NXTP Labs

NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America. As one of the oldest VC firms in Latin America active since 2011, NXTP puts its extensive network of mentors, investors and industry specialists to work for its portfolio companies. We are particularly passionate about SaaS, logistics, and other services primed to create efficiencies in business workflows by introducing new technology. NXTP Ventures was an early investor in business such as AuthO, CargoX, Trocafone, Satellogic, Cobli, Liftit, VU Security and many more.

Ariel Arrieta

Founding Partner & Managing Partner

Darly Bendo

Principal

Alexander Busse

General Partner

Francisco Coronel

Founding Partner

Gonzalo Costa

Founding Partner & Managing Partner

Bruno Dalapria

Senior Associate

Eduardo Razzetti

CFO

Past deals in Brazil

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.

Cobli

Series B in 2021
Cobli is a prominent IoT technology company focused on connected vehicles and logistics in Latin America. Established in 2017, the company offers a fleet management platform that integrates vehicles with the internet using plug-and-play hardware. This technology enables fleet managers to access critical vehicle data for improved routing and dispatch, enhanced client delivery communication, and automatic crash detection. Cobli serves over 1,000 clients across various sectors, including vehicle rental, emergency services, and equipment installation. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having won the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, and being named one of LinkedIn's top ten startups in Brazil. Cobli's platform also emphasizes safety and efficiency by analyzing data from solar-powered trackers to identify driver behaviors and address challenges related to dynamic routing and fraud monitoring.

Kangu

Seed Round in 2020
Kangu Tecnologia Ltda operates an e-commerce logistics network. The company connects online sellers, e-commerce companies, transporters, third-party logistics providers, and consumers through a network of drop-off and pick-up points throughout Brazil. The platform allows all parties to handle the delivery, return, and transport of all online purchases. Kangu Tecnologia Ltda was incorporated in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Cobli

Series A in 2019
Cobli is a prominent IoT technology company focused on connected vehicles and logistics in Latin America. Established in 2017, the company offers a fleet management platform that integrates vehicles with the internet using plug-and-play hardware. This technology enables fleet managers to access critical vehicle data for improved routing and dispatch, enhanced client delivery communication, and automatic crash detection. Cobli serves over 1,000 clients across various sectors, including vehicle rental, emergency services, and equipment installation. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having won the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, and being named one of LinkedIn's top ten startups in Brazil. Cobli's platform also emphasizes safety and efficiency by analyzing data from solar-powered trackers to identify driver behaviors and address challenges related to dynamic routing and fraud monitoring.

Nuvemshop

Series B in 2017
Nuvemshop provides entrepreneurs and SMBs with the tools to set up, manage, and promote their online business easily from any device. With the suite of tools around payments, shipping, inventory management, and marketing provided by the company, owners are enabled to participate in the e-commerce market, ramp up their sales, reduce costs, and provide their end customers with a shopping experience. In 2011, co-founders Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez established Nuvemshop in 2011.

Trocafone

Series A in 2016
Trocafone is an online marketplace in Brazil that specializes in the buying and selling of used electronics, primarily smartphones. The platform enhances the experience for both buyers and sellers by acquiring devices from sellers, refurbishing them, and re-selling them as certified pre-owned. This model allows buyers to benefit from the affordability of a peer-to-peer marketplace while enjoying the service and security typically associated with retail stores. For sellers, Trocafone offers a streamlined process that simplifies the selling experience; items can be sold in seconds, and shipping is made easy with pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.

Properati

Series B in 2016
Properati is an online and mobile platform that specializes in real estate services across Latin America. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the company offers a classified website where users can buy, sell, and rent properties such as homes, apartments, and condominiums. Properati's platform facilitates effective communication between buyers, tenants, and property owners by providing comprehensive search capabilities, including detailed information on pricing, property types, and neighborhood data. With a focus on user experience, Properati's website is designed to be agile and free of advertisements, enhancing the overall property search process. The company also has an office in São Paulo, Brazil, and operates as a subsidiary of Olx S.A.

CargoX

Series A in 2016
CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of Brazil. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers, increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road. CargoX was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

FormaFina

Seed Round in 2015
FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovative design products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium. FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

FormaFina

Seed Round in 2014
FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovative design products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium. FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Trocafone

Seed Round in 2014
Trocafone is an online marketplace in Brazil that specializes in the buying and selling of used electronics, primarily smartphones. The platform enhances the experience for both buyers and sellers by acquiring devices from sellers, refurbishing them, and re-selling them as certified pre-owned. This model allows buyers to benefit from the affordability of a peer-to-peer marketplace while enjoying the service and security typically associated with retail stores. For sellers, Trocafone offers a streamlined process that simplifies the selling experience; items can be sold in seconds, and shipping is made easy with pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.

Properati

Series A in 2014
Properati is an online and mobile platform that specializes in real estate services across Latin America. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the company offers a classified website where users can buy, sell, and rent properties such as homes, apartments, and condominiums. Properati's platform facilitates effective communication between buyers, tenants, and property owners by providing comprehensive search capabilities, including detailed information on pricing, property types, and neighborhood data. With a focus on user experience, Properati's website is designed to be agile and free of advertisements, enhancing the overall property search process. The company also has an office in São Paulo, Brazil, and operates as a subsidiary of Olx S.A.

