Lucas Vilanova

Partner @ Base

📍 Brazil🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
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Mar 2021
We pioneered the motorbike rental market and became the world’s largest rental company. To deliver a seamless experience, we fully internalized maintenance — now the world’s largest workshop — and built a 24/7 field support network, all powered by 100% in-house technology that enables limitless scalability and innovation. Today, our ecosystem spans rentals, maintenance, delivery, fintech, telecom (Mottu Chip), bike sales (Conquiste), parts (Mottu Store), and more. With 125,000+ bikes in operation and 130+ branches across Brazil and Mexico, we create real opportunities for life-changing mobility. Driven by a mission-and-purpose culture, our passion is to transform the world one bike at a time.
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Mar 2020
Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN) is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.
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Aug 2019
Mobile Premier League (MPL), the largest skill-gaming platform in India, allows users to participate in free as well as paid competitions across 60+ games in multiple categories, including fantasy sports, sports games, puzzle, casual and board games. Founded in 2018, MPL hosts hundreds of millions of tournaments a month and is trusted by over 120 million registered users in India, United States and Nigeria. To learn more about MPL, please visit www.mpl.live.
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Aug 2019
Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving more than 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. As one of the leading technology companies in the world, Nu leverages proprietary technologies and innovative business practices to create new financial solutions and experiences for individuals and SMEs that are simple, intuitive, convenient, low-cost, empowering, and human. Guided by its mission, Nu is fostering access to financial services across Latin America.
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Aug 2019
Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
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Aug 2019
Netskope, a leader in modern security and networking, addresses the needs of both security and networking teams by providing optimized access and real-time, context-based security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Thousands of customers, including more than 30 of the Fortune 100, trust the Netskope One platform, its Zero Trust Engine, and its powerful NewEdge network to reduce risk and gain full visibility and control over cloud, AI, SaaS, web, and private applications—providing security and accelerating performance without trade-offs.
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Aug 2019
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. Creation is the core of ByteDances purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. Thats how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users. We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.
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2021
Partner
May 2021
Base Partners is a growth equity firm based in Sao Paulo and backed by an influential group of Brazilian business owners. Since our launch in 2017, we have been delivering on our mission to invest globally in leading technology companies. More than investors, we consider ourselves partners. Today, we are proud to have partnered with amazing companies: Zoom, Stripe, Netskope, Nubank, Getir, Wildlife, UiPath, Bytedance, Virta Health, MPL, Paradigm and Docker. Beyond capital, every investment we make is based on mutual trust and the conviction that we can be relevant. Our companies recognize that depth and consistency are essential to capturing the Brazilian market. This commitment to winning Brazil, and then Latin America, is at the heart of our mission and investment strategy.
Investor
Mar 2021
We pioneered the motorbike rental market and became the world’s largest rental company. To deliver a seamless experience, we fully internalized maintenance — now the world’s largest workshop — and built a 24/7 field support network, all powered by 100% in-house technology that enables limitless scalability and innovation. Today, our ecosystem spans rentals, maintenance, delivery, fintech, telecom (Mottu Chip), bike sales (Conquiste), parts (Mottu Store), and more. With 125,000+ bikes in operation and 130+ branches across Brazil and Mexico, we create real opportunities for life-changing mobility. Driven by a mission-and-purpose culture, our passion is to transform the world one bike at a time.
2020
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Nov 2020
Klarna – The smarter way to shop and pay Klarna is the AI-powered global payments and commerce network, on a mission to make shopping smarter and more flexible. Trusted by over 118m+ million shoppers, Klarna processes 3.4m million transactions daily, providing payment solutions that empower consumers and drive merchant growth. With Klarna, shoppers have the freedom to pay their way—in full, later, or through financing—providing flexibility while seamlessly connecting merchants with high-intent shoppers driving conversions and customer satisfaction. More than 966k merchant partners—including Uber, H&M, Saks, Sephora, Macy’s, IKEA, Expedia Group, Nike, and Airbnb—leverage Klarna’s payment options, and marketing solutions to enhance the shopping experience and build long-term customer loyalty. From payments to personalized shopping, Klarna is shaping the future of commerce. Klarna was founded in Stockholm, Sweden and now has offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Berlin and many more. We offer products and services to consumers and retailers within payments, social shopping, and personal finances. Learn more at Klarna.com
Investor
Mar 2020
Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN) is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.
2019
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Aug 2019
Mobile Premier League (MPL), the largest skill-gaming platform in India, allows users to participate in free as well as paid competitions across 60+ games in multiple categories, including fantasy sports, sports games, puzzle, casual and board games. Founded in 2018, MPL hosts hundreds of millions of tournaments a month and is trusted by over 120 million registered users in India, United States and Nigeria. To learn more about MPL, please visit www.mpl.live.
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