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 Personal Finance

Zoe Financial

Venture Round in 2022
Zoe Financial, Inc., founded in 2016 and based in Scarsdale, New York, specializes in providing financial advisory services. The company focuses on connecting clients with independent, fiduciary financial advisors who are thoroughly screened to ensure they offer appropriate and trustworthy guidance. Zoe Financial employs a wealth planning platform that categorizes advisors based on their qualifications, expertise, and operational efficiency, facilitating personalized financial planning for clients. This approach helps individuals navigate their financial needs, promoting accountability and informed decision-making for stable wealth creation.

Mooney

Angel Round in 2022
Mooney develops a practical financial literacy methodology. They provide financial literacy in a practical way. Thier products includes mooney lab i, mooney young, and mooney kids.

Fincent

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fincent is a finance firm focused on modernizing financial and accounting services for small and midsized businesses. The company offers an AI-powered platform that acts as a comprehensive financial hub, integrating various functions such as bookkeeping, tax preparation, bill payment, invoicing, financial projections, budgeting, and reimbursements. By providing a real-time dashboard, Fincent enables entrepreneurs to manage their finances efficiently, allowing them to concentrate on growing their businesses. Through its innovative approach, Fincent aims to streamline financial processes and enhance overall business management.

Smartcon

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Smartcon is a mobile fintech company that specializes in mobile vouchers and membership services.

Guiabolso

Venture Round in 2021
Guiabolso is the fintech transforming the Brazilian financial system by pioneering Open Banking, to bring the benefits of open data access and analytics to millions of consumers and a fast-growing number of corporate customers. Launched in 2014, the Guiabolso app has a huge amount of granular financial data about its 6M users, powering consumer solutions of consolidated financial management, an in-app curated product marketplace and instant payment capabilities, while providing product partners access to unique segmenting and scoring capabilities. In addition, Guiabolso is the only company in Brazil with a fully launched and calibrated end-to-end Open Banking solution for B2B clients, going beyond just bank account data aggregation to offer modular value-add solutions such as advanced analytics, a white-label marketplace, and personal financial management features. The company was founded by Thiago Alvarez and Benjamin Gleason, two friends who met at McKinsey and aspired to use innovative technology and a focus on consumer impact to improve the lives of Brazilians and transform the financial system.

SellersFi

Series A in 2021
SellersFunding is a developer of a financial platform designed to provide fully automated funding focused solely on online marketplaces sellers. The company's platform provides working capital for online businesses as well as uses a machine-learning model to analyze data generated through business activities of online sellers, enabling sellers to gain access to growth capital. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Alvva

Venture Round in 2021
Alvva is an SF-based startup that builds unique financial products that increase the upward mobility of the more than 25 million noncitizen immigrants living in the United States. More than half of eligible non-citizens report unaffordability as a primary reason for not pursuing citizenship, and close to half do not have access to traditional forms of credit. Our first product is a credit-building loan to pay for expenses associated with filing an immigration application. Our founding team moved to the US in pursuit of a better future and has a combined 15 years of mission-driven fintech experience from Oportun and Aura Financial. We understand the unique challenges immigrants face and are driven to help them fulfill their dreams faster by giving them a small financial push.

Shara

Seed Round in 2021
Shara is a mobile application that provides a digital platform designed for consumer goods companies in developing markets. It offers tools for managing business operations, including features for sending receipts and invoices, tracking outstanding payments, and sending scheduled reminders and customized professional statements. Additionally, Shara includes a free and secure wallet, allowing clients to organize their finances effectively. By offering these services at no cost, Shara aims to assist businesses in systematically growing and enhancing their sales capabilities.

Financial Choice

Venture Round in 2021
Financial Choice allows consumers to invest their checking account funds for market returns while retaining instant cash access. Financial Choice provides instant access to cash, automated investing, tax efficiency, and portfolio rebalancing.

One

Series B in 2021
One is a financial mobile app headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers a range of services including banking, fintech solutions, online payments, cash transactions, and digital wallet capabilities. Launched in 2019, the app is designed to enhance users' financial well-being by maximizing their earnings and increasing their spending power. It enables users to optimize their finances, achieve their financial goals more quickly, and easily share money with family and friends. One aims to address financial gaps and help users grow their money efficiently.

