Caravela Capital
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed · 9 people tracked
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Caravela Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm backing technology startups, primarily in Brazil and across Latin America.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 32 of 44 portfolio companiesSaaS ×12Fintech ×11AI & Machine Learning ×7E-commerce ×7Marketplaces ×7Retail Tech ×6PropTech ×5B2B Marketplaces ×4
HQs:Brazil×25United States×3Mexico×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 13 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×53 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas ×3Columbia Business School ×2Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2Universidade Federal do Paraná ×2USP - Universidade de São Paulo ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with field-of-study data
Business & Management ×6Engineering ×4Economics ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 13 founders with career history
Joox ×2Santander ×2
Investments · 44 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 32023 · 12022 · 12021 · 12020 · 17 dated
AgentShop provides AI agents that sell, support customers, and re-engage buyers across WhatsApp, Instagram, and websites, integrated with a merchant's e-commerce, ERP, logistics, and payments systems.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail Tech
Alex Sandoval(Founder)Nicolas Hernan Degiorgis(Founder)
Co-investorsARTFO Holdings LLCBDev VenturesSpero VenturesVoyager Partners
Amora offers a service to speed up the "repasse" process (transfer of financing from developer to bank) in Brazilian real estate, shortening the time between a property's occupancy permit (habite-se) and completed transfer.
FintechPropTech
Co-investorsLatitud Ventures
Anthor operates a mobile app that connects retailers needing temporary workers with qualified people to cover demand peaks, handling tasks like shelf stocking, checkout support, distribution-center and warehouse organization, e-commerce/delivery picking, and store price comparison.
Future of WorkMarketplacesRetail Tech
BlissHub provides technology and hands-on support for health insurance brokers in Brazil, handling quotations, proposal tracking, commission payouts, and access to insurance carriers.
Digital HealthInsurTechSaaS
Co-investorsClocktower Ventures
Caju offers a single platform for Brazilian companies to manage employee benefits (including CLT, PAT and flexible benefits), corporate expenses via a card and app, and HR/people processes.
FintechHR TechSaaSNorfolk, US
Eduardo del Giglio(Founder)inGiglio(Founder)Renan Mendes(Co-Founder & CTO)inEduardo Braz del Giglio(Director)inChristian Grant(Director)Lucas Boiteux Amoroso Lima(Director)
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesFJ LabsOnevc Venture Partners LlcPICUS CAPITALValor Capital GroupCanary+2 more
Casai was a Mexico City-founded proptech startup that leased upscale apartments across Latin America and operated them as tech-enabled, hotel-style short-term rentals with keyless entry and smart-home features.
Maricarmen Herrerías(Founder)Nico Barawid(Founder)
Co-investorsKaszek VenturesKnockout CapitalAndreessen HorowitzGlobal Founders CapitalTriplePoint Capital
CashU provides a machine-learning-based predictive credit model with over 1,500 variables to set customized credit limits, terms, and rates for merchants' customers, aiming to increase conversion and repeat purchases.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Thiago Saldanha(Founder)in
Co-investorsABSeed VenturesCapitânia InvestimentosCredit Saison
Contabilizei offers automated bookkeeping and accounting services in Brazil.
Grand Cayman
Fabio Caetano Andrade Bacarin(Director)Vitor Torres(Founder)inFabio Bacarin(Founder)
BoardPedro Sirotsky Melzer(Director)inHernan Kazah(Director)in
Co-investorsBeta VenturesCuritiba AngelsKaszek VenturesPruVen Capital PartnersQuona CapitalSoftbank Latin America Fund+6 more
CredAluga provides digital rental guarantee products (fiança locatícia) for real estate agencies and tenants in Brazil, offering modular options such as monthly-fee guarantees with coverage up to 35x rent, cashback plans, and deposit-based plans invested in fixed income.
FintechInsurTechPropTechBelo Horizonte, BR
Co-investorsFJ LabsHoney Island CapitalNorte VenturesProvence Partners
Destaxa provides payment transaction routing technology that lets businesses parametrize transactions and route them across acquirers to find the most favorable rates.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsAstellaClocktower VenturesNorte VenturesQuona Capital
EmCasa is an online real estate marketplace for buying and selling residential properties such as houses, luxury apartments, and penthouses.
FintechMarketplacesPropTechGrand Cayman, BR
Lucas Messias Cardozo(Chief Operating Officer of the Issuer)Gustavo Chaves Vaz(President and Chief Executive Officer of the Issuer)Marcelo Santos Andrade Lima(Director)inGustavo Vaz(Founder)Lucas Cardozo(Founder)
Co-investorsDorm RoomGrupo Globo - Mídia e ConteúdoMAYA Capital VenturesMONASHEESOnevc Venture Partners LlcPear VC+4 more
Franq operates a digital platform and marketplace for independent bankers ("Personal Bankers") in Brazil, giving them a personalized digital storefront, credit simulators, and AI tools to offer over 150 financial products from more than 50 partner institutions to their own client base.
