Alexandre Villela

Chief Corporate Development Officer at Megaport (AX: MP1)

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 33 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
Jan 2024
Articul8 AI is a technology company whose products transform enterprise data and expertise into powerful engines of growth, value and impact. Our full-stack GenAI platform is revolutionizing how enterprises harness their data and expertise to build expert-level Generative AI applications for their mission-critical challenges. Our products deliver enterprise-scale impact with ROI in hours to weeks. General-purpose GenAI models, while necessary, are not sufficient to deliver enterprise-specific decisioning and actioning. Our platform addresses this gap by making it straightforward for companies to build sophisticated, enterprise-scale and expert-level GenAI applications that encode their domain expertise. Our proprietary technology does the heavy lifting through autonomous decisions and actions, automated data intelligence, improved precision and relevance with industry knowledge encoded into Articul8s library of domain and task-specific models. We are purpose-built for regulated industries and meet the highest standards of compliance, data security, privacy and performance, including traceability and auditability at every step. We are trusted by leading global enterprises like AIAA, Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, Uptycs, AWS, NIQ, Intel and Franklin Templeton to transform their mission-critical work. We are the enterprise GenAI platform that simply works! For more information, please visit www.articul8.ai.
Board Member
Feb 2023
We are a reference when it comes to Big Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, developing innovative and disruptive solutions, besides Big Data platforms in the “one-stop-shop” model, allowing the implementation of complex data environments in a few minutes. From a multi-cloud infrastructure to advanced business performance and data governance solutions for all industries.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Connectbase is the leading platform transforming how service providers buy and sell connectivity globally. Connectbase has become the industry standard for ecosystem-led growth, empowering service providers with unrivaled location intelligence and automated data driven workflows to digitize services and optimize network buying and selling. By connecting over 400 service providers and their largest channel partners we enable seamless digital transactions, greater transparency, and faster deal execution. With over 3.4 billion locations managed globally Connectbase’s reach is unparalleled, delivering trusted data to enhance market opportunities, helping providers and channel partners thrive in the evolving market. Visit Connectbase at connectbase.com
Board Observer
Mar 2022
At Liqid, we are at the forefront of high-performance computing solutions, fundamentally changing how organizations tackle todays immense computational challenges. Our groundbreaking technology enables the worlds highest-density GPU servers, designed to reduce costs through efficient resource utilization, pooling, and dynamic allocation of GPU resources. We go beyond just facilitating complex computational tasks; we are transforming the landscape of compute delivery, efficiency, and adaptability. With Liqid, businesses are empowered to redefine the limits of their computing capabilities, embracing a future of unparalleled performance and flexibility.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Celona is an early pioneer and innovator within the multi-billion-dollar private wireless market. The company is credited with developing the industry’s first fully turnkey enterprise 5G LAN system that leverages emerging shared cellular spectrum to enable companies, for the first time. To own and operate their private mobile network infrastructure. Its products and technology help organizations accelerate the adoption of business-critical applications and use cases to support a new generation of Industry 4.0 digital business initiatives. Founded in 2019 by industry leaders with technical expertise in cellular, enterprise wireless and cloud computing, the company is privately held. To date, Celona has raised $100 million from premiere investors including Qualcomm Ventures, NTT Venture Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Cervin Ventures and DigitalBridge. Celona’s private wireless system solves long-standing wireless issues such as reliability, coverage, deterministic connectivity, quality of service, and security, not satisfied by conventional wireless technologies. Celona’s private wireless system is also the first-of-its kind to tightly integrate network and radio functions – full stack core software and cloud-based orchestration – into a unified solution ready for direct integration within any existing enterprise network infrastructure by enterprise IT staff. It combines all the components required to enable an IT team to build their own 4G/5G wireless networks in a single package that is easy to deploy, integrate and manage at scale. Celona sells its products and technology directly and indirectly to companies around the world through a diverse network of top channel partners, managed service providers and system integrators. And our products serve as the foundation for Verizon’s Onsite private 5G service as well as NTT’s P5G offering.
Investor
Aug 2020
Azion is the global edge computing platform that simplifies how you build and run modern applications anywhere. We now live in a hyper-connected economy that demands flawless experiences. It means speed and reliability without compromising security and compliance. Azion’s flexible platform allows you to respond to the demands of the hyperconnected economy, anywhere in the world. Accelerate your application modernization now.
