DGF Investimentos

DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian investment group. We currently manage a family of funds invested mainly by large institutional and individual investors. Our focus is on growth type investments in small to mid sized enterprises in Brazil, specially in the technology space. Historically, DGF and its team have completed close to forty investments with several successful exits.
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Marcos Affonseca

Associate Director

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Dario Boralli

Senior Advisor

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Sidney Chameh

Founding Partner

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Renato Farias

Associate

Frederico Greve

Managing Partner

42 past transactions

Drumwave Inc

Seed Round in 2018
DrumWave: the data company for business people, data scientists, analysts, all types of students — and you. Powered by extreme data-value engineering and visualization, DrumWave solutions enable users to dynamically capture, combine, analyze, pack, price, sell and deliver data value for internal and external uses. Our diverse team of thinkers and doers — experts in data science, mathematics, analytics, biology, business management, design, telecommunications, education, advertising and print and television media—are committed to unlocking the value of data for monetization and intelligence.

Gesto Saúde e Tecnologia

Series B in 2018
With over 18 years of experience, GESTO is a national pioneer in the development of solutions to help companies manage efficiently the health of their employees while avoiding costs. The company was founded through a partnership between the founding partners - the doctor Bento Toledo Brill and engineer Fabiana Salles. After being incubated by Innovation Center, Entrepreneurship and Technology (Cietec), won major accounts and continued to grow exponentially. The company received investments from DGF (2013) and Redpoint Eventures (2018). Currently, as a broker (fixer) helps companis control costs, by managing their health plan throught a proprietary BI with over 6 million lives.

Kyte

Seed Round in 2021
Kyte is an app for small businesses that helps sell more, manage better, and retain customers. Kyte is a selling application for anyone who needs control but has no time to waste. It is designed to give the owner and customers the best mobile phone experience.

Solides

Series A in 2019
Solides Tecnologia S.A. develops and operates a HR platform to recruit, develop, and retain talent. The company specializes in behavioral profiling software used in the recruitment and selection, behavior management, and people development process by HR professionals, coaches, educators, and trainers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Solides

Venture Round in 2019
Solides Tecnologia S.A. develops and operates a HR platform to recruit, develop, and retain talent. The company specializes in behavioral profiling software used in the recruitment and selection, behavior management, and people development process by HR professionals, coaches, educators, and trainers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

SafeSpace

Seed Round in 2021
SafeSpace makes it safer for employees to speak up and easier for HR and Compliance teams to take action and promote a healthy and inclusive workplace environment.

Birdie

Angel Round in 2019
Birdie helps consumer brands increase customer conversion and engagement with real-time product insights built from semantic analysis of reviews from shoppers and experts. Our team has carefully designed powerful AI engines that extract, clean and structure relevant data from sources that drive your sales and influence brand perception - product reviews, news, influencers, videos, social media, experts, etc.

TRACTIAN

Seed Round in 2021
Your machines are talking, we are listening. TRACTIAN is a platform that analyzes vibration and temperature data collected by our sensors to reduce unplanned downtime inside industries.

Geofusion

Acquisition in 2015
Geofusion Sistemas e Serviços de Informática S/A provides geographic market intelligent solutions in Brazil. It offers OnMaps, an online geo-marketing tool; and Enterprise, a tool that provides access to a set of information from the country's business establishments, as well as Geofusion Advisor and OnData tools. The company also provides business intelligence and expansion, territory management, and network potential solutions. It serves retail, consumer goods, service, educational, and real estate industries. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd. develops and operates an open source Web chat platform. It offers Rocket.Chat platform for video conferencing, helpdesk chat, file sharing, TEX math rendering, screen sharing, voice messages, link preview, API, native applications, and mobile applications. The company also provides white labeling, integrations, data import, feature development, and hosting services. Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Porto Alegre, Brazil with additional offices in Brazil, the United States, Canada, Spain, Ecuador, Uruguay, Ukraine, Germany, China, and Portugal.

RD Station

Series B in 2015
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Concil

Series A in 2014
Concil provides financial and account reconciliation with expertise in online payment transactions. It transforms the complexity of managing its clients’ sales with card on real information, pointing out possible errors, and facilitating the management of their businesses with the reconciliation of debit and credit card, and accounting reconciliation. Concil was founded in 993 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Daitan Group

Series A in 2006
Daitan builds core technology, data solutions and software products that scale with real-time performance. Since 2004, clients have relied on Daitan because we deliver quality results, while de-risking projects and accelerating time-to-market. With locations in the USA, Canada and Brazil, Daitan works with large multi-billion dollar global corporations and entrepreneurial start-ups to help them build ground-breaking software products. The company brings engineering expertise in a wide range of technologies, frameworks and tools. Our work covers data-driven approaches such as, Data Engineering and BI & Analytics; and leverages highly reliable and scalable infrastructure such as, Microservices and Containers in public and private Clouds; and is delivered following modern processes including, User Experience Design, Agile Software Development and DevOps practices to ensure not only fast delivery cycles, but also high quality standards and adherence to user requirements that produce positive business outcomes. Daitan Group was founded in 2004 by Augusto Cavalcanti and is based in California.

