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 Social Network

X (formerly Twitter)

Venture Round in 2025
Twitter is a social networking platform that facilitates the exchange of micro-blogs, known as "tweets," which can be up to 280 characters in length. Launched in 2006, it allows users to send and read tweets through various means, including web browsers, SMS, and mobile applications. With over 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million active users, Twitter serves as a global real-time communications platform. Its diverse user base includes world leaders, athletes, entertainers, and news organizations, contributing to its role as a significant source of information and engagement. The platform is available in more than 35 languages and has a strong presence in major cities worldwide, with headquarters in San Francisco and offices across the United States and internationally.

Circle

Series B in 2024
Circle is a community platform designed to facilitate discussions, memberships, and content creation for creators. Founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen, the company aims to empower creators by providing tools that foster connection and engagement within their communities. By integrating various aspects of community management, Circle simplifies the process for creators to build and maintain their audiences, enhancing their ability to share content and interact meaningfully with members. The platform caters to the evolving needs of creators in a digital landscape, positioning itself as an essential resource for those looking to cultivate and monetize their communities.

Cyabra

Venture Round in 2023
Cyabra is a technology company specializing in AI-driven social threat intelligence. It develops a platform designed to detect and mitigate online threats such as fake profiles, malicious actors, bot networks, and generative AI content across social media. This platform translates these threats into actionable insights, enabling clients to protect their brand reputations, combat disinformation campaigns, and safeguard public identities proactively.

Magikk

Venture Round in 2023
Magikk is a Rio de Janeiro-based company that operates a mobile application focused on social currency. The platform is designed to facilitate a socially responsible marketplace for digital currency, allowing users to earn rewards for donations and volunteer work through a unique currency system called karma. This currency can be utilized to purchase goods and services from affiliated businesses, thereby encouraging corporate engagement and attracting new customers. By connecting individuals with meaningful causes and providing incentives, Magikk aims to foster a community where social responsibility and consumerism intersect.

Bússola Social

Venture Round in 2022
Bússola Social is a provider of management software specifically designed for social welfare projects. The company focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of social development initiatives by making technology accessible to professionals in the third sector. Its software includes a range of tools such as a task manager, lead tracker, decision-making support, promotion capabilities, and a daily planner. These features empower project managers to efficiently track, manage, and control social welfare initiatives, ultimately aiming to enhance access to education, health, culture, leisure, work, employment, and income for the communities they serve.

Fanbase

Venture Round in 2022
Fanbase is a company that specializes in fan management, providing a centralized platform to aggregate and analyze fan data. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Fanbase helps sports organizations, clubs, leagues, athletes, artists, and event organizers enhance their relationships with fans by understanding their data. The platform enables users to create fully customized digital campaigns, allowing organizations to maximize engagement and business opportunities with their audience. By focusing on data management, Fanbase empowers clients to activate their fan relationships more effectively, fostering stronger connections between fans and their favorite teams or events.

Uncovered

Venture Round in 2022
Uncovered is a software company focused on developing a platform aimed at solving cold cases, particularly murders and mysteries. By integrating data and analytics with the collective efforts of a community that includes citizen detectives, advocates, and true-crime enthusiasts, Uncovered provides families with resources to navigate the complexities of unresolved cases. The company seeks to foster a collaborative environment that aids in the pursuit of justice, peace, and closure for those affected by these tragedies.

Joy

Series B in 2022
Creating a shared home is hard and time consuming. Joy is the future of co-living. Founded by Gustavo Carvalho and Rafael Rebouças the company offers private rooms in fully furnished and professionally managed apartments with weekly cleaning. And uses a matchmaking algorithm to help you find the perfect roommate.

Polen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Polen is a company based in Curitiba, Brazil, that specializes in enhancing e-commerce through social responsibility initiatives. It operates an online platform designed to facilitate donations as part of the shopping experience, ensuring that each virtual cart contributes to a cause. Polen manages the entire process, allowing e-commerce businesses to integrate charitable actions seamlessly while providing recognition and rewards for their contributions. The company's mission is to transform online shopping into a socially impactful activity, making it essential for consumers to see positive social effects from their purchases. Polen's platform aims to connect companies with social causes in a secure and transparent manner, allowing for automated and measurable cause marketing strategies that benefit both businesses and the communities they support.

Wander

Seed Round in 2021
Wander is a social mobile messaging app.