Investor
Aug 2020
In 2022, Pensando was acquired by AMD and is now the AMD Networking Solutions Group. Follow the AMD LinkedIn page to learn more. https://www.linkedin.com/company/amd
Board member
May 2020
Mindset Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital Firm with investment focus primarily in the United States and Israel. We target B2B startups with strong technology applied to Agriculture, Financial Services, Healthcare, Cybersecurity, Education and Enterprise Software. Our firm supports the growth and development of groundbreaking companies and help them connect with the Latin American market by providing them with access to advisors and potential clients in the region. We work together with founders and key executives leading them to great results – that’s our Mindset!
Board Observer
Feb 2020
Sense360 is a real-time insights platform that combines billions of consumer transactions, visits, and surveys to provide a 360-degree view into the market, your competitors, and your customers. The result is a complete understanding of where, how, and why consumers spend their time and money.
late stageMarket Research
Board Member
Jan 2020
Somos a plataforma de e-commerce líder na América Latina, que potencializa e motiva mais de 120 mil empreendedores a mostrarem ao mundo do que são capazes. Estamos há 10 anos no mercado, e somos considerados uma das 5 empresas mais valiosas da América Latina. Contamos com um time de mais de 900 colaboradores que trabalham em conjunto no Brasil, Argentina, Colômbia e México para permitir que todos os empreendedores cheguem cada vez mais longe em seus negócios em uma economia cada vez mais digital. Confira nossas oportunidades: https://www.nuvemshop.com.br/trabalhe-na-nuvemshop
Board Member
Jul 2019
idwall - revolucionando a confiança Desde 2016, a idwall é líder em inovação quando o assunto é identidade digital. Nossa tecnologia soluciona desafios complexos no mercado enterprise, com um ecossistema que está revolucionando as relações de confiança. Oferecemos uma solução completa de gestão de identidade digital, integrando todo o ciclo de vida do cliente, gerando mais segurança, melhor experiência do usuário e escalabilidade de processos. Conheça a idwall, acesse: https://idwall.co/ Tem interesse em trabalhar na idwall? https://idwall.inhire.app/vagas
Board Member
May 2019
A Flex foi fundada em 2009, com o objetivo de ser uma empresa diferente, erguida sob valores sólidos e orientada por uma missão e visão de futuro compartilhadas. O nosso propósito é fazer a diferença na vida das pessoas. Reconhecida como a companhia mais inovadora do setor e posicionada como uma liderança emergente entre as maiores empresas de gestão de relacionamento do Brasil, a Flex é uma empresa de Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) especializada em operações de televendas, atendimento ativo e receptivo, help desk e cobrança.
Board Observer
Jan 2019
Affirmed Networks delivers the world’s only fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile core solution. Deployed in over 85 networks worldwide including Tier 1 operators such as AT&T, Vodafone, Du, Digicel, Etisalat, Softbank, Turkcell and more, our webscale solutions allow operators to transform the economics of deploying and scaling 3G, 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi mobile services. Built on a microservices architecture, Affirmed’s 5G Mobile Core enables operators to out innovate competition with industry-leading technology. Affirmed’s solution couples industry-leading performance and scale with unbound service agility enabling rapid creation and delivery of new services. Affirmed’s mobile core capabilities include: 5G NR, CUPS, network slicing, integrated virtual probes, optimized IoT access(NB-IoT/LTE-M/SCEF), virtualized DPI and GiLAN services, WiFi and Service Automation, enabling operators to economically scale networks and take advantage of 5G capabilities today, delivering differentiated services tailored to specific use cases(Consumer, IoT, MVNO, Fixed Wireless) more quickly, and improve the overall customer experience. We offer a complete approach to NFV that includes not only the right technology but the right people and process to ensure your virtualization efforts are running smoothly and profitably.
