If you are a Brazilian-market operator with real domain scar tissue and an AI-native thesis you cannot stop thinking about, this page exists to tell you exactly what we offer, what we expect, and how the studio actually works.
Pre-negotiated first ticket from Avante on day one — no fundraising sprint before you can hire your first engineer.
A partner who has built and exited at scale — in the codebase, not on a quarterly call. Engaged through your first revenue milestone.
A recruiter who already knows the local senior funnel. SOC2-ready posture from incorporation. Books that survive a Series A audit.
When you hit Stage 4 (Traction), a structured 90-day sprint with named buyer targets — not random warm intros.
We do not screen on schools, prior titles, or brand-name resumes. We screen on the five things below — and we are honest if a venture does not fit before either side wastes a quarter.
Most studios oversee from quarterly board meetings. Avante operating partners are in the ICP doc, the unit economics spreadsheet, and the first ten hires.
Not a 'LATAM-focused fund based in NYC.' Half the team operates in Brazil; the other half built and exited in Silicon Valley. Both halves are in the founder's daily WhatsApp.
Lessons from Sigga (10× exit). If you can't get to a paid pilot inside 90 days of a serious customer conversation, the ICP or product is wrong — we surface that early instead of letting zombie deals burn runway.
Tier-1 VCs are great at writing checks. They are not great at being in your codebase week one, designing your discovery script, or carrying the first 30 customers with you. If your venture needs $5M and three intros, raise from Sequoia. If it needs an operating partner who has built and exited at scale in Brazil, that is a different product — and that is what the studio is.
Studio economics — meaningful enough that we are aligned for a decade, calibrated so the founders still own their company in a way that makes a Series A unblocked. Specific numbers are shared in the first structured call, not on a public page.
No. Most founders we work with are already operating somewhere in Brazil and stay there. The studio comes to you — partners visit, working sessions happen on your turf, and remote rituals (weekly checkpoints, async loom reviews) are designed for distance, not against it.
Some will. The studio is built around honest stage gates (90-day-to-pilot, 6-month-to-paid-customers, 12-month-to-Series-A-readiness) — if a venture cannot clear them, we have a structured wind-down protocol: founders keep equity earned, IP rights are clear, and we stay in the corner of any future thing the team builds. We have lived this and we treat it as part of the relationship, not a worst-case clause buried in a side letter.
First 30 days: customer-discovery alongside the founder, ICP doc co-authored, first-ten-customer target list assembled. Months 2–6: weekly working sessions on whatever blocks the venture (pricing test, hiring loop, security review, fundraising deck). Months 6–12: shifts to coach + escalation owner — present at major customer + investor calls, on-call for crises. After Series A: board observer or full board seat, depending on what the founder wants. Concrete and bounded — not 'available for advice.'
The default is 18 months of intensive operating engagement, then a structured handoff into board-level governance only. Some founders want the studio to stay closer for longer; some want full operational autonomy by month 12. We are explicit about this in month 6 — no surprises, no slow fades. The relationship continues through the cap table for the life of the venture, but the work changes.
No deck required. A 30-minute structured first call: your thesis, our diligence frame, an honest read on whether this is a fit before anyone commits to anything.
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