Morty

Series B in 2021
Morty, Inc. is an online mortgage broker based in New York, founded in 2015. The company operates a mortgage marketplace that allows homebuyers to shop, compare, and close on various loan products. Its platform efficiently matches available rates and products, giving users access to a wide range of lenders. By utilizing this service, homebuyers can save money on payments and closing costs, making the mortgage process more streamlined and cost-effective.

Foresight

Seed Round in 2021
Foresight was originally created by Taylor Davidson in 2008 as a resource for entrepreneurs to download a simple financial model template for early-stage startups. The reason was simple: Taylor found himself continually creating new financial models for entrepreneur friends of his from scratch, and struggled to find standard templates or resources on the web. He spent one last time building a new financial model for a friend, and then turned it into a template and released it to the public on his website. After years of modifications, additions, improvements, and new models, Foresight has grown into a more complete resource for financial model templates and standards for entrepreneurs. Over 10,000 people have downloaded one of the financial models and multiple entrepreneurs have raised millions of dollars in venture funding using these templates as a base.

Altro (fka Perch)

Seed Round in 2021
Altro, formerly known as Perch, is a company based in Los Angeles, California, that focuses on helping individuals enhance their credit scores by leveraging recurring expenses. Founded in 2019, Altro provides a platform that allows users to link everyday payments and subscriptions, such as bills and monthly services, to their credit history. By recognizing these often-overlooked payments, the Altro app enables users to build their credit more effectively, turning regular financial commitments into a tool for improving their creditworthiness. The service is offered for free, aiming to empower users to maximize their financial potential through better credit management.

LionTech IR

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Apuração de seu imposto de renda de Forma simples e rápida

Kick

Seed Round in 2021
Kick is a self-driving bookkeeping company developing a social banking platform to crowdsource tax deductions and cashback. Its platform helps kick-start online businesses with a modern business bank account, cashback, and authentic affiliate links.

Payflow

Seed Round in 2021
Payflow is a financial platform that offers a unique employee benefit by providing instant access to earned salaries, thereby enhancing employees' financial well-being. Founded in 2020 and backed by Rocket Internet, the company operates from Spain. Payflow's service allows employees to access their earnings without affecting the company's cash flow or complicating payroll processes. This approach not only improves employee productivity and engagement but also helps organizations manage their financial operations more effectively. Through its platform, Payflow aims to support both employees and employers in achieving better financial management.

Plano

Seed Round in 2021
Personal Finance Plans are a type of financial education Fintech that caters to both individuals (B2C) and businesses (B2B) (B2B2C). Thousands of consumers are served all around Brazil. Their team works with clients online and on a one-on-one basis to help customers plan, manage, and handle their money, whether it's to pay off debts, save, or invest.

Realworld

Seed Round in 2021
Realworld is a developer of an application designed to simplify the complexities of adulthood by providing a comprehensive platform for managing various life necessities. The application serves as a centralized hub that helps users navigate essential decisions related to finance, health, and insurance. It enables individuals to set up credit cards, manage student loan repayments, schedule healthcare appointments, select health insurance plans, and store important documents such as passports and TSA PreCheck numbers. Additionally, it assists users in organizing and uploading documents necessary for tasks like applying for an apartment lease and keeps them informed about voter registration updates and local elections. By bringing together these diverse aspects of adult life, Realworld empowers users to make informed and timely decisions.

Daylight

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the U.S. specifically designed for and by the LGBT+ community. Daylight’s card, app and digital services prepare members for the future faster by helping them to navigate the finance system, generate smarter habits and connect with a community working together to build the life they deserve without compromise. Daylight was founded in 2020 and is located at West Hollywood, California.

