Bossa Invest

Bossa Nova Investimentos e Administração S.A. is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in pre-seed, seed, startup, and early-stage investments. Founded in 2010, Bossa Nova is recognized as Brazil's first micro venture capital firm and has become the most active investor in the pre-seed stage within the country. The firm focuses on technology sectors, particularly software, service development, mobile applications, SaaS, and B2B solutions, and has expanded its investment activities to include companies in the United States. Bossa Nova typically makes minority investments, with funding ranging from R$0.1 million to R$0.8 million per project. Additionally, the firm manages the Bossa Nova Sports Tech Fund, which targets investments in consumer and business products, information technology, wellness, and gaming sectors, with preferred investment amounts between R$0.1 million and R$0.3 million across multiple companies.

Flavio Garcia

Investor

Marcus Marques

Investor

Ricardo Miranda

Investor

Thiago Gomes Hilário de Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Public Transportation

Revel

Series B in 2022
Revel Transit Inc. provides a shared electric vehicle service, specializing in electric two-wheeler rentals, primarily electric mopeds. Users can conveniently locate, reserve, and unlock these mopeds via a mobile application. The service prioritizes safety, with a speed limit of 30 mph and allows for parking in any legal street space. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Revel operates in several major cities, including New York City, Washington, Austin, Miami, and Oakland.

Passport

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Passport is a cloud tech startup that delivers intelligent data to its customers. Passport transforms mobility management with a single platform to help create an open parking ecosystem. The company's goal is to help cities bring payments into apps users already have on hand while providing management and reporting tools, creating an easy-to-manage and efficient mobility operation for the future. Passport is backed by a group of investors, including Bain Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, MK Capital, and Relevance Capital. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Yassir

Venture Round in 2021
Yassir Inc. is a transport service based in Algiers, Algeria, founded in 2016. The company operates a mobile application that enables users to book drivers for on-demand transportation, ensuring safe travel. In addition to ride-hailing services, Yassir's platform also offers food delivery options, allowing users to order meals conveniently. The application serves as a multisided marketplace, combining technology with everyday activities, and provides additional services such as grocery delivery and banking applications. Yassir aims to enhance users' lifestyles by facilitating mobility and access to essential services through its innovative platform.

Tembici

Series C in 2021
Tembici is a prominent micro-mobility company in Latin America, specializing in first and last mile transportation solutions for daily commuters. The company offers shared electric bike rental services designed to integrate bicycles into the urban transport network. By providing accessible parking facilities and rental options, Tembici enables both public and private entities, including residential and corporate clients, to navigate urban environments efficiently while minimizing space usage.

Halan

Venture Round in 2021
Halan is a ride-hailing application based in Cairo, Egypt, that specializes in providing two and three-wheeler vehicle rides and on-demand logistics services. Founded in November 2017, the platform allows users to request motorbike or tuk-tuk rides and order food or goods for delivery via motorbikes and cargo tricycles. In addition to catering to individual customers, Halan offers smart-tech last-mile delivery solutions to support both large organizations and small businesses in their distribution and supply chain needs. The application enhances convenience and safety for users while providing drivers with opportunities for incremental business. Halan has established partnerships with notable fast-food chains such as McDonald’s, KFC, and Pizza Hut, further solidifying its presence in the logistics and ride-hailing market.

BusRight

Seed Round in 2021
BusRight is a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to improve student transportation and customer experience by optimizing core processes for route planning, tracking and real-time reporting of School Bus locations, student ridership, and multi-channel communications between all committed stakeholders.

Hitch

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a ride-sharing platform designed to offer promising and joyful intercity transportation to customers. The company's platform permits pre-booking rides to concerts, airports and intercity trips and specializes in rides over a distance of a hundred miles aiming to replace traditional methods of traveling intercity such as trains and buses, enabling travelers to travel long distances at a low price.

Tembici

Venture Round in 2021
Tembici is a prominent micro-mobility company in Latin America, specializing in first and last mile transportation solutions for daily commuters. The company offers shared electric bike rental services designed to integrate bicycles into the urban transport network. By providing accessible parking facilities and rental options, Tembici enables both public and private entities, including residential and corporate clients, to navigate urban environments efficiently while minimizing space usage.

Landline

Venture Round in 2020
The Landline Company operates a bus transportation network. It provides passengers to book tickets and schedule buses from Mankato and Duluth to Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. The Landline Company was formerly known as The Rocket Bus Corp. and changed its name to The Landline Company in October 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Hawthorne, California.

