Led · Seed · Mar 2024

Advolve AI is a marketing platform that leverages generative AI and machine learning to automate and optimize digital marketing campaigns, from content creation to audience targeting and campaign optimization. Founded in late 2023 by João Sobreira, Djary Veiga, and João Paulo Marinho Martins, the company serves clients including iFood and Cogna Educação. The startup automates performance marketing processes to improve campaign efficiency and reduce manual work for marketers. In February 2025 Advolve AI raised $5.0M in seed funding and plans to use the capital for international expansion, team growth, and technological advancements. The platform targets performance marketing automation for enterprise and large-scale digital advertisers and positions itself as a data-driven solution to scale and optimize marketing spend. Launched in 2023, Advolve provides an AI- and machine learning-powered digital marketing platform that automates the entire digital marketing process from creative generation to attribution using data and tests. The product is designed to help companies increase gains at scale, with faster execution and higher conversion. The company is led by João Sobreira, Djary Veiga and João Paulo Marinho Martins. Advolve has institutional partnerships including Google for Startups, OpenAI, AWS Startups, Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and NVIDIA Inception Program. It currently has 16 employees and plans to expand the team in 2024. The company raised funding to support operational expansion and hiring.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Deco.cx builds an open-source front-end development platform for Deno, JSX and Tailwind that runs on a global edge infrastructure, designed to give brands more control over their website front ends. It targets developers of growing e-commerce brands by bridging the gap between basic no-code site builders and complex full-code setups, and includes drag-and-drop and natural language tools. The company says clients see, on average, a 5x increase in PageSpeed score and a 30% increase in conversion rates. Since its concept launched in October 2022, Deco.cx has signed over 65 clients, including Grupo Reserva, Osklen and Zee.Dog, and amassed a community of more than 2,400 web developers and 36 system integration partner agencies. The team plans to use new capital to inject AI across the platform, hire additional engineers, and expand into new markets—particularly the United States—with ambitions to become the “new WordPress.”

Participated · Series B · Mar 2023

RangeForce provides cloud-based cyber defense upskilling solutions that deliver real-world interactive exercises simulating live attacks. Its platform helps cybersecurity professionals and operations teams continuously upskill employees while using their existing software tools. The simulated exercises are designed to protect teams against current and emerging cyber threats. The company intends to use the new funding to expand its product line. RangeForce has experienced rapid growth with Fortune Global 2000 customers across finance, technology, and healthcare. Its customer roster includes Equifax, Barclays, and federal government entities. RangeForce provides a cloud platform that delivers prescriptive, individualized learning paths with hundreds of real-world training modules for security, DevOps, web application engineers and industrial control teams. The platform supports cross-training, custom reporting for management, and orchestration of incident detection and response across multiple vendor tools. RangeForce has developed vendor-specific training modules for Recorded Future, Splunk, VirusTotal and Carbon Black and is expanding those integrations to build a full-stack security partner ecosystem. The company serves more than 100 organizations across financial services, technology, government, retail, telecom and healthcare. Leadership is headed by CEO Taavi Must. RangeForce plans to use new funding to accelerate go-to-market efforts, advance product development, expand its ecosystem of training orchestration partners and drive global growth. RangeForce, founded in Estonia and operating out of Tallinn and New York, offers a learning platform that simulates cyber attack scenarios to train and assess security professionals. Its core product is a problem-based learning environment designed to provide enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams with hands-on defensive experience. The company says its customers span the financial, technology and healthcare sectors, and include Microsoft, Barclays, Santander, and Pipedrive. Taavi Must is the CEO and co-founder and has positioned the platform as an alternative to one-size-fits-all classroom training. Financially, RangeForce has just secured external funding as reported in the articles.

Participated · Series C · Oct 2019

Provivi is an emerging crop-protection company developing scalable pheromone solutions for pest and resistance management in large-acreage crops such as corn, rice, and soy. Its patented production method lowers the cost of manufacturing pheromones, enabling use in high-acreage row crops. Provivi has registered and commercialized its technology in Mexico, Brazil, and Kenya. The company focuses on pheromone-based Mating Disruption to selectively control pests while preserving beneficial insects and reducing harmful residues. Provivi plans projects to develop and supply products against Rice Stem Borer and Maize Fall Armyworm to small-scale farmers in Kenya, Bangladesh, and India. Financially, the company announced a $10M investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that adds to a recently announced $45.5M Series C-2 fundraising round. Provivi develops a family of pheromone-based solutions for crop protection, targeting crops such as corn, rice and soy. Its products use insect pheromones to control damaging pests while preserving beneficial insects. The company intends to commercialize and launch its pheromone product line. Provivi was founded in 2013 by Dr. Pedro Coelho, Dr. Peter Meinhold and 2018 Nobel laureate Dr. Frances Arnold. The firm is based in Santa Monica, California. It completed a significant Series C financing to support its commercialization plans. Provivi develops bio-based pest control technologies using biological and innovative chemical processes. The company leverages scientific discoveries at the California Institute of Technology and its own technological developments. It produces supply-limited products for agriculture, commercial, household, and public health pest management. Within crop agriculture Provivi leverages molecules used by insects for communication to develop pest control solutions. Its agricultural solutions are intended to fit into Organic, Conventional and GMO practices. The company intends to use the funds from the Series A to advance its solutions.