CargoX

Seed Round in 2014
CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of Brazil. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers, increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road. CargoX was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Rodati

Seed Round in 2014
Rodati is an online search and retail platform for vehicles. It provides a transparent and hassle-free experience to its users and the ultimate car-selling platform for their Certified Dealer Network. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Pago Rural

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Pago Rural is an inclusive lend and pay platform, specially designed for underserved farmers and distributors (most of them SMEs). Originally it emerged as a concrete response to the growing financial needs of agriculture and supports the growth and sustainability of producers in the long term. With Pago Rural, the agricultural producer can finance the purchase of their inputs such as seeds, agrochemicals, fertilizers and others, in a simple, agile, and safe way. We improve the efficiency and operating margins of the entire value chain, integrating technology and structured financial products, aligning incentives, and offering a winning solution for farmers and suppliers. Pago Rural was established in 2014 and is based in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.

EmporioCommerce

Seed Round in 2014
EmporioCommerce provides a regional e-commerce solution for brands. Emporio Commerce offers a turn key solution for brands to sell their products online including Warehouse & Fulfillment, Logistics, Customer Service, Payments, Business Intelligence, IT Software Development and Online Marketing. With offices in Argentina, Mexico, Brasil, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay Emporio Commerce has partnered with today’s top global brands across Latin America. Emporio Commerce is backed by MercadoLibre, Inc and Transcosmos, Inc.

RealTrends

Seed Round in 2014
Real Trends provides a platform for MercadoLibre's sellers that makes them sell more and better, offering tools for answering buyers' questions faster, in-depth competition analysis, improvement of listings' ranking and way more! It optimizes account management and reduces sellers' costs. Never again will a seller make a decision based purely on "gut feeling". Real time decision-making information will always be available for smart & fast action. Real Trends has thousands of users in Argentina, Brazil & Mexico, ranging from top brands to regular small and mid-sized sellers and it's pricing adapts to every seller size.

FormaFina

Seed Round in 2014
FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovative design products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium. FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Ripio

Seed Round in 2013
Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using the blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions with credit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.

Aentropico

Seed Round in 2013
Aentropico is a Brazilian company that develops a predictive analytics platform aimed at facilitating decision-making for managers in mid and large enterprises. The platform utilizes Big Data to provide actionable intelligence on various aspects such as marketing, customer analysis, and resource allocation. By combining user-friendly design with advanced applied statistics, Aentropico enables non-technical users to access useful algorithms tailored to industry-specific questions. The company has conducted paid pilot projects in Colombia and Mexico across three different sectors, with plans to expand into recurrent billing projects through their beta platform. Aentropico aspires to establish itself as a leading marketplace for data science solutions in the Latin American market.

Properati

Seed Round in 2013
Properati is an online and mobile platform that specializes in real estate services across Latin America. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the company offers a classified website where users can buy, sell, and rent properties such as homes, apartments, and condominiums. Properati's platform facilitates effective communication between buyers, tenants, and property owners by providing comprehensive search capabilities, including detailed information on pricing, property types, and neighborhood data. With a focus on user experience, Properati's website is designed to be agile and free of advertisements, enhancing the overall property search process. The company also has an office in São Paulo, Brazil, and operates as a subsidiary of Olx S.A.

Nuvemshop

Seed Round in 2013
Nuvemshop provides entrepreneurs and SMBs with the tools to set up, manage, and promote their online business easily from any device. With the suite of tools around payments, shipping, inventory management, and marketing provided by the company, owners are enabled to participate in the e-commerce market, ramp up their sales, reduce costs, and provide their end customers with a shopping experience. In 2011, co-founders Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez established Nuvemshop in 2011.

Properati

Seed Round in 2013
Properati is an online and mobile platform that specializes in real estate services across Latin America. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the company offers a classified website where users can buy, sell, and rent properties such as homes, apartments, and condominiums. Properati's platform facilitates effective communication between buyers, tenants, and property owners by providing comprehensive search capabilities, including detailed information on pricing, property types, and neighborhood data. With a focus on user experience, Properati's website is designed to be agile and free of advertisements, enhancing the overall property search process. The company also has an office in São Paulo, Brazil, and operates as a subsidiary of Olx S.A.

Sontra

Pre Seed Round in 2012
SontraCargo is used by major shipping companies and truck drivers to find available trucks or freight. Through a simple, fast and intuitive system is possible for carriers to publish and find loads trucks available. For the trucker who searches for available freight, SontraCargo becomes an indispensable partner to find the best freight quickly and easily. Shipping throughout Brazil and trucks of all types are available at SontraCargo, the tool that is revolutionizing the transportation market. Sontra was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

FormaFina

Seed Round in 2012
FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovative design products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium. FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Nuvemshop

Angel Round in 2011
Nuvemshop provides entrepreneurs and SMBs with the tools to set up, manage, and promote their online business easily from any device. With the suite of tools around payments, shipping, inventory management, and marketing provided by the company, owners are enabled to participate in the e-commerce market, ramp up their sales, reduce costs, and provide their end customers with a shopping experience. In 2011, co-founders Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez established Nuvemshop in 2011.

Nuvemshop

Seed Round in 2011
Nuvemshop provides entrepreneurs and SMBs with the tools to set up, manage, and promote their online business easily from any device. With the suite of tools around payments, shipping, inventory management, and marketing provided by the company, owners are enabled to participate in the e-commerce market, ramp up their sales, reduce costs, and provide their end customers with a shopping experience. In 2011, co-founders Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez established Nuvemshop in 2011.