Goodcall

Seed Round in 2021
Goodcall, founded in 2021 by former Google Speech AI leader Bob Summers, is based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in a cloud-based AI Phone Agent platform that revolutionizes how businesses handle customer calls by automating millions of conversations. This technology ensures that no customer opportunity is overlooked, providing businesses with a reliable solution for managing incoming phone calls. Goodcall's software delivers information to customers both during and outside of operating hours, enhancing customer service and enabling businesses to save time while increasing revenue. Trusted by a diverse range of clients, including Google, Microsoft, and Yelp, Goodcall establishes a new standard in voice AI solutions for call centers of all sizes.

SoLo Funds

Series A in 2021
SoLo is a financial service provider enabling a marketplace where members can request and fund emergency needs. SoLo launched in 2018 with the goal of providing a lending alternative that was equitable, empowering, and community-driven. Since then, we’ve processed millions of transactions and redefined financial services for our community members. Today, we’re driven to new heights launching banking, credit building and premium member services, but grounded in the same hope and mission: to build a community that enables financial autonomy for all.

Avenify

Funding Round in 2021
Avenify makes it easy for nursing students to pay for school with ISAs, helps them get a job once they graduate, and provides the financial services they need to be successful.

Stilt

Series A in 2021
Stilt offers financial services for immigrants, visa holders, and the underserved. Stilt uses proprietary and public data sources to predict the creditworthiness of immigrants with limited or zero credit history. The company's lending platform offers short term loans to expatriates and non-citizens with limited credit history at lower interest rates, enabling them to access capital and receive credit.

Fynn

Seed Round in 2020
Fynn offers loan services for school students. Their loans are private loans, and they do not have the same terms, repayment options, or rates as those offered through federal loan programs, other private lenders, or school based financing options.

Noah

Series A in 2020
Noah is a finance company that offers homeowners a unique way to access their home equity without incurring new monthly payments or interest. By providing upfront financing in exchange for a share of the future appreciation or depreciation of a property, Noah enables homeowners in select metropolitan areas across the United States to achieve their financial goals. This innovative approach allows customers to pay off debts, fund college tuition, or finance home renovations and healthcare expenses, thereby redefining the concept of home ownership.

Finch

Seed Round in 2020
Finch makes it possible to access org-wide directory, payroll, and benefits data across 200+ payroll, HRIS, and benefits systems —all through a single integration. As the world moves toward standardized, open, and interconnected data systems, the company provides the connective infrastructure underpinning the employment sector. Finch empowers innovators to access the global employment ecosystem.

SteadiPay

Pre Seed Round in 2020
SteadiPay is a bank-agnostic platform that lets small businesses manage cash more efficiently. See current balances across all acccounts, automate forecasts, and identify the best ways to improve cash in your business.

Finmark

Seed Round in 2020
Finmark is financial planning software for startups; making it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash. The platform takes complex financial concepts and calculations and distills them down into a simple to use interface so companies can easily update, inspect, and share their financial metrics. Companies, from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, rely on Finmark to align teams, drive collaboration, reduce costs and resources, and build the next generation of great startups. Greg Lissy, Jeremy Neuberger, and Rami Essaid founded the company in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2020.

Possible Finance

Series B in 2020
Possible Finance is a consumer finance company that offers access to capital and a guided path toward long-term financial health. It focuses on helping communities break the debt cycle and unlock economic mobility for generations.

Bright Money

Venture Round in 2020
Bright is an AI-powered app that gives every consumer a path to get debt-free. It helps consumers delete all forms of debt (credit card, student loan, auto loan) and designs tailored credit products powered by Machine Learning. Bright Money uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to analyze users' financial data. It can provide personalized insights into their spending habits, budgeting, and overall financial health. The company aims to help users achieve financial wellness by providing them with tools and insights to reduce financial stress, build savings, and make informed financial decisions.

Facet

Series B in 2020
Facet Wealth is a financial technology company that delivers personalized financial planning services tailored to the specific needs and goals of individuals. The company emphasizes comprehensive advice that encompasses various aspects of a client’s financial life, such as investments, retirement planning, and tax strategies. By leveraging advanced technology, Facet Wealth seeks to streamline the financial planning process, making it more efficient and accessible for clients. In a different domain, Facet Decision Systems offers scenario-based decision support solutions through a multi-disciplinary team of software developers and decision support specialists. Established in 1991, this division focuses on creating and deploying planning software and web-based tools that assist clients in developing scenario models for effective decision-making. Their consulting services provide insights on optimizing decision outcomes by illustrating the impacts of different choices, thereby enabling clients to navigate complex scenarios and make informed decisions.

