Darwin Startups

Darwin Startups is a complete ecosystem for entrepreneurs and startups to evolve. We educate, support and invest on courageous talents willing to build tech solutions and business models that can conquer an industry. Our Early Stage VC Fund is Darwin Startups, a startup accelerator based out of Florianópolis /SC. Our investments range from USD 50K to USD 150K. Together with market leaders corporations, B3, RTM, Safra and TransUnion, Darwin looks for early stage startups focused on the financial, big data & analytics and telecommunications industries. We are Human-Driven! We work and grow together!

Marcos Mueller

CEO

Otavio Augusto Picasky

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Yapoli

Pre Seed Round in 2022
B2B SaaS company that optimizes the management and distribution of digital files for the industry in a safe, fast and measurable manner.

netspaces

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Real Estate properties digitalization via Netspaces Blockchain platform

Uffa

Seed Round in 2021
Uffa offers debit-as-a-service solutions for managing receivables, automating procedures, and improving message flow. By doing this, the business reduces costs, reduces criminality, and also keeps up a relationship with its customers.

Débito Direto

Seed Round in 2021
Gateway de APIs que buscam diversas contas a pagar das empresas e fornecem para instituições financeiras, desde DDA até contas de consumo como água, energia e impostos como IPVA, IPTU, DAS/MEI e outros.

CondoConta

Seed Round in 2021
CondoConta is a digital bank that offers financial solutions for condos and property managers. It allows managers to have quick money in the condominium account in an easy way, without bureaucracy, and, most importantly, all at once. The digital bank provides real-time transparency for condominiums at no cost, in the palm of your hand. Administrator and superintendent are in sync, speaking the same language and devoting time to what matters: improving tenants' lives. In addition to the free account, fintech provides products designed specifically for liquidators and administrators, such as real-time accountability, bill and balance sheet automation, credit for financing, insurance, condominium fee anticipation, and a digital store.

MindMiners

Seed Round in 2021
MindMiners is a technology company that specializes in digital research and deliver marketing intelligence to i's customers. The company rely on MeSeems, a social network for sharing opinions and experiences. There are over 2 million users registered and ready to respond to research on your brand, product or service. That's why we deliver our projects in half the market time.

MySide

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MySide is a Brazilian startup dedicated to transforming the real estate buying experience through a customer-centric digital approach. MySide positions itself as the "best friend of home buyers," providing an end-to-end solution that aligns the buyer's interests, eliminating the conflicts of interest inherent in traditional real estate brokerage models. MySide operates within a highly inefficient and chaotic real estate market, where the property purchasing process is not yet adapted to the digital age. The company has built an efficient and scalable digital sales engine, which relies not on individual broker talent but on a robust technological platform that integrates data, automation, and artificial intelligence. With its innovative approach, MySide has successfully tested and validated its model across several regions in Brazil, demonstrating strong traction and rapid expansion capability. The company has achieved significant growth, with a more than doubling of its gross merchandise value (GMV) year-over-year, maintaining a gross margin well above industry standards and a highly favorable LTV/CAC ratio.

OceanDrop

Seed Round in 2020
OceanDrop is a Brazilian nutrition company that offers products with advance nutritional quality. It is specialized in nutrition with microalgae, which are microscopic plants that offer a great diversity of nutrients essential for your body in a practical, natural, and sustainable way. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil.

EcoTrust

Pre Seed Round in 2020
EcoTrust introduces an innovative CAASM platform that redefines cybersecurity by focusing on prioritizing critical business risks. Our solution offers a consolidated view of vulnerabilities and attack surfaces, employing advanced AI to filter out noise and concentrate on what truly matters, enabling security teams to do more with less. It integrates data from over 50 technologies, providing a comprehensive view of cyber risks, enhancing operational efficiency, and improving security decision accuracy. Our platform not only identifies and holistically visualizes risks and vulnerabilities through 6 native scanners but also prioritizes the greatest risks based on technical and business contexts. This optimizes resource allocation, reducing the time needed for critical fixes and improving threat response capabilities. EcoTrust also delivers treatment recommendations generated by AI, speeding up the response to critical vulnerabilities and improving key cyber risk indicators. We offer strategic, tactical, and operational dashboards and reports that provide valuable insights for decision-making, along with alert automation and a history of vulnerabilities accessible via consumption APIs. EcoTrust is the ultimate solution for businesses seeking a strong, efficient, and proactive security posture, perfectly adapting to local needs and global challenges in the cybersecurity landscape.

Manfing

Pre Seed Round in 2020
A Manfing ajuda industrias, varejistas e instituições financeiras a entenderem o comportamento e consumo de seus clientes, para que possam tomar ações mais assertivas. Com isso, os clientes Manfing passam a ter uma previsão de vendas e demanda alinhada a dados de mercado, podendo aumentar seu faturamento e fidelização dos clientes. A plataforma da Manfing utiliza inteligencia artificial para: -Reativar clientes; -Entender o consumo e comportamento; -Recomendar novos produtos; -Pricing interno e de concorrentes; -Encontrar potencial de recompra ou novos SKUs; -Criar campanhas de WhatsApp para o público alvo;

MindMiners

Series A in 2019
MindMiners is a technology company that specializes in digital research and deliver marketing intelligence to i's customers. The company rely on MeSeems, a social network for sharing opinions and experiences. There are over 2 million users registered and ready to respond to research on your brand, product or service. That's why we deliver our projects in half the market time.

Flow Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2019
A partir de uma solução White label a Flow Finance cria linhas de crédito personalizadas para o seu usuário.

Clube do Promotor

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Clube do Promotor aims to improve technical knowledge, value, and enable sales promoters to increase their income in Brazil.

goLiza

Seed Round in 2019
We are a unique platform for registration and validation of company's approval power and data, so that investors, as well as investment funds, do not need to repeat the long process of making the data available when performing capital market operations from other brokers or securitizers, leaving the journey simpler and more agile to the investor.

Convenix

Pre Seed Round in 2019
CONVENIX acts by accrediting several establishments where the employees of the covenied companies can consume without having to pay any cent in the act since the payment is made through a discount on the sheet. An application that allows companies to offer a great benefit, motivating your team, adding value to your brand and best of all ... without paying anything for it.

Mercadapp

Seed Round in 2019
Mercadapp is a Brazilian app for grocery shopping where users can purchase by swiping items and add it to their cart. Users can easily edit and remove products from their cart, search for products that are looking for and interact easily with mixes of flavors and fragrances. Users can also schedule the time for delivery, enter data and choose the form of payment.

Soul.Med

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Somos uma Fintech de meios de pagamentos, focada em prestadores de serviços na área de saúde e bem-estar.!

Payface

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Is the global leading company for payments with facial recognition.

NFe.io

Seed Round in 2019
NFe.io is an invoice issuance system that automates boring tasks and even helps anyone to gain performance, time, and money. Through its system, businesses are able to calculate taxes, eliminate manual invoicing processes, automatically send e-mails to customers with invoice details, and more.

DBJus

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Com o DBJus você pode realizar desde a descoberta de um novo processo judicial onde seu devedor possui ativos a receber, mapear grandes carteiras de contencioso, melhorar sua competividade e descobrir riscos e oportunidades que seriam ignorados sem os dados jurídicos do DBJus.

Harmo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Harmo is a marketing platform for physical store chains. Their platform integrates review management, local SEO, and multi-metric research, creating a powerful machine that transforms their customers into the main channel for acquiring new customers.

HandOver

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We are a logistic startup that through assets, such as smart lockers, help companies to increase their logistic efficiency in the last mile operation, allowing faster and lower-cost deliveries. Smart lockers close to consumers working as logistics transit points for goods, thus allowing more deliveries per day at a lower cost, and bringing more sustainability by enabling the operation of less problematic and more eco-friendly vehicles such as bicycles. The solution consists of smart lockers strategically close to consumers that are operated by professionals from carriers companies and e-commerce, to control the locker they can use our app, dashboard, or attendance screen.

KM Online

Angel Round in 2018
KM Online is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of mobile apps, SaaS, and the internet. Its SaaS platform helps a team to boost productivity by automating your expense management process.

Nextcode

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Take your Digital Onboarding to the next level, turning your document verification and users’ validation proccess more agile and scalable. Ideal solution for KYC proccess, Digital Onboarding and validation mat; Secure and scalable APIs available, which receives images, enabling proccess automation for information interpretation and validation. Ideal for credit assessment, profile and fraud detection operations. Areas of activity: Financial services, retail, ecommerce, document expertise, among others. As the market works with resolutions only up to 300dpi, their product recovers data in images from 72dpi.

