Riverwood Capital

Riverwood Capital LLC is a private equity firm based in Menlo Park, California, that specializes in investing in high-growth technology companies. Founded in 2007, the firm focuses on middle-market private companies across various technology sectors, including software, IT and telecom infrastructure, consumer electronics, and tech-enabled services. Riverwood Capital typically invests between $25 million and $125 million in companies with revenues ranging from $25 million to $500 million. The firm seeks controlling stakes through equity investments and aims to hold its investments for three to five years, often taking board seats to influence strategic decisions. With a global investment strategy, Riverwood Capital primarily targets opportunities in North America, Latin America, China, Europe, the Caribbean, and Israel.

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Felipe Fagundes

Vice President

Augustine Hong

Principal

George Jian

Associate

Vizay Kotikalapudi

Associate

Mei Liang

SVP

Eric Ma

Principal

Sean McArthur

Principal

Jeffrey Parks

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Jose De Pinho

Associate

Joe De Pinho

Partner

Alexandre Porto

Partner

Scott Ransenberg

Partner

Thomas Smach

Founding Partner

Don Standley

Vice President

John Yang

Investor

Past deals in Brazil

Dock

Private Equity Round in 2022
Conductor Tecnologia S.A. is a prominent payments processor and banking-as-a-service provider based in São Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 1997, the company specializes in credit card and electronic payment processing, along with collection and billing services for third parties. Leveraging its proprietary API-based digital processing platform, Conductor serves nearly 250 corporate clients across various industries, processing over $20 billion annually. The company manages approximately 29 million active and 80 million total end customer payment accounts, facilitating transactions at more than 2.5 million points of sale throughout Latin America. Its comprehensive suite of services empowers clients to offer efficient payment solutions to their customers.

Gupy

Series B in 2022
Gupy is a recruitment and selection platform that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance the hiring process. By integrating innovative technologies such as people analytics and machine learning, Gupy provides companies with a powerful tool for making informed decisions about talent acquisition. The platform facilitates the entire recruitment management process, allowing businesses of various sizes to identify and attract the best candidates based on their specific needs and the compatibility of candidates' profiles. Gupy's focus on usability and automation enables organizations to improve their recruitment outcomes efficiently.

Arquivei

Series B in 2021
Arquivei is a Brazilian company based in São Carlos that specializes in electronic invoice monitoring and management. Its platform provides a web application that automatically downloads and stores digital tax documents, such as NFes, in the cloud. By connecting to the Department of Finance, Arquivei allows businesses to access their issued NFes and related documents without the need for software installation. Users can view, print, search, and filter invoices by various criteria, enabling efficient management of their tax documentation. The platform also supports accountants by providing access to client invoices and features for monitoring and centralizing various tax documents. Additionally, Arquivei offers intelligent search capabilities and reporting tools, facilitating better compliance with regulatory requirements and enhancing business intelligence derived from fiscal documents.

PetLove

Series C in 2021
PetLove is an e-commerce platform that specializes in providing a diverse selection of pet products and supplies. Founded in 1999 as PetSuperMarket, the company transitioned to the PetLove brand after 12 years to emphasize its dedication to enhancing the bond between pets and their owners. The platform offers over 10,000 items, including food, veterinary health products, and various accessories for pets such as dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and rodents. PetLove also features a loyalty program that automatically enrolls customers upon their first purchase, allowing them to enjoy discounts on their orders. The company focuses on delivering a convenient shopping experience, ensuring that customers can easily access essential pet products delivered right to their doorstep.

Omie

Series C in 2021
Omiexperience S/A is a Brazilian software company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium businesses. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, the company focuses on providing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software tailored specifically for micro and small enterprises. Omie's platform serves as an integration tool for businesses and accounting firms, fostering collaboration within an ecosystem supported by consultants. The company's offerings are characterized by their simplicity, intuitiveness, and affordability, making them accessible to a broad range of entrepreneurs. Additionally, Omiexperience engages in franchising its products to expand its reach in the market.

Sensedia

Private Equity Round in 2021
Sensedia is one of the main API pure players in the world, by focusing only on its API Management Platform and Strategy & Professional Services around the full lifecycle of API Management. Sensedia is recognized by Gartner on its Magic Quadrant as Visionary and by Forrester on its Wave as Strong Performer. By accelerating by 6x the time-to-market of new applications and up to 10x the integration of partners, Sensedia delivers the best time-to-value in the category. Sensedia is the sole leader in the Latam market and moving to new markets.