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.

Facily

Series D in 2021
Facily is a social commerce marketplace operating in Latin America that focuses on low-ticket items, aiming to provide competitive pricing and efficient logistics to lower-income neighborhoods. The platform offers a unique shopping experience by allowing users to purchase products together with friends, directly from producers and manufacturers. It incorporates gamification elements, such as quizzes and games, to enhance engagement and incentivizes users through rewards for inviting others. Additionally, Facily promotes community buying by collaborating with local leaders and influencers, fostering a sense of connection among users while enabling them to access goods at better rates with fast delivery.

Gobillion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gobillion is a social e-commerce platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New Delhi and Bangalore, India. The company focuses on transforming the online shopping experience by facilitating group purchases through its "Team Buy" model. This innovative approach allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to collectively buy groceries and household essentials. By leveraging the power of group buying, Gobillion helps customers save money on their purchases, making everyday shopping more economical and social.

Jet Media Network

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jet Media Network is a media network operator focused on developing personalized digital platforms for high-profile athletes and celebrities. The company specializes in creating data-driven, next-generation media networks that empower communities and facilitate direct engagement between public figures and their fans. By offering bespoke mobile destinations, Jet Media Network enhances the ability of athletes and celebrities to connect with their audiences, fostering a more interactive and immersive fan experience.

Yours

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yours, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing a blockchain-based mobile application that allows users to earn bitcoin cash through content creation, voting, and commenting. The platform serves as a social network focused on cryptocurrency, enabling contributors to monetize their interactions within the community. As of September 29, 2020, Yours, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Bayesian Group.

Hank

Venture Round in 2021
Hank operates as an online platform facilitating social connections among adults aged 55 and above within their local communities. It curates group activities such as pickleball, canasta, and skydiving, encouraging users to engage offline after initial online interactions. Members can discover Hank-organized events or create their own based on shared interests, fostering new friendships and experiences tailored to this demographic's preferences.

Betterfly

Series B in 2021
Betterfly is a purpose-driven wellbeing and insurance platform founded in 2018 and based in Santiago, Chile. The company aims to enhance the health and wellbeing of organizations and their employees while fostering positive community impact. Betterfly's innovative platform rewards individuals for adopting healthy habits by providing life insurance coverage that increases daily. Additionally, every healthy activity is converted into a charitable donation, enabling businesses to integrate corporate wellness and social responsibility into their employee benefits programs. This unique approach not only promotes individual health but also encourages corporate engagement in community support.

Facily

Series C in 2021
Facily is a social commerce marketplace operating in Latin America that focuses on low-ticket items, aiming to provide competitive pricing and efficient logistics to lower-income neighborhoods. The platform offers a unique shopping experience by allowing users to purchase products together with friends, directly from producers and manufacturers. It incorporates gamification elements, such as quizzes and games, to enhance engagement and incentivizes users through rewards for inviting others. Additionally, Facily promotes community buying by collaborating with local leaders and influencers, fostering a sense of connection among users while enabling them to access goods at better rates with fast delivery.

turntable.fm

Venture Round in 2021
Turntable.fm is a project of [Seth Goldstein](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-goldstein) and [Billy Chasen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/billy-chasen), the two guys who brought us [Stickybits](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stickybits). Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people and discovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify. In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform.

Ayana Therapy

Seed Round in 2021
Ayana Therapy is a telehealth platform dedicated to providing mental health services to marginalized and intersectional communities. By utilizing a smart matchmaking algorithm, the platform connects users with licensed therapists who share an understanding of their cultural backgrounds and identity traits, including race, gender identity, class, sexuality, and ethnicity. Ayana Therapy aims to address the significant barriers faced by people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals in accessing mental health care, such as high costs, stigma, and a lack of cultural competency within the healthcare system. The platform fosters a user-friendly environment that offers a safe space for individuals whose voices have been historically dismissed or neglected, ensuring that they receive the mental health support they need.

Foster

Seed Round in 2021
Foster is a developer of an online social network platform specifically designed for writers and editors. The platform enhances the quality of written work by facilitating peer feedback and professional editing. It allows writers to submit drafts for review by qualified contributors, who, in turn, earn social capital as their suggestions are integrated into the final pieces. This collaborative environment not only encourages constructive dialogue among writing team members but also fosters relationship building and helps deepen their subject-matter expertise. Through its innovative approach, Foster aims to elevate the writing process and support the professional development of its users by leveraging community collaboration.