Board Observer
May 2018
Somos a maior empresa de tecnologia para eventos e experiências de entretenimento da América Latina.
late stageEvents Services
Board Observer
Apr 2018
Hilab is a biotech company that specializes in diagnostic technology and digital health. Our main objective is to make clinical analyses more accessible and agile for healthcare professionals and patients. We are renowned for our innovative point-of-care (POC) devices and our cloud-based platform, which allows samples to be digitized from anywhere in the world. By using artificial intelligence, we process health data and provide real-time information, ensuring quick results and saving time. Our goal is to provide more access, comfort, and convenience for healthcare professionals and patients alike. Hilab is a 100% Brazilian company, with its headquarters located in Curitiba, Paraná, as well as in Manaus, Amazonas. Visit our website to learn more about how we are democratizing access to healthcare in Brazil and across the globe!
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2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
Articul8 AI is a technology company whose products transform enterprise data and expertise into powerful engines of growth, value and impact. Our full-stack GenAI platform is revolutionizing how enterprises harness their data and expertise to build expert-level Generative AI applications for their mission-critical challenges. Our products deliver enterprise-scale impact with ROI in hours to weeks. General-purpose GenAI models, while necessary, are not sufficient to deliver enterprise-specific decisioning and actioning. Our platform addresses this gap by making it straightforward for companies to build sophisticated, enterprise-scale and expert-level GenAI applications that encode their domain expertise. Our proprietary technology does the heavy lifting through autonomous decisions and actions, automated data intelligence, improved precision and relevance with industry knowledge encoded into Articul8s library of domain and task-specific models. We are purpose-built for regulated industries and meet the highest standards of compliance, data security, privacy and performance, including traceability and auditability at every step. We are trusted by leading global enterprises like AIAA, Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation, Uptycs, AWS, NIQ, Intel and Franklin Templeton to transform their mission-critical work. We are the enterprise GenAI platform that simply works! For more information, please visit www.articul8.ai.
2023
Board Member
Feb 2023
We are a reference when it comes to Big Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, developing innovative and disruptive solutions, besides Big Data platforms in the “one-stop-shop” model, allowing the implementation of complex data environments in a few minutes. From a multi-cloud infrastructure to advanced business performance and data governance solutions for all industries.
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
Connectbase is the leading platform transforming how service providers buy and sell connectivity globally. Connectbase has become the industry standard for ecosystem-led growth, empowering service providers with unrivaled location intelligence and automated data driven workflows to digitize services and optimize network buying and selling. By connecting over 400 service providers and their largest channel partners we enable seamless digital transactions, greater transparency, and faster deal execution. With over 3.4 billion locations managed globally Connectbase’s reach is unparalleled, delivering trusted data to enhance market opportunities, helping providers and channel partners thrive in the evolving market. Visit Connectbase at connectbase.com
Board Member
Mar 2022
Somos Solinftec – a inteligência que está mudando o agro para transformar o mundo! 🤖🌱 Nossa missão é dar a cada fazenda um futuro totalmente eficiente, rentável e sustentável. Acreditamos que as tecnologias mais avançadas devem trabalhar para conectar as necessidades do mundo às necessidades do produtor. Por isso, não apenas aplicamos tecnologia no campo, nós construímos a melhor tecnologia para a agricultura. Somos uma empresa brasileira, fundada em 2007, em Araçatuba - SP, líder global em Inteligência Artificial e SaaS (software como serviço) para o agronegócio, com mais de 800 colaboradores globalmente (330 somente na área de P&D), além de unidades nos Estados Unidos, Colômbia, Canadá e China. Já expandimos para mais de 11 países, com soluções que fornecem insights em tempo real, que permitem a tomada de decisões no momento adequado aos agricultores, com aumento da eficiência em todas as operações agrícolas e redução do impacto ambiental. Inteligência Artificial e Tecnologia Robótica são os pilares da nossa Agricultura de Decisão. Para a Solinftec, 2050 é agora!
Board Observer
Mar 2022
At Liqid, we are at the forefront of high-performance computing solutions, fundamentally changing how organizations tackle todays immense computational challenges. Our groundbreaking technology enables the worlds highest-density GPU servers, designed to reduce costs through efficient resource utilization, pooling, and dynamic allocation of GPU resources. We go beyond just facilitating complex computational tasks; we are transforming the landscape of compute delivery, efficiency, and adaptability. With Liqid, businesses are empowered to redefine the limits of their computing capabilities, embracing a future of unparalleled performance and flexibility.
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