Unit

Seed Round in 2020
Unit is a financial infrastructure platform that enables technology companies to integrate financial features into their products, including accounts, cards, payments, and lending services. By streamlining the process of launching vertical banks, Unit manages compliance and maintains necessary banking relationships, allowing businesses to create customized banking experiences more efficiently. This capability not only helps companies save time but also enhances their product offerings, ultimately increasing customer lifetime value.

Treasure Card

Seed Round in 2020
Treasure Financial Inc. is a company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in developing a money management app designed for children. Founded in 2017, the app serves as a financial education platform that teaches kids essential money management skills, including budgeting, saving, and distinguishing between wants and needs. The application features a virtual money tracker that allows users to monitor account balances and manage funds across various categories such as saving, spending, giving, and goal-oriented accounts. By using this platform, parents can actively engage in their children's financial education, helping them develop good habits and a clear understanding of the value of money.

Finaeo

Venture Round in 2020
Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Their digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers, and clients through a fully-integrated experience. They also provide Coaching & Leadership Training, investor relations strategy, shareholder engagement, investor relations training and coaching, investor presentations, M and A communications, and investor relations benchmarks

Funding Societies

Series C in 2020
Funding Societies is a digital financing company that specializes in providing loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through its online platform. This platform connects individual and institutional investors with SMEs in need of financing, allowing these businesses to secure funds quickly and efficiently, often avoiding the lengthy processes associated with traditional banks. Operating in several Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, Funding Societies offers a range of flexible financing options such as microloans, term loans, and invoice financing. The company employs advanced credit scoring and risk assessment models to evaluate the creditworthiness of borrowers, helping SMEs address urgent cash flow needs and support their growth objectives.

Stilt

Seed Round in 2020
Stilt offers financial services for immigrants, visa holders, and the underserved. Stilt uses proprietary and public data sources to predict the creditworthiness of immigrants with limited or zero credit history. The company's lending platform offers short term loans to expatriates and non-citizens with limited credit history at lower interest rates, enabling them to access capital and receive credit.

meutudo.

Seed Round in 2020
Meutudo is an application that brings the best credit opportunities to our customers. Our objective is to transform credit in Brazil so that people can have cheaper money when they need it. This is real financial life improvement with efficiency and technology.

One

Series A in 2020
One is a financial mobile app headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers a range of services including banking, fintech solutions, online payments, cash transactions, and digital wallet capabilities. Launched in 2019, the app is designed to enhance users' financial well-being by maximizing their earnings and increasing their spending power. It enables users to optimize their finances, achieve their financial goals more quickly, and easily share money with family and friends. One aims to address financial gaps and help users grow their money efficiently.

Human Interest

Series C in 2020
Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement. The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousands of businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees. In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee.

NorthOne

Series A in 2020
NorthOne develops a banking app that focuses on delivering powerfully simple financial tools to small businesses across America. NorthOne's app is available on iOS, Android and desktop.

Caribou

Series A in 2020
Caribou is a company that specializes in automotive refinancing services, aimed at providing customers with better rates and lower monthly payments. By partnering with trusted lenders, Caribou enables drivers to take control of their auto finances, helping them save an average of over $115 per month on car payments. The company's offerings include auto refinances, auto insurance, total loss protection, guaranteed asset protection, key replacement coverage, and cosmetic care packages. These services are designed to not only reduce monthly payments but also to help customers save on interest and protect their automotive investments.

Ualá

Series C in 2019
Ualá is a financial technology company that offers a digital banking application designed to enhance financial inclusion. The platform allows users to manage payments, request loans, and invest in a variety of financial products. Ualá provides services such as a prepaid Mastercard and savings accounts, facilitating safe and immediate money transfers through a traditional transactional payment network. By democratizing access to financial services, Ualá aims to empower individuals with the tools necessary for effective financial management.

