ACE Ventures
Av. Manuel Bandeira, 360, Vila Leopoldina, São Paulo, SP, 05317-020, Brazil
Overview
ACE Startups is a venture capital investor that invests in startups and drives companies to current market levels. They create and validate consulting categories.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 6
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Scholé AI
Led · Equity · Jan 2026
Scholé AI is an AI-native learning engine spun out of research at EPFL and UC Berkeley that tailors short, interactive lessons to each employee’s role, tools, and day-to-day tasks. The platform continually adapts difficulty, format, and content in real time while grounding instruction in a company’s own materials, enabling practical, context-aware upskilling. An early focus is teaching employees how to apply AI in their daily work, with Harvard-co-developed AI-intensive courses already used by learners at hundreds of organizations including Bank of America, NASA, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple. Forbes named the program the best way to learn AI agents for 2026. Scholé AI is currently piloting with Swisscom, Decathlon, and Coop, and operates from Lausanne and San Francisco. The company was founded by Dr. Vinitra Swamy (CEO) and Dr. Paola Mejia (CTO), who each hold over a decade of AI-in-education research experience. To date, Scholé AI has raised $3 million to expand enterprise deployments, grow its team, and further develop its adaptive learning platform.
- Sinpex
Participated · Series A · Jan 2026
Founded in 2019 by former Deloitte project lead Dr. Camillo Werdich, Sinpex offers an all-in-one platform that digitises every step of corporate client onboarding, from document collection and beneficial-owner identification to AML screening and ongoing reviews. Its extensible KYB data model and AI-driven document analysis produce fully audit-ready reports, helping customers comply with EU regulations such as AMLD5/6, PSD2/3, DAC7 and the forthcoming 2027 EU AML Regulation. The company claims to cut business onboarding time by roughly 80 %, turning a traditionally manual, document-heavy workflow into an automated process that surfaces evidence for every data point extracted. Financial institutions and fintechs including Otto Payments, Enpal, IKB, Bybit, Scayle Payments and KfW already rely on the product. Tougher AML enforcement and multimillion-euro fines faced by banks like N26 underscore the platform’s value proposition. With the fresh capital, Sinpex plans to accelerate product development, expand beyond its Central European core market, and grow its team of engineers and compliance specialists. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.
- Veezoo
Led · Series A · Sep 2025
Veezoo’s cloud-based Agentic Analytics platform combines generative AI with its governed Veezoo Knowledge Graph to translate natural-language questions into deterministic SQL through VQL, delivering auditable answers that remain consistent with company definitions and role-based access rules. The system is already deployed at several Fortune Global 500 enterprises and is used daily by thousands of employees at brands such as AXA, Breitling, Valora, Baloise and Air Up. Recognized as a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Models and Natural Language Technologies, the Swiss company has been AI-native since its 2016 inception and claims profitability today. By abstracting data complexity for non-technical users, Veezoo aims to democratize analytics and embed data-driven decision making throughout organizations. With fresh capital, management plans to deepen product capabilities, maintain strict governance of answers, and expand go-to-market operations across Europe and the United States. The founding team—CEO Marcos Monteiro, COO Till Haug and CTO João Pedro Monteiro—continues to lead the company, supported by an experienced board that includes former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson and veteran product executive Mark Kornfilt.
- nsave
Participated · Series A · Jan 2025
nsave offers trusted dollar, sterling and euro accounts abroad to people from countries with high inflation, working with regulated financial institutions and banking partners in the UK and Switzerland. The company has launched an investment product that lets customers access US equities, ETFs and, soon, funds managed by major asset managers via the nsave app, subject to onboarding and compliance checks. nsave targets young professionals facing exclusionary compliance processes and people from high-inflation economies seeking to protect and grow their savings. The business emphasizes a compliance-by-design approach to enable services safely and more broadly. nsave is led by founders Amer Baroudi and Abdallah AbuHashem and is based in London and Geneva. The company recently completed a notable financing to accelerate growth. nsave is a Swiss fintech founded in 2022 by Amer Baroudi and Abdallah AbuHashem that helps people in countries with unstable banking sectors or high inflation open offshore accounts. Its product provides trusted accounts denominated in dollar, euro or pound through partnerships with regulated financial institutions. Users sign up on an app and complete an onboarding journey that includes risk assessment and dynamic, automated enhanced due diligence when required. The company uses a proprietary transaction‑monitoring tool to comply with Swiss anti‑money laundering and counter‑terrorist financing regulations. nsave is live but in the early stages of product development and plans to double down on the savings and wealth side of retail banking. The team is targeting millions of people in distressed economies, citing examples such as Lebanon where inflation and currency devaluation have eroded savings.
- Neustark ag
Participated · Equity · Jun 2024
Neustark has developed an IP‑protected solution that captures biogenic CO2 from biogas plants, liquefies and transports it to construction‑waste recycling sites, and injects it into concrete granulates and other mineral waste to trigger accelerated mineralization and permanent storage. The carbonated recycled aggregate can be used to build roads or produce fresh recycled building materials; Neustark says the mineralization stores CO2 for hundreds of thousands of years. The company has deployed its solution at 19 sites and has 40 additional plants under construction across Europe. Neustark has sold nearly 120,000 tons of carbon removal to date and certifies projects under the Gold Standard. The company is scaling globally with plans to expand across Europe, enter North America and Asia‑Pacific, and aims to permanently remove 1 million tons of CO2 by 2030. Founded in 2019 and based in Berne, Switzerland, Neustark is a team of around 60 people (Q2 2024). Neustark is a Bern‑based company that captures CO2 at biogas plants, liquefies it and enables permanent storage — including enrichment of demolition‑concrete granulate and geological storage abroad. The firm manages the full value chain from capture and liquefaction to transport (rail, ship, truck), storage in target countries (e.g., Iceland, Norway) and third‑party certification of climate benefit. Its core product is a CO2 removal service for point sources, with processes to incorporate CO2 into building materials or store it underground. The company was awarded two projects by the Stiftung Klimarappen and will use the funding to scale its core activities and to explore expanded geological storage pathways. Co‑CEOs and founders Valentin Gutknecht and Johannes Tiefenthaler are quoted on accelerating scaling and unlocking geological storage potential. Operational metrics disclosed in the press release include contracted removal volumes of 16,500 t CO2 (concrete storage) and 13,000 t CO2 (geological storage), totaling 29,500 t of sold CO2.