Myplace

Venture Round in 2021
MyPlace is a social networking site that lets users display their private spaces to their network. The platform is currently running a quick-paced private beta for its international user base. Their platform features the ability to let users list their properties and share them with people they trust, enabling users to host and stay with friends.

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.

Gather

Series A in 2021
Gather Town is a developer of a social platform that facilitates virtual interactions and connections among individuals. The platform enables users to create customized 2D virtual spaces for a variety of events, including conferences, weddings, classes, game nights, and office gatherings. By providing these customizable environments, Gather Town allows participants to engage authentically and meaningfully, overcoming physical limitations and fostering communication among friends, coworkers, and community members. The platform serves as a versatile tool for diverse social and professional occasions, enhancing the experience of gathering in a digital landscape.

Bevy - Everything Startup

Venture Round in 2021
Bevy is an app for startup ecosystem that will make it easier for everyone involved in the startup world to connect with each other

Curtn

Seed Round in 2020
Curtn is a mobile dating application aimed at enhancing face-to-face human interaction. The platform allows users to explore short-form videos and engage in video chats, creating a unique environment for online dating. By fostering a safe space for self-expression, Curtn enables individuals to discover and connect with new people. The application's design prioritizes authentic interactions, facilitating meaningful connections in the digital dating landscape.

Zingeroo

Seed Round in 2020
Zingeroo, Inc. is a fintech startup based in Plymouth, Massachusetts, founded in 2019. The company operates an online platform that transforms stock trading into a competitive and social experience. By allowing users to challenge friends to financial market games, Zingeroo aims to make investing more accessible and educational. The platform encourages users to learn about trading options in an interactive manner, enabling them to build personal portfolios and track their performance against peers. Through this innovative approach, Zingeroo seeks to engage individuals in the financial markets while fostering a community of learners and competitors.

Gather

Seed Round in 2020
Gather Town is a developer of a social platform that facilitates virtual interactions and connections among individuals. The platform enables users to create customized 2D virtual spaces for a variety of events, including conferences, weddings, classes, game nights, and office gatherings. By providing these customizable environments, Gather Town allows participants to engage authentically and meaningfully, overcoming physical limitations and fostering communication among friends, coworkers, and community members. The platform serves as a versatile tool for diverse social and professional occasions, enhancing the experience of gathering in a digital landscape.

Paway

Venture Round in 2020
Paway is a company founded by Jason Meltzer, the former CEO of Wag, aiming to enhance the pet care community for the next generation of pet owners, particularly Gen-Z and Millennials. The company offers a pet tracking application that provides real-time safety alerts and neighborhood tips to ensure the safety of pets during walks. Its platform allows users to create and share pet profiles with a network of caregivers, facilitating communication and sharing of experiences. Paway also includes pet care professionals in its community, providing them with software to help manage and grow their businesses. By connecting pet care professionals with pet parents, Paway addresses consumer demand while lowering the costs of pet care services and fostering loyalty among pet professionals. The platform collects valuable user data, including pet details and location, to further enhance its offerings and community engagement.

Gobillion

Seed Round in 2020
Gobillion is a social e-commerce platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in New Delhi and Bangalore, India. The company focuses on transforming the online shopping experience by facilitating group purchases through its "Team Buy" model. This innovative approach allows users to create shopping rooms with friends and family, enabling them to collectively buy groceries and household essentials. By leveraging the power of group buying, Gobillion helps customers save money on their purchases, making everyday shopping more economical and social.

Ayana Therapy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ayana Therapy is a telehealth platform dedicated to providing mental health services to marginalized and intersectional communities. By utilizing a smart matchmaking algorithm, the platform connects users with licensed therapists who share an understanding of their cultural backgrounds and identity traits, including race, gender identity, class, sexuality, and ethnicity. Ayana Therapy aims to address the significant barriers faced by people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals in accessing mental health care, such as high costs, stigma, and a lack of cultural competency within the healthcare system. The platform fosters a user-friendly environment that offers a safe space for individuals whose voices have been historically dismissed or neglected, ensuring that they receive the mental health support they need.

