Marcelo D Ferreira

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📍 Boca Raton, Florida, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Jun 2023
Hi, we are Open Co! 💚 We’re here to promote the sustainable financial growth of our clients, stimulating the purchasing power of people and SMEs through simple, flexible and evolutionary credit solutions. We work to build relationships based on trust with our clients all over Brazil through our two consumer brands: Geru for individuals and BizCapital for businesses. Together, we have accumulated more than BRL 5 billion in unsecured loans and our business model has already attracted investments from the World Bank (IFC), monashees, Chromo, LTS, Softbank, Raiz Investimentos, Quona, DEG and OikoCredit. Geru → www.geru.com.br BizCapital → www.bizcapital.com.br
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Jan 2023
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May 2020
Presente há mais de 43 anos no mercado gaúcho, a Maiojama se destaca como uma incorporadora sólida, que busca inspiração nas principais tendências mundiais em empreendimentos, capazes de transformar as regiões onde estão inseridos e a vida das pessoas. Com um olhar diferente, de constante inovação e qualidade, é reconhecida como uma das principais marcas no segmento imobiliário. Essa visão é fruto do talento e da dedicação de uma equipe multidisciplinar. Assim, avançamos no tempo e enxergamos cada vez mais longe, tornando-nos uma empresa mais preparada para desafios do futuro.
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Apr 2018
Loadsmart revolutionizes the logistics landscape by combining cutting-edge technology with high-level transportation services to optimize freight spend, increase efficiency, and enhance service quality. Whether it be through managed transportation services, new generation TMS, dock scheduling software, truck management solutions, dynamic freight brokerage, or tailor-made optimization solutions, we empower shippers, carriers, and warehouses to move more with less.. For more information, please visit: https://loadsmart.com
Board Observer
Jan 2018
A seamless Platform enabling compliance with all Privacy regulations around the world – for GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, POPIA and more. We take a unique approach to compliance: our technology does not require a copy of your business’ data sets, nor does it interrupt existing data flows, making it the fastest and most secure way of implementing Privacy across your organisation. Above and beyond simple compliance, our flexible technology future-proofs businesses for regulatory change and enables a truly customer-centric approach to Privacy as a Service (PaaS). Trunomi’s flexible Platform handles use cases including: Data Retention Data Matching Data Tracing Cookie Consent Consent & Permissions Data Lifecycle Management …and more Trunomi is built for high-performance at scale and is system-, data- and process agnostic – there is no company big or small we cannot work with. To find out how we can help your business tackle Privacy, get in touch at info@trunomi.com.
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Apr 2016
Geru is a São Paulo-based FinTech company founded in 2015 with the mission of offering better credit conditions for borrowers and superior returns for investors. Since its launch the company is experimenting expressive growth. We have a lean team with high class professionals committed to build one of the most disruptive startups in Brazil.
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Jan 2016
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Dec 2015
InvestReal is a data-driven real estate marketplace connecting investors with developers in Qualified Opportunity Zone projects, supported by artificial intelligence. Our platform allows accredited investors to evaluate listed QOZ projects with standardized and transparent metrics, and invest at the project level with the developer partner to mitigate the inefficiency of blind pool funds and crowdfunding models. Data analytics is crucial in validating QOZ investments as OZs are lower-income census tracts, coupled with the long life of QOZ funds. Our proprietary machine learning algorithms consolidate and process expansive data sets into digestible market health indices in a comprehensive dashboard display. The user-friendly interface includes our proprietary InvestReal OZ Score, an indexed scoring algorithm for all 8,700 OZs, based on 15+ factors that helps predict future growth potential and long-term viability. Also included are interactive maps, detailed trends and insights, 100+ rating metrics and the capability to custom-rank OZs based on selected factors. Do you want to know more? Write to us: info@investreal.com
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2026
Board Observer
May 2026
Conectamos pessoas por meio da paixão pelo vinho.
2025
Member of Board of Trustees
Aug 2025
Somos o endowment em benefício dos alunos dos cursos de engenharia e tecnologia da UFSC. Investimos em projetos de vanguarda e tecnologia em benefício da nossa comunidade. Queremos melhorar o ambiente de inovação e educação do Brasil. Parceiros: Agência 9mm Arquivo Contabilidade BTG Pactual Menezes Niebuhr Advogados Associados A Associação Fundo Patrimonial Catarina ("Fundo Catarina") foi criada por alunos e ex-alunos da UFSC e atua de forma independente e sem qualquer vínculo formal com a UFSC ou com o CTC/UFSC. Os recursos do Fundo Catarina são destinados a apoiar projetos promovidos pela comunidade do CTC/UFSC (incluindo alunos, professores, funcionários e entidades representativas dessas categorias) e não a apoiar a UFSC ou o CTC/UFSC diretamente. A UFSC e o CTC/UFSC não são instituições apoiadas pelo Fundo Catarina nos termos da Lei nº 13.800/19.
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
Hi, we are Open Co! 💚 We’re here to promote the sustainable financial growth of our clients, stimulating the purchasing power of people and SMEs through simple, flexible and evolutionary credit solutions. We work to build relationships based on trust with our clients all over Brazil through our two consumer brands: Geru for individuals and BizCapital for businesses. Together, we have accumulated more than BRL 5 billion in unsecured loans and our business model has already attracted investments from the World Bank (IFC), monashees, Chromo, LTS, Softbank, Raiz Investimentos, Quona, DEG and OikoCredit. Geru → www.geru.com.br BizCapital → www.bizcapital.com.br
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Jan 2023
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Aug 2022
Our story was born from the passion of an entrepreneur and visionary: Mauricio Sirotsky Sobrinho. From his passion for communication and his business acumen came Grupo RBS, a leading multimedia communication company in Brazil and of the largest Rede Globo affiliate. His successors expanded his legacy of passion, courage and pioneering spirit. Jayme Sirotsky, Nelson Sirotsky and currently Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer expanded the operations of our company, consolidating its leadership in the media market in the South and breaking into new sectors. Today, RBS is a leader in the field of communication in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, producing content and entertainment on television, radio, newspaper and digital platforms. Through our digital business, e.Bricks, we have become a benchmark in the areas of digital media, mobile applications and targeted e-commerce, working in high growth sectors with innovative models and excellence in management. Inspired by our founder, we believe that growth is only possible when it considers the human aspect. People turn dreams into reality. We are passionate about people who make it happen, and we are passionate about making it happen as well. In the past five decades, the trajectory of Grupo RBS has been built by people who shared challenges. This is our strength, because we know that our future will be the size of the passion that we are able to inspire.
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