Upload Ventures

Upload Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, specializing in investments across Latin America. The firm manages the Upload Ventures Growth Fund, established in 2023, which focuses on sectors such as information technology, healthcare, and business products and services. By adopting a hands-on approach, Upload Ventures seeks to support and nurture early-stage companies within these industries, contributing to their growth and success in the South American market.

Rodrigo Baer

Managing Partner

Natalia Gonzalez Vela

Investor

13 past transactions

Plerk

Series A in 2022
Plerk is a company that enhances employee satisfaction and productivity by offering flexible perks and benefits. Established in 2019 and based in Guadalajara, Mexico, Plerk operates an online platform that simplifies the booking and management of business trips. The platform allows organizations to set travel policies and track expenditures, while simultaneously encouraging employees to make cost-effective travel decisions. By focusing on improving workplace happiness, Plerk aims to boost productivity by 80% and increase employee retention by 50%.

DEUNA

Series A in 2022
DEUNA is a SaaS startup that enables a 1-click checkout buying experience and expands its sales network for e-commerce merchants. It offers payment processing, fraud prevention, and customer analytics. DEUNA reduces the time it takes to make a purchase by 80%, increasing its conversion rate by 50%. It was started by Co-founders Roberto Enrique Kafati Santos and Jose Maria Serrano in 2020. The company is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

Wildlife Studios

Secondary Market in 2022
Wildlife Studios is a mobile gaming company that develops games that will mark a generation. The company strives in its major disciplines, which are product, engineering, art, marketing, and data, expanding and building talented and passionate teams in its offices in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, and the US.

Neivor

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a property management platform intended to digitalize the administration of condominiums. The company's platform streamlines collection management by generating collection notices on a single platform; providing control of the common areas, managing agendas, and keeping reservations updated from the app, enabling administrators to gather, automate, and optimize the entire operation of their condominiums in a flexible and comprehensive tool.

Birdie

Seed Round in 2022
Birdie is a software company based in the United States that aids online shoppers in discovering products that best meet their needs. The platform allows users to explore new products and read reviews from other customers, fostering a community where they can share insights and seek recommendations. Additionally, Birdie provides consumer brands with tools to enhance customer conversion and engagement through real-time product insights derived from semantic analysis of reviews and other data sources, including social media and expert opinions. The company's advanced AI technology extracts and organizes relevant information, which helps brands understand consumer sentiment and improve their market presence.

Digibee

Series A in 2022
Digibee is a Brazilian technology company founded in 2017, with a focus on providing a no-code integration platform for digital businesses. Based in São Paulo and with an additional office in Sunrise, Florida, Digibee addresses integration challenges by enabling companies to connect seamlessly to the digital landscape without writing code. The platform promotes low-code integrations, allowing for reduced workload, lower costs, quicker market entry, and enhanced reliability. By streamlining integration processes, Digibee helps organizations allocate more resources toward innovation, enabling them to create meaningful digital experiences for customers efficiently. Through its solutions, Digibee aims to empower businesses to navigate the digital realm effectively and unlock new opportunities.

Nilo Saúde

Series A in 2022
Nilo is a health-tech startup focused on elderly citizens. We blend a multi-disciplinary care team to a high-tech platform to provide personalised care coordination, primary care & health services for seniors. Through Nilo, the 50+ population can have access to a care team they trust to look after their physical and mental health and help them navigate important health decisions.

Abstra

Seed Round in 2022
Abstra is a software development platform that provides businesses with a no-coding platform. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

BotCity

Seed Round in 2021
BotCity is a plataform for developers to build computer vision powered automations in any environment (desktop, android, legacy, web). Our solution enables tech teams with a full automation toolbox on day 1. BotStudio increases developer productivity with a highly productive platform combining native codes (Java and Python) with automatically generated code from navigation instructions on interfaces. BotMaestro is a cloud based orchestrator for managing automations, monitor tasks, queue and faster troubleshooting.

Olist

Series E in 2021
Olist is an online e-commerce platform based in Curitiba, Brazil, that facilitates connections between sellers and major Brazilian marketplaces. Founded in 2015, the company provides a comprehensive platform for shopkeepers of various sizes and sectors to register and sell their products through prominent retailers. Olist aims to streamline the selling process for entrepreneurs by enabling them to advertise and sell their products without complications, thereby enhancing their reach to international marketplaces. The company emphasizes a sustainable and fair business model, focusing on delivering excellent services to both merchants and consumers.

Worc

Seed Round in 2021
Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.

Neoway

Venture Round in 2021
Neoway is a market intelligence and big data analytics company that helps businesses to navigate and extract insights for discovering various market opportunities. It develops and operates SIMM, a subscription based big data analytics platform that allows its users to search detailed data about companies and individuals; export their prospects to the map and distribute the opportunities geographically; control the distribution of opportunities and create multi-platform alerts to their vendors; and map economic groups, and other individual and legal entity relationships, including corporate and administrative structure, suppliers, subsidiaries, and franchises. It serves automotive and transportation, benefits, consumer goods, billing and recovery, construction, oil and gas, health and pharma, technology, and telecom markets, as well as banks, credit cooperatives, and insurance companies and brokers. Jaime de Paula founded Neoway in 2002, with its headquarters in Florianópolis in Brazil. It has additional offices in São Paulo in Brazil and New York City.