Norte Ventures

Norte Ventures is an investment club in venture capital created and managed by entrepreneurs. We invest in the pre-seed and seed stages of Brazilian companies with high visibility and high growth potential. Our club members (investors) are individuals highly involved with entrepreneurship in Brazil, including the founders of the main startups of the country, partners at the main venture/growth capital firms and leaders of the country’s largest companies. Norte’s goal is to reunite Brazilian’ main innovators in one place and become the most strategic investor a startup can have.

Rafael Duton

Investor

Past deals in South America

BHub

Series A in 2022
BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs. Our purpose is to unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We currently offer bookkeeping, CFO service, legal and HR for startups & SMEs. Our platform offer a chat-based UX combined with accurate financial reports and error free bookkeeping, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices.

Kanastra

Seed Round in 2022
Kanastra operates as a technology-driven back office for alternative investments, focusing on private credit and private equity. The company has developed an asset management platform that addresses inefficiencies in the securitization market. This platform provides a range of services, including bank services, debt issuance, bookkeeping, and distribution. It also supports passive management and mirroring while offering real-time analytics and structured data. By leveraging technology, Kanastra aims to facilitate a seamless investment experience, allowing investors and originators to operate more efficiently and with greater freedom.

NG.Cash

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a digital wallet designed to bring financial education through access to digital money. The company's application provides several advantages which include a free account, virtual card, and physical card that is customizable with instant transfers, enabling customers to build their financial independence.

Carbonext

Corporate Round in 2022
Carbonext is a ClimateTech focused on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and initially focused on the generation of conservation carbon credits in the Amazon. The company trades carbon credits globally on the voluntary market through the connection between supply (landowners) and demand (companies and individuals).

Katapult Commerce

Seed Round in 2022
Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.

Stark Bank

Series B in 2022
Stark Bank develops a banking API that automates and simplifies banking operations, facilitate reconciliation, and scale companies. With Stark Bank, companies can scale their operations, allowing them to execute more transfers, payments, and charges. Stark Bank was founded in 2018 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cross Commerce Store

Seed Round in 2021
Cross Commerce Store is a cross border e-commerce company from Brazil that empowers entrepreneurs to sell globally in an easy and fast way. We are experienced in e-commerce and we believe your cross border sales can be simpler, bigger and better. Our team is made of professionals who come from the biggest marketplaces, payment, tech and international logistics companies, providing the best solutions in cross border sales. Our platform plug international sellers with local marketplaces, significantly decreasing the friction of cross-border e-commerce. We help sellers to integrate with Brazilian marketplaces (Americanas.com, Mercado Livre, etc.) by intermediating the registering, uploading, logistics and other challenging processes.

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.

Klivo

Series A in 2021
Healthtech

Plug

Seed Round in 2021
Plug is an API to accept payments with multiple payment providers. Plug gives digital businesses access to multiple payments services through a single integration, and the ability to change between them on a transaction-to-transaction basis without writing code.

Nomo

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a telecommunication application designed to change billing and customer relationship management systems. The company offers an application that can track consumption, and change or cancel plans whenever one wants, with no fidelity and no crisis and if users don't use the data that is hired, it indicates a new cheaper plan, providing clients its services at affordable rates.

Gabriel

Series A in 2021
Gabriel Tecnologia Ltda, founded in 2019 and based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, specializes in providing video surveillance services using a combination of high-definition cameras and nano computers. The company focuses on delivering enterprise-quality solutions with military-grade encryption, catering to both residential buildings and medium-sized businesses. Gabriel's offerings include the installation and maintenance of surveillance systems without upfront installation costs or hardware purchases, ensuring a hassle-free experience for customers. The services feature 24/7 monitoring, perpetual video cloud storage, and user-friendly application software for easy access. By integrating advanced technology and personal customer service, Gabriel addresses public and private security needs in Brazil and beyond.

menta

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a finance platform intended to promote technological development in businesses. The company's platform offers integration with modern technology in POS devices and technological scalability for business growth, enabling clients to generate increased revenue streams by embedding their own payment and financial services.

BHub

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BHub is a full back-office SaaS for startups & SMEs. Our purpose is to unburden entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on their core business, while BHub deals with all the rest. We currently offer bookkeeping, CFO service, legal and HR for startups & SMEs. Our platform offer a chat-based UX combined with accurate financial reports and error free bookkeeping, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices.

Cayena

Series A in 2021
Poupachef offers a single point procurement solution for restaurants to shop for daily supplies in a simple, fast and affordable way. Restaurant owners can reduce the time it takes to replace inventory from 2 hours to 10 minutes per day and save up to 30% through group buying effects and our smart supplier allocation technology. We help transforming great restaurants into great businesses.

ISA Saúde

Seed Round in 2021
ISA lab is to deliver the best solution for health and offers a humanized service. ISA is an online platform where one can select the process like examination, test, or vaccine. Then schedule and make payment online, receive ISA wherever one wants. Finally, they offer a facility to check the result online and rate their service.

Kovi

Series B in 2021
Kovi Tecnologia Ltda. is a car rental service based in São Paulo, Brazil, established in 2018. The company specializes in providing rental cars across various segments, including hatchbacks, sedans, and sports utility vehicles, primarily targeting on-demand drivers in Latin America. Kovi operates an online platform that facilitates rentals for rideshare and delivery drivers, emphasizing convenience and cost-effectiveness. By partnering with automakers and traditional car rental companies, Kovi adopts an asset-light model, enabling it to offer flexible rental solutions that streamline transportation for users. The company's focus on leveraging technology aims to enhance accessibility and security in the car rental market.