Foster

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Foster is a developer of an online social network platform specifically designed for writers and editors. The platform enhances the quality of written work by facilitating peer feedback and professional editing. It allows writers to submit drafts for review by qualified contributors, who, in turn, earn social capital as their suggestions are integrated into the final pieces. This collaborative environment not only encourages constructive dialogue among writing team members but also fosters relationship building and helps deepen their subject-matter expertise. Through its innovative approach, Foster aims to elevate the writing process and support the professional development of its users by leveraging community collaboration.

Bevy - Everything Startup

Venture Round in 2020
Bevy is an app for startup ecosystem that will make it easier for everyone involved in the startup world to connect with each other

Myplace

Seed Round in 2020
MyPlace is a social networking site that lets users display their private spaces to their network. The platform is currently running a quick-paced private beta for its international user base. Their platform features the ability to let users list their properties and share them with people they trust, enabling users to host and stay with friends.

turntable.fm

Seed Round in 2020
Turntable.fm is a project of [Seth Goldstein](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-goldstein) and [Billy Chasen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/billy-chasen), the two guys who brought us [Stickybits](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stickybits). Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people and discovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify. In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform.

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.

Passei Direto

Series B in 2020
Passei Direto S.A. is an academic social network based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that facilitates interactions among university students. Founded in 2012, the platform has attracted over 15 million users across more than 2,500 universities. It enables students to connect, share notes, review lectures, collaborate on homework, and seek assistance from peers. With a repository of over 3 million shared study materials, Passei Direto offers tools designed to enhance academic performance. Its Premium Plan provides access to exclusive content created by experts, including step-by-step solutions to exercises from popular textbooks, study plans featuring video lessons, and summaries for various subjects. The platform's primary goal is to support students in improving their grades and simplifying their study routines.

Polen

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Polen is a company based in Curitiba, Brazil, that specializes in enhancing e-commerce through social responsibility initiatives. It operates an online platform designed to facilitate donations as part of the shopping experience, ensuring that each virtual cart contributes to a cause. Polen manages the entire process, allowing e-commerce businesses to integrate charitable actions seamlessly while providing recognition and rewards for their contributions. The company's mission is to transform online shopping into a socially impactful activity, making it essential for consumers to see positive social effects from their purchases. Polen's platform aims to connect companies with social causes in a secure and transparent manner, allowing for automated and measurable cause marketing strategies that benefit both businesses and the communities they support.

Unsplash

Seed Round in 2019
Unsplash, Inc. is a photography community portal founded in 2013 and based in Montreal, Canada. The company operates an online platform that provides high-resolution photographs for free use under the Unsplash License, promoting an open creative ecosystem. Users can upload their photographs, which are then curated by a team of photo editors. This service allows clients to access a diverse collection of copyright-free images that can be utilized for various purposes, including album art, advertisements, and product designs. Unsplash aims to support creators and enhance accessibility to quality imagery for all.

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.

Uncovered

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Uncovered is a software company focused on developing a platform aimed at solving cold cases, particularly murders and mysteries. By integrating data and analytics with the collective efforts of a community that includes citizen detectives, advocates, and true-crime enthusiasts, Uncovered provides families with resources to navigate the complexities of unresolved cases. The company seeks to foster a collaborative environment that aids in the pursuit of justice, peace, and closure for those affected by these tragedies.

Juristas

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Juristas is a publisher of online news focused on the legal sector, providing a platform for legal services and advice. The company's news portal features various resources, including petition templates, document creation tools, and thematic forums, facilitating discussions on specific legal topics. Additionally, Juristas offers workflow tools for procedural components and digital certification services, allowing users to share insights and knowledge within a legal community. Through its comprehensive offerings, Juristas aims to assist individuals in navigating legal matters and staying updated on relevant jurisprudence.

Passei Direto

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Passei Direto S.A. is an academic social network based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that facilitates interactions among university students. Founded in 2012, the platform has attracted over 15 million users across more than 2,500 universities. It enables students to connect, share notes, review lectures, collaborate on homework, and seek assistance from peers. With a repository of over 3 million shared study materials, Passei Direto offers tools designed to enhance academic performance. Its Premium Plan provides access to exclusive content created by experts, including step-by-step solutions to exercises from popular textbooks, study plans featuring video lessons, and summaries for various subjects. The platform's primary goal is to support students in improving their grades and simplifying their study routines.

