AlphaJuri / LegalTech
Liquidity for judicial claims.
AlphaJuri helps creditors and lawyers anticipate payments from precatórios, RPVs and court-awarded legal fees in Brazil.
Built with Avante: product and engineering.
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Built in Brazil.
Built to compound.
A global perspective.
A local conviction.
The next chapter
starts here.
Avante Ventures is a venture builder building AI-native companies in Brazil and Latin America.
We co-found
the company.
The conviction of a founder. The discipline of an operating partner.
We build AI-native companies around complex Brazilian markets. Domain expertise, product, engineering and first capital come together from the start. Our role is to build the business alongside its founders, with shared ownership and responsibility for the work.
- Ventures per year
- 3-4
- A deliberately focused annual cohort. Each company gets the attention of operating partners and a shared product and engineering team.
- Pre-seed capital per venture
- $500K-$1.5M
- Capital moves in tranches tied to product, pilot and revenue milestones. Avante participates as a co-founder, with aligned economics.
- Hands-on through the milestone
- First revenue
- Operating partners stay engaged through the first revenue milestone, then transition to board-level oversight as the company builds its own operating team.
A company takes shape in six stages.
Each stage has work to do and a question to answer.
01
Understand the market from the inside.
Map the workflow with the people doing the work. Examine the buyer, the cost of the problem, existing alternatives and the constraints of operating in Brazil.
Is there a specific problem, an identifiable buyer and a credible reason to build?
Conviction,
made tangible.
Real problems. Companies built around them.
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WIR / InsurTech
Complex risk. Clearer decisions.
WIR connects distribution, underwriting and claims with AI. Intelligence that works with the systems insurers already use.
Built with Avante: product and engineering.
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CRIA / Brand & Go-to-market
Brands that reach the right buyers.
CRIA connects brand strategy, content and go-to-market execution, so companies earn trust and start sales conversations.
Built with Avante: product and engineering.
Explore this venture ↗Silicon Valley perspective.
Brazilian execution.
Different markets. Shared operating experience. Our team connects company building in the United States with the context, relationships and complexity of Brazil.
Meet the people behind it ↗The people
doing the work.
Founders, partners and builders. The experience belongs to the people. The work happens together.
São PauloAmanda Pinheiro
Co-Founder & Partner
Experience+
CFO at Innova Capital & Unbox Capital. $500M+ under management. Investor Relations. CPA, Columbia University (USA).
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São PauloFelipe Moraes
Strategic Partner
Experience+
Founder of Bamboo DCM (private credit). R$850M+ transacted on the platform. Partner at Innova Capital.
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San FranciscoJess Mah
Partner & Co-Founder
Experience+
Co-founder of Mahway. Founder of inDinero (YC). Forbes 30 Under 30 · YPO · Berkeley & Harvard.
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San FranciscoAndrea Barrica
Partner & Co-Founder
Experience+
Co-founder of Mahway. Former VP at 500 Global, founder & CEO of O.school.
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San FranciscoCristian Mendivelso
Full Stack AI-Native Builder
Experience+
8+ years building across LATAM and the USA. Full-stack, AI-native operator behind AlphaJuri, WIR · AXA and BR Auction Intel. ships products and GTM systems end-to-end.
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São PauloGiovanni dos Santos Jr.
Principal AI Product Manager
Experience+
8+ years building and scaling technology products, from 0→1 to scale, at the intersection of generative AI, product strategy and revenue growth. Led the creation of products that scaled businesses from R$0 to R$200M ARR in four years. Built an AI product portfolio spanning generative AI, LLMs, RAG and voice AI that reached R$4.5M ARR in seven months.
We build.
We write it down.
Research, field notes and the thinking behind our work.
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