Level

Series A in 2019
Level is a neobank and mobile banking app that provides next-level banking for modern consumers consisting of an app, a cashback debit card called Level Debit Card, and an interest-bearing deposit account called Level Bank Account, offered through Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. The level is a product of Zero Financial.

Moneyfarm

Series B in 2018
Moneyfarm is a finance company. They provide online financial advisory and execution services. They enable their users to manage their money in an efficient way and offer services that provide personal advice on ETFs and trading activity.

Moneypool

Seed Round in 2017
Moneypool offers a community-based platform that enables its users to create groups and collect money form the other users. Users are able to pay credit or debit cards, and cash. Moneypool takes a standard commission for facilitating credit card payments. Moneypool was founded by Ignacio Alvarez, Gerardo Acuña & Sebastian Cueva in 2013.

Guiabolso

Series D in 2017
Guiabolso is the fintech transforming the Brazilian financial system by pioneering Open Banking, to bring the benefits of open data access and analytics to millions of consumers and a fast-growing number of corporate customers. Launched in 2014, the Guiabolso app has a huge amount of granular financial data about its 6M users, powering consumer solutions of consolidated financial management, an in-app curated product marketplace and instant payment capabilities, while providing product partners access to unique segmenting and scoring capabilities. In addition, Guiabolso is the only company in Brazil with a fully launched and calibrated end-to-end Open Banking solution for B2B clients, going beyond just bank account data aggregation to offer modular value-add solutions such as advanced analytics, a white-label marketplace, and personal financial management features. The company was founded by Thiago Alvarez and Benjamin Gleason, two friends who met at McKinsey and aspired to use innovative technology and a focus on consumer impact to improve the lives of Brazilians and transform the financial system.

Cherry

Seed Round in 2017
Cherry is a payment solutions company that offers fast and easy payment plans for medical practices. It helps medical providers treat more patients by offering the best ``buy now, pay later`` solution with high approvals, low cost, and a seamless experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Méliuz

Series B in 2017
Meliuz owns and operates an online platform that offers consumers with free discount coupons from Brazilian online stores. Israel Salmen and and Ofli Guimarães founded it on September 12, 2011, with its headquarters in Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

albo

Venture Round in 2017
Albo is the leading Mexican challenger bank that helps you manage your money, and it can adapt to the user's lifestyle bringing them an honest service. Albo offers a mobile banking app, a banking account, and a Mastercard card, allowing the user to easily spend, save and invest money. Albo includes many other innovating functions besides the ones mentioned above.

Clarity Money

Series B in 2017
For the first time, in the palm of your hand, you have an advocate to help you manage your money. A partner who is looking out for you. All within the Clarity Money app, you can lower your bills, cancel wasteful accounts, transfer money, create a savings account and get your credit score. The app also provides unprecedented transparency into your spending. It’s beautiful, easy to use and there is nothing like it on the market. Download now on the iOS App store Sign-up today: https://claritymoney.com/app

meutudo.

Seed Round in 2017
Meutudo is an application that brings the best credit opportunities to our customers. Our objective is to transform credit in Brazil so that people can have cheaper money when they need it. This is real financial life improvement with efficiency and technology.

OinCoin

Venture Round in 2016
OinCoin is a financial education startup application based on the relationship between parents and children. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.

Espresso Controle de Despesas

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Espresso Controle de Despesas develops a mobile application to automate and streamline business expenses.

Espresso Controle de Despesas

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Espresso Controle de Despesas develops a mobile application to automate and streamline business expenses.

PokerMetrics

Venture Round in 2015
PokerMetrics brings all the information about financial poker life together in one place.

gBolso

Venture Round in 2013
GBolso is a personal finance management solution that enables users to manage receipts and payments, import bank statements, project cash flows, and analyze investments. Users can categorize the entries based on the pre-defined classifications or customize them according to the preferences. Users can also receive payment reminders via email or SMS. The solution has been featured in an article in Folha de São Paulo on personal financial management and Small Business Big Business on Startups. GBolso is based in Brazil. It is a part of the Microsoft Bizpark, Microsoft's global program that helps tech startups.
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