Pitanga Fund

The Pitanga Fund invests in innovative companies with high growth potential. The fund's goal is to work with early stage start-ups and to help entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to build their business. The innovation that the firm wishes to support involves innovative business models or the development and deployment of new technologies. Pitanga looks for businesses that aim to address large markets and can capture a significant fraction of these markets in a short time. To achieve these goals the companies must deploy a set of innovations capable of generating a wide competitive advantage. If these conditions are met, Pitanga is prepared to provide the capital necessary to develop and implement new technologies or business models. The firm contributes the necessary capital and is prepared to provide assistance by participating on the board of directors. Pitanga Fund has no limitations regarding sectors or geographies. However, prefers to invest in Brazilian companies or companies that have a significant presence in Brazil. Over the next four years Pitanga intends to invest in a limited number of companies, these will be chosen via a rigorous selection process.

Gabriel Perez

Managing Partner

5 past transactions

Satellogic

Series C in 2019
Satellogic is the first company to develop a scalable earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution. The company's low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation, platform, and data science teams work together to deliver high-frequency, high resolution, end-to-end solutions at the right price point.

Satellogic

Series B in 2017
Satellogic is the first company to develop a scalable earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution. The company's low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation, platform, and data science teams work together to deliver high-frequency, high resolution, end-to-end solutions at the right price point.

Collokia

Seed Round in 2016
Collokia solves the problem of sharing knowledge with the help of Machine Learning. Our plugins run in your natural work environment to collect information and map employee skills, so we can analyze the collective experience to help eliminate repeated mistakes, accelerate learning, better leverage unknown skills, and automatically connect people with other colleagues, research, solutions and sources of knowledge - right when you need it.

Satellogic

Series A in 2015
Satellogic is the first company to develop a scalable earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution. The company's low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation, platform, and data science teams work together to deliver high-frequency, high resolution, end-to-end solutions at the right price point.

I.Systems

Seed Round in 2013
Based in Campinas (62 miles from Sao Paulo, Brazil), I.Systems is a groundbreaking Brazilian company founded in 2007 by three University of Campinas former students, focused on industrial Advanced Process Control (APC) and performance optimization. As the result of a series of research and development refinements, Leaf, the APC software that uses artificial intelligence technology and the first product developed by I.Systems, was finally launched four years after the foundation. In 2013, I.Systems received a capital investment made by Fundo Pitanga, a group composed by the shareholders of Natura and Itaú BBA that invests in innovative potential high-risk and high-growth companies with high net growth potential. In 2015, the company submitted a request for an international patent, regarding the technology present in its first product – Leaf. In 2016, I.Systems became part of the Endeavor Global Community, starting our path to became a global company. The company also obtained its first international case, on its way to become global, aiming to increase global efficiency. Since its development, Leaf has been running in more than 100 machines in more than 40 groups and industrial segments, such as agriculture, consumer goods, chemicals, mining, pulp and paper, among others. In 2018, we launched our new product, Smart Flow, that is capable of controlling manufacturing lines, optimatizin the overall equipment efficiency. This product is our new way to increase industrial efficiency and with Leaf, is our bet to make the World a more efficiency one!
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