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MAYA Capital

Founders Lara Lemann Monica Saggioro Leal

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Total investments 68
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 11.33
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Financial Services
  • Marketplace
Summary

In 2014 was created MAYA Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Electronic Health Record (EHR), Personal Health. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Gupy, Kovi, Zesty. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Brazil. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the MAYA Capital, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SOSV, IndieBio. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are monashees, Y Combinator, ONEVC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by monashees, Y Combinator, Upscale.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tenchi Security

Cloud Security
$7M01 Feb 2024 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

deco.cx

Developer Tools
$2M01 Jan 2024 Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Start Careers

Education
Recruiting
Software
$1M11 Dec 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Finkargo

Financial Services
Information Technology
$20M02 Nov 2023 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Nuvocargo

Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
$36M23 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Clicampo

$11M25 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Assis

Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M10 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Vaas

Software
$5M13 Feb 2023 -

Unbox

B2B
E-Commerce
Retail Technology
SaaS
$1M28 Jun 2022 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
News
Brazil’s Kovi closes $104M Series B to make car ownership ‘more inclusive’ in LatAm

– São Paulo-based Kovi raised $104m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Valor Capital Group and Prosus Ventures, and joined by Quona, Broadhaven Ventures, GFC, Monashees, UVC Investimentos, PIPO, Norte, Maya Capital and Globo Ventures.
– The company also recently closed on a $20m debt facility.
– It is not yet a unicorn, according to execs, who declined to reveal valuation.

Belvo, LatAm’s answer to Plaid, raises $43M to scale its API for financial services

– Belvo, a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding.
– A mix of Silicon Valley and Latin American-based VC firms and angels participated in the financing, including Future Positive, Kibo Ventures, FJ Labs, Kaszek, MAYA Capital, VentureFriends, Rappi co-founder and president Sebastián Mejía, Harsh Sinha, CTO of Wise (formerly Transferwise) and Nubank CEO and founder David Vélez.
– In May 2020, Belvo raised a $10 million seed round co-led by Silicon Valley’s Founders Fund and Argentina’s Kaszek.

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Total investments 68
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 11.33
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.37
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tenchi Security

Cloud Security
$7M01 Feb 2024 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

deco.cx

Developer Tools
$2M01 Jan 2024 Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Start Careers

Education
Recruiting
Software
$1M11 Dec 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Finkargo

Financial Services
Information Technology
$20M02 Nov 2023 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Nuvocargo

Logistics
Software
Supply Chain Management
$36M23 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Clicampo

$11M25 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Assis

Information Technology
Internet
Software
$5M10 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Vaas

Software
$5M13 Feb 2023 -

Unbox

B2B
E-Commerce
Retail Technology
SaaS
$1M28 Jun 2022 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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