Mastersaf

Private Equity Round in 2010
Mastersaf is focused on the development of software solutions for tax and accounting. It offers MASTERSAF DFe, MASTERSAF DW | MASTERSAF GF, MASTERSAF Smart, MASTERSAF Tax Analyser, and more. Mastersaf was acquired by Thomson Reuters in May 2011. Mastersaf was founded in 1998.

PlataformaVerde

Seed Round in 2019
PlataformaVerde offers BaaS (Block-as-a-Service) technology solutions, developed by a team of experts in innovative solutions for waste management tools, with expertise in the solid waste, recycling and reverse engineering materials market. We are a team of innovative and disruptive action enthusiasts crazy about waste, design, and software! Our goal of world domination is one: Scan the trash!

Intellibrand

Venture Round in 2017
Intellibrand develops intelligence data web application that helps manufacturers, brands, and retailers to improve their digital sales performance. The product includes assortment and on shelf availability of products, visibility to consumers, digital merchandizing, automated content distribution, and on-line pricing and competition monitoring. The company also offers promotion and merchandizing auditing, compliance monitoring services, ratings and reviews, and mapping of shopper's intelligence. Intellibrand was founded in 2013 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Axur

Series A in 2019
Axur is a digital risk protection platform powered by AI that helps companies track and eliminate online risks. It detects and reduces online risks posing a threat to the security and reputation on the web that helps companies succeed. Axur's mission is to improve companies' digital presence and guard and maintain that invaluable trust between a company, and it's customers.

RD Station

Series A in 2013
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Reclame Aqui - Ltda

Series A in 2018
Reclame Aqui is a website that enables its users to post complaints about products and services offered by various companies. The company also specializes in social business, reviews, customer service, and reputation. Reclame Aqui was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Ingresse

Series A in 2014
Ingresse is a Brazilian social ticketing company that enables people to discover the concerts, nightclubs, parties, and theater plays of their choice. It connects organizers to their audience through an intuitive platform. Any user can post an event on Ingresse. Event creation is crowdsourced to organizers and performers. Through the platform, people have the ability to learn which of their friends will be attending specific events, where these friends will be sitting in the venue, and browse their friends’ opinions and reviews. Organizers can download Ingresse's mobile apps to validate their tickets at the door, turning their phones into scanners. The company's aim is to help people finding the right events and getting them in. Ingresse was founded in 2012.

Ingresse

Series B in 2015
Ingresse is a Brazilian social ticketing company that enables people to discover the concerts, nightclubs, parties, and theater plays of their choice. It connects organizers to their audience through an intuitive platform. Any user can post an event on Ingresse. Event creation is crowdsourced to organizers and performers. Through the platform, people have the ability to learn which of their friends will be attending specific events, where these friends will be sitting in the venue, and browse their friends’ opinions and reviews. Organizers can download Ingresse's mobile apps to validate their tickets at the door, turning their phones into scanners. The company's aim is to help people finding the right events and getting them in. Ingresse was founded in 2012.

Geofusion

Private Equity Round in 2015
Geofusion Sistemas e Serviços de Informática S/A provides geographic market intelligent solutions in Brazil. It offers OnMaps, an online geo-marketing tool; and Enterprise, a tool that provides access to a set of information from the country's business establishments, as well as Geofusion Advisor and OnData tools. The company also provides business intelligence and expansion, territory management, and network potential solutions. It serves retail, consumer goods, service, educational, and real estate industries. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Mosyle

Seed Round in 2015
Mosyle Corporation develops device management solutions to help technology teams manage Apple devices. It offers Mosyle Manager, a mobile device management solution to manage, secure, and deploy Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV devices in education and Screenguide. The company also operates a mobile learning platform that provides solutions, which combine learning management system with mobile device management. Mosyle Corporation was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Winter Park, Florida.

Slang

Convertible Note in 2020
Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers proficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.

Wappa

Seed Round in 2005
Wappa is an online platform that offers taxi hailing, payment, and management services to its clients. The platform enables its clients to manage the reports and graphs of developers, justifications, and destinations in real time. Furthermore, it provides its users with a mobile application that enables its users to order and search for taxis in their local area. Wappa was launched in 2005 and is based in Sao Paulo.

Adianta Pagamentos LTDA

Venture Round in 2019
Adianta is a financial service company that offers a platform for clients to grant working capital for small and medium businesses. The company also specializes in receivables prepayment, loan, invoice finance, SME, cash flow, MPE, secured account, financial institution, and banks. Adianta was named Ciab Febraban 2016 - Brazil's TOP 10 FINTECH. It was founded in May 2016 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Gesto Saúde e Tecnologia

Venture Round in 2013
With over 18 years of experience, GESTO is a national pioneer in the development of solutions to help companies manage efficiently the health of their employees while avoiding costs. The company was founded through a partnership between the founding partners - the doctor Bento Toledo Brill and engineer Fabiana Salles. After being incubated by Innovation Center, Entrepreneurship and Technology (Cietec), won major accounts and continued to grow exponentially. The company received investments from DGF (2013) and Redpoint Eventures (2018). Currently, as a broker (fixer) helps companis control costs, by managing their health plan throught a proprietary BI with over 6 million lives.

RD Station

Series C in 2016
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Birdie

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Birdie helps consumer brands increase customer conversion and engagement with real-time product insights built from semantic analysis of reviews from shoppers and experts. Our team has carefully designed powerful AI engines that extract, clean and structure relevant data from sources that drive your sales and influence brand perception - product reviews, news, influencers, videos, social media, experts, etc.

Ingresse

Seed Round in 2012
Ingresse is a Brazilian social ticketing company that enables people to discover the concerts, nightclubs, parties, and theater plays of their choice. It connects organizers to their audience through an intuitive platform. Any user can post an event on Ingresse. Event creation is crowdsourced to organizers and performers. Through the platform, people have the ability to learn which of their friends will be attending specific events, where these friends will be sitting in the venue, and browse their friends’ opinions and reviews. Organizers can download Ingresse's mobile apps to validate their tickets at the door, turning their phones into scanners. The company's aim is to help people finding the right events and getting them in. Ingresse was founded in 2012.

Stilingue

Series A in 2019
STILINGUE is a AI SaaS platform proudly Brazilian that listens, summarizes and prioritizes the voice of the customer in one place. We serve major brands such as Natura, Itaú, Claro, Bradesco, Kroton. Our NLP technology surpasses major tech players in Spanish and Portuguese. With almost 200 employees, including Masters and PhDs in AI. Brazil.

ADTsys

Series A in 2014
ADTsys is an IT company that specializes in cloud computing. The company offers support to the whole IT structure from the support analyst to the TI manager, with development and maintenance of tools that add value to the customer in strategic decisions. ADTsys’ solutions include cloud computing, capacity planning, application security, network operation center, architecture, and orchestration. It was founded in 2009 by Diego Altheman and Pascoal Baldasso.

WebRadar

Venture Round in 2016
WebRadar is a Telecom Engineering company focused in quality, performance and optimization management. To achieve these objectives, it develops software systems for wireless and wireline telecom operators and telemetry systems for road transport management and gas station management. The company generates business intelligence by processing large volumes of unstructured data for companies spread around the world.

Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd.

Seed Round in 2019
Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd. develops and operates an open source Web chat platform. It offers Rocket.Chat platform for video conferencing, helpdesk chat, file sharing, TEX math rendering, screen sharing, voice messages, link preview, API, native applications, and mobile applications. The company also provides white labeling, integrations, data import, feature development, and hosting services. Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Porto Alegre, Brazil with additional offices in Brazil, the United States, Canada, Spain, Ecuador, Uruguay, Ukraine, Germany, China, and Portugal.

Digipix

Series A in 2008
Digipix offers customization services for photobooks, photopresents, graphic materials, and decoration items. Digipix works to provide creative and innovative ways to preserve memories and share unique moments that people do not want time erasing. A modern photo printing laboratory in Latin America. The company offers quality, convenience, and ease at prices and delivers with consistency, predictability, and transparency. The company was founded on 2004 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Mudflap

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Mudflap aims to build the largest virtual fleet in the U.S.

RD Station

Series D in 2019
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Scup Ltda.

Seed Round in 2009
Scup Ltda. operates a social media productivity platform. The company monitors customers and their brands on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, Websites, and other social media; identifies influential people and the ones who are talking about the client’s brand; posts on client’s social networks; and generates reports and analyzes results. It offers various package options for small companies, brands highly involved with social media, and agencies or companies envisioning market research. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It also has operations in the United States. As of April 30, 2016, Scup Ltda. operates as a subsidiary of Sprinklr Inc.

Softway

Private Equity Round in 2009
Softway provides its clients with foreign trade software solutions. it was established in 1996 and is based in Campinas, Goias.

Mercado Eletrônico

Private Equity Round in 2015
Mercado Eletrônico S.A. provides B2B e-commerce solutions for companies in Latin America. The company offers e-Procurement, e-Sourcing, and e-Marketplace solutions, as well as help desk, operational, and content services. Mercado Eletrônico S.A. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.