Positive Ventures

Positive Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2016, with locations in São Paulo, Brazil, and San Francisco, California. The firm is run by entrepreneurs and is B-Certified, reflecting its commitment to social and environmental responsibility. Positive Ventures focuses on backing founders who are developing innovative technologies aimed at addressing significant social and environmental issues, particularly with an emphasis on the Global South. The firm invests in various sectors, including biotechnology, clean technology, financial technology, health technology, educational technology, and social commerce, supporting companies that aspire to create a positive impact.

Gustavo Behring

Analyst

Ricardo Castro

Partner

Bruna Constantino

Co-Founder, Chief Impact Officer, Chief Community Officer and Partner

Marina Ferraz

Associate

Andrea Kestenbaum

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Alex Seibel

Partner

13 past transactions

Oya.Care

Seed Round in 2022
Oya Care is reimagining healthcare from a female perspective, delivering care through an affordable platform for women’s reproductive and most reoccurring intimate health needs.

Together by Renee

Seed Round in 2022
Together by Renee is a free app that uses generative AI to streamline and automate health tasks like ordering refills, booking appointments and completing forms in an easy user experience perfect for the 123 million aging Americans managing diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and more. Together measures vital signs like blood pressure via smartphone camera - with no devices or wearables required. Together requires no data entry, typing or integration to legacy systems, using just AI to automate patient-centric care coordination. 67% of Together’s first 15,000 users are over 55 years of age and Together enjoys NetPromoter score of +85.

Worc

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

Pachama

Series A in 2021
Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature. Using the latest technological advances, Pachama delivers continuous insight into how forests sequester carbon, protect wildlife and benefit local communities. These insights enable leading companies to find the world’s best projects and track their impact over time while also helping land stewards earn an income with tools to develop carbon projects and secure funds.

Favo

Series A in 2021
Favo is a supermarket shopping community that connects local entrepreneurs and neighbors.

Neomed

Series A in 2021
Neomed is a health technology company that bridges the gap between patient symptoms and treatment. It provides integrated solutions aimed at the digital cardiovascular journey, ranging from disease promotion and prevention to the management and telediagnosis of cardiological exams, diagnostic support, and emergency medical management. The company is dedicated to medical quality and science, as well as cutting-edge technology, in order to provide value in healthcare through solutions aimed at clinics, laboratories, emergency rooms, hospitals, health insurance companies, and businesses.

Provi

Convertible Note in 2021
Provi is a fintech that builds bridges to promote educational access, boosting careers and accelerating business growth. Through financial solutions, Provi empower schools and digital content producers, and help students follow their path of professional evolution, making payments easier and thus promoting a more democratic future, bringing opportunities closer to more people. Provi offers credit to professionalizing courses, exchanges and other experiences with Income Share Agreement, installment via credit card, Brazilian bank slip and automatic payments, all across a full-checkout platform that simplifies the purchase and selling process. Also, Provi is a Certified B Corporation®, whose purpose is to generate a positive social impact.

Slang

Convertible Note in 2020
Slang use a proprietary ML-driven engine and offers an unprecedented variety of online specialized English courses for career development. Slang started at MIT as a research project on how to use AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Their technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers proficiency tests for career development in over a hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. They already have the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, Slang is scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.

Good Money

Funding Round in 2020
Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.

Letrus

Series A in 2019
Letrus connects linguistic, pedagogical, and digital intelligence, proposing a more effective way of learning and teaching how to write.

Labi Exames

Series A in 2019
Labi provides laboratory examinations with the most competitive prices on the market. There are several exam options, with national quality certification and the care and care you deserve.

New Hope Ecotech

Seed Round in 2016
New Hope Ecotech (NHE) is a technology startup that connects manufacturers with recycling players in formalization process via tradable environmental securities. Their innovative securities (similar to Carbon Credits, but for recyclables) solve manufacturers’ recycling obligations, increase overall recycling rates and generate additional income for recycling workers. Their securities close the Circular Economy’s loop at the Consumer Packaging Goods industry, enabling manufacturers to financially balance the environmental externalities caused by their packaging. NHE offers a software solution that tracks the waste flow in the supply-chain of recycling and creates an auditable, electronic paper trail in order to certify recycling activity: a Recycling Credit. Their Recycling Credits are sold directly to manufacturers as a solution that allows them to meet their recycling targets. Credits’ revenues are shared back with waste pickers, finally paying for their service of helping save their planet.

OccamzRazor

Seed Round in 2016
OccamzRazor combines machine learning and first-in-class biological techniques to improve outcomes in drug discovery and development. Our analysis pipeline consists of two proprietary technologies, Panoramic AI and RazorBrain. Together, they are designed to extract data from unstructured text sources (publications, patient reported outcomes, etc.) and join them with structured data (genomics, proteomics, phenomics, etc.) to generate stronger drug discovery hypotheses and more valuable insights. Successful applications include data extraction and curation from biomedical text, novel target identification, and drug repurposing/repositioning.
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