big_bets
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Series B · 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
Big Bets partners with entrepreneurs from the earliest days, focusing on software-intensive startups aiming to become the largest tech companies of the next generation. The firm positions itself as a partner rather than a traditional investor, engaging deeply with founders during the formative and most challenging early stages. It believes the first decisions set the tone for a business's future, so it works hand in hand with entrepreneurs to help them make decisions, open doors to accelerate development, and behave like entrepreneurs themselves.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 2, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 10 of 36 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×5Enterprise Software ×5SaaS ×5Developer Tools ×3Fintech ×3Data & Infrastructure ×2Marketing Tech ×2AdTech ×1
HQs:Brazil×4United States×3Argentina×1Croatia×1
Investments · 36 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathConta Simples is a financial platform for businesses that centralizes corporate payment management, including corporate card issuance, fund transfers, and bill payments, while providing real-time expense tracking and cost center organization. The platform serves small and medium-sized companies seeking to streamline their financial operations and gain visibility into spending patterns.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSão Paulo, BR
Rodrigo Tognini(Founder)inRicardo Gottschalk(Founder)inFernando Santos(Founder)in
Croct provides a customer data platform that integrates with e-commerce, content management, and marketing tools to unify customer profiles and behavioral data. It serves growth teams and development teams at companies using platforms like Shopify, Strapi, and HubSpot.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSSão Paulo, BR
DinMo is a composable customer data platform (CDP) that lets marketing teams unify, enrich, and activate customer data directly from their existing cloud data warehouse. It offers modular components for audience activation, AI-driven targeting, customer views, identity resolution, tracking, and warehouse hosting, integrating with the customer's existing data and marketing stack.
Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS
HeroUI is a modern UI library for web and mobile applications that provides pre-built components and design systems to help developers build user interfaces quickly and consistently. It serves software development teams and individual developers who need customizable, accessible components.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBuenos Aires, AR
Junior Garcia(Founder)in
Hubla is a payment and commerce platform that provides checkout solutions, upsell tools, membership areas, and sales recovery features for digital businesses. The platform serves online merchants and entrepreneurs in Brazil with transaction processing, merchant support, and performance optimization tools.
E-commerceEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSales TechSão Paulo, BR
Arthur Alvarenga(Founder)inBreno Oliveira(Founder)inBernardo Reis(Founder)inRaphael Capelão(Founder)in
Jota is an AI assistant that manages payments, receivables, and finances for small business owners and freelancers via WhatsApp and a mobile app. It offers a digital account with yield-bearing deposits, Pix transfers, bill payments, payment reminders, and unified access to multiple connected bank accounts.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Menten AI develops generative AI software to design cyclic peptide therapeutics for drug targets beyond the reach of conventional small molecules and biologics. The company partners with major pharmaceutical firms to accelerate preclinical drug discovery.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechSan Francisco, US
NuMind provides a platform for building custom natural language processing models with applications in tasks like resume-to-job matching; the platform uses large language models to accelerate development workflows for data scientists, engineers, and analysts.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US
Platform accelerating drug discovery for untreatable diseases.
Studdy is an AI-powered tutoring platform that provides personalized 1:1 lessons via an interactive whiteboard for students learning academic subjects. The service covers a wide range of topics including math, chemistry, physics, and organic chemistry, and helps students improve understanding and academic performance.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSan Francisco, US
Wasp is a full-stack web framework that reduces boilerplate code and provides built-in structure for web application development. It helps developers, particularly those working with AI, build applications with less code and fewer security vulnerabilities.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareZagreb, HR
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does big_bets invest at?
- big_bets invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is big_bets's typical check size?
- big_bets typically writes checks of $300K – $2M.
- What sectors does big_bets focus on?
- big_bets focuses on SaaS.
- Does big_bets lead rounds?
- Yes, big_bets leads investment rounds.
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