Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

BotCity offers a governance and observability platform tailored for Python automations, giving IT and security teams the ability to monitor, audit, and manage scripts and AI agents that are often created outside formal IT processes. The platform brings visibility to so-called “shadow automation,” allowing organizations to innovate with Python while maintaining compliance and security standards. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates internationally and serves enterprises that rely heavily on Python for internal workflows. BotCity’s solution targets IT and security leaders who need centralized oversight of decentralized automation efforts spread across business units. The company plans to channel new capital into product development, enhancing features that broaden observability and governance capabilities. Additional proceeds will support global expansion and efforts to scale its customer base. Financial metrics such as revenue or user counts were not disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2024

Cayena operates a B2B marketplace and procurement technology platform for restaurants, bars, hotels and dark kitchens, connecting them with suppliers and adding data-driven intelligence to the purchasing process. The company offers tools to streamline food procurement and improve supply-chain decisions for hospitality businesses. Co-founded by Gabriel Sendacz and Raymond Shayo, Cayena is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The business is positioned to scale its operations across the foodservice sector using its marketplace and analytics capabilities. The company intends to use its recent funding to expand operations and to accelerate product and development efforts. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article. Cayena operates a real-time online B2B marketplace that connects restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens with dozens of pre-qualified wholesale food suppliers, offering next-day delivery and efficient allocation. The platform hosts an extensive product catalog and provides complementary services, including a recently launched Buy Now Pay Later solution, Cayena Pay, to meet customers' working capital needs. Cayena addresses a largely analog procurement market in Latin America — a wholesale food market the article estimates at over US$100 billion — where many small independent operators still order by phone or WhatsApp. The company reached R$100 million in sales on its platform, a milestone that helped trigger the new Series A; it had also recently announced a prior R$20 million investment led by Picus Capital. Planned uses of the new capital include expanding presence across Brazil, scaling the BNPL offering, investing in user experience and product simplification, and substantially increasing hiring. The startup plans to double its roughly 60-person team by the end of the year with a focus on technology and data roles, and was founded by Gabriel Sendacz, Pedro Carvalho and Raymond Shayo.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Indaband is a social music-collaboration app that lets musicians and vocalists record video tracks and stitch others' performances on top to create multitrack video songs. Users can upload prerecorded files or use the app's recording booth and multitrack video studio to record and mix unlimited video tracks across sessions. The app includes discovery features such as daily curated playlists across genres, and social features like likes, comments, reposts and collaborator notifications. Indaband plans a "Circles" feature for user communities, potential live events, and a possible Patreon-like paid-content offering for established creators. Early adopters are skilled musicians, while the company intends to broaden to beginners over time. The co-founders—CEO Daniel Murta, CTO Andrews Medina, Head of Engineering Helielson Santos and Design Leader Emerson Farias—developed the idea while working at legal tech company Jusbrasil and later left to focus on Indaband full-time.

Led · Equity · Feb 2024

Traive builds a platform that concentrates the agricultural credit process and the sale of receivables in a single place, powered by proprietary AI trained on over 2,500 data points. The technology examines extensive datasets to provide updated and precise information for credit assessment. The company positions itself as a solution to improve evaluation of credit risk across the agribusiness chain. Traive works with market leaders and corporate investors to accelerate adoption within the agriculture ecosystem. Management emphasizes partnerships with industry leaders to increase availability of financing and to promote environmental practices. Traive was founded in 2018. Traive operates a B2B2C ag fintech platform that centralizes the steps of a farmer's credit journey, enabling lenders to receive applications, collect documents, analyze risk, approve loans, and process payments online. The company uses algorithms and expanded data collection to deliver real-time risk assessment and improve lender decisioning. Traive’s direct customers are lenders and ag supply-chain businesses, with farmers served indirectly; the platform targets small- to medium-sized farmers who lack access to traditional bank financing. Founded in 2018 out of an MIT research project, Traive is currently based in the US and Brazil and primarily serves Brazilian farmers. The company plans to build more products, hire additional data scientists, enable broader data collection, develop a digital wallet, and ultimately become a digital bank pending regulatory approval from the Brazilian central bank. Traive also intends to extend its product to reach farmers directly and plans expansion into the US next year. Traive offers a range of financial products and services for the agricultural supply chain in Brazil and the US, built around proprietary technologies and unique models for risk analysis and diversification. The company generates real-time risk assessments using algorithms and proprietary data to help ag retailers, input companies, and other supply-chain businesses provide working capital loans to farmers. Traive operates on a B2B model (B2B2C potential) to leverage lenders' historical data and lower client-acquisition costs. Its platform layers credit application, management, documentation, and alerting on top of the core risk-assessment model. Launched in 2018 and spun out of MIT, Traive targets medium-size producers underserved by regular financial players. The company plans to use the new funding to build its team, expand its product lineup, and acquire data to improve its credit-risk models.

Led · Equity · Jan 2024

Gabriel, founded in 2020 after its founders returned to Brazil, integrates proprietary smart cameras and computer vision with routine police operations to address public-safety challenges across Latin America. Its cameras, called "Chameleons," are installed in homes and businesses and feed image-derived data to authorities; typical subscribers are private citizens and homeowner associations. The company says it has deployed thousands of smart cameras and now operates the densest camera networks in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Gabriel reports its network helps police identify an average of six crimes per day, a 5x increase over the past 12 months. Over the past year the business moved from a negative gross margin to SaaS-like margins, increased its average ticket and doubled revenue year-over-year. Management plans continued product development to enable self-serve operation by security businesses, governments, agents and third parties, and is prioritizing a São Paulo takeover in 2024 with new-city launches planned for 2025. Gabriel develops an interconnected system of low-cost intelligent cameras using proprietary computer-vision and IoT technology to improve public safety. The company operates its camera park entirely, with devices spread across multiple neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro and plans to launch in new state capitals. Subscribers share images from public-facing cameras with the Gabriel platform, enabling the company to carry out complex investigations and notify police within minutes. Gabriel currently manages five times more cameras than the city's government network and has participated in more than one investigation a day in the last month, including identifications and arrests in Leblon and Ipanema. The startup says its system is resilient by design and aims to make security forces' work more efficient and transparent at no cost to the government. Founded in January 2020, Gabriel plans to build Brazil's largest safety surveillance camera network starting in Rio and expand to other major cities with the new capital.