Receiv

Pre Seed Round in 2018
O sistema inteligente de cobrança e contas a receber. Automatize as atividades do departamento e alcance a vida boa no contas a receber com a plataforma #1 das grandes corporações. A plataforma Receiv está transformando a forma como grandes empresas gerenciam contas a receber e processos de cobrança. Com uma abordagem inovadora, automatizamos tarefas operacionais e simplificamos significativamente o cotidiano das equipes financeiras. O resultado é uma redução na inadimplência, proporcionando aos clientes uma experiência excepcional. Nossa plataforma oferece múltiplos canais de comunicação para que os clientes possam resolver facilmente seus compromissos financeiros, garantindo satisfação e eficiência em cada interação. Diga adeus às tediosas tarefas manuais e dê as boas-vindas à facilidade e eficácia que a plataforma Receiv traz para suas operações financeiras. Experimente a vida boa no departamento com Receiv! A Receiv é flexível, customizável e integrável. Dentre as empresas que escolhem, inovam e são eficientes com a Receiv estão TOTVS, Grupo Ipiranga, RD Station, Seguros Unimed e Brinks. A Receiv tem como parceiros e investidores a Darwin Startups, Bossa Invest, B3, Neoway, TransUnion e RTM Venha conversar com a gente na casa Receiv no CUBO Itaú.

EasyJur

Pre Seed Round in 2018
EasyJur is a legal orchestration tool and agile software that develops solutions such as robots and a robust algorithm. The company's technology records and keeps track of litigation in every court in the nation, convert a lot of information into structured data, and keeps track of procedures involving an attorney's name. Their goal is to alter the way law enforcement officers work by fully eliminating manual and repetitive duties, improving results, and assisting them in regular tasks.

License Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2018
License Solutions is a brand licensing agency that offers licensing as a service.

CustomerX

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CustomerX is a full customer success management platform that helps companies to growth reducing churn following your customers' engagement, monitoring their needs and selling more. A closed deal is good, keep the recurrence is even better. CustomerX allows you to follow your customers from the sale until the renewal or upsell/cross-sell. Build customers journeys, monitor what features they use and how is the engagement with your SaaS, make NPS survey, create automations to scale customer success operation and have an accurate customers health score.

Planium

Pre Seed Round in 2018
PLANIUM is the operator of an online platform intended to provide health insurance. The platform modernizes the relationship between operators and their customers by providing personalized offers in an intuitive and completely digital process.

Omnihunter Tecnologia Ltda.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Why do we exist We believe that collaboration between people and organizations, through good conduct, innovation and technology, provides a more prosperous, safe and happy world, where every individual can find, recover and protect their most valuable assets. How we do Our ongoing commitment is to develop products, services and relationships that promote beauty of conduct, respect for people, scientific and technological advancement, wisdom, innovation in the way we do things and collective benefits. What we do All of this is materialized through the 1st Online to Offline asset recovery platform that connects people and organizations to a network of field agents empowered with intelligence and management resources. Our vision To be the ubiquitous solution in the world for locating, recovering and protecting goods and people.

Planium

Pre Seed Round in 2017
PLANIUM is the operator of an online platform intended to provide health insurance. The platform modernizes the relationship between operators and their customers by providing personalized offers in an intuitive and completely digital process.

Globalbot

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Globalbot is a software company. Chatbot platform software.
We are a passionate company for reviews. We are born from the passion of our founder in contributing to the choice of people for the best places to buy, to host, to dine, to visit or to have fun. We believe that the best advertising that exists is happy customers telling everyone about the best experiences they have had. Currently more than 90% of consumers say that reviews influence their purchasing decisions. Reviewr places all the power of public feedback in the hands of companies. We are the ultimate solution in online reputation management.

Nift - Recrutamento inteligente

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Nift helps recruiters find, qualify and engage the best talent. Nift creates technologies that boost results by recruiting professionals in companies.

DriveOn

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Through the powerful combination of Telemetry, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Blockchain, DriveOn want to empower drivers with strategic information about their mobility and drive them to driving perfection. And for that, we'll engage them by rewarding your information with Cryptomiles, the Drive Token Utility. With it you access the platform and consume all the available services of DriveOn. By plugging our hardware into the vehicle, you'll be able to generate your digital assets (tokens) as you send your mobility data to the platform. And these tokens can be exchanged on the platform for discounts with insurers, gas stations, dealers, auto parts, and many other services.