Circle

Venture Round in 2018
Circle is a community platform designed to facilitate discussions, memberships, and content creation for creators. Founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen, the company aims to empower creators by providing tools that foster connection and engagement within their communities. By integrating various aspects of community management, Circle simplifies the process for creators to build and maintain their audiences, enhancing their ability to share content and interact meaningfully with members. The platform caters to the evolving needs of creators in a digital landscape, positioning itself as an essential resource for those looking to cultivate and monetize their communities.

Unsplash

Series A in 2018
Unsplash, Inc. is a photography community portal founded in 2013 and based in Montreal, Canada. The company operates an online platform that provides high-resolution photographs for free use under the Unsplash License, promoting an open creative ecosystem. Users can upload their photographs, which are then curated by a team of photo editors. This service allows clients to access a diverse collection of copyright-free images that can be utilized for various purposes, including album art, advertisements, and product designs. Unsplash aims to support creators and enhance accessibility to quality imagery for all.

HeroSpark

Venture Round in 2017
HeroSpark is a comprehensive digital entrepreneurship platform that connects educators with learners, facilitating the creation and management of online courses. The platform enables instructors to develop branded course portals, manage payments, and engage with students, all within a single interface. By providing tools for knowledge management and learning, HeroSpark supports both individual educators and businesses, fostering a community that inspires continuous growth and development in the realm of distance learning. Through its innovative approach, HeroSpark transforms the aspirations of entrepreneurs into reality, equipping them with the necessary resources to succeed in the digital education space.

Mithril

Venture Round in 2017
Mithril is a decentralized social network ecosystem that leverages blockchain technology to reward content creators for their contributions. Founded in 2017 and based in Taipei, Taiwan, the company operates Lit, a platform that facilitates social mining, and Mithril Vault, a digital asset management solution for Mithril tokens and other cryptocurrencies. Mithril's ERC-20 token is designed to be integrated into both new and existing social media networks, allowing users to earn rewards for their engagement. The company aims to cater to the needs of younger social media users, particularly early adopters of cryptocurrency, by providing opportunities to use its tokens across various applications, including dating services and premium content. Additionally, Mithril plans to establish a Merchant Network to enable retail acceptance of its tokens, starting with markets in Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, thereby creating a desirable ecosystem for both users and retail partners.

Poppin

Seed Round in 2017
Poppin is a mobile dating platform that enhances the dating experience by connecting users through shared social and music events. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the application integrates with users' social media profiles, allowing them to discover who attends the same events. This unique approach encourages users to meet new people without the pressure of traditional dating, as they can easily see mutual interests and confirm attendance at events. By facilitating a smooth transition from online interactions to in-person meetings, Poppin aims to increase the likelihood of successful connections compared to conventional dating apps.

Polen

Venture Round in 2016
Polen is a company based in Curitiba, Brazil, that specializes in enhancing e-commerce through social responsibility initiatives. It operates an online platform designed to facilitate donations as part of the shopping experience, ensuring that each virtual cart contributes to a cause. Polen manages the entire process, allowing e-commerce businesses to integrate charitable actions seamlessly while providing recognition and rewards for their contributions. The company's mission is to transform online shopping into a socially impactful activity, making it essential for consumers to see positive social effects from their purchases. Polen's platform aims to connect companies with social causes in a secure and transparent manner, allowing for automated and measurable cause marketing strategies that benefit both businesses and the communities they support.

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.

Poppin

Venture Round in 2016
Poppin is a mobile dating platform that enhances the dating experience by connecting users through shared social and music events. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the application integrates with users' social media profiles, allowing them to discover who attends the same events. This unique approach encourages users to meet new people without the pressure of traditional dating, as they can easily see mutual interests and confirm attendance at events. By facilitating a smooth transition from online interactions to in-person meetings, Poppin aims to increase the likelihood of successful connections compared to conventional dating apps.

Passei Direto

Series B in 2016
Passei Direto S.A. is an academic social network based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that facilitates interactions among university students. Founded in 2012, the platform has attracted over 15 million users across more than 2,500 universities. It enables students to connect, share notes, review lectures, collaborate on homework, and seek assistance from peers. With a repository of over 3 million shared study materials, Passei Direto offers tools designed to enhance academic performance. Its Premium Plan provides access to exclusive content created by experts, including step-by-step solutions to exercises from popular textbooks, study plans featuring video lessons, and summaries for various subjects. The platform's primary goal is to support students in improving their grades and simplifying their study routines.
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