Zumpy

Venture Round in 2020
Zumpy is a Brazilian company that operates a logistics platform focused on addressing mobility challenges. The company provides an application for carpooling, facilitating shared transportation solutions. Additionally, Zumpy's platform includes features that support secure and scalable delivery services, optimizing delivery routes to minimize transit times. It offers online tracking capabilities, allowing businesses to enhance their operations and ensure timely service to their customers. By integrating technology into its services, Zumpy aims to improve efficiency in both transportation and logistics.

Grow Mobility

Venture Round in 2020
Grow Mobility is a micromobility and payments platform based in Latin America, formed from the merger of Grin, a Mexican scooter pioneer, and Yellow, a Brazilian multimodal and payment provider. The company focuses on offering electric bikes and scooters to enhance urban mobility solutions. Currently operating in stealth mode, Grow aims to address transportation challenges in the region by providing accessible and sustainable alternatives to traditional transportation methods.

Venuxx

Venture Round in 2019
Venuxx is an urban mobility platform platform and a mobile app that connects women exclusively. More than securing security, which is already a differential of the app, we seek to strengthen WOMEN! A lucrative option for anyone who wants to get their financial freedom and their right to come and go. - Customized service - Personalized service

Fretadão

Seed Round in 2018
Fretadão believes shared charter vehicles are the transport of the future, it's the way for cities to grow in a sustainable way, reducing congestion, GHG emissions and providing a better quality of life. The concentration of activities, services and opportunities attracts people to the cities, making urban mobility a huge challenge. Every day thousands of people face traffic jam, crowded and inefficient public transportation. Companies also face difficulties providing mobility for their employees, generating waste, unproductiveness and consequently higher unemployment. Through our innovative solution linking technology, people management and shared transportation, we power a marketplace of charters where people can find the best choice to commute and allows companies to structure the transportation of their employees. Fretadão wants to make commute healthier, more productive and less stressful, providing awesome quality and affordable transportation for every people that live far from their work besides strengthen sustainable urban development in the cities.

Zumpy

Seed Round in 2018
Zumpy is a Brazilian company that operates a logistics platform focused on addressing mobility challenges. The company provides an application for carpooling, facilitating shared transportation solutions. Additionally, Zumpy's platform includes features that support secure and scalable delivery services, optimizing delivery routes to minimize transit times. It offers online tracking capabilities, allowing businesses to enhance their operations and ensure timely service to their customers. By integrating technology into its services, Zumpy aims to improve efficiency in both transportation and logistics.

Aim

Venture Round in 2018
Aim is a platform that connects users to their transport and offers a digital ecosystem for the transport and logistics market.

MobQi

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Developer of a ride-booking application designed to improve urban mobility. The company's application uses an integrated system that allows the management and sharing of urban mobility data, enabling users to move through the city in a hassle-free way.

Venuxx

Seed Round in 2018
Venuxx is an urban mobility platform platform and a mobile app that connects women exclusively. More than securing security, which is already a differential of the app, we seek to strengthen WOMEN! A lucrative option for anyone who wants to get their financial freedom and their right to come and go. - Customized service - Personalized service

Milênio Bus

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Milênio Bus LTDA. is a Brazilian company based in São Paulo, established in 2018, that specializes in developing advanced systems utilizing artificial intelligence and IoT technology for public transport. The company's primary product is a real-time passenger counting system that provides critical data such as the number of passengers on each city bus, the availability of vacant seats, and the estimated time of arrival at the next station. Milênio Bus also offers a comprehensive fleet management platform that enhances operational efficiency by optimizing routes and improving loading and unloading processes. Through the integration of hardware, applications, and software, the company aims to improve the functionality of public transportation systems and assist transit authorities in making informed decisions.

Mobilitee

Seed Round in 2018
Mobilitee is a corporate platform for managing and optimizing expenses with taxi and private services. Mobilitee is an early stage startup based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, focused on smart urban mobility. It is a B2B SaaS solution that comprises a mobile app for company employees, which works as a kind of "Trivago" of taxis and ride-hailing corporte services, and a web dashboard for the company managers.

Cabify

Series E in 2018
Cabify is a ride-sharing company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It operates in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, offering a web and mobile app for car booking services. The company prioritizes the experience of both passengers and drivers, striving to provide fair pricing and improve the overall door-to-door journey. Cabify aims to enhance accessibility in transportation, believing that better transport solutions contribute positively to cities and communities.

Bicycle Al

Venture Round in 2017
Bicycle Al

Tesloop

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Tesloop, Inc. provides road transportation of passengers in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

BrasilbyBus

Seed Round in 2013
BrasilbyBus operates as a marketplace for intercity road travel in Brazil, offering an online platform that allows users to book bus tickets for various destinations across the country. This service enables travelers to easily plan and manage their journeys by providing access to a wide range of bus routes and schedules. The platform simplifies the ticket booking process, ensuring that users can conveniently secure their travel arrangements in advance.
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