FintechMarketplacesSaaS
Daniel Ferretti(Founder)inFelipe Giroleti(Founder)inGustavo Hartmann(Founder)Paulo Silva(Founder)
Co-investorsFJ LabsGrupo Globo - Mídia e ConteúdoQuona CapitalValor Capital GroupGlobo Ventures
Gedanken operates a Brazilian supplier management platform for registering, vetting, and monitoring suppliers, with automated risk classification, credit analysis, and ESG/sustainability assessment across the supply chain.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsCitrino Ventures
Hubii offers a platform for trade and retail execution that connects existing networks of distributors, retailers, and brands into a coordinated system.
Logistics & Supply ChainRetail TechSaaS
Felipe Baulé(Founder)inFelipe Latif Mechailech(Founder)in
Co-investorsVerve Capital
IKKB provides global business banking with accounts, corporate cards, foreign exchange, payments, and treasury management on a single platform.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Intelia offers conversational intelligence software that uses AI, automation and data analysis to improve customer service and sales, sales and post-sales operations.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechFlorianópolis, BR
Delivery app that lets users order from restaurants, pharmacies and shops with delivery within an hour.
Co-investorsCuritiba Angels
Kyte is a point-of-sale system designed for small businesses to manage sales across multiple channels including physical stores and online platforms.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaSSão Paulo, BR
Guilherme Galesi Hernandez(Founder)in
Co-investorsDN CapitalHoney Island CapitalPark West Asset ManagementSterling RoadUnpopular Ventures
Co-investorsAlexia VenturesInvest TechRiverwood CapitalEndeavor CatalystIgah Ventures
Mercado Diferente is an online organic grocery subscription service that delivers customizable baskets of certified organic fruits, vegetables, and other food items to homes on a weekly or biweekly basis.
Circular EconomyE-commerceFoodTechSão Paulo, BR
Walter Rodrigues(Founder)Eduardo Petrelli(Founder)Paulo Monçores(Founder)Saulo Marti(Founder)
Co-investorsMAYA Capital VenturesCollaborative FundLatitud Ventures
Mottu is a motorcycle rental service that allows users to rent motorbikes for short-term urban mobility.
B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesMobility & Transportation
Caetano Minuzzo(Founder)Rubens Zanelatto(Founder)
Co-investorsAllievo CapitalFJ LabsLinkinFirmPractical Venture CapitalQED InvestorsBicycle+1 more
Nex provides fully furnished private offices, fixed workstations, meeting rooms, and day-pass subscriptions with complete infrastructure and daily on-site support for companies and their teams.
Future of WorkPropTech
Nexos provides corporate accounts, cards, foreign exchange, payments, and treasury services for businesses operating internationally.
Fintech
Co-investorsLatitud VenturesCreandumEvantic CapitalIndex Ventures
nocnoc is a cross-border ecommerce platform that lets international brands sell on major Latin American marketplaces such as Mercado Libre, Amazon, Walmart, Coppel, Magalu, and Falabella through a single integration.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplaces
Ocean Drop is a Brazilian brand that develops and sells natural, plant-based dietary supplements — including vegan omega-3 from microalgae, spirulina, magnesium, psyllium, astaxanthin, melatonin, and B-complex — free of lactose and animal ingredients.
Direct to ConsumerE-commerceWellness & Fitness
OneCarNow (OCN) offers a car subscription service that lets customers get a new car for the medium or long term through a fully digital experience, bundling everything except gasoline.
CleantechConsumerMarketplacesMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsBlustone CapitalCollide CapitalDeepwater Asset ManagementGreat North VenturesInformed Ventures Advisors, LlcLoup Ventures+3 more
Phantom Space Corporation builds small satellite launch vehicles and satellites, along with its Phantom Cloud data-center constellations, to provide launch and in-space delivery services.
Deep TechHardwareSpace TechTucson, US
James Cantrell(Executive Officer, Director)Michael D'Angelo(Executive Officer, Director)Michal Prywata(Executive Officer)
Co-investors4D CapitalBalerion Space VenturesChenel Capital Partners
PX operates a digital platform that connects independent professional truck drivers with carriers under a "shared drivers" model, giving companies flexible labor and reducing legal and cost risks while offering drivers autonomy.
B2B MarketplacesFuture of WorkLogistics & Supply ChainJoinville, BR
André Oliveira(CEO & Co-founder)in
Qonta operates an earned-wage access benefit that lets employees withdraw a portion of their already-worked salary before payday through an app and WhatsApp, with Qonta providing the capital and technology at no cost to the employer.