PagueVeloz

Seed Round in 2017
PagueVeloz is an online platform that offers payment services to its users. The company's range of payment services consist of ticket receipts, credit card receipts, SMS, bill payments, and check verifications. Furthermore, it offers customer credit consultation services to its users. It also provides its users with a mobile application for Android and iOS platforms. PagueVeloz was launched in 2013 and is based in Santa Catarina.

TotalVoice

Pre Seed Round in 2017
TotalVoice offers an application for voice and text messaging. It began operation in 2016, with its headquarters in Palhoça in Brazil.

NavarraTech

Pre Seed Round in 2017
NavarraTech specializes in variable income trading algorithms for financial market. The company works today on two fronts: developing specialized products for brokers and traders and carrying out projects linked to algotrading. Comprising its corporate structure, the company has professionals with wide experience in the financial and technological market, with passages by asset managers, variable income negotiation tables, brokers and developers of high-level technology. The company was founde din 2017.

O2OBOTS

Pre Seed Round in 2017
O2OBOTS develops a powerful artificial intelligence platform to distribute financial services using WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. Banks and Fintechs buy our solution - a powerful sales machine that uses artificial intelligence - to increase their online sales conversion rates and offer a new level of experience. O2OBOTS, financial services as easy as a good conversation. Anywhere! Anytime!

Goodticket

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Goodticket is a complete benefits management platform, will help your company manage and optimize the service in the HR industry, and give dynamism to its employees by enabling the crediting of up to 12 benefits on a single Goodticket Mastercard with the possibilities of withdrawal, bank transfer, account payments and cellular recharge.

Mercatório

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Precepts are payment requisitions arising from the conviction of government agencies and entities. That is, when a government loses an action in court, a Precatory is created, which has, in practice, indeterminate term for payment. Mercatório, the first totally virtual platform for the negotiation of Precatórios, was created in order to provide liquidity to those who hold this title and to facilitate the prospection of those who want to buy

CIANOVE

Pre Seed Round in 2017
CIANOVE provides product solutions and automation devices for civil construction. They also provide a communication system for construction that allows communication between floor workers, elevator operators, foremen, and the warehouse.

Horus Aeronaves

Series A in 2017
Horus Aircraft is a Santa Catarina-based company that was founded in 2014. Focused on the needs of its customers, the company is constantly developing to offer the best aero-drilling solutions with drones. Owning proprietary technologies, resulting from years of research and development encouraged by innovation programs available in Santa Catarina, the company still has integrated services such as the image processing platform, which facilitates the experience of users who already perform flights with drones and Have difficulty processing maps. With a young and innovative profile, Horus Aircraft is already a reference in the Brazilian drone market, it is recognized for the quality of its products, the active technical support and the excellent relationship with its customers. The courses and training of operation are carried out in theoretical and practical stages, which guarantees a safe operation of the equipment. The company emerged through an identification of market opportunity in mid-2010. At the time, the founding partners of Horus worked with unmanned aircraft construction on research projects at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, participating in national and international competitions , Winning even a Brazilian title in the year 2012. During this experience it was realized that conventional aerial photogrammetry was expensive and not very feasible since it was performed with manned aircraft. As such, the development of drone technology would make this type of service cheaper and more efficient, opening up a new market full of opportunities.

epHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2017
We are a Mobile-First Clinical Trials platform that also connects millions of people in Public Health. We've already reached 6 million people and currently work with major pharma companies, with high impact publications and on-going trials.

DAYBACK

Pre Seed Round in 2016
DAYBACK is a power player focused on products for commercial and industrial customers (B2B2C). We are manufacturers of wind turbines for energy generation in the urban environment, we are owners of energy monitoring technology (SaaS) and we commercialize, design and integrate solar photovoltaic energy.

ExchangeNow

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ExchangeNow operates in the foreign exchange market in Brazil, the United States, the European Union and Latin America. The company has developed and improved service operations with the support of mentors and participation in the country's largest acceleration programs, such as StartupFarm, SEED, DarwinStarter and InovAtiva Brasil.

Vality

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Vality is a financial technology that provides point-of-sale financing for online retail. It is committed to delivering online credit by utilizing alternative data to increase consumer buying power.

