Bossanova Investimentos

Bossa Nova Investimentos e Administração S.A. is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2010. Specializing in pre-seed, seed, startup, and early-stage investments, the firm focuses on technology sectors such as software, service development, mobile applications, and B2B solutions. It is recognized as a leading investor in the pre-seed stage within Brazil and has expanded its investment activities to include companies in the United States. Bossa Nova typically invests between R$0.1 million and R$0.8 million per project, primarily through minority investments. Additionally, the firm manages the Bossa Nova Sports Tech Fund, which targets consumer and business products, information technology, wellness, and gaming sectors, with a preference for investments ranging from R$0.1 million to R$0.3 million across multiple companies.

Rodolfo Santos

Director

Past deals in Mobile Apps

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2021
Rankmyapp Software E Servicos De Internet S.A. develops an app store optimization tool, ASO for applications that enable users to get visibility and organic downloads on the application stores. Its algorithm monitors and helps users to improve in the areas, including title, description, icon, screenshot, category, keyword, and competitor. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

MessageParty

Venture Round in 2021
MessageParty is a new kind of mobile blogging service. Users can create and consume content from mobile browsers, a native iphone app, or the web.

Aspecto

Venture Round in 2020
API testing automation and production driven development platform

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2020
Rankmyapp Software E Servicos De Internet S.A. develops an app store optimization tool, ASO for applications that enable users to get visibility and organic downloads on the application stores. Its algorithm monitors and helps users to improve in the areas, including title, description, icon, screenshot, category, keyword, and competitor. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2019
Rankmyapp Software E Servicos De Internet S.A. develops an app store optimization tool, ASO for applications that enable users to get visibility and organic downloads on the application stores. Its algorithm monitors and helps users to improve in the areas, including title, description, icon, screenshot, category, keyword, and competitor. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Eats For You

Seed Round in 2019
Eats For You is a food delivery mobile app for ordering home-cooked meal. It connects families who love cooking, people who are looking for an extra or main income, and those who want to eat home-cooked meal at a fair price.

Eats For You

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Eats For You is a food delivery mobile app for ordering home-cooked meal. It connects families who love cooking, people who are looking for an extra or main income, and those who want to eat home-cooked meal at a fair price.

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.

AppOnboard

Venture Round in 2017
AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.

Nomad

Venture Round in 2017
Nomad builds elegantly designed, rugged, minimalist smartphone and lifestyle accessories. Tools for the modern Nomad.

RankMyApp

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Rankmyapp Software E Servicos De Internet S.A. develops an app store optimization tool, ASO for applications that enable users to get visibility and organic downloads on the application stores. Its algorithm monitors and helps users to improve in the areas, including title, description, icon, screenshot, category, keyword, and competitor. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Mobils

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Mobils Ad Solutions Brasil Ltda., established in 2014 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, specializes in mobile advertising and marketing services. As a subsidiary of glispa GmbH, Mobils offers a comprehensive range of mobile advertising solutions tailored for premium publishers, applications, games, and ad networks. The company's focus is on enhancing user downloads and engagement while driving organic traffic to improve user retention and purchasing behavior. Mobils also emphasizes the seamless integration of native advertisements, which are designed to increase click-through and conversion rates, thereby meeting the growing demand for efficiency in mobile activation.