FintechHR TechSaaS
Revena provides an AI system for hospitals that reads commercial contracts and clinical records (medical progress notes, prescriptions, exams, surgical descriptions) to automatically assemble justified, contract-compliant medical bills and post validated items into hospital information systems (HIS).
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsFJ Labs
Robbin provides embedded B2B financing that lets industrial companies originate sales and finance their distribution networks off-balance-sheet, with reseller payments in installments while the manufacturer is paid upfront and without default risk.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesFintech
Leonardo Moura, CFA(Founder)inHenrique Meyer, CFAinHenrique Meyer(Founder)Leonardo Moura(Founder)Tomás Corrêa(Founder)
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesCrescera CapitalNorte VenturesAtlanticoCanary
SuaQuadra is a Brazilian online marketplace for commercial real estate, offering a curated listing base with detailed data, filters, and specialized brokers.
MarketplacesPropTech
Pedro Donato(Founder)inAbraao Barros Lacerda(Founder)in
Co-investorsKaszek VenturesOnevc Venture Partners LlcVerve Capital
Tecnofit provides a management system for fitness gyms and studios that includes enrollment, scheduling, workout programming, billing automation, and client engagement tools through a dedicated mobile app.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsHoney Island CapitalQuartz
Tempo is a personal assistant platform that combines an AI assistant with human support, operated through WhatsApp, to handle everyday personal tasks such as scheduling appointments, booking travel and restaurants, buying gifts, renewing documents, and paying bills.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFuture of Work
Eduardo Latache(Founder)in
Co-investorsAllievo CapitalFormus CapitalMAYA Capital VenturesNorte VenturesGeneral CatalystGolden Ventures+8 more
Trinio provides a commerce orchestration suite (TRINIO OS) built around AI agents that manage checkout, order fulfillment, shipping rules, and omnichannel store operations for e-commerce retailers.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Theo Ribeiro(Founder)in
Co-investorsActivant CapitalLatitud VenturesSoma CapitalHi Ventures
ZAX is a mobile app-based B2B marketplace connecting fashion retailers with over 1,000 wholesale clothing suppliers from São Paulo districts such as Brás and Bom Retiro.
B2B MarketplacesE-commerceRetail Tech
Co-investorsAllievo CapitalCanaryCRIVO VenturesFJ LabsFlucas VenturesNorte Ventures+3 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Cata CompanyFazenda FuturoLeveS2PetsSinc FinanceTroco Simples
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesRobbin · thesaasnews.com · May 27, 2026
Phantom Space · trysignalbase.com · May 11, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Caravela Capital made?
- Caravela Capital has 44 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Caravela Capital invest at?
- Caravela Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Caravela Capital's typical check size?
- Caravela Capital typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
- What sectors does Caravela Capital focus on?
- Caravela Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, E-commerce, Fintech, Logistics & Supply Chain, Marketplaces, PropTech, SaaS.
- Does Caravela Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Caravela Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Caravela Capital co-invest with?
- Caravela Capital most often shares deals with FJ Labs, Norte Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, among 59 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 13
Clocktower Ventures is the venture arm of Clocktower Group, backing technology companies transforming financial services across consumer and enterprise fintech.
Quona Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies expanding financial access in emerging markets across Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and EMEA.
Honey Island Capital is an investment firm specializing in fintech and financial innovation in Latin America, backing early-stage startups and also investing in digital assets. Founded in 2015 by the partners behind EBANX, it has built a portfolio of more than 25 startups.
Verve Capital is a seed-stage investment firm.
Valor Capital Group is a cross-border venture fund connecting the US, Latin American, and global technology markets, investing in consumer internet and enterprise software companies.
QED Investors is a venture capital firm focused on financial services, founded by former Capital One executives to back founders bringing transparency and fairness to fintech.
Great North Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in capital-efficient technology startups, with a focus on Vertical AI and Embedded Finance.
Invest Tech is a Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital fund manager that invests in B2B companies using technology as a critical factor for improving processes, efficiency, and business longevity, supporting the digitalization of the Brazilian economy.
Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage founders, with teams on the ground across multiple continents.
Newtopia VC is a Latin American venture capital firm backing early-stage startups from idea to product-market fit, supported by regional entrepreneurs, angels, and founders of the region's unicorns.
Wollef is a venture capital firm active in Latin America, known for partnering closely with founders and providing operational support and network access.
DGF Investimentos is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm founded in 2001 that backs early-stage B2B software companies, including SaaS and AI-native platforms, across multiple funds.
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Firms observed investing alongside Caravela Capital, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Caravela Capital's recorded portfolio.
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