RepasseRápido

Seed Round in 2016
RepasseRápido is a B2B application where dealerships pass cars to retailers in real time. The company goal is to solve problems such as delay in the evaluation process used, corruption in the market, inventory formation, a market value of the new vehicle, revenue frustration on new ones, and high cost with specialized professionals. RepasseRapidowas founded in 2016 and currently operate in Santa Catarina and the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

VC-X Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2016
We are a startup that provides a complete platform to simplify the automation, management and acquisition of Telecom and IT for companies. We have done many amazing things in these 9 years of existence: we were accelerated by Darwin Startups, we created an unprecedented solution in the market, we merged with another startup, "Conta Mínima", and now we are part of the Senior Sistemas group. The result of it all? We help hundreds of companies to simplify the automation, management and acquisition of Telecom and IT. We dream big, we are revolutionizing the Telecom and IT market in Brazil and we want to have professionals in our team who are willing to positively impact people's lives.

Minerador

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Companies - around the world - pay about 50% more expensive than they should in their telephony plans, to cover the costs of selling the indirect channel of the operators. The Minerador automates and optimizes much of this work, making it possible for operators to offer plans with more aggressive prices, benefiting the end customer.

Dia Estúdio

Angel Round in 2015
Dia Estúdio fosters creativity by connecting influencers, brands and the public to a content network. The company offers, produces and markets content for digital platforms : YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and websites.

Plurio

Angel Round in 2015
Plurio is a SaaS platform for small and medium companies that unifies tasks, customer service, and teamwork within the email. The company was founded in 2014 as Desk14 and is based in Joinville, Brazil.

QAMetrik Software

Angel Round in 2015
QAMetrik was born with the aim of improving the customization of the ABAP code, taking into account the difficulties in monitoring the quality of SAP projects from the initial phases of the project. The realization of quality problems are more visible in the final stages of SAP deployment, when few preventive actions can be taken, burdening the project at times of correction and rework. The lack of prevention directly affects the delivery times and costs of SAP projects, compromising code quality and customer and user satisfaction. QAMetrik is the guarantee of a 100% audited code within the governance standards established by SAP itself, reducing costs with customization and optimizing team time.

Kuak

Angel Round in 2015
Kuak is a space for influencers, brands and people who want to share ideas, accelerate results and become increasingly relevant. The company allows to create a relationship with companies or build strategic partnerships with influencers who are part of the community. Take advantage of analyzing relevant social media statistics like audience, engagement, demographics, and performance.

iPark Brasil

Angel Round in 2015
IPark Brasil is a mobile app that helps drivers park cars in public or private spots and pay for it in one click from smartphones. IPark Brasil was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

BemVendi

Angel Round in 2015
BemVendi empowers direct sales consultants providing a CRM app and access to financial services. It enables its users to manage their orders, deliveries, and inventories. Additionally, it offers sales management. BemVendi was founded by Stephanie Lopes Torres, Stephanie Lopes Torres, Victor Luiz De Paula Souza, and Yan Carlomagno in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Carina, Brazil.

Horus Aeronaves

Seed Round in 2015
Horus Aircraft is a Santa Catarina-based company that was founded in 2014. Focused on the needs of its customers, the company is constantly developing to offer the best aero-drilling solutions with drones. Owning proprietary technologies, resulting from years of research and development encouraged by innovation programs available in Santa Catarina, the company still has integrated services such as the image processing platform, which facilitates the experience of users who already perform flights with drones and Have difficulty processing maps. With a young and innovative profile, Horus Aircraft is already a reference in the Brazilian drone market, it is recognized for the quality of its products, the active technical support and the excellent relationship with its customers. The courses and training of operation are carried out in theoretical and practical stages, which guarantees a safe operation of the equipment. The company emerged through an identification of market opportunity in mid-2010. At the time, the founding partners of Horus worked with unmanned aircraft construction on research projects at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, participating in national and international competitions , Winning even a Brazilian title in the year 2012. During this experience it was realized that conventional aerial photogrammetry was expensive and not very feasible since it was performed with manned aircraft. As such, the development of drone technology would make this type of service cheaper and more efficient, opening up a new market full of opportunities.

Meetime

Angel Round in 2015
Meetime provides software for inside sales analysis. Diego Cordovez, Diego Wagner, and Victor Canezin de Oliveira founded it on September 18, 2014, with its headquarters in Florianópolis in Brazil.

OceanDrop

Angel Round in 2015
OceanDrop is a Brazilian nutrition company that offers products with advance nutritional quality. It is specialized in nutrition with microalgae, which are microscopic plants that offer a great diversity of nutrients essential for your body in a practical, natural, and sustainable way. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil.
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