Led · Seed · Dec 2025

FlowCredi operates a digital marketplace focused on credit with real-estate or vehicle collateral, enabling consumers to compare rates and contract home-equity, real-estate and auto-backed loans in one environment. By automating quotations and approvals, the platform removes bureaucracy and makes collateralized credit more accessible. In less than two years, FlowCredi has surpassed R$500 million in approved home-equity credit, showing strong early traction. The company argues that home-equity loans can cut borrowers’ monthly payments by up to 85% when they refinance expensive debts. Led by CEO Bruno Gama and founded by former Credihome executives Deivid Bastos, Rodrigo Gordinho, Mayle Vaz and Caio Alfano, the startup blends credit, property and technology expertise. Its long-term vision is to popularize home-equity lending in Brazil through financial education, specialized channels and proprietary technology, tapping into a market that could grow from an estimated R$11 billion in 2025 to R$500 billion under the new “Marco Legal das Garantias”. The new funding inaugurates an aggressive expansion phase for the company.

Participated · 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 · Equity · Mar 2024

Networkme builds a platform that matches students to employers by combining behavioral profiling with assessments of technical skills. The product includes a career simulator, challenges and curated content to help students practice junior-level tasks and improve employability. The company emphasizes social impact and democratizing access to job opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. Founded in 2020 by CEO Felipe Vieira and CTO Marcelo Manteigas, Networkme has registered 100,000 users and says it has placed more than 50,000 students into the workforce. For its Brazil launch it hired Luciano Cacace as Head Brazil and aims to reach 300,000 Brazilian students in the first year and to place more than 1 million students into work by 2030. Since founding the startup reports having raised a total of €2 million to date. Networkme operates an online platform that creates direct connections between students, professionals, companies and universities to help young people discover which degree/career to pursue and to help companies hire recent graduates. The startup was incubated at Demium and accelerated by Microsoft for Startups, and launched in September 2021. The platform already counts about 28,000 registered university students and nearly 50 partner companies. Networkme employs 20 people and plans to hire 10 more, primarily in technology and finance. Funds from the recent raise will be used to accelerate expansion in Portugal and Spain, reinforce local hiring, and develop new platform features. Planned technological developments include an updated platform and a recommendation system to better match graduates with employer needs.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app that teaches 4- to 12-year-olds the foundations of credit through gamified activities, a simulated 'Kredit Score' (300–850) and a rewards currency called Bamboo Bucks. Parents assign chores and activities; children’s Kredit Scores move up or down based on completion, and families can redeem Bamboo Bucks for rewards. The company has a partnership with Equifax (dating to 2021) and last year built a web platform that lets organizations like YMCA and partners add activities, rewards and push notifications. The platform unlocks over 250 hours of content that meets multiple National Financial Literacy Standards. Kiddie Kredit is used by more than 12,000 families, began generating revenue in 2021 and grew revenues 150% between 2021 and 2022; the CEO says revenues are tracking significantly higher this year. Founder and CEO Evan Leaphart says the company plans to expand enterprise partnerships, broaden reach and develop a follow-on product to serve teens, potentially incorporating a true credit product for the teen-plus market. Kiddie Kredit, founded in 2018, is a Miami startup that launched a mobile app last year to teach kids how credit works by leveraging chore completion as a learning mechanic. The app has been downloaded more than 4,000 times and users have completed over 32,000 chores, indicating early engagement, particularly among mothers. Kiddie Kredit has partnered with the Equifax Foundation and with rapper Mickey Factz to help promote the app, and it is in talks with a major teen banking company about another partnership. The team plans a second iteration that would include a "Credit Karma for kids" recommendation engine and a product-recommendation platform for financial institutions, with geo-fencing to surface local bank offers. They intend to offer a premium app version with additional features and are exploring ways to turn Bamboo Bucks into a digital wallet that kids could use for purchases or to send earnings to a bank account. With support from advisors such as Monique Idlett-Mosley of Reign Ventures, the company aims to deepen institutional partnerships and expand its social-impact mission to combat financial illiteracy among youth.

Participated · Series C · Nov 2022

Beekeeper provides a suite of tools to engage the deskless frontline workforce across hospitality, retail, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare. Its platform includes messaging, surveys, video and voice chats, FAQ chatbots, workflow automation (for onboarding), shift scheduling, documents, forms and analytics for managers. Founded out of Switzerland in 2011 and based in Zurich, Beekeeper has enterprise customers including Hilton and Cargill. The company says revenue has risen 100% since the start of the pandemic. Beekeeper competes with the likes of Connecteam, WorkStep, WorkJam and Skedulo. It plans to double down on product development and build on recent growth with the new funding. Beekeeper is a mobile communication and operations platform designed specifically for frontline workers and is led by CEO Cristian Grossmann. The platform connects millions of global users across customers such as Panera Bread and Mandarin Oriental to improve productivity, agility, and safety. Beekeeper provides mobile-first features including chat, surveys, digital forms, workflows, and integrations to surface relevant information and processes for every frontline worker. The company announced Beekeeper 2.0, which adds a new app entry point, automated translations into 100+ languages, custom FAQ chatbots, digital forms and workflows, and out-of-the-box integrations with SharePoint and popular shift scheduling software. Beekeeper intends to use the funds to expand its cloud marketplace for apps, solutions, and integrations. Financially, Beekeeper completed a $10M Series B extension that brought the round’s total to $60M. Beekeeper offers a mobile-first communications platform designed to connect non-desk and service-oriented workers in industries such as hospitality, manufacturing and retail. The product is pitched as a “Slack for non-desk employees” and aims to replace pen-and-paper workflows and consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp. The company targets a large addressable market — it cites that more than 80% of the world’s workers are non-desk and estimates 1.7 billion are unconnected or poorly connected. Beekeeper counts customers including Hyatt Hotels, Dollar General, Domino’s Pizza, Heathrow Airport and SeaBoard Foods. Financially, the company has just completed a $45M Series B. On the product roadmap Beekeeper plans new features and integrations, including a marketplace for custom apps and integrations with systems such as Workday to bridge gaps between knowledge workers and non-desk staff. Beekeeper offers a secure communication and operations platform designed for non-desk and on-demand workers, enabling companies to track messages and replace email with secure messaging. The app includes machine translation to enable cross-language and cross-geography communication and emphasizes security, compliance, and integrations. Customers span hospitality, manufacturing, retail, construction, transport and logistics, food production, NGOs and healthcare, and the product is used by organizations such as Heathrow Airport and Marriott Hotels. Beekeeper is available in 130 countries and is described in the article as a global market leader serving a large addressable market of roughly 2 billion non-desk workers. Financially, the company has raised roughly $26m to date following the latest $13m round. Management has stated a long-term ambition of pursuing a public listing as an exit option. Beekeeper is a mobile-first communications platform that connects companies with non-desk, hourly and service-oriented employees. The platform is designed to replace pen-and-paper and consumer messaging apps and offers password-less onboarding via QR codes so workers without corporate email can join. Beekeeper has found a market in retail, hospitality, manufacturing and transportation and says a number of Fortune 500 companies have adopted the service. Recent customer wins include Mandarin Oriental, Dollar General, Seaboard Foods, Heathrow Airport, Gate Group and Dnata. The company is Switzerland- and U.S.-based and plans to use new funding to fund aggressive U.S. and EMEA market expansion and to expand into new industries. CEO Cristian Grossmann said Beekeeper saw significant momentum in 2016 after investments in customer success and new features, and the product intentionally targets shift-based hourly workers rather than office-based productivity tools.