient. The company offers a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects businesses and individuals seeking credit with investors and lending institutions. By leveraging technology, IOUU aims to streamline access to financial services, providing a more transparent and efficient alternative to traditional loan processes. The platform emphasizes financial inclusion and personalized development, ensuring that clients can secure better credit options. Through the use of innovative solutions, including non-traditional data sources and machine learning, IOUU seeks to enhance the customer experience and promote ethical lending practices. The company's mission is to democratize finance and create lasting relationships by delivering greater value and improved opportunities in digital banking.

Boatsetter

Venture Round in 2020
Boatsetter is a peer-to-peer boat rental platform that connects boat owners and captains with individuals seeking water experiences, regardless of their boating expertise. The company addresses the underutilization of privately owned vessels by facilitating boat rentals, thus allowing owners to monetize their investments. Boatsetter combines elements from successful collaborative market models like those of home and car rental services to innovate within the marine industry. The platform offers both short and long-term charter services, along with real-time customer support and insurance coverage. By establishing partnerships with a national network of marine-industry businesses, Boatsetter aims to enhance its service offerings and expand its reach across the U.S.

Chipper Cash

Seed Round in 2019
Chipper Cash is a financial services company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates a software application platform that enables users to send and receive money instantly and for free across different currencies within Africa. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer cross-border money transfers in a simple manner, similar to sending a text message, enhancing financial inclusivity across the continent. Chipper Cash’s innovative approach allows users to make personal payments efficiently via their mobile devices, making it a key player in the African fintech landscape.

OASIS

Seed Round in 2019
OASIS is a deep technology company focused on real-time photorealistic video communication powered by generative AI. We are building the universal human communication platform, delivered as a suite of zero marginal cost AI-native software to make human communication effortless that includes a patented, peer-to-peer video & VR chat protocol (with integrated biometrics) that uses 100x less bandwidth than Zoom. Our proprietary AI avatar technology uses ~10,000x less compute than state-of-the-art generative AI models and is able to render photorealistic humans in real-time on consumer smartphones and laptops.

IOUU

Pre Seed Round in 2019
IOUU is a Fintech company focused on transforming traditional financial services to make them more accessible and efficient. The company offers a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects businesses and individuals seeking credit with investors and lending institutions. By leveraging technology, IOUU aims to streamline access to financial services, providing a more transparent and efficient alternative to traditional loan processes. The platform emphasizes financial inclusion and personalized development, ensuring that clients can secure better credit options. Through the use of innovative solutions, including non-traditional data sources and machine learning, IOUU seeks to enhance the customer experience and promote ethical lending practices. The company's mission is to democratize finance and create lasting relationships by delivering greater value and improved opportunities in digital banking.

Jupter

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Jupter is an investment ecosystem platform designed to support founders and startups in navigating the finance landscape. The company provides a digital map for open-science origination, facilitating the fundraising process through its comprehensive platform. Jupter's offerings include accelerator programs that help launch new ventures, as well as tools that connect investors and angel groups with innovative ideas in the market. By consolidating funding information, Jupter empowers both entrepreneurs and investors to make informed decisions, enhancing the overall efficiency of the startup funding process.

Pickwin

Venture Round in 2018
Pickwin is a peer-to-peer sports gaming platform based in Mexico City, founded in 2015. The company specializes in online sports pools, allowing users to engage in games with friends and family. Its platform facilitates participation in various sports pools, where players can compete for prizes and achieve social recognition based on their sports knowledge. By offering an interactive and engaging way to enjoy sports events, Pickwin enhances the social experience of sports gaming.

Boatsetter

Series A in 2018
Boatsetter is a peer-to-peer boat rental platform that connects boat owners and captains with individuals seeking water experiences, regardless of their boating expertise. The company addresses the underutilization of privately owned vessels by facilitating boat rentals, thus allowing owners to monetize their investments. Boatsetter combines elements from successful collaborative market models like those of home and car rental services to innovate within the marine industry. The platform offers both short and long-term charter services, along with real-time customer support and insurance coverage. By establishing partnerships with a national network of marine-industry businesses, Boatsetter aims to enhance its service offerings and expand its reach across the U.S.

Stache

Seed Round in 2018
Stache operates a peer-to-peer storage marketplace designed to connect individuals seeking storage solutions with verified local hosts offering underutilized spaces such as spare rooms, closets, and basements. By facilitating these connections, Stache provides an accessible platform for users in need of affordable and secure options for storing their belongings. The company aims to leverage community resources effectively, enabling hosts to monetize their unused spaces while helping renters find convenient storage alternatives.