Quansa

Seed Round in 2021
Quansa develops a software to link the employees’ payroll data with banks, fintech, and other financial institutions. Its platform operates as a financial assistant that provides financial solutions for employees. Quansa is based in USA.

Cubbo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cubbo is a startup that focuses on repurposing distressed real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turning them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban micro-fulfillment spaces for online retail.

Osana

Series A in 2021
Osana provides subscription based affordable healthcare in LATAM

idwall

Series C in 2021
IDwall Technology LTDA is a Brazilian company based in São Paulo, founded in 2016, that specializes in artificial intelligence software for identity verification and document validation. The company offers a range of products designed to assist small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. Its solutions include document validation through OCR technology, face matching, and background checks. Additionally, IDwall provides a real-time alert system that helps users verify customer data during signups and purchases, along with implementation and consulting services to ensure effective utilization of its offerings.

Hashdex

Series A in 2021
Hashdex exists to bridge the still nascent digital assets world and traditional markets. It aims to unlock the blockchain potential to mainstream investors across the largest financial markets globally. At Hashdex, Wall Street meets Silicon Valley bringing together years of finance experience and state of the art technology to build secure, transparent, automated and cost effective products.

Hashdex

Series A in 2021
Hashdex exists to bridge the still nascent digital assets world and traditional markets. It aims to unlock the blockchain potential to mainstream investors across the largest financial markets globally. At Hashdex, Wall Street meets Silicon Valley bringing together years of finance experience and state of the art technology to build secure, transparent, automated and cost effective products.

180° Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
180° is an InsurTech company that provides insurance services. With a focus on the B2B2C model, the company builds insurance and assistance products with technology that are connected to customers' daily lives in a simple and digital way. 180° was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

TRACTIAN

Pre 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.

Dolado

Seed Round in 2020
Dolado allows SMBs to have access to the technologies that are only available to more sophisticated players. By doing this, it empowers small companies to bring more efficiency on the way they sell, buy and manage their business. To improve the way merchants sells, Dolado provides a digital catalog that allows the setup of a digital storefront in less than 3 minutes. On the buying side, it offers a B2B Marketplace that connects merchants to top wholesalers and give them access to the best deals. Dolado also offers a Digital Bookkeeping application that serves as a digital ledger to help business owners easily record sales, expenses, and cash transactions in one place.

Legiti

Seed Round in 2020
Legiti is an anti-fraud startup based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2019. The company specializes in providing a platform designed to combat transactional fraud in e-commerce. Its primary objective is to maximize retained revenue for clients by implementing technologies that effectively balance the reduction of chargebacks while enhancing conversion rates tailored to various business models. Additionally, Legiti emphasizes the importance of data privacy and promotes engineering best practices to strengthen its anti-fraud measures.

The Coffee

Series A in 2020
The Coffee operates and franchises coffee shops in Balneário Camboriú, Belo Horizonte, Blumenau, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, and São Paulo. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil.

Zaga

Seed Round in 2020
Rapicare enables health service companies to purchase supplies digitally, in the most streamlined way possible, and receive them directly at multiple destinations.

Hent

Seed Round in 2020
Hent Solucoes De Tecnologia Ltda automates the collection process of parcels by sending notification by e-mail, WhatsApp, and SMS for companies. The company also provide the buyer with a page including all the information of the purchase; and provides credit. The company connects the clients with range of investment sources. Hent Solucoes De Tecnologia Ltda was incorporated in 2019 and is based Recife, Brazil.

Gabriel

Seed Round in 2020
Gabriel Tecnologia Ltda, founded in 2019 and based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, specializes in providing video surveillance services using a combination of high-definition cameras and nano computers. The company focuses on delivering enterprise-quality solutions with military-grade encryption, catering to both residential buildings and medium-sized businesses. Gabriel's offerings include the installation and maintenance of surveillance systems without upfront installation costs or hardware purchases, ensuring a hassle-free experience for customers. The services feature 24/7 monitoring, perpetual video cloud storage, and user-friendly application software for easy access. By integrating advanced technology and personal customer service, Gabriel addresses public and private security needs in Brazil and beyond.

Balko

Seed Round in 2019
Balko is a Brazilian fintech born to disrupt how illiquid assets are traded. We are the first trading platform for legal claims, litigation finance and NPLs. Our business model is based on pure advisory service combined with an online auction run through proprietary technology. Our main objective is to effectively connect the universe of investors with potential sellers through a credible and transparent competitive process, fostering liquidity, at the same time as converging pricing to fair value.

FestaLab

Seed Round in 2019
FestaLab is an event planning platform designed to assist users in organizing various occasions, such as parties, weddings, baby showers, and meetups, with ease. The platform offers features for creating customizable invitations and facilitates online interactions through integrated video calling. Additionally, FestaLab provides tools for attendance confirmation and offers a digital experience for purchasing and receiving gifts, specifically catering to the Brazilian market. This comprehensive service allows users to personalize their event planning and enhance the overall experience for both hosts and guests.

Cayena

Seed Round in 2019
Poupachef offers a single point procurement solution for restaurants to shop for daily supplies in a simple, fast and affordable way. Restaurant owners can reduce the time it takes to replace inventory from 2 hours to 10 minutes per day and save up to 30% through group buying effects and our smart supplier allocation technology. We help transforming great restaurants into great businesses.

The Coffee

Seed Round in 2019
The Coffee operates and franchises coffee shops in Balneário Camboriú, Belo Horizonte, Blumenau, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, and São Paulo. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil.