Capital Lab

Capital Lab is a venture capital firm focused on venture capital investment, direct investments, and venture lab investments. Specializing in seed, startup, early stage, and disruptive investments, the firm concentrates on telecommunications, disruptive ideas, media, and technology sectors in emerging markets. Providing advisory services to entrepreneurs to structure their business models, they offer convertible notes and options for credits. With a preference for minority stakes, Capital Lab targets Brazilian companies looking to internationalize, as well as international companies entering the Brazilian and UK markets. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with an office in London, UK, the firm invests up to $0.5 million in equity and uses personal capital as a funding source. Their approach involves establishing long-lasting partnerships with technology-driven entrepreneurs, offering strategic and operational support to build scalable, impactful companies.

Paulo Todescan L. Mattos

Investor

Tiago Naufal

Partner & Principal

11 past transactions

i4sea

Seed Round in 2017
I4sea is a company that aims to eliminate uncertainties related to the impact of nature on the economy. The company took advantage of their 8 years of experience on operational oceanography and market analysis alongside with port terminals and pilots associations to develop a smart system that supports decision-making by monitoring and predicting ocean and weather conditions and their influences on each vessel operation. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Salvador, Brazil.

Atomic Agro

Seed Round in 2020
Atomic Agro designs and develops a mobile application that helps farmers to communicate regarding harvesting. The application offers historical survey on harvesting and helps in decision making. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Uberlândia, Brazil.

Uello

Series A in 2020
Uello uses technology to solve a very difficult problem that is still old fashioned approached - The Urban Logistics market. We provide guidance and smart logistics decisions to a huge workforce of independent resources. Different from peer-to-peer on demand solutions, we provide drivers with optimized routes and a more attractive compensation, making the last mile cheaper for customers and operationally sustainable. We focus on small & medium size companies whose access to great carriers are limited or non-existent. We want to improve the logistics experience and to empower small companies with a first class logistics service at an affordable price.

Geru

Seed Round in 2014
Geru is a Brazilian lending marketplace created in 2013 offering personal unsecured term loans for prime and near prime borrowerers through a fast, simple, and transparent online experience. Lending operations started in 2015. Developed and started Brazil’s fully digital payroll loan product in 2018. Geru developed its own credit score model using unstructured data. Rates are lower than market and vary from 25% to 80% p.a., depending on the applicant’s score. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Pink Farms

Seed Round in 2019
They are the first urban vertical farm in Latin America, they have always thought a lot about how the chain could zero waste and bring a finally safe product to the big city. Let us do the work. You just need to open the package and eat natural leaves with unmatched quality.

Asolum Agricultura Tecnologica LTDA

Private Placement in 2019
Asolum Agricultura Tecnologica LTDA operates a vertical urban farm that cultivates foliage under the brand Pink Farms in Latin America. Its products include lettuces, other hardwoods, and microgreens. It offers its products through its online store, restaurants, and other retailers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Jundiai, Brazil.

Uello

Series A in 2021
Uello uses technology to solve a very difficult problem that is still old fashioned approached - The Urban Logistics market. We provide guidance and smart logistics decisions to a huge workforce of independent resources. Different from peer-to-peer on demand solutions, we provide drivers with optimized routes and a more attractive compensation, making the last mile cheaper for customers and operationally sustainable. We focus on small & medium size companies whose access to great carriers are limited or non-existent. We want to improve the logistics experience and to empower small companies with a first class logistics service at an affordable price.

Ori Industries

Venture Round in 2021
Ori is a developer of a cloud platform designed to enable computing anywhere and everywhere. It empowers developers and networks to build future applications for global infrastructure from smart cities, immersive worlds, and autonomous machines. Ori Industries was established in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.

Asolum

Seed Round in 2018
Asolum is Brazil's first plant factory with artificial lighting, created with the purpose of producing premium quality vegetables through the use of cutting edge technologies. Because we grow our vegetables in a super clean controlled environment, we can eradicate the use of pesticides. Through the use of hydroponics, we also substantially reduce soil contamination. We use a combination of standard production systems and new technologies in order to achieve the highest resource use efficiency. Using hydroponics, LED lighting and smart sensing, organized in a vertical structure, our yield is up to 100 times that of a traditional farm using the same area. Our technology allows us to produce food only a few miles away from the places they are going to be consumed. This way we ensure they arrive very fresh at our customers’ tables and at the same time reduce the environmental impacts, costs and waste caused by transportation. Shortage of food is a problem we may face in the years to come, as the world's population reach 9.1 billion people by 2050. Hence, we must use new technologies that result in productivity growth and reduce food waste.

Atomic Agro

Private Placement in 2020
Atomic Agro designs and develops a mobile application that helps farmers to communicate regarding harvesting. The application offers historical survey on harvesting and helps in decision making. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Uberlândia, Brazil.

Agrotoken

Seed Round in 2023
Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable. Agrotoken is focused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.