INVESTMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS
AIRBNB
Airbnb, Inc. is an American company that operates an online marketplace for short- and long-term stays and experiences in multiple countries and regions.
The company acts as a broker and charges a commission for each booking.
Airbnb was founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia. It is the most well-known company for short-term home rentals.
ATTENTIVE
Headquartered in New York, Attentive is a leading mobile messaging platform. The system, which uses real-time behavioral data, maximizes communication between brands and customers, thereby increasing exposure and sales.
The company is estimated to have more than tripled its customer base since 2020, operating in a market that is expected to grow by around 20% by 2025, reaching US$ 42 billion.
BREX
Founded in 2017, Brex is the leading fintech company in the US. The company is disrupting the banking, credit card, and financial management software markets for small and medium-sized businesses.
Initially launched as a credit card solution for startups, Brex's integrated financial management software is quickly becoming a leading financial operating platform for businesses: managing cash, bank accounts, credit cards, controls and reporting in one place.
The company is led by charismatic young Stanford graduates who left Brazil with an excellent track record of delivering results, having launched successful businesses since the age of 12 and selling a business (US$1.5 billion in payment volume) to StoneCo for nine figures at just 19 years old.
CHIME
Chime is an American fintech that competes with traditional banking services.
Chime provides its customers with fee-free bank accounts, debit cards, credit cards, and other lending facilities. Unlike existing banks, Chime does not have physical branches and focuses on providing excellent and cost-effective service through its app.
Founded in 2012 and with revenues from transactions carried out with its cards, the bank has experienced significant material growth throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, with a growing portfolio of customers who opt for its proposal of offering quality and facilities, without fees.
COLOR
Color is a leader in distributed healthcare and clinical trials. From high-throughput COVID-19 testing to hereditary cancer and heart disease risk testing, we provide the technology and infrastructure to achieve large-scale healthcare initiatives. The company works with healthcare systems, employers, researchers, clinicians and national health initiatives around the world to drive positive health outcomes.
DISCORD
Discord is a social instant messaging and VoIP platform that allows communication via voice calls, video calls, text messages, and media. Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels that can be joined via invite links. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers. As of 2024, the service has around 150 million monthly active users and 19 million weekly active servers. It is primarily used by gamers, although the share of users interested in other topics is growing. In March 2024, Discord was the 30th most visited website in the world, with 22,98% of its traffic coming from the United States. As of March 2022, Discord employed 600 people worldwide.
IMPOSSIBLE FOODS
Impossible Foods Inc. is a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat products. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company’s goal is to give people the nutritional and flavor benefits of meat without the negative health and environmental impacts associated with factory-farmed products.
The company researches animal products at the molecular level and then selects proteins and nutrients from plants to recreate the experience and nutrition of meat products.
LIVEOAK VENTURE PARTNERS
LiveOak Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build world-class, market-dominating companies in their respective categories.
Its focus is to provide the first institutional capital to Texas-based technology and technology-enabled services companies. The fund seeks equity in entrepreneurial companies, regardless of the sector, and maintains active management, participating in the entire business life cycle.
MASTERCLASS
MasterClass is an American online education subscription platform where students can access pre-recorded tutorials and lectures by experts in a variety of fields.
The concept for MasterClass was conceived by David Rogier and developed with Aaron Rasmussen. MasterClass produces online classes with well-known instructors in their fields of expertise. The classes cover topics such as literature, sports, and cooking. Starting in 2019, the company began expanding into politics, economics, and video game design. Courses are available through an annual subscription.
SPACE X
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch services provider, and satellite communications company headquartered at SpaceX Starbase near Brownsville, Texas.
The company was founded by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs by designing for reusability and ultimately developing a sustainable colony on Mars. SpaceX currently produces and operates the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets along with the Dragon spacecraft.
The company provides internet service through its subsidiary Starlink, which became the largest satellite constellation ever in January 2020 and by September 2024 comprised more than 7,000 small satellites in orbit. The company is also developing Starship, a fully reusable, human-rated super-heavy-lift launch system for orbital and interplanetary spaceflight. In its first flight test in April 2023, it became the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown. In its fourth flight test in June 2024, it reached space and both stages returned for a controlled landing.
SpaceX is the first private company to: develop a liquid-propellant rocket that has reached orbit; launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft; send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS); and send astronauts to the ISS. It is also the first organization of any type to achieve a vertical propulsive landing of an orbital rocket booster and the first to reuse such a booster. As of October 2024, the company's Falcon 9 rockets have landed and re-flown more than 330 times. As of June 2024, SpaceX had a valuation of approximately US$1.2 billion.
TENSILITY VENTURE PARTNERS
Tensility Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that partners with founders of early-stage enterprise AI startups. The company focuses on developing software for cybersecurity, virtual healthcare, and new applications for technology products.
The fund seeks to enable and develop companies that will revolutionize business through artificial intelligence.
ANDURIL
Anduril Industries, Inc. is an American defense technology company specializing in autonomous systems. It was co-founded in 2017 by inventor and entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and others. Anduril is expected to sell products to the U.S. Department of Defense, including artificial intelligence and robotics. Anduril's primary products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software.
KODIAK
Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous technology for long-haul trucks, military vehicles, and industrial equipment. It specializes in autonomous vehicles, information technology, software, logistics, and robotics. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
TESLA
Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures, and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary home-to-grid battery energy storage devices, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services.
Tesla was founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. It is named after inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, Elon Musk joined as Tesla's largest shareholder; in 2008, he was named CEO. In 2008, the company began production of its first car model, the Roadster sports car, followed by the Model S sedan in 2012, the Model X SUV in 2015, the Model 3 sedan in 2017, the Model Y crossover in 2020, the Tesla Semi truck in 2022, and the Cybertruck pickup truck in 2023. In June 2021, the Model 3 became the first electric car to sell 1 million units globally.
AMAZON
Amazon is an American multinational technology company involved in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple, Meta (parent company of Facebook), and Microsoft.
Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. The company originally began as an online marketplace for books, but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories. This diversification has led to it being called "The Everything Store."
APPLE
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered and incorporated in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with US$383.29 billion in 2023.
MICROSOFT
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Its best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, the Azure cloud computing platform, and the Edge web browser. Its main hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface line of touchscreen personal computers.
Microsoft ranked 14th on the 2022 Fortune 500 ranking of the largest U.S. corporations by total revenue, and was the world's largest software maker by revenue in 2022, according to the Forbes Global 2000. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, and Meta (parent company of Facebook). Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.