Moneypool

Seed Round in 2017
Moneypool is a community-based financial platform founded in 2013 by Ignacio Alvarez, Gerardo Acuña, and Sebastian Cueva. The company enables users to create groups for collective money management, allowing them to easily send and receive payments without the need for bank details. Moneypool facilitates transactions through credit and debit cards as well as cash payments, taking a standard commission on credit card transactions. Its platform simplifies the process of dividing expenses, collecting payments, and sending reminders, ensuring that users can manage their financial obligations efficiently and without complications.

Orchard Platform

Series C in 2017
About Orchard Orchard Platform has built a centralized marketplace where loan originators and institutional investors can come together to explore and evaluate opportunities for funding, buying, and selling loans. By providing a global network of institutional buyers and sellers with high-quality data services, advanced analytics and reporting, and robust capital management tools through an innovative, end-to-end platform, Orchard has created a smarter way for participants in the private credit markets to interact, evaluate deals, and move forward with simple and complex transactions more efficiently. Orchard Platform does not provide legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Before making any investment or executing any transaction, you should consult with your legal, tax, and accounting advisors with respect to the suitability, value, and risk of such investment or transaction. Investment advisory services are provided to clients by Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in New York, N.Y. Orchard produces the Orchard U.S. Consumer Marketplace Lending Index—the only industry-wide direct lending performance benchmark—and has been named one of the Next Billion Dollar Startups by Forbes. The commentary and insights posted on its blog, and the data and research available to everyone on its platform, have cemented Orchard as a thought leader in its industry. For more information, visit www.orchardplatform.com. About Orchard Platform Markets, LLC Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orchard App Inc., and is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. The mission of Orchard Platform Markets, LLC is to provide a transparent, technologically optimized platform for loan originators and institutional investors to safely and securely connect, evaluate potential deals, and move forward with multiple types of transactions. For more information, visit www.orchardplatformmarkets.com.

Stache

Seed Round in 2017
Stache operates a peer-to-peer storage marketplace designed to connect individuals seeking storage solutions with verified local hosts offering underutilized spaces such as spare rooms, closets, and basements. By facilitating these connections, Stache provides an accessible platform for users in need of affordable and secure options for storing their belongings. The company aims to leverage community resources effectively, enabling hosts to monetize their unused spaces while helping renters find convenient storage alternatives.

Foodster

Venture Round in 2017
Foodster is a U.S.-based company that provides an online platform for food ordering and delivery services, catering to restaurants, cafes, and caterers. The platform streamlines the ordering process by allowing users to order food and drinks from a wide variety of local establishments. Additionally, Foodster facilitates peer-to-peer food delivery, enabling individuals to earn money by acting as delivery drivers. It also offers features that help restaurant owners customize their menus and implement online payment systems, automating food ordering and delivery to enhance customer service. Through its comprehensive approach, Foodster aims to improve the efficiency of food service operations while providing a convenient experience for both consumers and restaurant owners.

PeerSpot

Venture Round in 2017
PeerSpot is a platform designed for enterprise technology decision-makers to access verified product reviews in areas such as Cybersecurity, DevOps, and IT. It aims to provide unbiased feedback on various products, allowing users to make informed purchasing decisions. The platform connects professionals with their peers and independent experts, facilitating the sharing of objective and constructive insights without vendor influence. By focusing on real-time user information, PeerSpot enhances the decision-making process for technology-related purchases, ensuring that buyers receive relevant and trustworthy advice.

Simbi.com

Seed Round in 2016
Simbi, Inc. operates an online platform that facilitates the exchange of services among its members through a unique system of internal credits, rather than traditional monetary transactions. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the platform allows freelancers and independent workers to convert their unbooked hours into valuable services and experiences. Members can share a wide range of skills and talents, including those of wellness professionals, designers, photographers, and business consultants, among others. Simbi aims to foster community development by promoting volunteerism, mutual aid, and education, thus supporting small-scale entrepreneurs and enhancing economic participation. With its innovative approach, Simbi contributes to the growth of a talent-exchanging network that benefits both individual members and the broader community.

Foodster

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Foodster is a U.S.-based company that provides an online platform for food ordering and delivery services, catering to restaurants, cafes, and caterers. The platform streamlines the ordering process by allowing users to order food and drinks from a wide variety of local establishments. Additionally, Foodster facilitates peer-to-peer food delivery, enabling individuals to earn money by acting as delivery drivers. It also offers features that help restaurant owners customize their menus and implement online payment systems, automating food ordering and delivery to enhance customer service. Through its comprehensive approach, Foodster aims to improve the efficiency of food service operations while providing a convenient experience for both consumers and restaurant owners.
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