Intelipost

Series B in 2020
Aiming to simplify logistics in the Latin American market, Intelipost is the leading freight management platform in Brazil. With a solution based on cloud logistics, which smartly integrates the entire logistics chain with highly reliable technology, the company serves more than 4,000 stores, and performs, on average, 1 billion freight quotations and more than 19 million orders per month. Headquartered in São Paulo, the company was created in 2014 by Stefan Rehm and Gabriel Drummond, and currently has 240 employees. Please visit intelipost.com.br/en

Cortex

Series B in 2020
Cortex Intelligence Tecnologia S.A. develops and operates insights platform for sales and marketing. The company’s big data platform combines user’s internal data with external information, such as pricing, market statistics, economic indices, Social media, news articles, governmental public sources, and others. Its platform is used by various companies in the areas of market, business, sales, retail, and trade intelligence, as well as data driven communications. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.

Omie

Series B in 2019
Omiexperience S/A is a Brazilian software company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium businesses. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, the company focuses on providing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software tailored specifically for micro and small enterprises. Omie's platform serves as an integration tool for businesses and accounting firms, fostering collaboration within an ecosystem supported by consultants. The company's offerings are characterized by their simplicity, intuitiveness, and affordability, making them accessible to a broad range of entrepreneurs. Additionally, Omiexperience engages in franchising its products to expand its reach in the market.

99

Series C in 2017
99 is a Brazilian company that operates a ride-hailing application designed to connect passengers with local taxi drivers. Founded in July 2012 by Ariel Lambrecht, Paulo Veras, and Renato Freitas, the company is headquartered in São Paulo and became a subsidiary of Didi Chuxing Technology in December 2017. Through its platform, known as 99Taxis, users can easily locate and book taxis in their vicinity using their phones, thereby streamlining the process of securing transportation services. The application enhances the efficiency of the initial interaction between drivers and passengers, making transportation quick and convenient.

Grupo Netshoes

Venture Round in 2015
Netshoes (Cayman) Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a sports and lifestyle online retailer in Brazil. It offers various products, including athletic shoes, jerseys, apparels, accessories, and sporting equipment of international, local, and private brands, as well as fashion primarily under the Netshoes and Zattini brands. The company operates through its e-commerce Websites, such as netshoes.com, shoestock.com, zattini.com, and freelace.com. Netshoes (Cayman) Limited was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. As of June 14, 2019, Netshoes (Cayman) Limited operates as a subsidiary of Magazine Luiza S.A.

Dock

Private Equity Round in 2014
Conductor Tecnologia S.A. is a prominent payments processor and banking-as-a-service provider based in São Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 1997, the company specializes in credit card and electronic payment processing, along with collection and billing services for third parties. Leveraging its proprietary API-based digital processing platform, Conductor serves nearly 250 corporate clients across various industries, processing over $20 billion annually. The company manages approximately 29 million active and 80 million total end customer payment accounts, facilitating transactions at more than 2.5 million points of sale throughout Latin America. Its comprehensive suite of services empowers clients to offer efficient payment solutions to their customers.

Navent

Series C in 2014
Navent operates job and real estate portals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Panamá, Perú, and Venezuela. Its job portals provide job listings; and online employment solutions for people seeking jobs, and for companies who need to cover their own needs with people. Navent's job portals also focus on the IT industry, as well as professionals and executives. It also operates software companies that specialize in delivering CRM, and Website design and hosting solutions, as well as marketing and software solutions to the real estate industry. Moreover, Navent operates an online platform for buying/selling or renting properties that allows real agencies and particulars to publish their offer, and the people interested to find the property they are looking for. Alejandro Navarro and Nicolas Tejerina founded it in 1999, with its headquarters in Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Pixeon

Venture Round in 2013
Pixeon is a healthcare technology company that specializes in providing digital solutions for hospital management and diagnostic services. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Florianopolis, Brazil, Pixeon offers a range of products including radiology information systems, laboratory information systems, and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to enhance productivity in diagnostic imaging centers. Additionally, the company provides teleradiology services, which facilitate remote diagnostics and improve service agility by allowing digital access to reports. Pixeon's offerings also encompass solutions for radiology, ophthalmology, and laboratory management, as well as print management. Beyond its products, Pixeon supports healthcare providers by delivering consulting, integration, training, and other services across Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, thereby enabling more efficient patient care and resource allocation in the healthcare sector.

Navent

Series B in 2012
Navent operates job and real estate portals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Panamá, Perú, and Venezuela. Its job portals provide job listings; and online employment solutions for people seeking jobs, and for companies who need to cover their own needs with people. Navent's job portals also focus on the IT industry, as well as professionals and executives. It also operates software companies that specialize in delivering CRM, and Website design and hosting solutions, as well as marketing and software solutions to the real estate industry. Moreover, Navent operates an online platform for buying/selling or renting properties that allows real agencies and particulars to publish their offer, and the people interested to find the property they are looking for. Alejandro Navarro and Nicolas Tejerina founded it in 1999, with its headquarters in Buenos Aires in Argentina.