João Paulo Zica Fialho

CEO and Investor | RAJA

📍 Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022
Angel investor🌍 Brazil
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Investor and Advisory Board Member
Sep 2021
Bossa Invest is a Brazilian VC focused on seed stage technology companies. Our team is made of entrepreneurs who have either existed or scaled technology companies before. This gives us personal perspective on understanding what it takes to start and grow a business. We focus on B2B and like companies that have a SaaS and/or Mobile focus. Interested in having us as an investor? Apply here: https://bossainvest.com/
Angel Investor
Jun 2020
A Solum Capital é uma gestora de investimentos alternativos ficada em Private Equity e Venture Capital, fundada por empreendedores com vasto track record no ecossistema brasileiro e internacional.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2018
A Triângulo Ventures é uma Venture Builder que tem como objetivo apoiar e desenvolver startups, com o compartilhamento de infraestrutura, know how e canais de mercado entre todas as startups, reduzindo os custos de inovação, aumentando a agilidade e o impacto comercial dos negócios. Oferecemos recursos humanos, rede de mentores e acesso ao ecossistema, modelagem e design de negócios, serviços contábeis e jurídicos. Somos uma licenciada da FCJ Participações S.A. Saiba mais sobre Venture Builder: - https://pt.linkedin.com/pulse/venture-builders-uma-nova-forma-de-construir-e-startups-nei-grando - https://startupi.com.br/2015/05/como-as-venture-builders-estao-mudando-o-modelo-de-startups/
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Oct 2018
A Synergy Ventures é uma Venture Builder do setor de Energia, que seleciona de forma contínua startups. Oferecemos a elas infraestrutura, know-how, acesso a canais de mercado, rede de mentores, modelagem de negócios, serviços contábeis e jurídicos, além de suporte nas áreas de Marketing, Vendas e Produto. Temos como objetivo apoiar negócios em suas fases iniciais e, ao mesmo tempo, resolver a dor do investidor anjo, que está ligada ao risco de selecionar e investir de forma isolada, podendo contar com uma empresa de participação com portfólio de startups, em um ambiente gerenciado em conjunto com outros investidores. Tudo através de uma sociedade anônima de capital fechado.
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Aug 2017
G2 Capital is an investment firm dedicated to pursuing market returns through potential high growtth businesses. We invest in high-growth, revenue-generating, early-stage companies led by amazing founders. And also we only invest : • In companies that are already generating revenue and are demonstrating consistent revenue growth. • In companies with great teams. • In companies with products or services that solve a real pain point. • In companies that have a proprietary or highly differentiated product with a path towards sustainable differentiation. • In companies with enormous potential for growth and that are addressing large target markets. • In companies with reasonable valuations reflecting a realistic assessment of the companys progress to date and prospects for success. We have a strong preference for companies that are demonstrating early evidence of having identified efficient, scalable, paid customer acquisition channels, a low ratio of Customer Acquisition Cost to Lifetime Value and a quick time to recoup Customer Acquisition Cost. We only invest in companies that will have a minimum available cash runway of 12 months post-close. We only invest in companies that are capital efficient and can scale quickly without a lot of additional capital.
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2022
Angel Investor
Oct 2022
DGF Investimentos is a leading Brazilian venture capital investor. We are currently investing out of our seventh fund with a focus on early stage SaaS startups. Historically, DGF and its team have completed more than fifty investments with several successful exits.
Angel Investor
Oct 2022
We invest in early-stage companies that innovate across critical sectors in Brazil. Our mission is to empower founders to build sustainable and impactful businesses, leveraged by the massive growth opportunities in the country.
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
Kaszek is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build lasting, high-impact technology-based companies whose main focus is Latin America. In addition to capital, Kaszek offers significant strategic guidance, hands-on operational support and access to local and international networks. The firm is industry and stage agnostic, investing mainly in seed, series A and series B. Kaszek was founded in 2011 by Hernan Kazah, (MercadoLibre’s co-founder and former COO/CFO) and Nicolas Szekasy (MercadoLibre’s former CFO). Today Kaszek has formed a great team of experienced industry experts to select and support the best start ups in the region. Kaszek portfolio includes: Nubank, Kavak, Creditas, Gympass, Loggi, QuintoAndar, Contabilizei, Digital House, Notco, Technysis, Konfio, and several others.
Angel Investor
Feb 2022
Since 2005, MONASHEES has been the Global Latam VC. As a pioneer in Latin Americas venture ecosystem, we partner with founders from their very first steps—supporting them through every stage of growth and expansion. At our core is a deep belief in the power of entrepreneurship, technology and venture capital to disrupt markets, transform lives, and challenge the status quo. Today, the MONASHEES community spans over 150 companies, over 300 founders, and million of lives impacted in Latin America and beyond. And we’re just getting started.
2021
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Sep 2021
Bossa Invest is a Brazilian VC focused on seed stage technology companies. Our team is made of entrepreneurs who have either existed or scaled technology companies before. This gives us personal perspective on understanding what it takes to start and grow a business. We focus on B2B and like companies that have a SaaS and/or Mobile focus. Interested in having us as an investor? Apply here: https://bossainvest.com/
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