Giovanni Bacarella

Principal at FTV Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
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Board Observer
Aug 2025
Highway helps freight brokers and 3PLs prevent freight fraud by verifying carrier identity across the entire lifecycle of the load. Our Carrier Identity® platform uncovers who’s really hauling your load, reducing exposure to direct theft, impersonation, and stolen loads while enabling faster, more confident booking.
Investor
Jun 2022
The Tidal Financial Group is a leading ETF investment and technology platform facilitating the creation, operation, and growth of ETFs. Tidal combines expertise and innovative approaches in the collaborative design of ETFs and other groundbreaking financial products with its partners. As a holistic platform, Tidal partners with the investment community to build ETFs that seek to generate value. Tidal is the collaborative partner to over fifty-five (55) leading ETFs overseeing $6.5bn+ in assets as of 10/28/2022. Tidal has a 40+ team and Locations in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit. 
Investor
Mar 2021
Simplificar o mercado é o que nos move. A Vórtx é uma plataforma inovadora que conecta tecnologia, excelência e pessoas para transformar a experiência de nossos públicos e colaboradores. Aqui, acreditamos que o sucesso nasce da colaboração e da confiança. Valorizamos a autorresponsabilidade, a visão integrada e a coragem de abraçar o improvável, porque sabemos que ninguém caça um tornado sozinho. Somos a base do crescimento de nossos públicos, surpreendendo com soluções escaláveis e resultados excepcionais. Como uma das melhores empresas para se trabalhar (GPTW – Great Place to Work), cultivamos um ambiente onde todos podem crescer, se desafiar e transformar. Com a aquisição da Grafeno, estamos ainda mais preparados para oferecer uma jornada única para os nossos públicos, como uma plataforma de back office que atende o mercado de capitais de ponta a ponta. Se você quer fazer parte de uma empresa que inova, transforma e supera limites, você encontrou seu lugar! Confira nossas oportunidades de carreira e venha fazer parte da base do mercado financeiro e de capitais!
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Lean Solutions Group (LSG) is a next-generation solutions provider integrating, AI-driven automation, embedded industry expertise and tech-powered talent for its clients. Forged in the demanding Supply Chain sector, our model is proven across hundreds of clients in many industries. With more than 10,000 employees in five countries and a rapidly growing base of more than 600 clients, LSG helps companies achieve immediate cost savings and efficiency while building long-term resilience and growth. By integrating intelligent technology with optimized processes and high-performance talent into the core of our clients’ businesses, we enable them to stretch what’s possible.
Board Observer
May 2018
Who We Are: Frictionless Financing for Home Upgrades Our payment-friendly financing and industry-leading technology help contractors grow their solar and home improvement businesses and make homeowners’ dreams come true. The Sunlight Advantage We partner with contractors nationwide to offer homeowners innovative, affordable loans for modern home upgrades. With over $4 billion in funded loans, our best-in-class technology and deep credit expertise simplify and streamline homeowner finance, enabling our contractor partners to quickly and easily provide homeowners with simple access to financing at point-of-sale via phone, tablet or computer. More than just a financing provider, we’re your partner for the long-haul. For contractors and homeowners alike, experiencing the Sunlight advantage means access to flexible payment options, a frictionless home upgrade experience, and elite support – from loan approval to project completion and beyond. Sustainability and Savings with Solar Financing Growing your solar business doesn’t need to be complicated. With over 100,000 solar systems funded and installed, our simple and intuitive sales platform features self-service product selection, instant credit approvals and fast funding to keep your business moving forward. That’s why 15,000 plus professionals choose Sunlight as their preferred financing provider. Modern Home Upgrades with Home Improvement At Sunlight Financial, our home improvement financing options are designed to meet your customers’ needs and increase their buying power – all while being a natural extension of your business’ values and sales process. We fund fast to ensure your business will have working capital to grow. Letʼs make the world a brighter place
Investor
Dec 2017
Since our founding in 2012, we have aimed to connect rising markets through payments, to empower Latin Americans and Africans to access international products and services, and to enable global companies to expand to these regions. In 11 years of history, we have already helped over 1000 merchants such as Airbnb, Spotify, Aliexpress, Shopee, Sony, and Uber to expand their businesses worldwide by offering over 100 payment methods in our portfolio to integrate. EBANX headquarters is located in Curitiba - Brazil, but we are spread all over Latin America, the US, China, and Europe. Click here to check more information: https://business.ebanx.com/en/
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2025
Board Observer
Aug 2025
Highway helps freight brokers and 3PLs prevent freight fraud by verifying carrier identity across the entire lifecycle of the load. Our Carrier Identity® platform uncovers who’s really hauling your load, reducing exposure to direct theft, impersonation, and stolen loads while enabling faster, more confident booking.
Board Member
Mar 2025
Windward is the leading Maritime AI™ company delivering full visibility across the seas through sensor-agnostic intelligence and agentic workflows that turn ocean data into decisive action to anticipate threats, protect critical assets, and stay in control at sea.
2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
Masttro is the leading provider of wealth management technology. Our platform aggregates, analyses and reports on all assets within an estate using mobile, iPad and desktop views. Our AI technology ingests all structured and unstructured data, including illiquid and liquid investments, liabilities and passion assets in every currency in every region. Our platform provides a single source of accurate, full-picture data to give you control, transparency, and peace of mind to make informed financial decisions in near real-time. With a foundation of end-to-end encryption, data security protocols and easy permissioning to allow access to the right views, Masttro is an all-in-one platform to manage your total balance sheet for UNHW individuals and families. Our global footprint spans more than 24 countries with offices in North America, Europe and Latin America. Our team is composed of experienced leaders across wealth management, asset management, engineering, and professional services, united in our commitment to delivering unimpeachable transparency to wealth owners, their beneficiaries, and their top advisors. As a result, we deliver not only a top-shelf product, but also holistic, white-glove client service to every one of our clients. If you are part of an ecosystem supporting wealth owners who have complex needs, we should talk. For more information about our solutions, please visit: www.masttro.com. Email us at contact@masttro.com.
2022
Investor
Jun 2022
The Tidal Financial Group is a leading ETF investment and technology platform facilitating the creation, operation, and growth of ETFs. Tidal combines expertise and innovative approaches in the collaborative design of ETFs and other groundbreaking financial products with its partners. As a holistic platform, Tidal partners with the investment community to build ETFs that seek to generate value. Tidal is the collaborative partner to over fifty-five (55) leading ETFs overseeing $6.5bn+ in assets as of 10/28/2022. Tidal has a 40+ team and Locations in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit. 
Vice President
Jan 2022
FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial technology and services, vertical software, enterprise technology and services, and healthcare technology and services. FTV’s experienced team leverages its domain expertise and proven track record in these sectors to help motivated management teams accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to FTV Propel®, experienced executives dedicated to driving value for our portfolio companies across a range of business functions, and FTVs Global Partner Network®, a group of the world’s leading enterprises and executives who have helped our portfolio companies for over 28 years. Founded in 1998, FTV Capital has invested in over 150 portfolio companies. FTV has offices in New York, San Francisco, London and Connecticut.
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